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GSN pulls the plug on High Stakes Poker

Many poker professionals and amateurs either watch or record High Stakes Poker at some point. The show brought a new poker show to cable tv, and really enhanced the perspective of how large poker games can get, and how professionals really play their hands. The show’s producers really wanted to showcase almost every hand, meaning, [...]

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Pokerstars picks up Piuz Heinz, dumps JP Kelly and Juan Maceiras

Pokerstars recently picked up Piuz Heinz, the 2011 World Series of Poker champion, to add to their roster of Team Pro’s. Apparently, this meant that they didn’t need as many Team Pokerstar Pro’s from Europe, as they have also taken JP Kelly and Juan Maceiras off of their site and Pro Roster. Both Kelly and [...]

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BubbleProtection.com expands Online Tournament Poker payouts.

Las Vegas Company BBL Enterprises, LLC has introduced a new website which is an amazing tool for professional online poker players as well as amateurs alike. What BubbleProtection.com does is simple, it expands the “bubble” of a tournament by 10%. How it works, is that you would choose a tournament you will be playing in, [...]

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Ultimate High Roller Watch? Christophe Claret’s new 21 Blackjack.

High Rollers and Poker Professionals LOVE to spend their money. The Poker Pro’s that I know usually buy anything and everything poker or gambling related, especially watches. I know one Pro, who has a collection of over 200 watches, varying from an old Timex to a $50,000 Rolex and everything in between. I’m a big [...]

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Selecting Your Starting Hands – Part 3

So as you can see, this isn’t quite as cut and dried as a lot of newer players would prefer, and just like everything else in poker, a lot of what you do comes down to how your opponents play. So that brings us to another consideration, which is that the better your opponents, the [...]


 
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GSN pulls the plug on High Stakes Poker

Many poker professionals and amateurs either watch or record High Stakes Poker at some point. The show brought a new poker show to cable tv, and really enhanced the perspective of how large poker games can get, and how professi...
by George Wilewicz
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Pokerstars picks up Piuz Heinz, dumps JP Kelly and Juan Maceiras

Pokerstars recently picked up Piuz Heinz, the 2011 World Series of Poker champion, to add to their roster of Team Pro’s. Apparently, this meant that they didn’t need as many Team Pokerstar Pro’s from Europe, a...
by George Wilewicz
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BubbleProtection.com expands Online Tournament Poker payouts.

Las Vegas Company BBL Enterprises, LLC has introduced a new website which is an amazing tool for professional online poker players as well as amateurs alike. What BubbleProtection.com does is simple, it expands the “bubbl...
by George Wilewicz
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Ultimate High Roller Watch? Christophe Claret’s new 21 Blackjack.

High Rollers and Poker Professionals LOVE to spend their money. The Poker Pro’s that I know usually buy anything and everything poker or gambling related, especially watches. I know one Pro, who has a collection of over 2...
by George Wilewicz
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Selecting Your Starting Hands – Part 3

So as you can see, this isn’t quite as cut and dried as a lot of newer players would prefer, and just like everything else in poker, a lot of what you do comes down to how your opponents play. So that brings us to another con...
by George Wilewicz
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Selecting Your Starting Hands – Part 2

One of the reasons why paying attention to charts too much is that they don’t really take into account the varying circumstances at a table, which have to do with how the people at your table, and particularly those who act a...
by Ken Stephens
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Selecting Your Starting Hands – Part 1

What hands to play is one of the big questions that newer players wonder about, and it’s also something that many experienced players could benefit from re-evaluating as well. It used to be that players would be given charts ...
by Ken Stephens
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Pius Heinz wins 2011 WSOP Main Event

Tons of action on the live (with a 15 minute delay) broadcast of the World Series of Poker this year. Once the players returned for Day 2 of the November 9 final table days, there were 3 players remaining. It didn’t take ...
by George Wilewicz
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Bellagio Poker Room announces new Daily Poker Tournaments

Bellagio Poker Room announces new Daily Poker Tournaments

For all you Las Vegas based poker players, The Bellagio Poker Room has announced some new weekly tournaments for you. All of the events start with 10,000 in chips, and you are allowed to re-enter (rebuy) up until the registrati...
by George Wilewicz
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Beginner’s Poker Strategy Introduction to Raising

Raising allows us to respond with an aggressive move in cases where aggression is being used against us. In this case we are faced with either a bet or a raise, and our choices are to raise, call, or fold. Like betting, there a...
by Ken Stephens
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Beginner’s Poker Strategy Introduction to Calling

We’re faced with an aggressive action again here, but instead of raising or folding, we’re going to consider just calling. Now there certainly are a lot of situations where we will look to raise instead, and as a general ru...
by Ken Stephens
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Beginner’s Poker Strategy Introduction to Folding

Folding the right amount of the time is probably the most important skill you will learn in poker. If you fold too much, then you will get run over. If you don’t fold enough, then you will get smacked by better hands. If you ...
by Ken Stephens
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Beginner’s Poker Strategy Introduction to Checking

In the case of checking, you are given the opportunity to bet, but for whatever reason you choose to decline. Your passing up on betting is called checking. Now the first reason why you may want to do this is of course that you...
by George Wilewicz
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Limit Zone: Target Practice

In poker, it is important to know which players to go after and which players to avoid. Every table has a combination of both player types, and even just one bad player can make a difficult table profitable. This week, we will ...
by Conrad Rustek
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Bodog Poker accepting US players

Bodog Poker now accepting new US players.

Bodog started as a sportsbook in 1994 and expanded its gaming empire to poker with the opening of the Bodog poker room in 2004. With the Black Friday Online Poker Shutdown, Bodog decided to stop accepting US players. Recently, ...
by George Wilewicz
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