Category: Poker Tourney
Mike Matusow will try to break his losing streak on Poker After Dark this week as new episodes start airing tonight in “Mission Impossible” week. The “Mission Impossible” is to poke fun at the fact that Mike Matusow has appeared 8 times on Poker After Dark and hasn’t won yet. Clonie Gowen (2-4 on PAD), […]
The first poker tournaments were winner-take-all. Not that many people entered and it seemed logical that whoever got all the chips would win all the money. As poker tournaments grew, it began to make sense to have graduated payouts so that multiple players have incentive to play. These days, around ten percent of players in […]
At its very core, poker is a social game. As a social game, people chat. Some pros chat more than others, see Mike “the Mouth” Matusow, Phil Hellmuth and the 2006 WSOP champion Jaime Gold. Gold went so far in his table talk that he actually told his players what his hands were and people […]
You may be an old hand at online poker tournaments, but it could be that you’ve never played a live one. Poker is only legal in certain states in America and if you haven’t spent time in one of those states or a country outside the U.S., the Internet may have provided your only opportunity […]
At the 2006 WSOP, players came in a wide variety of costumes. There were cowboy outfits, hockey jerseys, even superheroes. There were plenty of t-shirts and caps emblazoned with the logos of various companies, often online poker sites. The winner of the main event, Jamie Gold, wore nothing more out of the ordinary than a […]
A live casino offers numerous options for poker play. You can play poker in a cash game, either fixed limit, pot limit, or no limit. You can play Omaha, Stud and Texas Hold em. In most poker rooms, you can also now play poker tournaments. There are usually two types of tournaments to consider at […]
There are several strategies that a player can use to quickly adjust to the table switching that happens in a poker tournament. The first strategy is to treat each table change as a brand new game. The first thing that you do as you sit down at your new table is size up your competition. […]
10 Free Poker Lessons By Tom Shannahan 1. Practice Don’t start spending money until you know how to play the game. Find a game that you like and study that poker variation. Texas Hold’em is the most popular poker game out there, but if you want to Hold’em get in on the madness, you got […]
Playing poker online is fast replacing the traditional home poker games with friends. Many people find playing online poker to be fun and financially rewarding, but still find themselves missing poker night. Before online poker became so popular, many people would host a poker night at their house for their friends, and they would all […]
