I’m very excited! For the 1st time ever, pokerpenguin.net will be hosting an open tournament on Pokerstars.
It’s easy. Download pokerstars here. Once you have an account. Login and go to Tournaments and click on the “Private” table. Sort by date and find the tournament called “pokerpenguin.net”
Here’s the details:
No-Limit Texas Hold’em […]

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Ever since I started playing poker, I’ve wonder what goes on in the heads of top pros when they make crazy plays like re-raising with T5o or making a sick call with Q high or simply how they put all their reads together so they can consistently end up in the money or at the […]

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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 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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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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