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Don’t let the donkey whip you

I just read the newest article over at pocketfives.com. It was written by pokerfox and talks about why bad players can beat you (the ‘good guy’, haha). Check out the article and take a look around the site. Pocketfives also has great reviews of online poker sites, a great card calculator, rankings of top online [...]

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Posted on January 19, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt
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The downside of being sneaky

Earlier today I was doing well in a $20+2 pot limit holdem tournament. With 25 players left, 18 being paid, I was in 4th place, and then I misstepped. In my last two tournaments where I bubbled close to the money it only took one poor play to get me on the way to the [...]

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Posted on January 17, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Tournaments
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46th of 1571 players: My latest run in a tourney

Last night after booking some profits in the heads up matches I decided to play some of the larger tournaments, namely the $10+$1+rebuy at www.pokerstars.co.uk and the $10+$1 limit rebuy at pokerstars. The $10 NL rebuy game had 1571 entrants, and at the end of the first hour I was at $13,000, about 3k above average. [...]

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Posted on January 16, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Stories, Tournaments
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Heads up SNGs

My bankroll has taken some uncomfortable swings in the past two weeks, and I’ve decided to go back to something that I have found to be very steady profit, the 4-person heads up sit-n-gos on www.pokerstars.co.uk I wrote a post about it a few months ago, check that out here. They are basically winner take [...]

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Posted on January 15, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Strategy, Tournaments
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Selling hoards of domain names

The US Gaming Exchange has been collecting domain names for some time now, trying to build the largest network of gambling sites online, but it’s time to move on. They’re selling their entire portfolio on eBay, 1,673 dot-com names, with a starting bid of $150,000. Not sure how many bids they’re going to get, but [...]

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Posted on January 14, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Stories
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Thursday night tournament

Last night was our weekly tournament and it was the biggest yet. Not quite as big as the events at www.pokerstars.co.uk butÂ we upped the buyin from $5 to $10 this quarter thinking it might thin the field when in fact the field has grown. Last night 39 guys showed up to play the $10 + [...]

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Posted on January 13, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Tournaments
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Maximize profits online

All the ‘big-time’ online players use the online structure to their advantage. By that I mean they play multiple tables at once. Besides not being face-to-face, one of online pokers’ main differences is the ability to multi-table. Lots of good tournaments players do this when playing several multi table tournaments at the same time, but [...]

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Posted on January 12, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Ring games
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