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For beginning players there is very little need to spend hundreds of dollars on poker resources, this would be like buying your first set of clubs and hiring a swing coach, you should at least take them to the driving range a few times to try them out! More importantly for most new poker players; [...]

Usually the headlines involve young college kids leaving school to pursue a career in poker, usually online. However, there has been a strange trend over the past year or so where the reverse is happening, and some of the most successful young poker players have been leaving poker to go back to school, or pursue [...]

In today’s poker world there are numerous outlets and resources you can take advantage that will help guide you into poker’s winner column. These resources range from free articles and hand calculators, to one-on-one coaching sessions that can run as high as $1,000/hour or more. So the question becomes, how much should I be spending [...]

Every decent poker player knows that most of the time the flop isn’t going to improve your hand -which isn’t a big deal when you hold Pocket Aces, but when you have a hand like AQ or 89s things become a lot more complicated. If you figure that about 33% of the time your hand [...]

When it comes to making adjustments against a particular opponent sometimes it’s not just their style of play that will play a major role in how you adjust your play, sometimes their frame of mind, their gender, or their experience that will play an important factor in the way you handle them at a poker [...]

When it comes to making adjustments against a particular opponent sometimes it’s not just their style of play that will play a major role in how you adjust your play, sometimes their frame of mind, their gender, or their experience that will play an important factor in the way you handle them at a poker [...]

When it comes to making adjustments against a particular opponent sometimes it’s not just their style of play that will play a major role in how you adjust your play, sometimes their frame of mind, their gender, or their experience that will play an important factor in the way you handle them at a poker [...]

When it comes to making adjustments against a particular opponent sometimes it’s not just their style of play that will play a major role in how you adjust your play, sometimes their frame of mind, their gender, or their experience that will play an important factor in the way you handle them at a poker [...]

The early story-line in 2010 had this being the Year of the Woman in poker, but after a fast start -including three major tournament victories by women-the ladies were unable to maintain their momentum through the World Series of Poker which gave another subset of poker players the opportunity to claim 2010 as their own. [...]

Now that Mike Mizrachi, Gavin Smith, Phil Laak, and Gus Hansen have all been able to erase their name from the list of poker players who haven’t won a World Series of Poker bracelet, it’s time to revisit the list and add a few names to replace the players the players who are now walking [...]