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Lou Krieger Columns
Poker Strategy - The Worst Hand I Ever Played
During a no-limit Texas hold’em tournament on a recent poker cruise to Alaska, I made two egregious errors in the same hand—cases of rampant stupidity that I’ll share with you in hopes that you can profit from them.
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Poker Strategy - Money Saved Equals Money Won
Not every poker player realizes that money saved is equal to money won. When we sit down to play we want to win and we come out swinging with good hands, get ourselves into pots we can win, and take the money down. When we do that we’re happy.
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Poker Strategy - Nobody Asked Me, But...
When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn there were still afternoon papers, and of then the only part I read was the sports page. My favorite sportswriter, Jimmy Cannon, was a practioner of Three-Dot Journalism.
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Poker Strategy - Dynamic Strategy - Part 3
This is the third and final installment about the need to apply strategy dynamically in order to become a top-notch poker player. Last issue you learned what could happen even to a world-class professional poker player in a major tournament when he bounds a problem incorrectly, losing a good deal of money as a result...
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Poker Strategy - Dynamic Strategy - Part 2
The way in which problems are defined has a great deal to do with the solutions that are eventually chosen. This is known as bounding a problem, and bounding issues come up all the time at the Poker table...
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Poker Strategy - Dynamic Strategy - Part 1
Most experts agree that a good poker player, with optimal play, should expect to win between one and one and one half big bets per hour. That’s not a bad hourly wage; it’s somewhere between $20 and $30 per hour in a $10–$20 game, and that puts food on most tables. The question is, of course, what constitutes optimal play—and how can it be achieved?
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Poker Strategy - Why Aces Are Like Two Cards in One
Most players realize that the best starting hands in 7-card stud, eight-or-better, high-low split, (which we’ll mercifully abbreviate to 7-stud/8), are low cards that can grow into high hands too...
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Poker Strategy - Selective Aggression: The Key to Winning Poker
Poker is a complex, highly textured mosaic of skill, luck, strategy, tactics, and character. What works in one situation fails in others ¾ and following a fixed, immutable strategy will never ensure success, except against weak opponents...
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