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DVD Recommendation: Phil Hellmuth Million Dollar Online Poker Secrets

Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 Professional

If you’ve entered the poker world within the past 2-3 years, chances are your playing way more of your poker online than in a actual casino. While online gambling used to be widely viewed as dark and seedy as playing in an old style Vegas casino. Now with sites like PartyPoker boasting tens of thousands [...]

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Poker Software Evaluation: Poker Academy Pro 2.0

Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 Professional

Developed by BioTools, Inc., Poker Academy Pro hit the market where (much like the poker book and DVD industries) a number of poorly designed and produced titles had already come before it. Their approach is “most of us learn best by doing”. So the theory is, the more hands you play, the better you’ll become. [...]

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DVD Recommendation: Phil Hellmuth Million Dollar Tournament Stratgies

Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 Professional

Poker superstar Phil Hellmuth has released quite a number of poker instructional DVDs, but being a avid online and live tournament player, this was the video I was most interested in watching, and the fact that Phil Hellmuth has won more money playing tournament poker than anyone else in the world is like being able [...]

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Misplaying Strong Starting Hands

Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 Professional

There is something that gets under my skin more than just about anything else at a poker table and that is when a player groans and complains about how they always lose when they have strong starting hands like AK, KK and even AA.  These are the same players that are known to utter the [...]

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How To Make Money At Any Session

Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2009 Professional

Ok, maybe I’m promising too much with that headline, but it is true that you can expect to pull profit out of any table/session as long as you know what rules to follow.  These aren’t necessarily tips that deal with specific card strategies or tactics, but rather just simple guidelines that are easy to adhere [...]

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Three Quick Low-Limit Strategies

Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 Professional

Unless you have money to burn, when you first get into poker you will probably be playing at the absolute smallest limit tables available. In an actual brick and mortar card room this will usually be $1-$2 limit but online you can find games as low as $.01-$.02. Playing these games is fine for getting [...]

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Knowing When To Quit

Date: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 Professional

With most forms of entertainment, knowing when to quit is easy. For physical activity you will stop either when the game ends or when you get tired, likewise with other forms of enjoyment such as movies and TV. For whatever reason though, poker can be very hard to walk away from, regardless of the playing [...]

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Best Poker Shows To Watch

Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 Professional

If you love to play poker, then you probably love to watch poker, and thanks to the still high popularity of poker, there is no shortage of poker TV shows to watch from, and the best part is that they all try to offer something that the other doesn’t, giving us the viewer quite a [...]

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Incorrect Betting

Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 Professional

There are a lot of things you can do at the poker table that can show your inexperience or lack of poker knowledge, but few of them are as easy to identify as when you make a bet or raise that is either far too large or small according to the situation.  Often times new [...]

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Five Must-Know Sit & Go Tips

Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 Professional

Sit & Go’s (also known as SNG) can easily be some of most entertaining online poker you’ve ever played as long as you understand that they are quite unlike most other forms of poker (such as normal tournaments and cash games) and require a different type of strategy in order to be successful.  SNGs are [...]

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Turning Off The Frustration

Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 Professional

One of the biggest problems for just about ever player out there, regardless of skill, is the frustration factor. No matter how much we practice, read, learn and resist, the act of getting frustrated can easily overturn all reasonable thoughts and result in us making poor decisions at the poker table. These frustrations can come [...]

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Three Bad Poker Habits to Avoid

Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 Professional

Every time I play poker, both live and online, I always curse my luck when it appears that once again I have been stuck at a table that has a loud, foul-mouthed, reckless player that appears to be doing everything in their power to hinder/ruin mine and the tables poker fun. Turns out though that [...]

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Where To Get Started: Live on Online?

Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 Professional

One question I’m often asked by new and beginning poker player is where they should start to gain experience.  A live card room at a casino? One of the more popular online sites?  Is there a difference?  The answer, as you may suspect, is not all-encompassing, it heavily depends on the player in question.  Do [...]

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Applying Pressure

Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 Professional

You’ve probably heard before that aggression is the typical preferred style of choice when playing most poker games. The reason being is that the aggressive player at the table can normally take control of a hand or even the whole game by forcing their opponents to have to make most of the big decisions, driving [...]

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