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Building confidence

I’ve had some pretty nasty runs in poker for the past month and a half, from right about Christmas to now, and I know the only way to get out of a slump is to keep playing, I can’t keep getting beat like this forever, right?! Haha, so in an attempt to get some confidence [...]

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Posted on January 30, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Online Poker
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Popping the Bubble

Oftentimes the slowest and most grueling part of any tournament is the money bubble, where the next person out gets no money. The average Joe tightens up and plays very few hands, just trying not to be the guy who goes out on teh bubble, but what do good players do? They start playing hyper-aggressive [...]

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Posted on January 28, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Strategy, Tournaments
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Raising on the Turn

Raising on the turn is the best place to raise from in most limit circumstances for several reasons: 1) It’s the big bet and will cost twice as much as a raise on the flop 2) Chasers are really losing pot odds on a 2-bet on the turn 3) It takes control of the hand [...]

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Posted on January 25, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Ring games, Strategy
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Leading into the raiser

All forms of poker involve ego, and the bigger the game the bigger the egos you’ll run into and this applies whether you play live or online at the big sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk . Big egos can generate a lot of respect and fear, but they can also be used against that person. If they [...]

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Posted on January 24, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Strategy, Tournaments
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Poker in casinos

Last weekend I took a trip up to Windsor, Canada, right across the border from Detroit, to play some poker and have a good time. We got there around 11pm the first night and played poker until we were pretty delerious at 6am. My first table was perfect, very beatable and fun. I met two [...]

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Posted on January 23, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Ring games, Stories
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Weekend trip

Sorry for not posting the last two days, my roommates and I traveled up to Windsor, Canada to visit the casino try out some poker and whatnot. The room in total was up money, but I wasn’t so fortunate, haha. We played $3/$6 limit in two seven-hour sessions in Windsor’s new Poker Place and had [...]

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Posted on January 22, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Ring games, Stories
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Busted.

Tonight was my roommates’ and my tournament here in our dorm. It’s a $10 + $5 rebuy + 1 $5 addon, and 37 people showed up to play, fishing over $670 between all of them. I bought in for the initial $10 and never had to rebuy, added on for $5 and was sitting pretty [...]

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Posted on January 19, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Tournaments
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