Total bluffing
In high-stakes cash games, it is not enough to rely on continuation bets as your main source of bluffs Bluffing is perhaps the most famous and most misundersto...
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Pocket Kings
Raising pre-flop with Kings is the preferred strategy, but there are times when you should just call There are not many feelings at the poker table that beat l...
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Post-flop goals
Post-flop play is easily the most demanding area of no-limit hold’em because there are so many aspects to consider A lot of betting after the flop with ...
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Pro Views
The pros get to grips with King-Queen, a hand that at first always looks tempting, but can land you in trouble King-Queen always presents problems because you ...
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Setting up
Flopping or facing a set is far more common in pot-limit hold’em than in no-limit Previously we looked at pot- limit versus no-limit and their differing nuance...
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Doyle Brunson is a true poker legend so we interviewed him to hear his...
There’s only one place to interview Doyle Brunson, and that’s Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio For a man of his 74 years, Doyle Brunson moves wit...
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The late great Chip Reese spoke to PokerPlayer before his untimely pas...
Chip Reese, who passed away recently, spoke to PokerPlayer before his death about his life in poker If your only exposure to poker is from watching tournaments...
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Legendary poker star Howard Lederer gives us the lowdown on the Big Ga...
Howard Lederer, the two-time WPT and WSOP bracelet winner, speaks out about his desire to return to high-stakes action Howard ‘The Professor’ Lederer was one o...
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Cash game specialist Shawn Sheikhan talks about his Main Event trouble...
Shawn Sheikhan is a serious poker player in his own right. Just don’t expect him to play nice Though Shawn Sheikhan has his home in Las Vegas, minutes after we...
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High stakes player Brian Townsend has had a meteoric rise through the ...
Brian ‘sbrugby’ Townsend went from playing $0.25/$0.50 to million-dollar games in two years ‘There isn’t a six-handed game I wouldnR...
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