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Want To Play No-Limit? Try Texas Holdem Games With Restricted Buy-In
By Lou Kreiger |
| If you’re a limit texas holdem player who is thinking about playing no-limit because that’s all you see on TV these days, you’ll need to make some adjustments in your strategic thinking. The time was when no-limit poker was a very dangerous game, when one’s entire bankroll could be lost on the turn of a card, and a small coterie of highly skilled players held such an edge they almost never lost.
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Big Mistakes Not To Make In Texas Holdem
By Ashley Adams |
| In Limit holdem poker, the player who plays correctly more of the time than his opponents do is usually the winner, at least over the long run. Making the occasional brilliant move helps the bottom line, but it’s the consistent solid play, not the clever moves, that gets the money day in and day out...
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Odds Simplified
By Paul Kammen |
| One of the first things a poker player learns is how the hands are ranked. Many players stop there and dive right into the world of money poker. Saying to themselves that it’s "just gambling" and playing is "only for fun," they assume they can learn the rest as they go. If you follow this approach, you’ll soon find yourself wondering...
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Poker Heaven
By Ashley Adams |
| In between writing columns on Holdem poker strategy and Stud strategy I sometimes daydream. I think about what poker heaven would be like. You ever do that? It’s an interesting exercise. My first thoughts about what poker heaven would be like didn’t match my eventual image of the place...
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Review: Carson's "The Complete Book of Holdem Poker"
By Ashley Adams |
| The Complete Book of Holdem Poker by Gary Carson (Kensington Books, 2001). New Texas holdem players typically start with those texts designed to help players master a basic strategy that can win money in the long run at the low stakes casino table.
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The Importance of Seat Position
in Texas Holdem
By Ashley Adams |
We all know that position is important in holdem poker, in fact, in all forms of poker. But it’s especially important in Texas Holdem, Omaha, Draw and other games where one’s position remains the same for the entire hand. But few players have given a lot of thought to all of the reasons position is important.
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Inattention At The Poker Table
By Ashley Adams |
We learned in an earlier no limit holdem article that it is important to have some distraction in between hands, to keep yourself from playing when you are impatient and eager for action. The flip side of that poker coin is that you need to be laser-focused when your money is actually at stake in a live hand that you’re playing. If it isn’t, if you’re not completely focused during your play of a no limit poker hand, you can fail to detect information that may win you the pot.
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Poker A.D.D.: Almost A Disease
By Ashley Adams |
| My daughter (a poker player too) and I were talking earlier today. She said that she'd played a tournament the night before with a few friends. "How’d you do?" I asked.
"I finished second," she said.
"Second?" I asked, knowing that she was highly skilled and usually beat her friends. "I had poker ADD, Daddy. And the winner didn’t," she added.
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The Poker Players of Super System 2
By Paul McGuire |
Doyle Brunson's Super System is arguably the most popular poker book ever written. The success of the first book could be attributed to the team of poker players that Doyle assembled to help him write the book. Each player shared his knowledge of a different game. One of my favorite things about Super System is that it's a comprehensive volume on strategies for different poker games, not just Texas Holdem.
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