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August - September 2008

Poker & Gambling
How to Turn Image into Profit

Mike Caro

The money in poker comes mostly from the way you handle people, read them, manipulate them, and relate to them. As the old adage goes, “Poker is not a game of cards played by people, but a game of people played with cards.”

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Straight Draws
How you can use the stealthy qualities of a open-ended straight draw to your advantage

Karl Mahrenholz

In the last piece I presented you with the following situation: you are in the middle stages of a multi-table tournament with blinds at 500/1,000. You have an average stack of 35k in the small blind and pick up K-Q.

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Deal Me In!
Common sense and wisdom to help jumpstart your poker game

Kevin Blackwood

Twenty years ago, people would have thought you were crazy if you told them poker would someday be televised on ESPN and NBC. Yet that day has long since arrived, and poker has fast become an American institution—if not quite apple pie and baseball, than certainly donuts and bowling.

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Tells of the Mouth

Joe Navarro

For the next two months, I have purposely focused on one specifi c area of the body. The mouth and the tells that are revealed there are probably the most accurate of all the body tells, especially the face. I know what you are thinking after months of reading this column: “Joe, you’ve said the feet are the most reliable place to pick up tells.” That is true, but when looking at the face, the mouth wins the tells contest hands down. It is probably the best place to decipher the feelings, thoughts, and intentions of another player. When it comes to poker, the mouth is one place we should scrutinize carefully.

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Maximize Your Tournament Return on Investment By Doing Your Homework

Bonnie Demos

Money management is a key factor in playing winning poker, a basic rule that most players live by. Pot odds, implied odds, equity, fold equity, and expected value have become household words and many players are quite adept at the mental gymnastics of calculating complex mathematical equations.

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Keeping It Simple Is Stupid

David Williams

With NBC’s national heads-up poker championship around the corner, I thought it might be a good idea to start thinking about heads-up play, since it is so different than nine- or 10-handed, or even short-handed poker.

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