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Why does that player keep looking at his pocket cards?  He just wiped his mouth.  Was he trying to conceal a smile?  Why is he staring holes in that ace? Poker tells can let us know a lot about the hand our opponents have. One of the key skills that …

The list below contains the Texas Holdem Top Ten poker hands, pre-flop, poker hands that you can be dealt when playing Texas Hold Em Poker. There are 169 differing starting hands – your two hole (or hidden) cards. With the exception of when you post the blinds, these are the …

We thought it would be nice to take a look at the (World Series of Poker) WSOP Main Event Winners from the past, the year they won and the amount of prize money they collected from winning the WSOP Main Event. As you can see from the table below, in …

The end of the poker game is the most important thing. No matter what happens before the end, it only matters who has the chips (and the check) at the end of the tournament.  However, a solid strategy in the early stages of the game is essentially to entering the …

Freeroll tournaments are online poker games which have no buy-ins but still pay out actual cash prizes. In other words, you do not have to pay money upfront to join in – but you gain a better than even chance of getting some money with which to bankroll your entry …

Intermediate Poker Strategy – Benefit of Using Expected Value (+EV) Expected value (EV) is a mathematical concept that can be extremely beneficial when applied in poker. It helps players determine the long-term impact of a certain strategy or play during the game. In poker, you can calculate the EV for …

There comes a point in every Texas Holdem tournament when it comes time to change strategies. The early stages of the game are about building up your chip stack and learning your opponents’ idiosyncrasies.  Towards the end game strategy phases of the game role around, the goal changes. Now it’s …

You often notice when playing poker that in the chat window, players often ‘speak’ in abbreviations.  The actual meanings of these are quickly understood but we’ve produced a quick guide below for anyone new to playing online and who is unfamiliar with these poker chat abbreviations. BRB : abbreviation for …

In my opinion, poker is a game of skill.  Slot machines are gambling.  Roulette is gambling.  Faro is gambling.  Poker is an honest trade. The luck a player has and the cards he is dealt are valuable but not the primary factor in his win ration.  Texas Holdem is unique …

So you’ve maybe been playing poker for a while and have heard or possibly seen that the poker room in which you play offers a bad beat jackpot but you’re not quite sure exactly what a bad beat jackpot is or exactly how it works. This is a popular question …