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Do You Know Your Poker Player Styles?

Studying your competition is really the difference between doing okay in poker and really doing extraordinarily well in poker. A lot of novice players feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information that you have to figure out before you get really good. Yet nothing says that you have to learn these things right away. You can build steadily over time. Understanding poker style is understanding psychology. This is always a good thing. There are essentially 4 elements of playing style: Tightness — this defines the quality of the hands played. The more hands that you play, the lower the...

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The CBet Poker Strategy

CBet, or a continuation bet, is a type of poker strategy used when betting on the flop once the player raises on the pre-flop. In other words, the player is following up their initial wager with a subsequent wager. Usually, a player will use the CBet strategy in order to represent their strong hand. In the world of poker, CBetting is a common strategy. This type of betting practice allows the player to earn a bigger value over the long haul while still controlling their hand, the hand of their competition and the size of the pot. Typically, a CBet...

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Studying Your Hand Potential – The River

Ah, the river. We’re talking No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, of course. That is a fierce game, you know — fortunes can really change in the blink of an eye, so if you aren’t careful you can really get eaten alive. Is it going to be something that you want to worry about completely? Eh, not really. Like any other form of poker, you really just need to focus on the game as it is, from every angle. That’s what the super shark players do, and they’re not turned off by any part of the current hand. We get a...

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Studying Your Hand Potential – The Flop

Ah, the flop. We love flops, you know. No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em is such a fun game, because a lot of players give away what they’re holding right at the flop. You can always tell that the person raising like 10BB has a monster hand — and he’s also a newbie nearly half the time if not more often. You don’t want to flash exactly what you’ve got because then people are just going to fold. Unless you just want to spend the whole game taking tiny pots, you want to spice things up a little. And that means...

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Beat the Lonely Holiday Blues By Playing Lots of Poker Online

The holiday season might be a great time for families to meet up, but that doesn’t mean that it’s always a great time for everyone. Some people don’t have a family to go to, or they might not really want to deal with the drama that family loves to bring to your door. Instead of thinking that there’s just nothing else you could possibly do with your life, why not actually invest in playing some online poker. We know what you’re thinking — why would you want to stay indoors during the festive time of the year? Well, the truth...

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Three Cheers for Multi-Table Poker Tournaments!

If there’s one arena of poker that we love, it would definitely have to be tournaments. However, multi-table tournaments are really the best of the best out of the category, and we think that more poker players should get excited about these types of tournaments as well. It’s not just enough to play a few hands on a Saturday night with people that you’ve never met — you have to go head to head eventually. You need to be in a large tournament because it helps you develop poker skills that will serve you well for the overall life of...

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Top 3 Online Poker Secrets – Improve Your Game

Any experienced poker player will tell you that there are a number of secrets to be learned in order to improve your game and increase your chances of making money in the world of online poker. It is important that you do your research online. Start by finding a poker site that offers good signup bonuses like PokerMira, then look up and study different tips in order to turn even the worst hand to your advantage. With this in mind, here are top three online poker secrets to help you improve your game. Secret Nr. 1 It is important to...

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In Defense of Bluffing in Poker Games

Is bluffing a good thing? If there’s one element of poker that everyone seems to really understand, it’s definitely bluffing. At least they think they understand it. Most people new to the world of poker tend to overdo the value of bluffing to the point where they make it obvious that they’re bluffing. Now, is there a time where you want your opponents to assume that you’re bluffing? Of course there is. However, like most tools of the psychological warfare scene, bluffing can get crazy when overdone. Your opponents assume that you’re really not doing a good poker run, and...

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There are Plenty of Poker Perks Just Waiting For You – Have a Look Today

We try to take breaks from it, but we just keep coming back to poker for some reason. Blame it on that delicious combination between luck and skill if you want, but the fact remains…we just can’t get poker out of our minds. Just when we think that we’ve conquered our need for poker, the desire comes rushing back in. We want to play poker and there’s just no getting around it. Playing poker is soothing. Playing poker makes us feel powerful. When we win a few hands of poker, we feel like there’s nothing in the world that we...

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Poker Is Fun, But It’s Time to Check Out the Action at Bingo Street!

We love poker, and we’re not afraid to get that out of the way. Unfortunately, a lot of people feel that all you have to worry about in life is poker, and that’s not the case. There is so much variety found in the world of online gambling that you would be honestly doing yourself a disservice not to check everything out. If you’re feeling a little burned out on poker, you’re actually in good company. Many players feel like they’re absolutely sick of poker but they want to play something different. They want to actually get real money through...

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