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For any rookie poker player deciding what play to make pre-flop, especially in a Texas Hold ‘em game, will more than often determine whether or not you get off to a winning start in a poker game, or simply look destined to play the whole hand as a complete flop! Deciding what to do pre-flop [...]
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Here at pokertipsbook we’re all for explaining beginners can learn to play and enjoy poker. Whilst we’ve loads of great articles and items about the various aspects of playing poker, before you can get started actually playing poker you really need a short and simple basic poker introduction. So, based on playing a version of [...]
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An often overlooked aspect that millions of poker fans enjoy is playing video poker games. For some purist poker players they can only contemplate playing poker at a ‘bricks and mortar’ poker table, yet in the pre-internet/online poker website days of the 1970s, 80s and most of the 90s – video poker games were the [...]
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People play online poker for all sorts of reasons as well as at all sorts of levels; and, just the same as you get talkative players at a ‘bricks and mortar’ poker table, you can also get chatty players at online poker tables. Alternatively, for other some online poker players, it’s as much of a [...]
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If you’re a serious poker player – chances are you’re a serious gambler too. That means you won’t just be trying your skill or luck at poker, or even just cards, but will also be found at the roulette tables, betting on sports events and even trying the slot machines. All of which is fine [...]
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Striking the right balance in poker between getting caught bluffing or not, or deliberately giving away a tell to get your opponents think they’ve got you figured – is a very fine balance indeed. So it seems only appropriate in this blog that’s here to give you some poker tips and advice that we should [...]
An interesting thing to look out for in online poker websites has been raised this week. In an article about reading tells in online poker games the author recommends looking for tips and even courses in the online poker website regarding picking up and reading ‘online tells’. Whilst basically a sound idea, you need to [...]
After a recent big, and I mean big, win at the poker table I was sitting at the bar having a drink before leaving for home. One of the guys I was with went off to the bathroom and, whilst he was gone, the cell phone rang and buzzed – as I always have my [...]
I’ve just read an article titled “The Zeal of Fortune”, which on the face of it you’d be forgiven for thinking that it has nothing to do with lucky charms or health. However, the article relates to how some players like to bring an object, or indeed objects; that they think will be a lucky [...]
A fundamental aspect of playing poker is being able to read the other players hands. The crucial point here is actually reading their hand, not just making some wild guess at what they might be holding. It’s a pretty obvious statement but one that in the heat of a game is easily forgotten, even for [...]