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• 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)...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy -- In the Mix: Playing the River in Limit Hold'em

  David Behr

  Four weeks ago I wrote about some of the difference between playing no-limit hold'em and limit hold'em, a game which is the cornerstone of many a mixed-game rotation and one of the primary games in most mixed-games tournaments...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Getting the Most Out of Omaha Hi/Lo

  David Behr

  Most beginning mixed-games players tend to play conservatively in the stud games, play somewhat decently in limit hold'em (due to its overlap with the game of choice for the past four years, no-limit hold'em), but become...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- A Closer Look at Deuce-to-Seven

  David Behr

  Survey the poker landscape in the hole-card-camera era, and you'll be convinced that only two types of poker are played anymore: flop poker games such as hold'em and Omaha, and stud poker games such as razz and seven-card stud...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Starting Hands and Dead Cards in Razz

  David Behr

  A few weeks ago I discussed the importance of looking for the proper conditions to defend the bring-in bet in razz and how absent incredibly ideal conditions, the bring-in is usually better off folding most of the time...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Limit Hold'em for No-Limit Players

  David Behr

  The lament of the no-limit hold'em player forced to play limit hold'em is often that "opponents can't be forced to fold." There is some merit to this sentiment; with betting limits structured into fixed amounts, the best weapon...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Fifth Street in the Stud Games

  David Behr

  Those pesky stud games. In addition to requiring more from players in terms of attention, memory and reading ability, they also have one more round of betting than flop games. Hold'em and Omaha have four rounds of betting...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- The Danger of Danglers

  David Behr

  Take typical hold'em players and sit them down in a limit Omaha hi/lo game for the first time, and their initial reaction will most likely be to marvel that they are dealt four cards, instead of two. With so many starting cards...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Card Memory in the Stud Games

  David Behr

  Stud games are often referred to as "old man" games, since it seems that the average age of any random player at a stud cash game table is about 60. The younger generation of poker players all prefer to play action games such...

   

• H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Starting Out in Badugi and Triple Draw

  David Behr

  Last week we took a quick look at one of the earliest decisions a player has to make in a game that everyone loves to hate -- razz. This week we're continuing the lowball theme by looking at two other lowball games that have...

   

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