Betting for Value

Cardrunners Stars Create New Fantasy Game

2011-10-14T19:34:00.003-05:00

Top poker players and Cardrunners founders have created a new fantasy sports game that looks a lot like tournament poker. These are SNG style daily tournament games where you pick the number of competitors you want to play again and you pick a roster for each event.Every day of the week, DraftDay gives sports fans an electrifying way to test their fantasy sports skills. Play Daily Fantasy Sports

Win a Seat to the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event

2011-08-18T07:23:00.000-05:00

Dearfoams, the official footwear of the WSOP, will be running the Dearfoams WSOP $10,000 Seat Sweeps from July 1, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time until May 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. ET, and giving away a $10,000 seat at the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event to the winning contestant. Entering is easy! Visit www.dearfoamspoker.com and complete the registration by following the links and

New Poker Training Site from a Couple of Masters

2011-07-18T21:11:00.005-05:00

So I recently learned that Bryan Micon and Brett "Gank" Jungblat have started a new poker training site and I am quite excited about it. If you are not familiar with these online pros, you must be new to poker. Both these guys used to be associated with Real Poker Training which was bought out a couple of years ago, and have started this new site. Gank has been dominating cash games in NLHE

Roulette Players Use Bots To Increase Chances To Win

2011-07-01T23:31:00.004-05:00

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What is to become of Online Poker?

2011-06-24T14:01:00.003-05:00

Since black friday on April 15th of this year, the online poker world has continued to remain in murky ground. Full Tilt has not yet returned players' money to them and as a result, Phil Ivey, one of their signature players has sued them and is boycotting the WSOP.Now we have several state's exploring bills to legalize online poker in their. No fewer than 5 states are exploring the issue,

Online Video Poker Training

2011-06-23T07:30:00.000-05:00

I think using online video poker training is one of the most effective ways to quickly learn winning strategies for both tournament and cash game play. There are now a number of video training sites available but most of them carry a large upfront activation fee and then a monthly charge beyond that.I recently found Outstanding Poker which is an online poker training site with no start-up fee

Roulette Strategie for Online Roulette Casinos

2011-06-01T21:30:00.001-05:00

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Tourneys and Cash Games

2011-05-28T00:20:00.000-05:00

So I just cannot stay away from the excitement of tournaments. I usually play 4-6 of them early in the evening and then switch to cash games for new tables when I get down to 2 tables remaining.This way I can still come out positive for the night even if I do not make a final table in tournaments.There are somethings to be careful with in mixing tourneys and cash games:1. Avoid this strategy if

Improve Your Tourney Skills for Free

2011-05-10T21:43:00.000-05:00

Want a very effective and free way to improve your poker skills --- open up a couple of tables with the best tourney players and watch them play. Go to www.pocketfives.com to see the list of the top online tourney players. Then go to Ultimatebet, Paradise, Pokerstars or the other sites they play and look for the next $100 buy in tourney.Then after the tourney starts, look to see which of the

Microlimit Tournaments

2011-04-10T09:02:00.000-05:00

I have talked in the past about how hard it is playing in low limit tournaments. I much prefer the regular winning of cash games. However, tournament play is thrilling and when you score big it is a great feeling.If you are set on tournament play, I found this to be a great article about Micro-limit play from pokernews.com.

Poker Strategies, Online to Offline

2011-03-14T20:47:00.002-05:00

Many aspiring poker players will start their playing careers playing online at virtual tables. But many of those who are brought into the game by the offers of Party Poker discount codes, or simply as a means of passing a few otherwise dull hours sat around the house, find their passion for poker soon develops beyond the realms of a simple distraction or online pastime and they wish to take their

For a Change of Pace, Try Roulette

2011-02-16T19:50:00.003-06:00

**This is a Sponsored Post**We all get bored with Poker at times, especially if you are playing correctly and folding most of your hands. Rather than play bad poker, it is often better to take a break and do something else.One idea is to release some steam with a completely different game such as Roulette. Here are some roulette strategie that will help you learn the game. If you enjoy the

