2009
12.03

There is a fresh kid on the poker block who uses the screen name sbrugby. If you have been paying attention to high stakes cash games you will know who I am speaking of. On any day, you will be able to catch sbrugby (Brian Townsend) playing at the maximum limits on web Poker. The normal match of 200/400no limit has a max buy in of forty thousand dollars. Many nights sbrugby will wind up having close to $200,000 by the end of his games. Sbrugby is rumored to be 24 years old and has just been competing for 2 years. He captured a tiny $20 buy-in tournament worth about $2,000 and hasn’t stopped. He honed his skills in poker room cash games at the 2/5no limit table. Phil Ivey has been hammering away on this fellow non-stop for the last number of weeks. Most of Ivey’s opponents go down in fire after Ivey destroys them. Sbrugby isn’t like a majority of Ivey’s competitors.

Sbrugby knows how to compete up against the greatest gambler on the planet. He wagers a absolutely fierce style and is constantly applying pressure on his opponents. Whenever he sees weakness in his opponent, he will put his competitor to the test. His amazing ability to scrutinize his opponent’s cards puts him amidst the best on the planet. Brian Townsend is featured in the third season of GSN’s HSP (High Stakes Poker). Brian is 1 of a number of new web whiz kids who are controlling online poker.

2009
12.02
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Poker championships freerolls are no cost poker tournaments that are hosted every day by the best net poker sites. Poker championship freerolls are often just called freerolls. Freerolls are enjoyed by the poker playing community as they present the poker players the opportunity to practice their tournament skills and gain some cash prizes and not paying a dime. The buyin to these freerolls is – like the name suggests – free – and award money can vary from a few bucks for finishing in the money to a million dollars for winning the largest hold’em poker tournament.

So how come poker casinos have freerolls? Is it mainly because of their unbelievably generous character and the fact that they acquire huge sums of cash so they feel a moral obligation to give a bit of it back?

No of course it isn’t, the reason that the major poker websites provide freerolls is to lure people to their casino.

Free poker tournaments are not going away. Don’t neglect this amazing poker fun!

2009
12.01

Poker – What is a Tell?

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Poker is a game of individuals participated through the medium of playing cards. A tell is a behaviour that outlines the relative strength of an opposing player’s hand. If you compete in online poker, familiar tells are composed of betting sequences and time to react. Live poker at the brick and mortar casino offers a greater chance to notice tells. In addition to time tells and wagering patterns, individuals have physical tells. Individuals frequently give away the strength of their cards through body language, movements of their eyes, heart rates, and the tennor of their voice. Poker is a game of feelings and a number of gamblers cannot constrain their feelings when cash is involved. In order to identify a tell you have to accurately observe your competitors on each and every hand. Look for any kind of wagering pattern or body tell that relates to the strength of their cards. If an opposing player constantly breaths deeply when she has a big hand, that’s a tell for absolute strength. If a challenger always stakes his feeble hands with a twitch of his wrist, that’s a tell for extreme weakness.

Tells allow you to see further than your own cards and into your competitor’s brain. Concentrate on all the things that your competitor does while she plays a hand and attempt to link each play to a relative strength of their cards. With the opportunity to notice tells on your competitor, the cards really don’t matter. If your opponent shows you that he is weak, you can raise him with any hand knowing that he’ll fold. If your competitor indicates you that she is strong, you will be able to fold really strong hands. There is more to poker than just the cards you’re given. Focus on your competitor’s mannerisms and your earnings will skyrocket.