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Why Do People Dislike Bad Beat Stories?
When you bust out from a cash game or poker tournament thanks to a bad beat the first feeling is one of disappointment, then anger and then back to disappointment at the injustice of it. You then need the reassurance that you are still a great player and that it was not your fault that [...]
Continue ReadingHow to Beat Tilting Poker Players
We discuss regularly how to avoid going on tilt and how to manage your emotions at the poker table and this is really important to maximising your abilities. We are going to focus today on how to deal with opponents during a cash game or poker tournament and things to bear in mind when they [...]
Continue ReadingBeyond the Bad Beat
In this article I am going to discuss the concept of looking beyond the bad beat. When you lose a big poker hand, the circumstances by which you lose the hand will dictate how bad you feel about the outcome. Being at the final table of a large poker tournament you might have the opportunity [...]
Continue ReadingThe Fear of Losing
At the end of the day whether you are playing poker online or in some live casino, psychology will come into play at some stage. With regards to online poker many people will argue that psychology plays a very minimal part in the game simply because you cannot see or hear your opponents. There is [...]
Continue ReadingShould you suspect cheating?
Whether you are playing live poker or online you will not be able to get away from the fact that cheating occurs. You will no doubt have read of countless incidents and heard numerous reports from lots of people connected with this subject. What this means is that there is an awful lot of paranoia [...]
Continue ReadingHow Often Should You Play Poker?
There are clear arguments either way for people who say that playing a lot online is better than playing just a few hours a week. I always feel that the differing situations for various people often means that what may be correct for someone else may not be correct for others. For instance I stopped [...]
Continue ReadingAvoiding Tilt in Online Poker
It is a little understood fact that tilt is more common in online poker than it is in live play. There are numerous reasons for this and the first one has to do with human psychology. When human beings experience negative events in their lives, they are in a far better situation to be able [...]
Continue ReadingBad Beat of the day
These kinds of articles really should be making people think about the variance in poker and especially with certain forms of poker like limit hold ‘em. In fact this was one of the reasons why I switched to playing NLHE because the variance in full-ring no-limit is far less than at limit or at least [...]
Continue ReadingAre You Tough Enough For Poker?
We all want to be professional poker players making $1 million a year. Why play if this is something we do not want? We also like to forget that in any sport there are certain traits in your mental character that must be present in order to achieve a high level of success. Examples are [...]
Continue ReadingHow to Tell or Write a Killer Bad Beat Story
Since getting good cards and getting them cracked by one or two-outers is just something that happens in poker, we get some use for these bad beats by talking and writing about them. Poker player’s love reading or hearing about bad beat stories, even if it is just to remind them that some other poor [...]
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