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HR. 2267 passes vote – good news for US online poker
Published on Thu, 29 Jul 2010It’s a little early to start pouring out onto the streets and dancing for joy but the Poker Players’ Alliance and poker players everywhere have struck the first blow against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as the House Financial Services Committee voted in favour of online poker 41-22-1.
read more »UFC announcer Bruce Buffer wins Hustler poker tournament
Published on Thu, 29 Jul 2010You know him as the guy who shouts in a really cool way before two huge men roll around cuddling on the floor for fifteen minutes (that’s what UFC is, right?) but Bluff Europe blogger Matt Perry informs us he first knew of Bruce Buffer after Phil Gordon’s Final Table Poker DVD, in which he starred.
read more »Combating the LAGfish
Published on Thu, 29 Jul 2010In the good old days, categorising players was quite easy. The dimensions of “tight or loose” and “passive or aggressive” gave us a two by two matrix with four rough categories of player (such as TAG, for tight and aggressive, or LAG for loose and aggressive). This provided a template for pigeonholing players. Granted, reality is never so easy, but for everyday grinding, this was a remarkably simple and useful approach.
read more »Six-max… the FAQs
Published on Thu, 29 Jul 2010Dear Dr Tom
I’ve recently moved from playing nine-handed NL to six-max cash games. I like them and I feel they suit my game, but the swings seem to be bigger. Any specific advice for this particular form of poker? I play anything up to 0.25//0.50.
Owen,
Kingston
Playing like a micro-durrrr
Published on Thu, 29 Jul 2010If you were to read an item of poker strategy before 2003, or even as little as four years ago, you would find a myriad of what can now only be described as "Hellmuth-esque" tactics for beating the game: play super-tight, value-bet well and time your (rare) bluffs wisely.
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