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Paying for a “Free” card

Sick of bad, over aggressive players always raising with flush and straight draws only to hit them on the river and take more of your money? Perhaps theyâ€™re outplaying you… Position is one of the most important aspects in limit holdem, probably more important than the cards you hold. Being last to act, seeing what [...]

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Posted on March 8, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Ring games, Strategy
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Gah! Another break!

Unfortunately I’m still in school (scratch that, I’m glad I’m still in school) and I have finals coming up the end of this week and beginning of this week. Then after the finals are over I’m heading to Greece for a week to see Athens and the surrounding countryside with some of my classmates from [...]

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Posted on March 7, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Tournaments
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And then there were eight

Over the past day and a half the NBC Heads up Tournament has been whittled down to eight players, leaving: McManus vs Ferguson Seed vs Greenstein Negreanu vs Sheikan Forrest vs Farha Negreanu beat both Raymer and TJ Cloutier to advance the to elite eight and faces Sean Sheikan next. Negreanu also posts the key [...]

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Posted on March 6, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Stories, Tournaments
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NBC Heads Up Brackets Announced

Last year Phil Hellmuth won the NBC Heads Up tournament and brought a lot of interest into heads up play. Heads up play is a completely different ball game. If you think that starting value for hands goes up when you’re short handed, imagine heads up. When J5 suited starts looking like AK you know [...]

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Posted on March 5, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Off the felt, Tournaments
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Things going my way

As you may know I play in a weekly tournament here at Ohio State and this quarter I’ve been on a real cold streak, not placing at the final table in the last 8 weeks. Well last night things finally went my way as I took down 1st place out of the 24 participants and [...]

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Posted on March 3, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Stories, Tournaments
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Be the duck’s back

This article I read at pocketfives today, “Be the Duck’s Back” reminds me a lesson my communications teacher taught us in high school, and that was to ‘be like a duck.’ You see, underwater a duck vigorously kicking its legs to keep moving, but on the surface its as serene as a breeze, like all [...]

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Posted on March 2, 2006 by Steve | Filed Under Online Poker, Strategy, Tournaments
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