Ex-PokerStars executive Erick Hollreiser has acquired a poker news website and is moving to launch Triple Barrel Media Limited, a company that seeks to give “a new voice” to poker journalism by bringing more insight, coverage, and analysis of the industry. This happens as PokerStars has just obtained a third license to launch its online …
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Tournaments are much different from cash games. In cash games, the winner can instantly collect his or her winnings and continue playing. Additionally, you may have as many chips as you like or purchase additional chips.In tournaments, the quantity of chips is determined by the regulations, and a player must reach a specific level in …
As we have already mentioned, the dispersion in poker is the difference between mathematically expected results and reality. However, this difference doesn’t necessarily have to be negative for the player. Sometimes, players face a period of constant wins. This is known as the upstreak. Your winrate, alongside your bankroll, increases during an upstreak, and in-game …
Sometimes a poker player just starts to constantly lose without any obvious reason. This situation is called a “downstreak”. It is important to distinguish between a downstreak and a single lost game. Downstreaks are usually prolonged, which means it can take some time to get out of it. It is absolutely necessary to understand that …
The knowledge of the hand rankings is the most essential thing for any poker player. Hand rankings are certain combinations of cards. The harder it is to get a combination of cards in your hand, the more superior said combination is, and thus is more likely to grant you victory. Poker hand rankings from strongest …
There are 1326 possible starting hands in Texas Holdem. Of course, every player wants to get aces and kings, the “premium” hand. However, there are only 12 such combinations, which means that mathematically you’ll receive them once in 110 hands, meaning you have to somehow get around it and play with weaker cards in hand. …
A flop is the second betting round in poker, during which three community cards are dealt. During this stage, the order in which moves are made changes. If during preflop the first action is made by the person sitting left of the big blind (this position is called “under the gun”), on the flop stage …
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