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Pre-Flop Selection

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Poker experts preach that players should only play the best online poker hands, and rank these from most premium to marginal or weak depending on your betting position. Pre-flop decisions are usually easy to make for experienced poker players because they recognize which pokercards are best to play from early position [...]

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Making a Huge Laydown – Going on Tilt W/out Showdown

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Poker After Dark has come back to its best form of poker play, the 6-handed high stakes NL Holdem poker online cash game. While the action, overall, was high, one particular hand was folded to the blinds, Phil Ivey and Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund). Ziigmund limped for [...]

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A Brief History of Card Marking

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

There are few poker cheats that hold ore historical allure than card marking. Just in case you need a refresher, this is the process of physically marking the back of cards so that a player can tell with just a single glance what the other side reveals. Before the days of online poker, players would [...]

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Bad Beat or Bad Play?

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

It’s so easy to blame it on the cards. You play a hand you’d expected to win and end up having that hand taken away from you by a seemingly unfortunate turn of events, and quickly you can find yourself on tilt and cursing, though in many cases it is just as much the fault [...]

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Poker Veteran Leans McCain

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

The Texas Holdem dolly, ole Doyle Brunson, voiced his opinion on the upcoming presidential election. Not surprisingly, the Texas native is in favor of the McCain-Palin Campaign.
Let’s see why.
Changing his opinion on the issue, Brunson first stated he “may be voting democrat for the first time in his [...]

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