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There are time you should consider the slowplay in a poker tournament.

The most obvious hand to slowplay is pocket Aces. The Pros can slowplay a hand, can you?

Here are times you should consider slowplaying your Aces:

1. Early in the event. Your goal is NOT to just win the blinds. The blinds are too small to make a difference to the size of your chip stack. You’re goal is to maximize your return with pocket Aces, while minimizing your risk.

2. When you are below average in chips. Here you want to find a way to win a big pot to get you back into the hunt to win.

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You are playing a no limit hold’em poker tournament. Unfortunately things are not going well.

Your chip stack is low, and in order to get back in the hunt, you must make an all-in move. But when is the right time to move all-in?

You can’t wait too long or your chip stack will get so low that any raise you make will be called. And you don’t want to move all-in too soon or you are going to put at risk too many chips when a standard raise is the best move.

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Online poker sites proved to be something of a wise investment for gaming companies, the internet in general allowed for much wider audiences to be reached and potentially for the players to play for much longer periods of time. Whilst casinos are contingent purely on visitors actually attending the casino and betting with the rather limited numbers that this will entail, online poker sites allow for entire countries to be targeted which is a significant step up!

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When I joined my first poker forum about 2 years ago I was mainly looking for ways to improve my game. I figured if there were other poker players out there that were interested in helping a newbie I might find them on a forum. What I didn’t expect was how many new friends I would make. I met so many really cool people on the forum. Everyone is very friendly and helpful.

I also found out about all the other great benefits of joining a forum. Most forums offer private freeroll and low buy-in games with smaller fields than you would find in most public free rolls. The quality of play is much better in the private games than in the public ones as well.

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Going to a casino your first time can be a bit intimidating especially if you don’t know a lot about the different games in a casino. Here is a guide to some of the more popular casino games.

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So, you got in the game and started playing. Of course, we all would like to gain as much advantage as possible against our opponents. The ways to do this are various. One of them is to play your opponent, in other words, to use some deception tactics that would lead him to make a mistake. How will he make the mistake ? By thinking that you have a better hand that you really do. But let’s get into more details, and I will share with you a few tips & tricks on how to play your opponent.

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