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• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith: Preparing for the 2009 WSOP

  Jeremiah Smith

  Lebron James’ pre-game display hints at the show to come; the Nike commercial has immortalized his ritual of tossing a handful of chalk

   

• Poker Shrink Vol. 61: Conscientiousness

  Dr. Tim Lavalli

  The personality trait that covers organization, discipline, deliberation, and carefulness is called conscientiousness. Often the simple comparison...

   

• Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 4: Reading Your Opponents

  Lou Krieger

  One of the first things every successful poker player learns to do is get a read on his opponents....

   

• Poker Shrink Vol. 60: Neuroticism

  Dr. Tim Lavalli

  The most studied personality trait in psychology is neuroticism. Put every simply, if an individual scores very high...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 3: Manipulating Your Opponents

  Jeremiah Smith

  It’s possible that he just didn’t like me. After all, he had announced a few orbits earlier, 'You better...

   

• Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 3: Adjusting to Fixed-limit Games

  Lou Krieger

  HORSE, as pointed out previously, is an unbalanced game because most competitors are primarily Texas hold’em...

   

• Poker Shrink Vol. 59: Extroversion

  Dr. Tim Lavalli

  We have all heard of personality traits, which we usually think of in terms such as dominant or shy, weak or bitter, happy or joyless. But personality trait theory is a bit more complex...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 2: First Impressions vs. Table Image

  Jeremiah Smith

  A friend of mine described the strategy he wanted to employ for a daily tournament at the Orleans: 'I’m going to play really tight in the first few levels...

   

• Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 2: An Unbalanced Game

  Lou Krieger

  HORSE is played at fixed limits as a rotating sequence of five games, and is played eight-handed to minimize the chances of running out of cards during the stud games...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 1: Table Dynamics -- Big Chips Equal Big Pots

  Jeremiah Smith

  As I took my seat at the table, the first thing I noticed about this 'deep stack' tournament was the number of chips. Or rather, the first thing I noticed was the lack of chips...

   

• Poker Shrink Vol. 58: Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon

  Dr. Tim Lavalli

  The foot-in-the-door phenomenon comes from the foot-in-the-door technique, which vaguely alludes to a salesman who literally puts his foot in the door so you can’t slam it in his face....

   

• Talking HORSE with Lou Krieger, Vol. 1

  Lou Krieger

  I’ll be writing a new column about HORSE for PokerNews. It will appear here each and every Saturday, and I plan to continue writing this column until the subject is exhausted...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- What Hold'em Means to H.O.R.S.E.

  David Behr

  As part of my writing duties this past week, I watched the final table of the $10,300 H.O.R.S.E. event run as part of the SCOOP tournament series on PokerStars. It was an event that drew 80 runners -- an impressive...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- The Death of Table Selection

  David Behr

  I play lots of fixed-limit poker. When I started playing poker, there was no such thing as a no-limit hold'em cash game. It simply didn't exist....

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- To Check-Call or to Bet-Fold

  David Behr

  At times I sound like a broken record but I really can't emphasize enough how fixed-limit poker (the way most mixed-games variants are played) is a fundamentally different beast than pot-limit and no-limit poker...

   

• Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Picking Your Spots in PLO

  David Behr

  I had the opportunity this week to play a private $10 PLO tournament on Full Tilt Poker that drew 84 runners. After about four hours of play, I took down the whole tournament. But there was one hand halfway through...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Chasing a Low is Chasing Trouble

  David Behr

  I've discussed before the importance of starting with three low, suited, connected cards in seven-card stud hi/lo. Those are the hands that will most often improve to scoop the whole pot by showdown. It's true...

   

• Poker Strategy: Mixed-games Variance and Bankroll Considerations

  David Behr

  If you're the typical poker player that's come up through the ranks any time in the last five years, you've probably played more than your share of no-limit hold'em. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that you've played no-limit...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- The Mental Side of Mixed Games

  David Behr

  The last several weeks have been a busy time for poker on the west coast of the United States. The L.A. Poker Classic kicked off in the third week of January; it was soon followed in Las Vegas by the Deep Stack Extravaganza...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Playing Three-card Wheels in Razz

  David Behr

  Razz tends to be most mixed-games players' weakest game. If I were to theorize why that is the case, I'd probably point to this combination: (1) the game is not spread in live casinos in any format but mixed formats...

   

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