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[betED Blog] Pot Odds Made Easy Having trouble calculating pot odds, especially in a fast moving game? Author of Poker for Dummies Lou Krieger has a great guide to...

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[pPlayer] Stuck on the River: A loose call on the turn often sets up a player for future failure, when the pot has grown to a point where the hand becomes difficult to let go. I often see players make poor choices very early in a hand that eventually blossom into a full-fledged disaster on the river. At one point I've even overheard, "Well with all that money in there I would have kicked myself if I hadn't been able to see the last card." Ouch.

[Article Agents: Publish Articles Online For Free.] Poker Fever: Big blind with my jack-three off suit, I found myself able to see a free flop as the action was checked back to me. Typically, jack-three off suit is a hand I, or any other poker player with the slightest knowledge of the game would not even look twice at, but when the flop of communal cards comes out jack-eight-three, it is a very pleasant surprise. I checked the action, meaning that I did not bet, trying to slow play my two-pair. The action was checked around and the turn revealed yet another three, giving me a full house (three of a kind and two of a kind).

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[betED Blog] Pot Odds Made Easy: Pot Odds Made Easy Having trouble calculating pot odds, especially in a fast moving game? Author of Poker for Dummies LouKrieger has a great guide to understanding pot odds. Tags: gambling, poker

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[Poker Perspectives-Maudie's Poker Blog] The Game's Afoot....: It is more than a little interesting to note that the fathers of Game Theory - Emile Borel and John von Neumann (Neumann is credited with the lion share of the development of Game Theory) both were inspired by poker - Game Theory came out of the desire to discover a winning gambling strategy. In poker, I suppose it's most applicable aspect is in the art of bluffing and changing gears in play. Poker being a zero sum game (when there is no rake), bluffing is a key strategy if one is to maximize one's gains and consistently see a profit. For a far more astute discussion of Game Theory in general and it's relation to bluffing, read what Lou Krieger has to say about it.

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