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Originally from Poker Gazette on January 29, 2006, 2:23pm

Have you ever been in a game where after taking a look around the table, you can’t find the fish? Not that you are the fish, but the table is very tough none-the-less. Well, I have good news. It’s not the end of the world. There are steps you can take to rectify the situation.
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Originally from Poker strategy articles on January 16, 2006, 10:54am

After a long interim the gang finally got together for some Texas Hold ‘em, and yours truly a lowly droog took the cake!

We had two new players, new to holdem and new to our group who made it to the final three. How is it that new players do so well? I call it the mortal kombat theory.

As a young man, I would play MK for hours and had hundreds of combinations memorized on every player, but would often get beat by a spastic noob pushing buttons. I think that once everybody agrees to play a certain way, it is hard to compensate for a “wild card”.

Both of the noobs were tired with the drawn out game, and one of the guys who got knocked out was kind enough to advise #3 to go all in on a pair of 8s on the very same flop that I paired my jack on! How kind. We shared a 3 kicker.

Pocket hooks put #2 all in and me in the win.

Till next time, keep em close.

Each year, I pretty much split my card-playing time between poker and blackjack. You may not think so, but considerable insight for one game can rub off on you while playing the other.As an example, I was playing blackjack the other night and the young male dealer kept staring over my head behind me. Finally, I turned around to see what was so distracting. Hanging overhead back there was a large TV monitor showing the World Series of Poker.”You into poker?” I asked the dealer. “No Limit Hold’em

Originally from Poker Gazette on January 29, 2006, 2:23pm

After putting down 10’s and 8’s with K’s and 2’s, I put 3rd stack all-in and out.

I was still way short for head to head and we had 5 stay until the blinds were at 8 hundred (10k stacks), I was bleeding hard couldn’t even skim, or catch playables in HEAD to HEAD!

I readjusted to a mid percentage game, pushing hard on straight draws, and low pockets for trip draws since I couldn’t get a pair game started. Anyway I made it back to about 1/3rd of big stack. Pretty tough.

You know how it goes from here.
All in — fold, All in — fold, All in — fold, All in — fold, All in — fold,
All in–CALL!

Q9 suited diamonds vs smallstack AK Big Slick off suit. Very nice, for a player who came back from down to 3 blinds left to 1/3 of the chips.
AK 62% vs Q9 38%

Flop:
D C D no face help puts Q9 on the flush draw. The flop puts Q9 at 54%

Turn:
K clubs, pairs the K’s The turn puts the Kowboys at a 75% FAVORITE

River:
A of friggin diamonds, for the flush.

I think the only time I have won with big slick was highcard. The end of the high straight in my opinion makes Big slick, big zip.

I will always believe that winning consistently is more difficult in a cash game than it is in tournament play, mostly because of the tilt factor and the way many tournaments can turn into crapshoots when the blinds get big. Plus, all a player needs is to just have that one magical tournament, and a fortune can be made.
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Originally from Poker strategy articles on January 24, 2006, 4:16am

Ever since poker began moving up from New Orleans on Mississippi River steamboats about 200 years ago, newspaper and dictionary editors as well as military, business and political chroniclers have tended to devalue its cultural currency or ignore it altogether.They’ve often done so in the face of abundant evidence that playing poker helped numerous American movers and shakers make their way in the world.For 19th century figures such as the statesman Henry Clay, sheriffs Bill Hickok and Pat Garre

Originally from Poker Gazette on January 29, 2006, 2:23pm

People often ask me: “How do you play king-jack, off suit?” My answer is always the same: “It depends.”The most important consideration when deciding how to play any poker hand, aside from the strength of the hand, is your position at the table.Position can be broken down into three categories: early, middle and late. At a nine-hand table, the first three seats to the left of the button would be considered early position. The next three are middle position and the last two seats, as well as the

Originally from Poker Gazette on January 29, 2006, 2:23pm

New players are invariably weaker players. Although most players recognize that they want weaker players in the lineup, many struggle adjusting to their presence. Far too many of us are “clueless against the clueless.” It does you know good to think three steps ahead when your opponent can’t think one. You can’t automatically muck your called bluff on the end, because you might find that your opponent called with a 10 high. For that matter, what are you doing trying to bluff a new player, anyway?

There is no perfect strategy to facing new comers, partly because they come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of knowledge and intelligence. read more in pokerworks.com

Originally from Poker strategy articles on January 27, 2006, 7:20am

Look around any poker room today, especially in the higher limit section, and you’ll definitely find a game of Omaha Hi-Lo. The game is vastly different from Seven-Card Stud or Texas Hold’em as far as strategy is concerned, as it caters to a more conservative, mathematical approach, which allows less room for bluffing.The rules are as follows:The game is dealt just like Hold’em: a button, a small blind, and a big blind to initiate action. In Omaha Hi-Lo, however, each player is dealt four cards

Originally from Poker Gazette on January 29, 2006, 2:23pm