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The best poker hands

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 [...]

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Sit and go strategy

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 [...]

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Multi table tournament overview

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 [...]

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Tournament play versus ring games

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 [...]

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Playing with a short stack

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 [...]

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An overview of poker tells

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 [...]

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The importance of hand selection

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. [...]

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Becoming a serious poker player

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 [...]

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Online poker versus live poker

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 [...]

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Developing a playing style

As you get more experience playing poker you will start to develop a playing style. In fact, you will probably have a playing style that changes multiple times over the course of your playing career. There are really several different styles of play that one could have. There is the aggressive style, the tight style [...]

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