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August 4th, 2008

Sam Faha on Call or Raise

Here’s a behind the scenes clip of Sam Farha on High Stakes Poker, talking about the dilemma of calling a bet instead of raising:

Personally I think the ‘just calling’ is a bit underrated or downplayed, and people talk up the ‘raise or fold’ too much, esp. in cash games.
Raise or fold seem more oriented to […]

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July 11th, 2008

Phil Hellmuth vs. Sam Farha

There’s not much of a more fun matchup you could ask for, Phil ‘The baby’ Hellmuth vs Sam ‘The baby spanker’ Farha.
Phil’s betting on this hand is just so weak, I don’t know who he thought he’d beat with it, especially Farha. You really think you can play like that with these guys? This is […]

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March 2nd, 2008

SHHHHHH

Here’s an interesting hand between Farha and Negreanu. It’s getting near the end of the season and so everyone’s playing a little looser. This is a great example of how talking too much can give away your hand. Here Farha has Negreanu scared when the flop comes overcards but by talking a little bit Farha […]

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January 11th, 2008

Calling Clock

Yeah, I’m blogging this one.
So, last night at my local home game, a $1/$1 blind NL game played with no rake and an average $60 buy-in, just for fun, I got into a rather strange situation.
The table had cleared down to 5 people. One player had acquired almost all of the chips at the table, […]

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December 26th, 2007

Sam Farha on Omaha

Interesting new book came out in October, an Omaha book by Sam Farha titled, rather unsurprisinly: FARHA ON OMAHA.
I haven’t had a chance to take a look at it yet but hopefully it’s written in the manner of style Farha exudes at the table, which would make for pretty interesting reading, if not an insight […]

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