Early Tournament Play Your play in the early stages of a tournament should be extremely tight.  Most players think that since the blinds are cheap in the early stages, that this is the time to go in with marginal hands.  NOT SO!  In fact, the opposite is true.  Since the cards are coming so cheap, [...]

Even if you are exclusively an online poker player, there is still nothing quite like playing live, especially when it comes to tournaments. It can be an exhilarating feeling when you first touch the cards and stack your chips. But there are more differences between live tournaments and online tournaments than just the equipment. Here [...]

Why Play Sit & Gos? Sit & Go’s are a great way to earn a consistent profit and to keep your bankroll from the swings of cash games. One of the main reasons why I like sit & go’s is I believe there is a great skill in the strategy of playing sit and go’s. [...]

The river is where fortunes are won and lost in Texas Hold’em, and it can be a stressful place in any game of live or online at absolutepoker.om.  All the cards have come out, hopefully you know where you stand, and have at least some idea of where your opponent stands. If you can play [...]

Playersonly has announced today a fantastic promotion for all poker and sports fans. Place a sports bet on Super Bowl XLV through their sports book and you’ll receive a FREE seat into a private $5,000 freeroll.  You can make any bet on the superbowl: from betting the Green Bay Packers to win, the over/under, or [...]

Bankroll management is an important factor in all forms of poker and used by all consistent winners.  This involves balancing the risks taken due to the random dealing of cards by only using a small percentage of your total poker money on any one table. Multi-table tournaments have high “variance,’” making bankroll management an even [...]

The bubble is the stage in an online poker tournament where the last player that must leave the table will go home with nothing while the rest of the players are in the money. If you’re playing a Sit’n’Go with 10 players the first three usually are getting paid while the fourth place gets nothing. [...]

The other night I found myself in Atlantic City playing Poker.  First, let me tell you that I’m strictly an on-line player that plays on absolutepoker.com and plays mostly multi-table tournament.  But, I’m with a friend and we sit do down at a $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em table. After settling in for a while, I [...]

Who can forget the joys of childhood games, and Snakes and Ladders would have to be one of the most enjoyable of them all.  Playersonly Poker has brought this back in a big way and announced today that they are extending the poker promotion for another month!  During the remainder of December, and through January [...]

A session of play with seasoned Seven Card Stud players can leave any beginning poker player running for the Sportsbook, which is much easier to master.  This form of poker is truly a game for the pros, or at least for those that know what they are doing. The ante is the cost to play [...]

Playersonly Poker has announced an exciting new poker promotion for all tournament players.  Simply play in their multi table tournaments, and for every game, every place you earn points for one of their two leaderboards.  Accumulate the points, and the top 100 players from each leaderboard will be playing off for $20,000 in cold hard [...]

Sportsbook betting is very dependent on gambling odds and the probabilities of one given team or player succeeding over another.  Poker is also a very math oriented game.  The odds and percentages are important in poker, and the more you know about that, the better you will become at playing the game. The theory of [...]

Common Poker Terms When you wish to gamble on something other than your usual weekly football game at Sportsbook, poker is certainly one of your options.  If you are unfamiliar with poker, understanding the commonly used terms in the game can be very helpful.  Here are just a few examples of the terminology you will [...]

When you decide to learn poker, you will need to keep some things in mind.  Poker has been called ‘easy to learn’ and, indeed, it is.  It has also been called ‘hard to master’ because it certainly is that, too. Your learning strategy should consist of three basic things.  Know your cards, first of all. [...]

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