Quick recap of the Twitter Poker Tour Event #9 held at PokerStars

By steve | Feb 27, 2009

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Last nights Twitter Poker Tour Tourney was held at PokerStars and saw 41 players participate for a prize pool totaling $205.00 shared amongst the top five finishers. Last night top five were as follows:
1: taz31362
2: 110 Octane
3: sotied
4: Waz Poker
5: S.t.B
I saw many [...]

Update on my issue with the PPA – Poker Players Alliance

By steve | Feb 26, 2009

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Shortly after my blog was posted about the “The Poker Players Alliance (PPA”, my password was reset and I received an email from the PPA with my new temporary password. Needless to say, I was very happy to put this issue to rest. Thanks go to @ppapoker and @TheEngineer2008 on twitter. Thanks also [...]

The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) – Praise for them (and a rant as well)

By steve | Feb 26, 2009

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The following paragraph about the PPA is from their about page and says what they are about:
“The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is a non-profit membership organization comprised of online and offline poker players. Our membership consists of enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to [...]

Shortest Omaha High/Low Tournament

By steve | Feb 25, 2009

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Last Monday night I participating in one of the shortest tourneys I have ever played in, at least the shortest that I remember. It was a Railbirds private tourney. And I do enjoy the challenge that playing Omaha High/Low brings.
I caught an interesting set of high cards, all suited in Clubs. They were [...]

Online Poker Communities – Railbirds.Com

By steve | Feb 24, 2009

If you have been playing poker on line for a few years you may have noticed that many sites have private tourneys, members only. Some require being a member in order to get the nightly password while others invite any one who subscribes to their blog or newsletters.
I have been a member since 3/20/2007 of [...]

Thoughts about having AK as a hand

By steve | Feb 23, 2009

Throughout the last three years, I have seen many different players having AK as their starting hand and have been amazed at how some people value and play them. Otherwise known as “big slick”, AK are perhaps the two most misplayed cards that anyone can get. In some of the lower buy-in Texas Holdem tourneys, [...]

Playing a hand too strongly with a bad kicker … costly ….

By steve | Feb 20, 2009

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Definition: Kicker – A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank
Last night at the Twitter Poker Tour tourney, I managed [...]

Avoiding FPS at the TPT and hoping for a positive EV

By steve | Feb 19, 2009

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Talk about alphabet soup in the winter, my post contains a lot of TLA’s (three letter acronyms).  It is believed that Mike Caro, aka the “The Mad Genius of Poker,” coined the phrase “Fancy Play Syndrome” or FPS. This almost sounds like a disease and to a poker player, it could be. Try [...]

Favorite Hands vs Winning Hands vs Losing Hands

By steve | Feb 18, 2009

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I have a group of Poker Twitter friends and they were tweeting about their favorite hands. That got me to thinking about what hands I like to see when I look down at my hole cards. Those cards differ of course depending on the game I am playing, but in Texas Holdem give [...]

Decisions for a budding poker pro

By steve | Feb 17, 2009

What to do, when to do it, how to do it and why do it?
Most of the literature I have read about becoming a poker professional states that I should play regularly at least 40 hours a week, as if poker is my full time job. My thoughts are that I should do this as [...]

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