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Archive for July 2008

July 31st, 2008

Mike Matusow on Omaha 8 or Better

CardPlayer has posted an instructional video by Mike Matusow on How to play Omaha 8 or better.
The audio on the video is insanely bad, all clipping and too loud, but Mike is a pretty decent Omaha player they say, so this video might be worth your time if you are interested in learning more about […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

July 30th, 2008

Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #2

Only with two players like Sammy Farha and Patrik Antonius could you get a $1 pot with these two hands.
The play with both of these is completely based on aiming your bet at your opponent.
For instance, obviously, if Antonius was playing in a hand against Doyle or Phil Laak, say, he definitely would […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

July 29th, 2008

Kathy Liebert is Scary

Watching the first televised event of the 2008 WSOP, the pot limit hold em event, it’s probably one of the most boring of all of the ESPN broadcasts I’ve seen.
Even for the two hours they stretch it out to, they somehow whittle it down to all in hands almost every other minute. Why do they […]

By Blake -- 2 comments

July 28th, 2008

Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #3

You wouldn’t have seen this hand go down like this, obviously, if Guy Laliberte weren’t an amateur in the field of sharks, but there’s a good lesson to be learned here for newer players, and a reminder for the more advanced.
Playing weak aces, even suited, is probably one of the biggest money losers in the […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

July 26th, 2008

Bodog Taking Bets on WSOP Final Table

Bodog.com has now released their odds for the 2008 WSOP Main Event final table, allowing interested parties to place bets on who they think will take the crown.
Since all the players are relative unknowns, the odds are based primarily on chip counts. Seems like it would be a fun bet to put some money on […]

By Blake -- 1 comment

July 25th, 2008

Fate of High Stakes Poker

For all those like myself who had wondered about the fate of GSN’s High Stakes Poker, which seems to have been up in the air since the end of last season, GSN has now announced that they will indeed be releasing at least a 6th season of their highest rated program on the channel, despite […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2008

Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #4

Another very famous pot from High Stakes Poker, which teaches several lessons at once:

1. Even when you make the nuts on the turn, like Antonius does here, you can get drawn out. Gambling in his spot as he did with the gut shot was risky, and though he was the favorite when the money went […]

By Blake -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2008

Do You Want to Play Poker With Eva Longoria?

Eva Longoria Parker and her husband, San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker, are hosting the First Annual Tony & Eva Parker Celebrity Casino Night to take place on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch in San Antonio.
Hollywood and sports celebrities will be participating in this charity event, which benefits Eva’s Heroes, the […]

By Kori Ellis -- 2 comments

July 23rd, 2008

Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #5

Classic grossness, looks like an online hand or something.
Esfandiari makes some classy laydowns.
The rest of this is achy.
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By Blake -- 0 comments

July 22nd, 2008

Daniel Negreanu on ‘Bluff Outs’

Here’s a pretty great general overview of how to use connectors and other small cards to bluff when you miss with them, adding value and going behind the idea of betting even when you miss with your weird draws.

This is a fantastic analysis of how to work your hands even when they didn’t work, adding […]

By Blake -- 3 comments