Check-raising keeps pesky foes on their toes
Whether you're playing Limit Hold 'em, Seven-Card Stud, Omaha or even No Limit Hold 'em, the check-raise can be a deadly weapon when used properly.Check-raising is a play in which you pass your turn by not betting. That's the check. And it should suggest, because you didn't bet, that you don't have a strong hand. Once you check, and another player bets, you pounce out of the high grass with the raise.It's a powerful but at times controversial tool.In some home games, the check-raise is outlawed...
The 'perfect' poker style: your own
Maybe I'm completely wrong for thinking so, but I've always assumed that when all the chips fall, there is one strategy for poker that will be most successful. My entire education as a player has attempted to hone in on this one "perfect" strategy, and in my eyes, I keep getting closer and closer. It's aggressive, sometimes overaggressive, and it puts me in situations where I'm forcing players to fold hands that they don't necessarily want to play. Its one drawback is a tendency for wild swings...
To survive or to gather chips
A no-limit hold 'em tournament, which continues until one player has all the chips, is the form of poker that most lavishly rewards an aggressive approach. Not surprisingly, the most successful demographic group, including seven of the top 10 in the Card Player rankings, are men in their 20s or early 30s. Nick Schulman, a lanky Manhattanite who won $2,167,500 this month at the World Poker finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino, vaulting from nowhere to No. 50, turned 21 only two months ago...
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You're out to pasture if you won't try Stud
While Texas Hold'em is clearly the most popular poker game in the world today, some players don't realize that it's a variation of another game: Seven-Card Stud.As anyone with a television knows, each player in Texas Hold'em is dealt two cards face down. Players then share five community cards. In Seven-Card Stud, everyone gets seven cards. The game starts with an ante, and then each player is dealt three cards to start. The first two are face down cards, and then an up card, known as the ...
TV, Internet adding fuel to America's poker craze
Jeff Coda was bit by the poker bug two years ago while watching the World Series of Poker on ESPN. Fascinated by the intricacies of the game and the high stakes involved, he bought a deck of cards and started teaching himself. Soon he and a group of friends started a regular Thursday night game of no-limit Texas Hold 'Em.In an attempt to perfect his play, the 27-year-old Redlands man began playing poker online about a year ago. He made the rounds on the free sites for six months before upping the...
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