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I started playing poker with my family when I was about seven. We used to play five card draw and seven card stud for very low stakes. I remember being a consistent winner in these games although often I think my parents donated to us youngsters. During university I began playing poker seriously and started developing the complex set of attributes needed to be able to maintain and build a working poker bankroll.

I have gone from rich to broke many times during my playing career, and have learnt many of the necessary lessons of poker the hard way. With this experience I would like to try and save all Betfair’s readers time and money through sharing some of these lessons with you - as well as keeping you up to date on all the latest goings on in the online poker world.

• Genius or Madness?
• Danglers in Pot Limit Omaha
• Cheating and Collusion
• Mixing It Up
• Blocker Bets
• Setting Up Squeezes With Big Hands
• Finishing Off Poker Tournaments
• To Show or Not To Show
• Check Raising on the River
• Folding Full Houses in Omaha
• Big Bet Bluffs
• Staying in Good Games
• Hero Calls
• Importance Of Creating A Good Atmosphere in Live Poker
• Check Raise Bluffing
• Fatigue
• Varying Time Tells To Beat Weak Players
• Raise Folding
• Understanding The Ante
• Live Tells - Shaking Hands
• Going Broke In An Unraised Pot
• Live Tells - The Hands
• Live Tells - The Chip Glance
• Knowing When To Quit
• Adapting Your Play In Heads Up
• Bluff Catching
• Firing Into Multiple Players
• Poker and Greed - A Little Anecdote
• Don't Get Sloppy About Your Bet Sizing Live
• Playing Against The Herd
• Jack Ten - The Fun Hand Of Texas Hold 'Em
• Brains and Balls
• Playing Bad with the Best Hand
• Knowing Your Place in the Poker World
• The Future of Poker
• Bluffing the Nut Flush in Omaha
• The Problem With Weak Aces in Poker
• Positive reinforcement
• The Luck you Don't See
• Thinking about the Long Term with Bad Players
• Anthony Fish - STT Analysis
• Folding the Ace Flush in Omaha
• The Re-Re-Steal
• Tightening and loosening up in H.O.R.S.E
• Dropping Down the Stakes
• Chaos Theory and Poker
• Pre flop raising in Omaha
• Heads Up Sit and Goes: Balance
• Heads Up Sit and Go - The Nature of the Beast
• Random Walks Part Two: Bold Play
• Random Walks - Importance to Poker Players
• Rope a dope
• Bluffing in Limit Poker
• Long Term Plans
• Poker Pride and Warfare
• Inside straight draws
• Ability and Win Rate
• Been Winning? What to do next
• Hi/lo Split Games - Don't Forget the High
• Small ball - A Deeper Analysis.
• Giving and Taking Free Cards
• Putting People To The Sword
• Passing up small edges
• Variance and standard deviation
• Extra factors when deciding to call
• Buying in deep
• Buying in short - cash game strategy
• The Art of the Re-Steal
• A bit of poker irony
• Balancing your ranges
• Counting the stacks
• Negotiating large fields
• Flop texture
• The Martingale system
• Why weak often means strong and vice versa
• The Overbet
• Wild card games part one - stakes and games
• Wild card games part two - strategy
• Security - Online and Live
• Why do you play poker?
• The Poker Economy
• Building big pots with big hands
• The simplicity of razz
• Two key things for making money at poker
• Focussing early in MTTs live and online
• Picking off desperation bluffs
• Bluffing - How to pull the trigger
• Folding
• The value in rebuy tournaments
• Controlling your ego
• The Slowroll
• The changing story of poker online
• Playing with very live ones
• Table dominance
• Whose blind is it anyway?
• When to tap the glass
• Dealing with tournaments
• Ace king early in tournaments.
• Stu Ungar
• Pot Control
• The importance of not giving free cards in Omaha eight or better
• Screen names
• An interesting heads up dynamic
• How much to bet?
• Surviving to the antes
• The extra edge of multi table tournaments
• Understanding bad players
• Laddering at MTT Final Tables
• Having the Nuts
• Prop bets
• The 'float'
• Big Flips
• Ego and grind players
• Chip Tricks
• Laying them down
• Who is the best?
• Beating weak games
• Volume and variance
• The Grind
• Getting it in last
• Long ball poker
• Small ball poker
• Attacking the blinds
• A pot odds problem
• Importance of self confidence in poker
• An interesting sit and go dynamic
• After that big MTT win...what next?
• The prisoner's dilemma
• Consequences of position in poker
• Changing seats to gain position.
• Poker Ego and Etiquette
• Identifying players and adjusting your play
• Tips on increasing the number of tables you can play
• Stop losses.
• Limping big pairs.
• Advertising.
• How many hands to play.
• WSOPE preview: the £1.5k hold'em event.
• WSOPE Preview - The Main Event.
• The importance of the up cards in seven card stud.
• WSOPE preview: the £5k Pot Limit Omaha.
• Spotting mistakes.
• WSOPE preview: The H.O.R.S.E event.
• Isolating.
• Being first in
• Hand ranges.
• Dealing with the nut hunters.
• Fancy play syndrome.
• Betting out of position.
• Scotty Nguyen
• Folding the nuts.
• Obsession.
• Timing Tells
• Staying afloat.
• Choosing between the games.
• The importance of the scoop.
• Monster draws.
• Ivey Versus Booth
• Thinking outside the game.
• Adjusting to the antes.
• Short Stacking In Omaha
• Balancing Your Game
• Negreanu versus Antonio
• Games to Play
• Playing suited connectors.
• PLO Bluffing
• Changing gears.
• Poker Clips
• Tilt Control.
• Staying one step ahead.
• Omaha Postition
• Bubble play
• Negreanu versus Hansen
• Tiredness Can Kill
• Slowplaying
• Pot Limit Omaha
• Largest Cash Pots
• Multi Tabling
• Online Versus Offline
• Implied Odds

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