For many people their route into the world of poker is being introduced to fixed limit Texas Hold’em, a game that is still popular in many parts of the world and in online poker circles, but also a game that has lost some ground on its No Limit cousin due to the latter being seen as the more exciting and profitable of the two forms. (more…)
11 comments May 19th, 2011
Many poker journalists dubbed 2010 as the “Year of the Brit” after British players had some amazing results at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada. British players hauled in a total of five WSOP bracelets; Praz Bansi won his second bracelet, whilst James Dempsey, Richard Ashby, Mike Ellis and Steve Jelinek all got their hands on their first pieces of poker jewellery. (more…)
3 comments May 4th, 2011
A type of poker tournament that is growing in popularity in recent years is the deepstack poker tournament. When poker tournaments first came into existence, they were simply freezeout poker games. They were mostly $5,000-$10,000 events, so all the participants got $5,000-$10,000 in chips.
Read on to find out what are Deep Stack tournament and where they came from … (more…)
14 comments April 24th, 2008
Playing in the opening stages of STTs requires tight and aggressive play, in its purest form. Everyone knows that and as a player, I have never had any problems dealing with this issue. Short handed play, or heads up was always something I was naturally good at, too. When I have to be crazy aggressive, and play on the edge, for some reason I feel good about the game and manage to make all the right calls time and time again. I know not all online poker players are like that so I’ll devote a different article to the short handed and heads up stage in the future. (more…)
7 comments March 26th, 2008