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Just how good is Tom “Durrrr” Dwan at poker? Certainly better than me that’s for sure but I would hazard a guess that many players could stake a claim to be better than me. Durrrr, as he is known, is one of the best poker players in the world today after years of dominating the [...]

In No Limit Texas Hold’em AA and KK are the two hands that you hope to see each time you check your hole cards. In terms of pre-flop hand strength they are the best hands you can be dealt. There will be occasions where AA or KK will cause you to lose a big pot [...]

Like me, you may be a big fan of poker tournaments. There is plenty of tournament poker online which gives you plenty of opportunities to improve your play each evening. Improvement can be fast and one player who is bad to begin with can improve very quickly providing they are looking in the right places [...]

Although Poker is skill based (we will accept that argument for the duration of this article) the game is interlaced with random acts of luck that decide your short term results. Luck is the saviour and scourge of Poker players who live and die by the random acts of it. Many poker players have lots [...]

You have made some important poker decisions to make it this far. You have successfully chosen your poker room, rakeback or VIP program, your amazing new poker username and you have downloaded the software and made your first $200 deposit into your poker account. Now that you are ready to play, it is an exciting [...]

Did you know that a professional poker player can make some fairly accurate assumptions about your style of playing poker just by looking at your chip stack? Obviously I do not mean if you have a massive chip stack they think “He/she is a good player” because you are winning, I mean the way that [...]

PLO (Pot Limit Omaha) has become almost as popular as Holdem for poker fans. Because there are certain adjustments you must make to enjoy success at the game opportunities arise from players moving from Holdem who do not put in the necessary effort to learn PLO. They may simply want to play poker, but are [...]

You may have stumbled across some footage of Razz either online or when watching the World Series of Poker on TV. Razz is one of the Stud disciplines of poker, often referred to as “Stud Lo” as the game rewards the pot to the player with the lowest hand rather than flushes, straights or sets. [...]

When I first began to play Hold’em poker I used implied pot odds as a way of justifying calls that were not correct because I thought my opponent might be bluffing. Putting your opponent on a hand and deciding if how many of their chips you can win if you improve is difficult to do, [...]

Recently I entered a hand reading competition through one of the leading monthly poker magazines in the UK (it is highly possible that I read every single one of them) and I thought the hand interesting enough to describe my reading of the hand to you. Please comment if you agree/disagree and hopefully we will [...]