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August 2008 - Posts

  • Summer Sabbatical


    I had been an excessively regular poker player since I first picked up the online game in early 2003 and for several years before then in home games. In the last two years, I qualified for FTP’s Iron Man program in 21 consecutive months – not reaching...
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    Posted Aug 28 2008, 09:55 PM by grapsfan with 5 Comments
  • Rationing


    Even after countless articles and a lot of time spent playing, a lot of people don’t understand the basic concept of rationing. Perhaps this is due to the nature of the typical poker player. With the rare exception, most avid poker players are not starving...
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    Posted Aug 22 2008, 07:11 AM by seal with 7 Comments
  • What's Wrong with My Game?


    In almost thirty years of casino poker play I never had a losing year. Oh, I had long dry spells sometimes. Dry weeks, or even months would go by, to be sure. But I always came up ahead of the game at year’s end bookkeeping. In almost thirty years of...
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    Posted Aug 19 2008, 10:08 AM by seal with 21 Comments
  • Online Poker: Make the Most of Your Work Area


    Being an online poker player, professional, part-time or amateur, means having our concentration and focus solely on the action at the table, either past, present or future. We can’t have distractions taking away from our full potential. Comfort with...
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    Posted Aug 18 2008, 01:22 AM by billywestom with 13 Comments
  • Game Selection and Your Lifestyle (Part 2)


    (continued from Part 1 ) You see this all the time in tournament poker players. There will be a kid who at 19 or 18, a lot of the time even younger, decides to stop playing his home game so much and just throw fifty dollars onto a poker site. He's...
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    Posted Aug 10 2008, 10:51 PM by Assassinato with 29 Comments
  • My First Vegas Poker Game


    I recently got back from spending a month in Vegas playing in a few WSOP events and a few other, less prestigious events as well. I cashed in 25% of the games I played, but still flew home an overall loser. After all the big money, high pressure tournaments...
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    Posted Aug 09 2008, 12:37 AM by seal with 5 Comments
  • Book Review: Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time


    There have been some gaping holes in available poker literature, but none larger than online poker from people successful as primarily online players (I love Doyle Brunson, but please, just stop it). And while a number of books provide solid A-B-C tournament...
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    Posted Aug 05 2008, 08:43 AM by grapsfan with 7 Comments
  • Game Selection and Your Lifestyle (Part 1)


    When I first walked into a poker room when I was eighteen years old I was fascinated by the difference in all the people there. I saw degenerate gamblers, drunks, really quiet types, people who couldn't shut up if their life depended on it, and everything...
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    Posted Aug 04 2008, 03:26 AM by Assassinato with 20 Comments

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