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• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith: Trusting Your Reads, Part 2

  Jeremiah Smith

  At the time, it made perfect sense. My hand was inconsequential — I was going to use my superior ability to outmaneuver my opponent and win this pot...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith: Gathering Info and Trusting Your Read

  Jeremiah Smith

  It was the first hand at a brand new table, and I wanted to implant a firm impression in my opponent’s minds that I was a bit of an idiot...

   

• 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

   

• 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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