Category: Online Poker

Aug 28
Exploiting Pot Control

Pot control is the term used to describe a system of play designed to keep the pot small. The purpose of the system is to preserve chips, reduce variance and the risk of losing your stack. But in modern day tournament poker, pot control is being used to the extreme. The norm in most tournaments […]

Aug 19
Me and my story…

I've been told that I should be a writer. I personally don't agree however something just made me feel like searching out a place that I could tell my story and behold here I am. This may be a long one as I feel the need to start back when I first turned 21. I […]

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Aug 10
Michael Mizrachi the Ambassador

The man known as The Grinder – Michael Mizrachi – currently sits at number seven in the all-time money list for live tournament professionals, with an impressive haul of $14,074,765. Not bad for a man everyone said was broke, just a few short years ago. A devoted husband, father and multiple World Series of Poker […]

Aug 02
Esto es Poker Intereconomia TV

Esto es Poker en Intereconomia TV es el nuevo programa de Poker en la television española. El torneo Sit and Go Triple Shootout es patrocinado por LBpoker la sala de poker española de la casa de apuestas Ladbrokes. Te puedes clasificar online al torneo de Esto es Poker de Intereconomía Television. El horario de emisión […]

Aug 02
How player types affect fold equity

I like the environment of a full ring game for numerous reasons. Firstly the average player types in this form of poker mean that I get greater fold equity. The mean average number of rakeback earning, multi-tabling, ABC regs means that a slightly more LAG style can do very well. I know that with 100bb […]

Aug 02
Betting on wet boards in NLHE

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about wet boards in poker. For those of you who do not know then a wet board is one where there are many draws present. As a rule if you get called on a wet board then your opponent usually has a mediocre made […]

Aug 01
Going after the dead money

It really doesn't matter which form of poker you play or how you play it. Be it limit hold'em, PLO, NLHE or whatever…..whether you play short stacked or deep stacked……the fact of the matter is that it is dead money and the attaining of it that is key these days. Let us say that you […]

Jul 27
When to fire a second barrel

For the record I had another good session last night which has carried on my recent good run at NL100 and am ahead by just over 30 buy-ins this month and so have had my first $3000/month since returning to the game after a lay off. Anyway I want to discuss one of the ways […]

Jul 27
A lesson learned

Back in the dark days when I didn’t know my backside from my front in terms of poker then I would often either bet or raise without fully understanding just why I was placing chips into the pot. Forget all this rubbish about “probe betting” or “betting to see where you are” or anything of […]

Jul 26
A big hello

Hi guys and girls, Will be posting regular blogs on here about my poker games on Stars! My name is Carl Sampson and you may have read some of my poker articles in poker magazines like Poker Pro Europe, Online Poker Pro and Bluff although I don’t write for any of them anymore. I also […]