The best poker hands

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In Texas Hold’em players are dealt two cards each. The rest of their hand will be made up from the community cards that are dealt face up in the middle of the poker table. The order of poker hands from best to worst can be seen in our Poker Hand Rankings page; this article is about the strongest poker starting hands.

Each player can use both, one or even none of their own cards, called ‘hole‘ cards, with some of the cards in the center of the table, called Read More

Big News at Merge Poker Network

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The big poker news this week is at Merge Poker Network. Merge is the home of poker rooms such as Carbon Poker and PDC Poker. And of late a whole lot more rooms.

The news story is that a number of poker rooms have jumped ship from the Cake poker network and are moving to Merge. This is absolutely great news for the network in general, and Read More

Sit and go strategy

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The most popular style of poker game online is the sit n go. A sit n go is a game that runs at all hours of the day. I consistently fills up to a set amount of players. For example, there may be a 10 person sit n go. As soon as 10 people have registered for that tournament, it will start. Normally, the top 30% or so would cash. It is probably one of the fastest and easiest ways to make some money online playing poker. Read More

Multi table tournament overview

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The most popular style of poker game is a tournament poker game. To be more specific, a multi table tournament. This is the kind of tournament you will find when you watch the World Poker Tour or the World Series of Poker on TV. These are the types of tournaments where you can make the big money. In fact, some of the bigger tournaments out there have been known to change lives of average people. Could you imagine buying into a tournament for a thousand dollars and within 15 hours walking away with $400,000? Well that Read More

Tournament play versus ring games

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In general, there are two different styles of poker games. There are ring games (also known as cash games) and Tournaments. Of course, with the recent poker boom with the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker, tournament play is very popular. There are a lot of folks out there that have no idea that ring games even exist. There are a lot of differences between the two. A tournament is not the same playing style as a cash game. They call for completely different strategies for a variety of different reasons. Read More

Playing with a short stack

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Playing with a short stack can be one of the most exciting positions to be in when playing poker. After sitting with a short stack for long enough, you start to get the feeling that you have nothing to lose. That makes you dangerous, and it opens up a lot of doors. The only way that could work in your favor, is if you learn how to have that attitude in a smart kind of way. Channel that frustration and feeling into playing a smart short stack strategy. Read More

An overview of poker tells

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They say that each and every poker player has a tell. A tell is something that gives away what they have in their hand. Something that they do or a specific way they act could be a tell in poker. If what they say is true, than that should be a pretty important thing to learn about and understand. The fact is, that most people have several tells and only very few people actually look for them. Even less know how to find them and what to do with the tells once they do find them. Read More

The importance of hand selection

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Hand Selection is by far one of the most important parts of poker. It is actually one of the first things that you should master. The problem is that many sources out there will give you the wrong idea about hand selection. This article is about hand selection in general, so not just Texas Holdem. The different games will obviously call for different types of hands, but they all have the same rule of thumb. That rule as that you should be very selective with when and how you play hands. Read More

Becoming a serious poker player

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Poker can be played in a variety of different ways. Some people enjoy playing on special occasions, while others like to play a home game with friends once every Saturday. Some people play in $10 tournaments, and some do not play for any money at all. Well, then there are the people that choose to play in card rooms where the minimum buy in for a cash game is anywhere from $100-$100,000 (in some cases even more). So when do you decide to take that plunge? How do you know if that is the right thing for you? Read More

Online poker versus live poker

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Online poker grows bigger day by day. If you think about it, what could be better than playing poker from your computer any time and any day you would like. Being a big time live poker player, you could think the completely opposite. What better than sitting down at a poker table with a stack of chips in front of you sitting eye to eye with your opponents. There is no questions that both live poker and online poker have their pros and cons. The real question is which one is more profitable? Live poker or Online Poker? Which one should you dedicate your time to master? Read More