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• 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...

   

• Mixed-Game Strategy: The 2009 WSOP Mixed-Game Offerings

  David Behr

  It's hard to believe that it's already February. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that the entire poker world descended on poker's Mecca -- the 2008 World Series of Poker. Long days and longer nights passed in the Amazon...

   

• Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Tournament Structures in Mixed Hold'em

  David Behr

  Over the last few years, tournament directors have experimented with ways to branch out from simply running all no-limit hold'em tournaments all the time. Mixed-game tournaments are one of the few areas where there...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Stratgey -- $10/20 Omaha at the Crown

  David Behr

  As I mentioned last week, I'm currently in Melbourne, Australia for the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championship. In between late nights of poker coverage, even later nights of heavy drinking, and a few off days spent enjoying...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Position in Razz?

  David Behr

  As I write this, I'm in Melbourne, Australia for the start of the 2009 Aussie Millions Poker Championships. Over the course of three weeks more than a dozen new poker champions will be crowned. The side action at the Crown...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix – What is Your Fixed-Limit Raise Designed to Accomplish?

  David Behr

  In a split-pot game, there are generally three reasons to raise: (1) you believe you are the only person playing for one half of the pot and have multiple people playing for the other half, leading to a situation where you can...

   

• Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Why Position Matters in 2-7 Triple Draw

  David Behr

  Last week I described a few of my experiences playing in an eight-game mix tournament on PokerStars. To refresh your recollection, eight games are played in rotation in an eight-game mix tournament...

   

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

  David Behr

  There were several new events added to the 2008 World Series of Poker. Some of them, like Event #4 "Mixed Hold'em", don't really qualify as mixed games in my book. While it's true that two different variations...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Figuring Out Stud Hi/Lo

  David Behr

  Seven-card stud hi/lo, like razz, is a game that tends to bewilder mixed-games players. At first glance, it seems simple enough -- it's a hybrid of seven-card stud and razz, with the wrinkle that a low hand must be made with five...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- The Importance of Fourth Street in Razz

  David Behr

  Razz is one of the most poorly understood of all of the games that typically find their way into a mixed-game rotation. As opposed to other lowball games like deuce-to-seven triple draw and badugi, razz (like most stud variants)...

   

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