Recently, for my home game I decided to run a series of poker games. The Penguin Poker League, if you will.
This wasn’t necessarily an easy task. First I had to decide on a point system. I wanted to make it fair for people who didn’t necessarily play every week, but at the […]

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Last night, I decide to finally combine my two passions of poker and film making. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for awhile and I just happen to have a good buddy of mine who is a top-notch Assistant Camera staying at my house while he works on a feature shooting in […]

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Last night I played my first bar tournament. These are the types of games that are never advertised, never promoted and you have to know someone to get into. Not that it’s illegal in my state, it’s not (the law is kinda gray about it).
Anyway, the whole tournament is played by a bunch […]

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I think every poker book should have a disclaimer in its foreword.
“Attention: This book will only help you in 4-8 limit against grandpa”
or
“Warning: This book is only applicable if you are playing in the WSOP”
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy. There is no strategy that performs equally well in a 3-6 limit table and […]

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On a whim, last night I went down to Harrah’s and played in a $200 buy-in tournament for the WSOP. I did not do well.
I managed to stay in for about 2 hours. But in the course of that 2 hours, the best hand that I saw was pocket Kings and I only […]

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How could that guy have beaten me? I was 80% to win!
Well, that means 2 times out of 10 you’re going to lose. Sorry buddy. I’m pretty sure you didn’t whine about the other 8 or so times you won with your pocket aces against that flop.
The bad ones have a way […]

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In a follow up to my last article, Reading Your Opponents, I’d like to talk about reading opponents who have a better than average read on you.
I have a weekly home poker game, as most of you know. It started off with rather unskilled players (myself included) and has since developed into a game […]

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