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January 2009 - Bloggers

Dropping down limits

A lot of poker players share a common dream of being able to live a life full of luxury holidays, fast cars and Cristal champagne, all funded by playing poker from their favourite armchair for...

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Matthew Pitt

29 Jan 2009

The Squeeze Play

When you first start playing poker, it is often advised to play a simple, tight "ABC" style in order to stay out of trouble or avoid difficult situations. The problem with playing like this is...

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Matthew Pitt

26 Jan 2009

Fancy yourself as a stud?

Seven Card Stud was the most commonly played poker variant in casinos and home games across the United States of America but the increase in popularity of Texas Hold'em in recent years, has stopped the...

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Matthew Pitt

14 Jan 2009

Reducing the variance in poker

If you take away all the bells and whistles from poker, it becomes apparent that it is essentially a game of mathematics and as a result, players are subjected to what is called variance....

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Matthew Pitt

13 Jan 2009

Cash games vs tournament poker - relative chip value

On the surface, cash games and tournament poker look very similar. After all, the hand rankings are the same, each player has a stack of chips and everyone has the potential to win some money....

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Matthew Pitt

9 Jan 2009

Analyse this...Gus Hansen

In all the time I've been playing poker seriously (well, as 'serious' as I ever get about anything anyway) I've never really been much into deep analysis of past hands. Certainly I've pondered briefly after...

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Matt Broughton

5 Jan 2009