| By Vince Burgio I always read the feature in Card Player entitled "Getting to Know." I think it is an excellent way to introduce players to the poker world at large. I sometimes think about how I would answer the questions in the feature - the ones aski read more |
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| By Lou KriegerThe best 7-card stud, eight-or-better, high-low split (7-stud/8) hands are generally low holdings that can back into high hands too. Everyone knows that. But all low cards, of course, are not created equally, and an ace is stronger than read more |
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| The Blind Squirrel By John Carlisle, MA, NCC Since it was the last night in Vegas for my wife and me, we decided to forgo the expensive acrobats and cheesy comedians that can swallow your spending money along the strip. Instead, we decided to hit t read more |
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| By Oklahoma JohnnyPart One: How It WasI remember having many conversations with Benny Benion about the beginning of the World Series of Poker (take a look at my article about playing with him, "Back in the Saddle Again," in issue No. 6, Vol. 13 of Car read more |
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| By Guy Downs Most people lose money playing ace high hands on the turn. Playing this hand can be a real challenge, and the majority of Texas hold em players don't understand the concepts that govern optimal play with this hand. In this essay we'll tak read more |
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| By Nick Eisel Since I've been talking a lot about No Limit lately, mainly with tournaments in mind, I thought I'd talk about an important concept that should govern your play in any NL situation. That concept is Pot Control and it could easily be the m read more |
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| by Rolf Slotboom It was once again one of those nice and quiet Sunday afternoons. Knowing there are usually no big pot-limit Omaha games available on Sundays, I headed to the casino to play some limit hold'em, even though the stakes are relatively s read more |
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| By Andrew N.S. Glazer, The "Poker Pundit" On a visit to the San Diego area, I played hold 'em poker Ocean's Eleven (which actually isn't in San Diego but a bit to the north in the neighboring town of Oceanside). It's a nice cardroom and the wall-sized read more |
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| Classifying other players in your games requires a system of note taking that can quickly inform you of the type of opponents that you are facing. In online poker, note taking is quite easy so that you can classify a player and use that information at read more |
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| By Max Shapiro Driving back from Vegas one day, I stopped in Barstow tovisit with Big Denny. "Hi ya Maxey," he greeted me. "Kin Itreat ya ta lunch at our four-star buffet? We got pig snoutdis week. I got dem cheap on account of dere's an epidermisof m read more |
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