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Apr 15th, 2010 |
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The latest version of the Poker Stars Software has been released this week, and most of the changes are based on player feedback, so presumably this will be the best poker client ever.
One addition worth noting is the new ‘Knockout tournaments’ where every player has a ‘bounty’ on their head. So even if you [...]
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Tags: Cosmetic Changes, Heads up poker, Multi Event Satellites, New Stars bonus, Player Feedback, Poker Client, Poker Stars, Poker Stars software, Poker Table, PokerStars, Satellite Three
Apr 6th, 2010 |
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The most important factor that will determine your success or lack of it at the online poker tables, aside from your ability to actually play winning poker, will be your bankroll management skills.
If you cannot manage your bankroll properly, then no matter how good of a poker player you are, you are facing an up [...]
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Tags: bankroll management, build your bankroll, Maximum Bonus, Online Poker Rooms, poker bankkrolls, Poker Player, Poker Players, Poker Tables, Winning Poker
Mar 15th, 2010 |
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The big news in the online poker world is the pending move to the Merge network of four Cake poker skins.
These poker rooms include SportsBook Poker and PlayersOnly Poker. The resultant increase in traffic on the Merge Network is expected to be huge – possibly up to six times the current level – and [...]
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Tags: Cake Poker Network, Merge gaming, Merge Network, Online Poker Sites, Player Numbers, PlayersOnly, Poker Host, Poker Rooms, Poker World, Resultant Increase, Smart Players, SportsBook poker
Feb 26th, 2010 |
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The site at FBNPoker.com, which has been a leader in the No Deposit Poker Bonus field for about four years, has recently redesigned their website and added a new section for free poker money bonuses, also with no deposit required.
It is a good sign of this side of the business when a site has to [...]
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Tags: Deposit Bonuses, Free Bonuses, free poker, free poker cash, free poker money, Important Point, Money Bonus, no deposit bonuses poker, Poker Room
Jan 27th, 2010 |
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There are a whole lot of free poker cash bonuses available on the internet right now.
The last few years have seen this poker bonus model become more and more popular with poker rooms and independent third party operators.
Of course, they have always been popular with players.
Players that are not familiar with free poker cash [...]
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Tags: Cash Bonuses, Free Bonus, free money for poker, free poker, free poker cash, Loyal Players, no deposit poker, Poker Room, Poker Rooms
Jan 27th, 2010 |
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In a continuing trend that began last year, the two small networks Everleaf Gaming and the Universal Poker Network announced that they would merge this month (January 2010).
The new larger network is still called Everleaf so I guess you could say that the UPN was taken over by Everleaf. The details don’t matter too much. [...]
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Tags: Economic Climate, Everleaf Gaming, Peak Times, Player bankrolls, Poker Network, Poker room mergers, Poker Rooms, Poker Sites, Small Networks, Universal Poker Network, UPN
Dec 23rd, 2009 |
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Ok, so you have got to the end of the middle part of a long tournament, and built your stack a bit by stealing some blinds.
So what strategy do you need to take to make sure that you get past the bubble and into the money? To the final table even?
If you have been playing [...]
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Tags: Aces, Best Game, best tourney advice, Blinds, bubble play, evaluating big calls, final table, getting into the money, getting past the bubble, middle of long tournaments, Monster Chip, Right Move, Stack, tight tournament play, tournament strategy
Nov 11th, 2009 |
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It is a common enough strategy to try to double your chip stack early on.
This is especially true in tourneys that have very large fields. It is a reasonable strategy, but it has one glaring flaw.
Many players will be familiar with the marginal hands that they are happy to go all-in on. Say that you [...]
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Tags: all your chips, Cash Games, Chip Stack, Chips, Glaring Flaw, losing half your stack, Management Abilities, Odds, play premium hands, risking your stack, tournament pot odds, tournament strategy
Oct 29th, 2009 |
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A lot of players look for a free poker site when they first start to play online poker.
It is probably a combination of things that have them looking for free poker sites. The natural caution when it comes to putting your money online is probably the major reason for wanting to play free poker first.
And [...]
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Tags: Cant Stress, free play chips, free play poker, free poker, free poker option, Free Poker Sites, free poker tables, high roller tables, natural poker player, Online Poker Rooms, Play Chips, Poker Player, real hard cash, Roller Tables
Oct 18th, 2009 |
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After the early stages of any big poker tournament, when the play, and the players, have settled down somewhat, begins the long, tedious and drawn out process of crawling your way to the money.
The bigger the field the longer this middle period will be.
By this stage many of the lesser skilled players will have been [...]
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Tags: big field tourneys, big poker tournaments, Blinds, Decent Player, Down Time, early tourney stages, lesser skilled players, Middle Period, playing premium hands, Poker Tournament, Skilled Players, stealing the blinds, tournament strategy