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Poker In the Gutter 3
“I only play these because my son’s birthday is on the twenty fourth”
That was the excuse put to me for why the large round portly lady in the red blouse sitting to my immediate right had just player the 4c-2d and flopped the nut straight and cracked my pocket kings. That sure as hell did [...]
Poker in the Gutter 2
I had played poker numerous times in Nottingham but this private cash game at Steve Tangs place was something new to me. It would be a far cry to the rundown snooker club that was Dale Regan’s place that was for sure. I always hated motorway driving at night and especially on my own with [...]
Poker In The Gutter
Peering out through the taxi window into the dimply lit back streets, I was appalled at the sheer number of young girls that were prostituting themselves all for drugs. Is this modern England in the twenty first century? It really does not matter where in the world you are, city centre backstreets seem all alike. [...]

Deal or No Deal
With the current poker boom in full swing and the number of players that are playing the game at an all time record high, tournament poker has never been so popular. With the World Poker Tour events being shown on our screens on a regular basis, not to mention a wide assortment of other tournaments, [...]
Watch Out - The Screen Has Ears!
Any successful pro will tell you that a large part of their game is picking up on and then exploiting tells and other bits and pieces of information that players give off around a poker table. In fact players who are very adept at this can even achieve success in poker despite some of them [...]
Here Come The Hendon Mob
As a very keen supporter of European poker, Pokersharkpool were more than happy to review one of the most successful bunch of professional poker players in Europe, if not the World…..The Hendon Mob. Consisting of Joe Beevers, Ram Vaswani and the Boatman brothers Ross and Barney, they are now some of the most recognised faces [...]

Cheating Techniques
BEST HAND PLAY
Best hand play is perhaps one of the more subtle methods of cheating in the poker world today and when performed well, it is very difficult to detect even for experienced players. It involves two or more players communicating their hand values to each other and the other weaker hands who would have [...]
The Story Behind The Quad Aces
The Story Behind The Quad Aces
On the header you will have undoubtedly noticed four aces. Rather than just having any old poker motif at the top, there is a very interesting story behind this hand. The very first game of No Limit Hold’em that professional poker player Carl “The Dean” Sampson played online involved this [...]
Multi-Tabling - To be or not to be
Today’s poker players bear little or no resemblance to their ancestors of yesteryear. Gone forever are the dashing river boat gamblers and the scruffy tough cowboys playing for their wages in saloons all over the wild west. Gone also are the grifters and hustlers of the early Vegas era of the sixties and early seventies. [...]

Variance The Silent Killer
You are about to start playing your favourite form of poker which just happens to be limit Texas hold’em. You have read all of the books countless times and you know the game inside out and can sure show those dummies on the internet a thing or two. You intend on playing at a fair [...]
Adapt or Fail
Whether it is business, life or poker one thing is certain….you must evolve and adapt in order to survive. Imagine for a minute a businessman who has a range of clothes shops who never changes his line from season to season and from year to year. Slowly but surely his stock just gets more and [...]
No Limit Holdem Cash Game Strategies Online
Playing Aces
As I have told my students many times, there are major differences between online games and bricks and mortar cardroom poker. Success in one does not guarantee success in the other and experience of playing a certain form of poker in one environment is not necessarily going to help you in the other. But [...]

Pit Bull Pete’s Poker Party
I always used to have a soft spot for the two casinos in Derby, small down to earth places where everyone knew everyone else and no one walked around with a chip on their shoulder or had an ego problem. The blackjack games were very good or at least they were back in 2002 when [...]
The Firm - Cheating in Poker
Come on now, lets be honest here…poker is not always played on the level. I think that anybody who thinks that is probably being a little naïve to put it mildly. Poker at the end of the day is played for money and just like with everything else, there are certain people out there who [...]
Every Online Players Worst Nightmare
I have seen it literally dozens of times and heard it more times than I can care to remember. That is an online player speaking about how they would really like to try their hand inside a real card room. The advent of online poker has brought untold numbers of new players into the game [...]

Playing Trash Hands
This month we will be taking a look at trash hands in our series of no limit hold’em cash game strategies. Trash hands include hands like 7-2, 8-3, Q-4, J-5, 10-2 etc. In short, these are hands with low money making potential on the whole. Notice here that I said “on the whole”, this is [...]
Fear - The Final Frontier
“Fear….the final frontier….these are the voyages of the good ship poker player…..its lifetime mission, to discover strange new games and play for huge amounts of money……to boldly go where he has never gone before”
OK so I am making a very cheesy attempt to copy the opening lines to every Star Trek episode since the days [...]
Premium Pairs
Regular readers of the World Poker Tour magazine will be aware that I am doing a regular feature on various ways to play certain hands before and after the flop in full table no limit ring games. So far we have looked at how to play pocket pairs starting from small pocket pairs (22-66) to [...]

The Finger Pointing to the Moon - A Story of Self Realisation!
“The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon”….one of the most famous Zen quotations and one that has set countless people thinking about its meaning over the years. This article is something that I hope very much will not only lead to you achieving a much better frame of mind the next time [...]
Through The Looking Glass
The yearly carnival that is the World Series of Poker is going strong in Las Vegas during the summer of 2007. An armada of top professionals, strong amateurs, online qualifiers and tourists of all descriptions begin their annual pilgrimage for what is the greatest poker festival on earth.
They all possess various goals and ambitions from [...]

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