Card Player Magazine Poker NewsErik Seidel Team Full Tilt Tournament poker can be a very tough business. No matter how good you are, you’re bound to encounter long periods where things don’t go well. On the tournament circuit, even the best players can go several months – or even a couple of years – between significant cashes. These dry [...]
Perry Friedman Full Tilt Pro Small and medium pairs are among the trickiest hands you’ll encounter in Seven-Card Stud. Frequently you’ll get into situations where it seems that a modest pair might be the best starting hand, but you don’t really know. Even if that pair is ahead on third street, it’s not a big [...]
Andy Black Full Tilt Pro Players who are new to Pot-Limit Omaha tend to make more mistakes with Aces than with any other hand. They get themselves into really tough situations – ones where they can lose a lot of money. Avoiding these spots is one of the keys to playing PLO profitably. Here’s the [...]
Mark Vos Full Tilt Pro I played some of the best poker of my life at one of my all-time favorite tournaments – the Aussie Millions. In the 2005 event, even though I failed to reach the six-handed Main Event’s final table, I came very close, busting out of the event in eighth place. For [...]
Jennifer Harman Team Full Tilt Despite what you see on TV, there’s much more to poker than just Hold ‘em. The great players are judged by how they play all the games. In the big cash games at the Bellagio, we play an assortment of games every night and at the World Series of Poker, [...]
Gavin Smith Full Tilt Pro One of the key skills that winning big-bet players bring to the table is the ability to manipulate the size of the pot. They manage to play big pots when they have big hands, and keep the pot smaller when their holdings are more modest. If you think carefully about [...]
Gus Hansen Team Full Tilt Every Hold ‘em strategy guide talks about the importance of positional advantage. The standard thinking is that the player who acts last has more information than his opponents, so he’ll have a better sense of where he stands in a hand and can, therefore, make better decisions. There’s no doubt [...]
Team Full Tilt A couple of weeks ago, Perry Friedman discussed the importance of being able to look at factors beyond one’s own cards. An experienced player has the ability to think about what his opponent is likely to hold. Beyond that, a top-quality player – a pro – will think a level deeper and [...]
Rafe Furst Full Tilt Pro While playing the final table of the $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold ‘em event in 2006, I found myself in a difficult spot when we were down to four-handed play. I was in the big blind and Rizen, a tough, respected online tournament pro, was in the small blind. It was folded [...]
Perry Friedman Full Tilt Pro I spend a lot of time playing in the low-limit Stud games on Full Tilt Poker. In those games, I’ve encountered a number of players who haven’t come to understand one of poker’s fundamental concepts. These beginners focus only on their own cards; they don’t stop to think about the [...]
