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March 2006 - Posts

• Blog - How much cheating is there?

  
  

  Yet another serious tournament player has been busted for using multiple accounts on Party and Stars. Another player people thought was solid turns out to have cheated his way to reputation. And unfortunately I think cheaters in online tournament play... Read More... Posted Mar 30 2006, 10:04 AM by Fox with No Comments

• Nice Guys Finish Fourth: Part I

  
  

  Devin Porter finished fourth in the 2005 World Poker Tour event in Aruba, which will be aired for the first time on the Travel Channel on April 5. I'm sitting in the Atlanta airport frozen stiff....I had just been talking to my friend about how excited... Read More... Posted Mar 30 2006, 02:59 AM by TranquilChaos with No Comments

• Blog - An Interesting Week

  
  

  I was staked in the $1,000 buy-in event on Stars this week, had ups and downs every day, and finally got everything loaded on to my new computer. I worked on a couple of new videos for my site, wrote a little for the book, did some editing, and even got... Read More... Posted Mar 29 2006, 07:13 AM by Fox with No Comments

• The Downswing

  
  

  On a dark and gloomy day in May of 1572, it rained in the Atacama Desert. Then, 400 years later, it finally rained again. Talk about a dry spell. And if you've played poker long enough, you've probably experienced the same thing. Maybe not 400 years,... Read More... Posted Mar 29 2006, 06:31 AM by 1.21Gigawatts with No Comments

• P5s Podcast Arrives, with Sheets and Westtexasman as Guests

  
  

  After more than 14 months of existing solely as a website, PocketFives.com is expanding into a new form of media---podcasting. We're going to be periodically bringing our users a show that contains discussion of current issues in online poker, interviews... Read More... Posted Mar 29 2006, 02:24 AM by Adam with No Comments

• The State of the Blog Address

  
  

  Pocketfives has been about as kind to me as could be in giving me a dedicated blog page and everything is finally ready to go. I have a new 64 bit processor, and big old hard drive, a dedicated blog page, and even a new keyboard. I couldn't be more ready... Read More... Posted Mar 27 2006, 07:06 PM by Fox with No Comments

• Making the Leap

  
  

  I have been getting a lot of Private Messages on here lately all asking the same type of questions: "How long have you been playing?" "What limits did you play at in the past?" and "When/How did you move up to the 50-100 NL Game?" I would like to answer... Read More... Posted Mar 27 2006, 04:34 AM by shipitthisway with 2 Comments

• The Basics

  
  

  WillisNYC is an instructor at PokerMentors.com . When I first started playing poker, everything was about the odds. I played limit ring a lot and needed to know if certain calls were justified. My first poker book listed all those ‘drawing’ odds in a... Read More... Posted Mar 23 2006, 03:09 AM by WillisNYC with No Comments

• Want to play in the WSOP? Try SunPoker!

  
  

  If you're anything like me, you're looking for the easiest way to get to the World Series of Poker this year, or at the very least, the best value. SunPoker is offering P5ers a free chance to get there, simply by playing on their site. If I was... Read More... Posted Mar 22 2006, 05:00 AM by Adam with No Comments

• Basic Guide to Deal Making

  
  

  After seeing multiple discussions on deal making in the forums (particularly terrible deals that people have accepted) I thought a quick guide to deal making might help a lot of people out. There will be a more advanced guide to making deals soon, but... Read More... Posted Mar 18 2006, 06:13 PM by Fox with No Comments