Poker

Playing on TV
I was crapping myself as I headed down the A1 to London for my TV heat last week. It was a nervousness I haven’t felt for a very long time as a player. When you play poker for a living you often will feel like a fraud; a bad session and you question your own [...]

Poker Blankets
I was scouring online the other day and found a website that was selling Poker Blankets, yes thats right POKER BLANKETS!!
These were duvet covers with poker tables on and chips. Well what next…..personally I think that the best poker blanket out there would be one with my face on it. HEY!!! Someone has to love [...]
Londons Calling

I’ve just awoken from one hell of a good sleep and feel like I’ve been reborn. This is largely because I had next to no sleep over the weekend after an exhausting stint at the tables again at Dusk Till Dawn. This was for their monthly £300 deep stack event, which I made the 2nd [...]

Interview by an online Pro
It is my pleasure to tell you that I have managed to interview one of the best low stakes online cash game players in the country for our "Poker Star Corner" on Pokersharkpool. Stuart Menzies has been playing in the regular 2-4 and 3-6 online games for a good few years playing as many as [...]

Donk Till Dawn
I’d love to be posting a bad beat story about my very early exit from last night’s freeze out at Dusk Till Dawn, but the truth is I married pocket Queens a little too early and paid off Aces. Played the hand very badly and got all my money in when the only realistic hand [...]

Hello
I’d like to thank Carl for letting me be a part of a blog people actually read (as opposed to my standalone blog). For those that don’t know me, I am Barry Carter and I’m in a similar boat to Carl – online poker pro from Sheffield who writes for every poker magazine under the [...]

Simply the best
I know that I only write my blog on a two daily basis and was not due to write another until tomorrow but I am afraid that it cannot wait. Most of you who read this blog will have already heard the sad news but perhaps the greatest poker player on the planet passed on [...]

Dominate Online Poker - Free Ebook Review
Just a quick post to say that I have recently put up a review about a great free ebook by Joris Dekkers. You can find the review at http://www.pokersharkpool.com/books/Dominate_Online_Poker.html
Also, take a look at his video below.

Getting The Balance Right
A few people have approached me recently to ask me about the importance of aggression in poker. Of course aggression is important and I am not going to say otherwise and I am a very aggressive player myself when I am involved in most pots.
But blind aggression is something else and can be a terrible weakness [...]

Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
Firstly, just like to say a very warm well done indeed to the new "star" of the poker world….Norway’s answer to wonder woman…..Annette Obrestad. This young girl who eminated from online poker has just taken down the main event at the WSOPE. The £10,000 buy-in event attracted 362 players and many star names.
A cool £1,000,000 [...]

These Online Guys Can Really Play
Since the explosion of online poker, there have been many “old” pro’s who have made snide remarks at us online players. Many talk about how it “aint real poker” or “they would get their ass kicked in a real game with top players”.
Maybe some would…..but many prove their metal and I also would like to [...]