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Note : Some of these articles are featured at Noted Poker Authority. Articles will open in a new window on their published site 06/16/2010 11:06 PM Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Now In Paperback (And Cheaper) The affordable poker e-book has just gotten more affordable. Today is the first anniversary of the release of Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em, and to celebrate we are announcing two big changes: We are now shipping a paperback edition of the book (unfortunately to United States residents only at the ...Login/Register for more. 04/29/2010 03:54 PM What To Do When They Won’t Fold How do you beat a guy who won’t fold? It’s a question I hear asked frequently at the no-limit hold’em table, usually after T-5 suited has made a flush on the river or a pair of fours has called a river bluff. Maybe you’ve even asked it once or twice. ...Login/Register for more. 04/21/2010 10:00 AM 40% OFF Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Through Sunday Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em is the poker e-book that offers the most bang for your buck. For an affordable price, SSNLHE will show you in over 300 example-driven pages how to add that hard, killer edge to your game. Learn it well, and you’ll be playing bigger and better ...Login/Register for more. 04/19/2010 03:50 PM Overprotecting Your Hand Protecting your hand is a well-known poker concept. If you think you likely have the best hand at the moment, you bet to force your opponents either to fold or to pay to draw out. In no-limit hold’em, however, many players tend to overprotect their hands. Here’s a simple example. When ...Login/Register for more. 04/08/2010 04:06 PM Winning In Live No-Limit Games Most live $1-$2, $1-$3, and $2-$5 players focus on the big pots. They want to see flops, hit hands, and stack opponents holding second-best hands. This focus, unfortunately, does not promote long-term, consistent winning. The problem with it is obvious once you think about it. Everyone else is trying to ...Login/Register for more. 03/29/2010 04:01 PM Measuring Success Poker is a peculiar game. There’s no score. If you’re playing a cash game, there’s no winner. If you’re playing a tournament, there’s one winner and a zillion losers. Your opponents can play terribly and win a bundle. You can play great and crash and burn. All of this peculiarity ...Login/Register for more. 03/17/2010 07:00 PM Two No-Limit Plays That Make You Easy To Read I play no-limit cash games regularly both live and online. I prefer to play live, and a major reason is because live players are for the most part much easier to read. It’s not that I can magically decode an opponent’s every twitch and tic. Physical tells are sometimes useful, ...Login/Register for more. 02/22/2010 02:52 PM Picking Off Bluffs Your no-limit hold’em opponents bluff. I know it may shock you, but it’s true. Are you just going to let them get away with it, or are you going to do something about it? If you don’t have a good plan for dealing with your opponents’ bluffs, you may want to ...Login/Register for more. 02/10/2010 02:45 PM The Final Hand The final hand always gets the most attention. It could be the last hand of a grueling heads-up battle to determine a million dollar tournament winner. Or it could just be the hand you busted out on in your local Wednesday night tournament. Either way, chances are that you (and ...Login/Register for more. 01/30/2010 02:40 PM Thin Value The longer I’ve played poker, the more I’ve become convinced that a single concept is truly at the core of nearly all successful strategies. It’s a concept that is as important playing no-limit hold’em as it is at limit stud eight-or-better. This central concept is extracting thin value. It’s a simple ...Login/Register for more. Five Card Draw - Basic Strategy and Guide This beginners guide should give you a basic idea for the concepts and basic startegy to one of the oldest formats of poker. Because it is old, does not mean that 5 Card Draw is without merit and indeed, there are many online rooms that have now added this classic game to their lobby of tournamnets and cash games ...more A Bonus Whores Guide To The Galaxy Bonus whoring as it’s called, is not something done to improve your game. Unless you're already a well established player with deep pockets, this guide is only for the solid player with a smaller bankroll, which is why I recommend ...more The 3/4 Raise You're simply never going to be a regular tournament winner unless you learn how to play a cold deck late on in a game. The blinds are now high and the last thing you want to do is be a calling station or watch your chips get blinded out by the more aggressive players ...more Five Card Draw - The Stand-Pat Bluff For some of you this will be an obvious move but for the newbies to the game, perhaps a play worth considering, especially if the cards aren't running kindly and you have a tight image at the table ...more Smart Moves in Seven Card Stud Seven card stud is a classic poker game, and one in which you can gain a real advantage over your opponents. Texas hold'em remains the most popular poker game, so often times those sitting at a stud table will not be as experienced as you are, provided you have studied the game ...more Omaha Hi/Lo Tips We have had many discussion on the Alternate Poker Forum about the ins and outs of Omaha Hi/Lo, a format of poker which is a particular favourite of mine. Now i do not wish to write yet another piece about the basics of the game ...more

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