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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I wanted to talk about tells, but that post isn’t quite ready yet… but I need to mention this sooner rather than later.
WSOP Circuit Event
Friday, May 09, 2008 to Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Schedule:
Fri, May 9th 12 PM
Event #1 - No Limit Hold’em $500
Sat, May 10th 12 PM
Event #2 - No Limit Hold’em $500
Sun, May […]

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Baseball has the World Series. Football (American) has the Superbowl. Football (rest of the world) has the World Cup. Poker has the World Series of Poker.
It’s getting ready to be that time again. Yesterday, the WSOP released the schedule for 2008 and started taking pre-registrations. 55 events in all and […]

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