You should never fear facing a bully again
It can be really frustrating to have an extremely aggressive player at your table that just won't seem to leave you alone. No matter what you do, the bully keeps coming after you, especially if you aren't getting any good cards of your own. Hopefully, after reading this column, you'll have all the tools you need to fight the good fight and start pounding back. If you know anything about a bully, you know that if you stand up to him, he'll usually run away and hide.Let him run, but get his chips...

Poker's Great White Shark
Remember when the great white shark ate its first victim, how the Mayor of Amityville hushed it up for fear of hurting the tourism business on which the town's economic prosperity depended? Well, that is what the leadership of the tournament poker community is doing with regard to the risk of scandal posed by undisclosed partnerships among competing players. The future health of tournament poker will be a lot better off if the risk of collusion is addressed openly and sensibly before a scandal...

Looking into the dark side of televised poker tournaments
The influx of new players into poker -- many of them young and influenced by TV coverage -- is breeding two varieties of bad behavior at the tables, professional gambler Alan Boston says. The first, easier to identify, entails showboating by players -- jumping around to celebrate a winning hand, mugging for the cameras, talking trash.Boston has no use for such players, dismissing them as "media whores." The second kind of poor behavior is subtler but more nefarious, Boston says. It involves...

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Top Six Finalists at Monte Carlo Millions Make History
MONTE-CARLO, Monaco, Nov. 22, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Just six players remain in the world's most exclusive poker tournament, the Monte Carlo Millions. With the $1 million first prize at stake, today's finalists will be the first-ever poker players to duke it out in the Casino de Monte-Carlo on the opulent tables of one of the world's oldest and most glamorous casinos. The $3 million prize pool guaranteed by the Prima Network will be up for grabs among top players hailing from the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden...

Pot Odds Are Important in Any Kind of Poker
You're in a Texas Hold'em hand with a pair of 10s in the pocket. You raised before the flop and got re-raised by a player on your left. Everybody else folds and the flop comes down: A – K – 5. You test the waters with another bet and your opponent pops you again. You know this guy. You've played with him before and he doesn't fool around. He simply has to have a pair of Aces – minimum! Your pocket 10s are positively no good. But if you hit a third 10 on the turn, your trip 10s will probably win...

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