Action stations
If no-limit hold’em is the Cadillac of poker, then PLO might well be the turbo-charged smoking Lamborghini The high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker are consta...
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Sit-and-go strategy
The middle stages of a sit-and-go can be problematic, when you’re caught between trying to build your stack and preserve it In the middle game you...
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Seven-card stud
Before hold’em took over, the game of choice was seven-card stud Seven-card stud has been described by Phil Ivey (who began his career playing stud in the card...
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Getting paid
Anyone can flop a big hand, but it takes skill to reap the most profit from it By betting on the turn, I’ve made the pot big enough that it will be hard...
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Streets ahead
Playing the turn and river is where it gets expensive in limit Omaha 8-or-better There’s rarely a justification to slow-play or check-raise in Omaha 8-o...
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Get shorty
Serial short-stackers are the bane of a regular cash-game player’s life Poker is constantly evolving. Players are always developing new strategies, and from ti...
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Pocket Queens
Pocket Queens can be tricky to play post-flop, so you must try and stay in control of the hand SCENARIO ONE As a general rule when playing online, don’t...
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Win deep-stacks
Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin gets to the bottom of some of the game’s trickiest concepts. What’s your plan for the early stages of a deep-stack? At the recent Manche...
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Poker clinic
Willie Tann explains how to beat the micro-limit games and reminds one reader that sometimes the cards just don’t fall your way… MICRO MACHINE I have bee...
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Know your foe
The secret to playing winning poker isn’t just the cards, but the faces and in the actions of the people at the table The most commonly asked poker quest...
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