Ruff Poker Blog
Learn Train Dominate Poker

When most players think of split-pot poker games like Omaha 8 or better, or Stud 8, they often think of loose/passive games where poor players back into half the pot, leaving solid, good, players with little profit potential.
While the first part of the previous statement is certainly true -poor players are often rewarded with half [...]

Many of us online poker players recall fondly the pre-2006 world of online poker, when in the course of a week you could shuffle your money between three different poker-rooms, all offering an easy to clear deposit bonus, or reload bonus. Well unfortunately the lucrative deposit bonus has gone the way of the dodo for [...]

Virtually every major retailer now offers some form of “Rewards Card” where the consumer receives some type of compensation for shopping at the store -typically the more you spend the better the reward. Well the same holds true for online poker rooms, virtually every online poker site offers players at least one of the following [...]

•1.       Tight is right
 
When it comes to Omaha 8 patience almost always wins the day. This holds true when you are playing in what I would deem a “good” Omaha 8 game; one on which 5 players see the flop, this includes the blinds, for one or two bets. A decent game will have 1 [...]

Every year a few poker players breakthrough, and go from unknown pros eking out a living to top players with a million in the bank and a sponsorship deal in hand.
The following group of players has proven themselves to be consistent winners in 2010, as well as putting in the time and energy to make [...]

As more and more players are making the move away from conventional Sit & Go tournaments towards Turbos -since you can play more games in a shorter period of time, which not only increase your profit, but also your rakeback totals– I have noticed that many of these players are trying to take the same [...]

For the most part, poker is self-policing game; yes there are dealers and floor people in Brick & Mortar card-rooms and you have some safeguards online, but for the most part it is up to each individual player to protect not only themselves, but also the integrity of the game.
In this series I will take [...]

For the most part, poker is self-policing game; yes there are dealers and floor people in Brick & Mortar card-rooms and you have some safeguards online, but for the most part it is up to each individual player to protect not only themselves, but also the integrity of the game.
In this series I will take [...]

For the most part, poker is self-policing game; yes there are dealers and floor people in Brick & Mortar card-rooms and you have some safeguards online, but for the most part it is up to each individual player to protect not only themselves, but also the integrity of the game.
In this series I will take [...]

Annette Obrestad -Annette certainly has the results when it comes to poker tournament winnings, but the way she is talked about is astounding! The way I rate a tournament player is what I call the ‘3-Card-Exchange’. Basically if I change three results from your career are you still a top player? I use this method [...]