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Poker School
Poker School It is not too difficult to find a free poker strategy source nowadays. There are plenty of poker sites providing you with a lot of information on any variant of poker you can just imagine. But the articles are pitifully mixed. When there is some classification it usually does not help too much as the division into Beginner/Intermediate/Professional is quite relative and even illogical. Plus there is a great number of sites which duplicate each other and sometimes it is almost impossible to find an article on a certain topics. So, we decided to improve the situation and created this Poker School.
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Knowing When to Fold in Limit Holdem
Knowing When to Fold in Limit Holdem To win at the game of Texas Holdem a player needs to pick their spots and make the most of them. To play the game in this manner means that you’re going to have to lay down a number of hands. So under what circumstance should you fold your cards?
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Working With Mid-Range Pocket Pairs
Working With Mid-Range Pocket Pairs Some things in the game of poker are self-evident. If you your pocket cards are a pair of 2s, you can be reasonably certain that this is a good time for a potty break or a trip to the drink cart. Conversely, if you find yourself holding a pair of Kings or Aces and don’t reflexively raise before the flop, you probably don’t belong at the poker table anyway. What can be confusing are those middle pairs that may show up in your hand.
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Should You Post Your Blind Immediately
Should You Post Your Blind Immediately When joining a game at a brick-and-mortar casino or its online cousin, the new player is given the burden of posting the Big Blind. Doing this immediately is not mandatory. The choice exists that the player may either pay the Big Blind now and participate immediately, or wait a few hands until it is their natural turn to post the Big Blind.
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Fighting for the Blinds Before the Flop
Fighting for the Blinds Before the Flop In the game of Texas Holdem we are conditioned to defend our blinds more strenuously than we may fight for other hands. It is, after all, your money sitting in the pot, right? Perhaps under this circumstance you would be more willing to play a hand that you would otherwise fold.
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The Power of Tells
The Power of Tells When it comes to lying, the body and mind are not on the same page. Our minds find it very easy to be deceptive but the human body treats lying in the same manner that it would react to eating a chili pepper. In short, the mind is willing but the body is weak. This means that when somebody is bluffing, chances their body will somehow betray them and give off subtle clues that the player is not being truthful.
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The Wire Act
The Wire Act If you ever get into a debate about the legality of online gambling, the wire act is one of those facts that you are expected to know if you want to argue either side with any amount of credibility. The wire act is the little statute that everyone points to when they want to claim that online poker is illegal, and all of the pro-gambling folks are putting their own spins and adaptations on it so that they can justify their recreational activities.
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Poker Tells: Before You Start
Poker Tells: Before You Start Go ahead – try to find something yourself and stop following advices that everyone can find on the Internet.
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Pot Odds And Other Aspects
Pot Odds And Other Aspects You should always think: "What is the best possible hand now? If I make a hand – will it be the winning one?" Ask yourself… every time you play poker.
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Poker Table Etiquette
Poker Table Etiquette “Do unto your opponents as you would have them do unto you”. Other principles and rules mostly originate from it. They are very easy to remember if you understand the main one.
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Poker: The Evolution
Poker: The Evolution Maybe Binion had thought then that it was a very good idea, a very, very good idea. He remembered the public excitement, which he could see during all these 5 months. And after 20 years he decided to recreate it…
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