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If you're unfamiliar with Galfond, he's a fixture on the high stakes poker scene and is widely regarded as one of the best online cash game players of all time. He's recently lit up the poker news report sites with stories of his post-Black Friday move to Canada in order to continue his online career.
The Basics of Resteal Stacks in NLHE Tournaments
At some point in any tournament, whether on Titan Poker (Titan: About) or Sky Poker (Sky: About) blinds will get to the point where steals will begin to become commonplace. At this point, the resteal can become a powerful tool to defend against steals and to attack medium stacks, who have the most vulnerable stacks of any [...]
Make Sure to Visit the New PokerRoom
With PokerRoom’s recent re-launch, many online poker players are now checking out their other options to play out the percentages. PokerRoom attracts many players because of the high quality features they display via their website; so many players are realizing that PokerRoom is not just another option to play poker online. Since PokerRoom has been [...]
The Poker Bonus Is Calling You
The ever increasing popularity of online poker means that there are new players coming to the activity every day, week and month. This is brilliant because the more people there are enjoying online poker, the more tournaments and events there can be. With more players getting involved, sites should be busier and hopefully there will [...]
PokerStars Switches to Contributed Rake Method
In one of the more controversial moves by an online poker room so far this year, PokerStars has changed their policy regarding how they calculate the rake each player pays. While that might seem like a fairly arcane issue, the rake calculation method a room uses actually has substantial impacts on players at the room. Contributed vs [...]
Poker’s Black Friday: Winners and Losers
The events of Poker’s Black Friday have forever changed the landscape of the online poker industry. Nearly every room – some would argue every room – was impacted in one way or another by the actions taken by the US Department of Justice against Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and AP / UB. Not everyone was [...]
3D Online Poker: Hits and Misses
3D Poker has been around just about as long as online poker itself. In the very early days of online poker, True Poker released a 3D client with a cast of characters, first-person table view and a variety of player actions. While True no longer uses that software, there are still plenty of rooms – [...]
Bet365 Expanding Rapidly Into Netherlands
Finding a suitable online poker room can be a tricky process. You’ve probably got a list of criteria you’re looking for to find the perfect site; a massive deposit bonus, tools accessible to help refine your game, an excellent VIP program, and a site that can speak your language, in this instance, Dutch. At Bet [...]
German Players Flocking to Everest Poker
The German poker landscape can be a tricky and treacherous road to travel, with regulations and rules abound for players looking to get their online poker fix. Luckily, there are still quite a few desirable options left for players, options that are fully legal; these rooms aren’t situated in Germany, meaning the fall out of [...]
Bluefire Poker Continues to Lead Poker Training Sites
Online poker training sites continue to play a very prominent role in the online poker industry. Players who want to learn to play the game more profitably are flocking to the sites, which usually feature winning players offering instruction via lecture or video review. As popular and as useful as online poker software and online [...]
Lotteries Continue to Expand Online
Lotteries are popular world-wide, and a big part of that growth has come from the explosion of online lotteries. While some lotteries you’ll find on the internet are stand-alone lotteries (either free or paid), many of the online lotto sites are services that essentially allow you to purchase lotto tickets in countries and states where [...]
Professional Poker: Earning Your Way to the Top
It’s a foreign concept to many people who give the game of poker a chance; people playing poker for a living, seemingly effortlessly. They continually win pot after pot without a second thought, rake in millions of dollars in earning, and have endorsements, video games, and eye candy draped over them everywhere they go. How [...]
Winning at Sky Poker
Sky Poker is basically an online poker game that caters to different types of comprehensive range of services permitting the players to partake only in the competitions and tournaments. The basic poker mechanism found in the game of Sky Poker is pretty easy to comprehend because of its simple environment and the interaction in that [...]
Bankroll Management in Poker
When you are playing poker, you should be prepared for both the winning and losing experience. The only factor that clearly differentiates between the long-term winners is proper bankroll management. The natural discrepancy of the poker game actually means that you will be most likely hit the downswings (like Isildur1 has hit) of the different buy-ins [...]
Pot Limit Omaha – Learn the Game of the Future from the Best
PLO, or Pot Limit Omaha, is considered by many people to be the game of the future. It’s not hard to see why – it’s an action game that’s a lot of fun to play. The edges in any given hand are usually much smaller than you’ll find in hold’em, which means terrible players can [...]
Bluefire Poker – The Top Training Site for PLO?
If you’re interested in Pot Limit Omaha and looking for a training site, you should consider Bluefire Poker. Yes, there are other sites that have PLO videos, and many of them are excellent, but Bluefire Poker has one thing those sites do not – Phil Galfond. That’s a massive edge for Bluefire Poker, because many [...]