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Many poker players are wondering what the online poker world look like next month. On June 1st it becomes illegal in the USA for banks and payment processing companies to process the financial transactions relating to online gaming and gambling. This legislation is known as UIGEA, which stands for the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. [...]

Following on from our pre-flop concepts article for Texas Hold’em poker you should now be in a position to make better pre-flop decisions. The benefit to doing so cannot be overstated because the better you play preflop in poker the only hands you will be playing are those that hold some value for you. Tightening [...]

When you play online poker and in particular online poker tournament you will frequently find yourself in a position where you are facing a big stack similar to your own size and you get all of the chips in the middle. Either you are already losing or you get a bit of bad luck and [...]

Most of my online poker is playing at https://poker.bwin.com/, which is a great up and coming poker room backed up by a large sportsbook (I like feeling safe when I deposit money into a site), but I also enjoy playing in live poker tournaments. My first ever tournament was a scary thing, I did not [...]

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 [...]