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Hello Blackpool!
I like living on the Isle of Man. My house has a beautiful view out across pastures where I can see cows and sheep grazing, with farmhouses in the...
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Thinking of Barry Tanenbaum
It wasn't really all that long ago that No Limit Hold'em was virtually unknown outside tournaments. The cash No Limit Hold'em games had died off back in the early...
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Deja Vu - Pot Limit Omaha Hand Analysis
Play enough poker and you'll see just about everything. And, of course, if you play online, then "enough poker" happens a whole lot sooner. So I guess I shouldn't...
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Mistakes from a $.02/$.05 Pot Limit Omaha Game
If you decide to take the plunge into Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO), you may, like many people, opt to start at the lowest stakes. I mean, if you're going to...
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Slow Playing in PLO is Different
One of the big differences between No Limit Hold'em (NLHE) and Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) is the set of reasons you choose to slow-play a big hand. In NLHE,...
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The Return of Implicit Collusion
Back when I was first writing Winning Low Limit Hold'em (1994), my friend and poker buddy, Roy Hashimoto, described to me a phenomenon that was relatively new to the...
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Avoid the Stack Sandwich
A million years ago, Mike Caro pointed out that money flows clockwise around a poker table. This should be self-evident to any thinking poker player. If position is everything...
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Dipping Your Toe into PLO (Pot Limit Omaha)
C'mon, you know you want to try it. You've seen the nosebleed games online with their multi-$100K pots - mansions being won, lost, and won again as the flop,...
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Tales from the WSOP - Phil Laak Plays $1-$3 NLHE
Since the WSOP attracts all the stars in the poker firmament, you never know when you're going to have a random encounter with a well-known pro player. I had...
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Online Stars Gain WSOP Recognition
Ever since the dawn of online poker, there has been friction between the online and live poker camps about the relative ability of the players in each. One poker...