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WSOPE coming to a television set near you!

8 January 2009 | About Dave Allan

Channel 4 to broadcast eight hours of action from Betfair-sponsored event - the biggest in European poker.... Read more
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Building big pots with big hands

7 January 2009 | About Marcus Bateman

This seems one of the most obvious concepts in poker, yet is one that you see ignored time and time again by weak players.... Read more
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Ten sick poker hands

5 January 2009 | About Dave Allan

Whilst poker is an exciting and exhilarating game, it can also be an extremely frustrating and annoying hobby. Sometimes, the 'Poker Gods' (amen) think it would be fun to make two huge hands clash in order for a player to... Read more
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Two key things for making money at poker

4 January 2009 | About Marcus Bateman

There are two basic things that you have to be able to do if you want to consistently make money from playing poker. The first is that you have to able to control yourself in the games you are playing;... Read more
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Challenge Finale

3 January 2009 | About John Tabatabai

About two months ago I struck a bet (while a little intoxicated) with Annette, a Portuguese friend of mine and a very good player called Diego that I couldn't turn $1000 into $100,000 in a couple of months. They all... Read more
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9. James Akenhead vs Grant Hinkle - Sick Poker Hands Series

9 January 2009

Heads-up in Event#2 of the 2008 World Series of Poker, young British pro, James Akenhead had been slowly eroding away Grant Hinkle's chip-lead and was almost level when a cruel hand was played out.... Read more
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Cash games vs tournament poker - relative chip value

9 January 2009

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. However, the two disciplines have... Read more
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Why do you play poker?

8 January 2009

Why and how people choose to play poker is a very personal matter. Some people just enjoy the buzz of gambling, not hugely bothered about their bottom line at the end of the year, and are more there to just... Read more
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10. Corey Zeidman vs Jennifer Harman - Sick Poker Hands Series

8 January 2009

Early in the $10,000 buy-in 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event, a hand cropped up where a one-outer was hit on the river to decimate the stack of top pro Jennifer Harman.... Read more
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The Poker Economy

8 January 2009

Many people seem to think that poker is purely based around degenerate gamblers, who sit down and lose millions of dollars and go broke while a few sharks hoover up all of it as quickly as possible.... Read more
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Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan's credit crunch

8 January 2009

Whilst the majority of us mere mortals are struggling to come to terms with the start of a global recession, there are a privileged few who seem to have money to burn in these testing times.... Read more
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Monday poker

7 January 2009

I started keeping records last Monday. It was a bad day to start keeping records - as I lost last Monday.... Read more
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The Fundamental Theory of Poker

6 January 2009

Back in the late 1990's, there were many billboards around my home town of Leeds that bared the face of French footballer, Eric Cantona and the slogan, "1966 was a great year for English football. Eric was born." If there... Read more
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The simplicity of razz

6 January 2009

Razz is a game that makes many players roll their eyes back in their heads and talk about how they wish that such a game had never been invented.... Read more
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