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Is your strategy dated? Guest Post by Carl “The Dean” Sampson 9 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
I recall back in 2002 when I first started playing full time and the limit games were very loose and mainly passive. The average pot sizes were very high as more players were seeing the showdown. The ...
Online Poker Cheating in the US 6 Jun 2013 | 01:44 am
Alan C. Lawhon posted a response on a thread over at 2+2 and emailed me asking if I might offer some insight from an operator’s perspective on the topic of cheating in online poker and how it may or m...
How important are implied odds in NLHE cash games? Guest Post by Carl “The Dean” Sampson 6 Jun 2013 | 01:11 am
I recall some years ago in all of the major literature on NLHE that all of the authors at that time were discussing implied odds as being far more important than pot odds in this form of poker. This i...
It’s a question of range: Guest Post by Carl “The Dean” Sampson 7 May 2013 | 04:06 am
Everything you do at a poker table is affected by what type of range you have. This applies to both you and your opponents. If your opponent raises and you want to 3/bet then you are doing this blind ...
A look at combatting ordinary regs by Carl “The Dean” Sampson 1 May 2013 | 11:05 pm
These days you cannot sit down on any no limit ring game online for decent stakes without encountering several regulars. Now there are regulars and there are regulars so to speak. If a regular at your...
Book Review: The Mental Game of Poker 2 26 Apr 2013 | 07:32 pm
I just got done reading Jared Tendler and Barry Carter’s follow up to their ground-breaking book The Mental Game of Poker, . As one might expect based on the title, TMGP2 extends what Tendler and Cart...
Songkran in Thailand 14 Apr 2013 | 02:47 am
Songkran is a holiday in Thailand that I avoided for many years. For those not familiar with it, Songkran is a festival in Thailand that the Thais call their New Year (though they also celebrate the i...
Book Review: Poker Hero 2 Apr 2013 | 01:23 am
Poker Hero by Florian Roßner is one of the best poker training books I’ve read in a long, long, long time. In fact, one of my only complaints about the book is that it should be twice as long and […] ...
Online Poker in 2013 19 Mar 2013 | 08:11 am
Several years ago I wrote a couple of articles about the gap between online poker software and what players had come to expect from other, non-poker related, products. You can scan over the two posts ...
Greg Raymer’s Prostitution Arrest 18 Mar 2013 | 03:30 am
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of days, you’ve probably heard that 2004 WSOP Main Event winner, and all around good-guy, Greg Raymer was busted in a prostitution sting. The rea...
