July 2nd, 2010 by V. Azilewsky

Life is good when you win poker games but we all know that it is not really like that in real life. There will be nights or weeks when you will lose a lot of games. We line up some tips to help you deal properly with a losing streak.

Poker as a Marathon

You might have lost some amount in one night but you have to look at the bright side and see what’s left for the rest of the month or for the rest of the year. It can be mentally soothing to think this way when you dropped a big chunk of cash.

Re-Analyze the records

If you monitor how much you spend and lose in poker, then re-trace and re-analyze how you game is. Hopefully the records will tell you that you are still a winning poker player. Check how you are doing over the months and how bad you are doing over some time.

Losing is not forever

Optimism is key when dealing with a really bad beat. Although it is really heavy in the chest when you lose, you have to get that feeling out of your system. You need to have the right mindset. Wins will come again no matter what.

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April 14th, 2010 by J7os

A free card is when you let your opponent or when you take advantage of seeing the next card without having to place a bet. Let us say you and an opponent is battling it out on a pot, you give your opponent a free card when you check.

There are basically two reasons why you use a free card. One is when you want to save some money if you are caught on a draw. Two, when you need to get some more money from the other players on the table.

A free card is somehow a mix of the semi-bluff and a check raise.

You use the free card so you can save money by preventing another player to bet in to you on the turn. This saves you chips rather than making a bet for the flop and another one upon the turn to see what the river will reveal.

The free card play is ideal if you are:

• Heads up against someone on the table. It might be tricky if you are against more opponents.
• The first to act
• Holding strong cards on the draw

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February 14th, 2010 by J7os

We are a big fan of Teh Jinx Poker, a great blog that does a lot of SNG’s and even some heads-up Cash Game poker. That set of eights call is pretty funny, but it worked out right?

November 1st, 2009 by Lyndsie

Playing poker as a beginner can be really, really difficult – especially if you are playing with experienced people who know the rules of the game.  There are a lot of mistakes that you, as a beginner can make that you don’t even know about most of the time.  However – I am going to tell you some of the most common mistakes that beginner poker players make.

One of the first things that you need to remember is that you do not want to play above your bankroll.  I can tell you from experience that it will not only make your hole deeper but you will lose a heck of a lot more money, which is not good.  Next, do not become too emotional at the table.  That is something that many beginner poker players do not realize that happens.

Finally – not using the pot odds is something that many people as beginners do not know.  If you hands needs some improvement, the concept of the pot odds can really help you!

October 24th, 2009 by Lyndsie

It has to be said that keeping your poker face on is not easy – it is actually one of the most difficult things for a person to be doing.  Honest, I think that learning how to bluff in the first place is actually really hard for someone who has no idea how to do it.  Well, bluffing is all part of the game and it is almost a useless trait unless you are in the high-stakes games … because there is more money on the line.

In the game of poker, there are a few things that you need to be able to do and bluffing is definitely one of them. If you are playing in some of the higher-stakes games and you are looking to cash in, you are going to have to let a person read you and let them read what you want them to read – that is where you bluff comes into play.

Bluffing is very important and if you are not a big fan of bluffing, I can promise you are not going to do all that good in poker.

May 19th, 2009 by J7os

There had been a widespread acceptance by both male and female players that Annie Duke is the best poker player in the world. She has many championships and credits to her name but one of the most special is the event where she stood tenth while she was eight month pregnant with her baby.

Annie Duke was born in Concord, New Hampshire as a sibling to Howard Lederer, better known as “The Professor” owing to her patient and conservative approach to the teaching of poker to others. In her childhood Annie was helped by her sister Howard but no one ever anticipated that Annie will go on to break all the records and earn hefty fortunes in poker.

Annie was an intellectual and she outscored in English and Psychology as an alumnus of the Columbian university. She even opted for a PhD in Psycholinguistics. However just as she was on the verge of completion she left her doctor’s degree and went for a full time career in poker.

Two of the biggest accomplishments of Annie Duke are: Read the rest of this entry »