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  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 3: Stepping Up Your Game, Part 2

    Matthew Parvis

    Yesterday we gave you the lowdown on step tournaments, from how they work to how much cash you'll need to get started. Now that we've got you adequately buttered up, lets look at some tips that will send you to the winner's circle. Tips from the...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Breakfast Club

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 3: Stepping Up Your Game, Part 1

    Matthew Parvis

    Every poker player dreams of sitting at the final table of a major event. You can feel the lights beating down on you and the cameras focusing on you. This is it. It's your moment to shine and become part of poker history. Then, just like that, you...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: New Jack City

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 2: Heads-Up Razz Sit-N-Go's Part 2

    Nicole Gordon

    When it comes to poker variants, Razz gets a bad rep. Burdened with the stereotypes of being a cranky old man’s game, a fast-track to tilt or an exercise in sheer torture, Razz is actually a fairly simple game to learn. If you can get past the...

     
  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 2: Heads-Up Razz Sit-N-Go's Part 1

    Nicole Gordon

    When it comes to poker variants, Razz gets a bad rep. Burdened with the stereotypes of being a cranky old man’s game, a fast-track to tilt or an exercise in sheer torture, Razz is actually a fairly simple game to learn. If you can get past the...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Rounders

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 1: Super Turbo SNGs Part 2

    Nicole Gordon

    Yesterday we ran the first part of our new series "Bankroll Builders" and gave you all the information you'll need to get started playing turbo sit-n-go's. Today, we're following it up with tips to help you crush your low-limit opponents into sit-n-go...

     
  • Bankroll Builders, Vol. 1: Super Turbo SNGs Part 1

    Nicole Gordon

    Maybe it happened that night you decided to take a shot at $3/$6 no-limit with only $800 in your account. Or perhaps it came about that one afternoon you felt invincible enough to play $55 heads-up sit-n-go's—then chased your losses at the $109's...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Wall Street

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses learning barriers in a way that few examples can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their relationship to playing...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Natural Born Killers

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: The Empire Strikes Back

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: The Godfather

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching poker because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films and then remember their...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching players how to learn the game because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films...

     
  • From the Big Screen to the Final Table: Dazed and Confused

    Michael Friedman

    Modern cinema is a great tool for teaching players how to learn the game because it crosses cultural barriers in a way that few teaching elements can. All one needs to do is listen to the advice that can be found in the lines of a variety of films...

     
  • Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 14: More Stud Starting Hands

    Lou Krieger

    Last time, we talked about the importance of starting hands in seven-card stud, and began our examination...

     
  • Poker Shrink Vol. 70: Interaction Effect

    Dr. Tim Lavalli

    All fold to the small blind, who completes. The big blind raises, the small blind folds. Then two rounds...

     
  • Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 13: Starting Hands in Seven-Card Stud

    Lou Krieger

    Starting standards are important in seven-card stud, just as they are in any form of poker. Those first three...

     
  • Poker Shrink Vol. 69: Recency and Primacy Effects

    Dr. Tim Lavalli

    Both the Recency Effect and the Primacy Effect have fairly simple explanations but some not-so-simple applications....

     
  • Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 12: Stud, the Old School Game

    Lou Krieger

    Seven-card stud is old school. In fact, it’s about as old school as it gets, unless you consider...

     
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