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Triple Crown is quite the "improved"ment
Felipe "improved" Montenegro has lived up to his screen name in a big way so far in 2008. He first played online in the fall of 2006, but he...
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A Violent Game
A buddy I used to play with often had one of the best lines I've heard for dealing with the way the cards come out on a given night....
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In Praise of Poker Writers
Having dabbled in it myself, I know that writing about poker is not easy. Well, let me rephrase that, writing anything about poker worth reading is not easy. In...
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Time to Bag the LAG?
Constant aggression is the mantra of winning poker players these days, and most of us could stand to turn it up a notch. For anyone who tried to learn...
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SowersUNCC = Borgata Bracelet Winner
He was born James Michael Sowers, but he goes by Mike, and most of us know him as SowersUNCC, so I guess you can't blame Cardplayer for being a...
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Winning is the Best Medicine
In the online poker community being sick is almost always a good thing. Well, two weeks ago Glen "Choron" Chorny was sick as a dog, and it had nothing...
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Oh, to be 18 and named Stevie
Stephen Chidwick just graduated high school in July of 2007. While his peers in the United Kingdom were preparing themselves for University, perhaps taking a quick jaunt to the...
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Is Online Poker +EV for the average player?
Pocketfives exists to celebrate the accomplishments of online poker players, promote online poker as a game of skill and provide a place for online poker players to come together...
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Triple Crown? Par for the Course
Chris "herdgolf86" Tipper got a late Christmas present last month. Well, present isn't quite the right word since he most definitely earned every penny of the $4,725 he won...
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Lucky #13 : interview with fergwrx, UBOC champion
Andrew Ferguson, known to Pocketfives as fergwrx is somewhat of a newcomer to the online tournament circuit. He has been involved with online poker for almost four years, but...