My Top 7 Poker Posts from Betting for Value

2011-02-05T22:00:00.000-06:00

Without any fresh inspiration on poker topics to cover, I thought I would provide you with a quick reference to some of the best posts that I written over the past couple of years. I know Top 7 is an odd number, but I could not limit it to Top 5, so you get two bonus posts. Hope you enjoy them:My Top 10 Insights on Cash GamesIn this post I provide my 10 most important tidbits for maximizing

Short Handed Cash Game Statistics

2011-01-31T08:51:00.002-06:00

**This is a Sponsored Post**One way to improve your game is to purchase some tracking software such as Holdem Manager or Poker Tracker and use it to thoroughly analyse your game. Each piece of software is different but they basically share the same statistics, some of them which more importance than others, with the three major preflop statistics shown below.Although you will need to look much

Value Betting and Pot Control

2011-01-31T08:48:00.003-06:00

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Top Leonardo DiCaprio Films

2011-01-30T22:17:00.005-06:00

I saw this interesting article on the best DiCaprio movies and thought I would pass it along. I am a big DiCaprio fan and really like some of his earlier movies such as What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries. Both of which made the list along with his blockbusters and more recent films like Inception.

Around the Poker Blogosphere

2011-01-23T22:00:00.002-06:00

I thought I would highlight some of the interesting articles I have read on other poker blogs during the past couple of weeks.Over at Bill's Poker Blog, he has a very interesting article about the battles going on between the sites to sign-up different pros. One of his key questions is a good one, what are the sites getting out of these relationships? Are players really signing up because of

Take the DiCaprio Quiz

2010-10-02T09:26:00.001-05:00

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A Good Poker Resource - The Poker Grinder

2010-08-23T07:14:00.000-05:00

Sponsored PostI wanted to highlight a good poker strategy resource for online grinders, The Poker Grinder. They cover many key poker strategy topics including bankroll management, playing against different player types, moving up in limits etc.The TPG Blog covers news and strategy from around the poker world. Recent stories have included a story on Phil Laak getting himself into the Guinness

Halo Reach - Sponsored Post

2010-08-22T17:39:00.001-05:00

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Mel Gibson is Exposed as a Dirtbag -- Again!!

2010-07-01T18:18:00.003-05:00

Unreal, this guy is quite classless. Some people grow old gracefully, then others are complete trainwrecks! In the latest tirade, Gibson is caught on tape using a racist slang for African Americans.Here are some links to the full story:Link 1Link 2Link 3

Rush Poker Tournaments

2010-05-17T13:00:00.003-05:00

I have been trying out the Rush Poker Tournaments on Full Tilt lately and frankly I like them even better than Rush Poker Cash Games.The main problem with the cash games is that you better have the nuts when you get your money in because the nuts almost always wins the all-in pots in Rush cash games. People are not willing to gamble when they can simply push the fold button and get another hand

UIGEA, Online Poker and the Gaming Industry

2010-04-20T15:15:00.004-05:00

The sands are shifting in the landscape that is online poker. There are movements afoot to further limit players ability to move around cash among the online poker sites, but there are also movements on the legalization fronts. It is shaping up to be an epic battle and hopefully the "good guys win". Just think of the tax dollars from online poker that could be used to solve some of our other

Thanks Full Tilt for bringing us Rush Poker

2010-02-15T11:41:00.000-06:00

This may just restore my interest in online poker. For the past year and a half, I have really been much more interested in land-based poker because I get too distracted playing online poker. Online poker just enables my Adult ADD -- I usually have 3-4 tables going and do other things like surf the web between hands.However, Rush Poker could solve that problem. Now I can stay focused playing

Time for the Pokerstars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker

2010-01-11T10:05:00.001-06:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! PokerStars.com is the home of Free Online Poker Games, bloggers can play for free in the exclusive WBCOOP tournament, register here to play: WBCOOP Registration code: 473248