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Archive for April, 2009

Your Luck Factor in Poker

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 30 - 2009

Hardly call Luck in Poker a strategy or even attempt to calculate, but what is it?
A short term skill experienced by players who use implied odds more then pot or expected values. I am going to try to demonstrate how you can put yourself in to a situation to give you “luck”.

UK psychology Prof. Richard Wiseman, says
people who think of themselves as lucky are more likely to win the lottery than those who don’t
not because they’re better at picking winning lottery numbers
but because they’re more likely to buy tickets.


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My 5 Tips to Better Poker

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 27 - 2009

Poker can be a tough game to play, losing sessions cost you money.  There really is a few things you need to know and do every time you play the game of poker…Read my 5 tips to better poker to get you back into those winning sessions.
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$72 for Friday PLO/NLHE

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 18 - 2009

Last night I go on Players Cardroom to watch Pinky play the HoldemRadio freeroll which she cashed out in,  when I noticed appers in a PL Omaha tournament.  To my joy there was late registration so I bounced into that game and glad I did…
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April 13th Nightly Ring

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 14 - 2009

I posted in the forum about playing some ring tables tonight and headed to the tables
decided on some PL Holdem simply because I know WyldBillH doesn’t like it ;)
The reasoning I later found out was “the pots get to big to fast”.

I’ll start at the end of the night.  I played just shy of 3 hours on the .05/.10 PL Holdem
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$10 PLOmaha Practice

Posted by Assistanc3 On April - 13 - 2009

While sitting at a PL Holdem Cash table waiting for some A3 members to join me for a nightly ring session
on Players Cardroom I decided to get back to the game I truly enjoy.  PL Omaha!!

It was a mere $1 BuyIn with 20 entrants, so a small field for the small buyin.
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