Poker Column Articles: May 2005

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 May 2006: Poker Column Articles

During May 2006, your daily poker column will, as always, be filled with useful and profitable poker tips and strategies to help you take your poker game to the next level. Make sure you check back every day to keep up to date with the latest advice, news and stories from the world's most popular online game: poker!

  • Chip Stack Attack, Most Popular Poker Movie, and an FBI Poker Tip
    May-01-2006: The size of your opponent's chip stack will affect the way he plays against you -- but not neccessarily the way you expect, so here is our poker chip stack strategy. We also bring you the results of a recent survey as to the most popular poker movie ever. And we finish with a surprising FBI poker tip.

  • Poker Mind Control: Poker and the Emotional Brain
    May-02-2006: Discover the two different parts of your brain and how you must exercise poker mind control over your emotional brain if you don't want to sabotage your chances of winning poker games.

  • How Do I Improve My Poker Game?
    May-03-2006: Learn how to improve your poker game and take yourself to the next level of skill as a poker player. These quick tips will improve your poker playing fast!

  • The Semi-Bluff In Poker: Double Your Chances Semi-Bluffing
    May-04-2006: Semi bluff like the professional poker players do. Semi bluffing is a skill that can improve your chances of winning any poker game, so make sure you read these tips.

  • How To Be A Great Poker Player
    May-05-2006: Discover the secrets of how to be a great poker player and learn what you need to know to play poker like a professional. Plus, why 'blackjack breaks' can refresh your poker game.

  • Seeing the potential for a straight from your hole cards
    May-06-2006: Do you know the best way in poker to spot the potential for a straight from your hole cards? Read this and you will. Plus more secrets of effective bluffing.

  • Poker Tip: Managing The Move To Higher Stakes Poker Games
    May-07-2006: This poker tip focuses on how you can manage upping your game to bigger money, higher stakes poker games without crashing and burning. Plus more of your poker questions answered and why focus is so important to top poker players.

  • Why Gamblers Make Lousy Poker Players
    May-08-2006: Read why gamblers make such lousy poker players and why gamblers are poker's natural losers. Make sure you avoid these traits if you don't want to be a complete loser.

  • Lesser Known POKER TERMS for Newbies
    May-09-2006: Here are some lesser known poker terms that will help poker newbies understand their poker game and play better poker. Plus, today's poker tip focuses on common chip stack errors.

  • Using Poker Forums To Exchange Tips and Strategies
    May-10-2006: Poker forums are great places to pick up poker strategy tips, but in your search for opker tips and strategies be prepared to enter what is tantamount to a bloody gladiator arena -- it can get real nasty in there!

  • The Difference Between Trips and Sets in the Poker Business
    May-11-2006: Knowing the difference between the poker terms trips and sets will make a huge difference to your poker profits. You can equally profit from seeing the difference in the terms of investment offered by today's poker businesses compared to the early dot com crash companies.

  • Strategies For Heads-Up The Most Exciting Form of Poker
    May-12-2006: Heads-up poker is undoubtedly the most exciting form of poker game, but there is one cardinal rule to follow if you want to win heads-up poker games. Plus, legend of poker Julius Oral Popwell, also known as the Little Man of poker.

  • Lucky 8's and Kowloon Jai poker
    May-13-2006: In much of Asia, the number 8 is considered very auspicious and so "lucky 8's" figure big in online poker and particularly in a new online poker game called Kowloon-Jai, which roughly translates as lucky 8.

  • Poker: Folding Out Of Turn, Online Tells and Betting Patterns
    May-14-2006: What happens when a poker player folds out of turn and how to spot online tells broadcast via betting patterns.

  • Shock When Old Style Poker Players First Play Online Poker
    May-15-2006: Why old style social poker players need to beware when they first try to play online poker. There are important differences that must be taken into account when moving onto online poker games.

  • 'Live' Poker Game Distractions and Online Poker Distractions
    May-16-2006: Poker demands absolute concentration so watch out for these common and not-so-common methods of distraction. Learn to avoid online poker distractions like these and live poker distractions too.

  • Angry Poker Player Shoots His Own Car
    May-17-2006: Read about the poker player who got so angry after a bad beat that he drew his gun and shot his own car. Plus, what the hell does the poker expresssion, Drawing Dead, mean?

  • Chasing a Straight, The Gutshot, and an Open Ended Straight
    May-18-2006: When you are staying in the hand in the hope of catching the cards you need to make a consecutive run this is called 'chasing a straight' -- here we outline the gutshot example of when you shouldn't chase a straight and when its a good idea to chas the open ended straight.

  • Poker's Walking Cash Magnet: Phil Ivey
    May-19-2006: Phil Ivey is a phenomenal young poker player who rakes in money hand over fist. Read how this Tiger Woods of the poker circuit has become a walking talking cash machine. Plus, do you really know what a rebuff is?

  • Poker Robots Rubbished By the Pros
    May-20-2006: Poker robots or 'poker bots' are rubbish is the claim coming from today's top poker players -- here's why. Plus, is poker the new chess or could poker even surpass soccer as the world's most popular sport?

  • Sit and Go Poker Tournament Tips and Strategies
    May-21-2006: Sit and Go poker tournaments are great for making regular money from your online poker playing. Here are some tips and strategies to maximise your winnings from Sit and Go poker tournaments that you play in.

  • Poker Sites Flood Soccer With Massive Shirt Sponsorship Deals
    May-22-2006: More and more poker sites are splashing out their millions on lucreative shirt sponsorship deals with leading UK soccer teams... here's the latest. Plus more of your most pressing poker questions answered.

  • Lean Hungry Women Poker Players
    May-23-2006: Six women who are amongst the most feared female poker players playing today. Plus, poker tip of the day focuses on the classic call.

  • Your First Poker Vacation to Las Vegas
    May-24-2006: Plan a poker playing vacation to Las Vegas with our rough guide to Las Vegas poker. Plus, are you up to today's card school Q&A challenge?

  • Poker Tourists Visit Omaha
    May-25-2006: The poker tip of the day carries a warning about the dark arts of bluffing, and we offer free lessons in omaha poker that you can take all the way to the bank!

  • The Difference Between Online Texas Hold'em Poker and Video Poker
    May-25-2006: For those of you considering learning poker and going online for the first time it’s important to define the difference between regular online Texas Hold’em and video poker.

  • Poker Chameleon: How To Adapt Your Poker Styles Accordingly
    May-26-2006: Be a poker chameleon and use these strategies to adapt your poker playing styles, mix it up and take down the big pots before your opponents know what's hit 'em!

  • How to raise and be raised against in poker
    May-27-2006: Poker strategies and tips on how and when you should raise your bet and what to do when you are raised against at the poker table.

  • Poker Semi-Connectors, Button Stealing, the Mid-Air Mouse and MGM Grand Poker Hostesses
    May-28-2006: Today's poker column is a pot-pourri of poker facts, tips and titbits including concealed hand semi-connectors, the strategy for stealing the button, why you should get a mid-air mouse, and why the poker hostesses at the MGM Grand are so hot you need sunglasses and blinkers if you want to concentrate on your poker games.

  • How to Avoid Poker Sharks and Getting Caught Bluffing
    May-29-2006: Learn how to spot online poker sharks, avoid being caught bluffing, and become a poker shark in your own right.

  • Poker stars come over all philanthropic
    May-30-2006: Look at how top poker stars are turning philanthropists and donating their gambling winnings to charity. Plus oddball poker games you may not have head of including indian poker, crisscross poker, and Black mariah poker.

Previously on OnlinePokerColumn.com: Poker Columns: April 2006

 

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