Published in January 23rd, 2008
When you gamble on sports games, you are often trying to beat the spread, the points difference your bookie has established as the most likely outcome of the game. Often, beating the spread will reward you just as much as winning outright, and it’s a pleasant outcome no matter what your winnings are. In poker, […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
Let’s say your hole cards are a pair of 9s. This is not a hand that does very well in a multi-way pot; there are just too many ways to beat your duet of mid-sized cards. You can either play tight and fold, or you can play your hand. If you are going to play […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
The WPT seems to like to think of itself on the same level with leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, and the NBA. This may or may not be true. Let’s face it, all the poker players who participate in the WPT combined don’t have the arrest record to match the Cincinnati Bengals, or even […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
The World Poker Tour is a trend setter in the world of poker yet they were behind the curve in getting an online poker room up and running on the internet. They hope to catch up and surpass their competition with a new feature thanks to a partnership with Stats LLC, a company that provides […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
There are a lot of people in Finland who want to play online poker in the country, and there are a lot of people who want to limit or ban it. One Finnish Minister wants to do both. Minister of Culture and Sport Stefan Wallin says that the best way to limit online poker, in […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
He’s done it twice before; the experience served him well as Bill Blanda took down his third Borgata Poker Open. The main event, Event #5, got underway yesterday as the remaining players - less than forty - tried their best to get the first place prize of over $200k. In the end the prize and […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
Phil Ivey is not only a super poker pro, but a golfer as well. As he saw his tourney life ending during Mega Match week on the Poker After Dark NBC poker show, he leaned over to his pal Barry Greenstein and asked, “So you want to go golfing tomorrow?” assuming his game was just […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
Never as popular as Tolkien or Howard, Fritz Leiber nonetheless created one of the most memorable pairs of fantasy adventurers to ever cross the pages of literature. Fafhrd, the tall barbarian we’ll leave alone for now and instead focus on his smaller, darker companion, the Gray Mouser. The Gray Mouser is the most successful independent […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
Strategy is a funny thing. The worst part about coming up with a strategy is that it is often rendered obsolete thirty seconds after you sit down to play poker. Before playing you may have mapped out a number of scenarios in your mind about how to play various types of hands, and how to […]
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Published in January 23rd, 2008
It wasn’t so long ago that fully automated poker tables were first introduced to the public. These machines were greeted with reactions that ranged from the sort of giddy, breathless adulation that would be better placed at a Keith Partridge concert to a response similar to one that resembles somebody going to the doctor for […]
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