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Quick look at 2010 November nine poker players

Let’s take a quick look at this year’s November nine poker players.
Joseph Cheong (23.5 million in chips): As one of the youngest players in this year’s tournament Cheong, 24, is being considered as the one of the lead, and most experienced player who will sit at the final table. Having played in over 10,000 tournaments, or so he claims, Cheong is certainly one of the more prepared and serious players. He doesn’t only rely on skill but he stands alone in being a real full time player.
John Racener (19.0 million in chips): Racener is coming into November as a rising start. He began catching the attention of poker pundits as he made his rounds through the nationwide tournaments, including a WSOP Circuit title for approximately half a million dollars. Apart from this he has 11 WSOP cashes. Racener is preparing to make his name known and this  year’s World Series tourney may be the venue he was looking for.
Matt Jarvis (17.6 million in chips): Another young competitor is the one and only Matt Jarvis. This 25-year-old Canadian, has made a commendable comeback ever after he declared that he needed to refocus on his poker style and skill. Jarvis also considers himself a fulltime poker player, with most of his fame coming from online play. Spotlighting this fact is his single five-figure cash in during a live play tourney. He will enter November with more confidence than ever and with many saying that he has a very good chance at going the full distance.
Filippo Candio (16.4 million in chips): Mr. Candio, the only European in the pro tournament hails from none other than Sardinia, Italy. He is the poker aficionado in Italy but back here in the U.S. he is only a top ranking poker star. After wining the Italian Poker tour Campionato Italiano ’09 he began to make a real name for himself across the world. He is a proud player who sees the World Series of Poker as a venue to put not only his name on the map but his country’s as well.
In addition to these men are the following high rollers:
Michael Mizrachi (14.4 million in chips)
Soi Nguyen (9.6 million in chips)
Jason Senti (7.6 million in chips)
Jonathan Duhamel (65.9 million in chips)
John Dolan (46.2 million in chips)
Joseph Cheong (23.5 million in chips)
John Racener (19.0 million in chips)

Written by texas holdem Team · Filed Under Poker 

Double Aces

Poker is a game of intricacies. The cards you hold are only one part of a winning hand. The other is comprised of the player’s style and strategy.
Your hand has an almost limitless amount of variables. Sometimes your hand can be good in one pot and bad in another, different cards have different capabilities – this especially comes into effect depending on which game you will play. A great hand in one form of poker may be garbage in another version of the game.
For this brief case study, let’s take the play of the “middle ace.” The middle ace, meaning - A-9 through A-6, can usually be trashed without much loss. A confident poker player will throw this hand regardless of the action on the table, even if the session allows the player to limp into play; it is only in special cases that the “middle ace” can even be thought of as a card to play.
However, in some versions of poker “middle aces” can be a slick hand to play against your challenger, and may characterize you as a “loosing” player, – a characterization that will assist you when you play stronger hands.
If we take the Texas Hold’em, the “middle ace” can only be played when the position is available. The danger in playing the “middle ace” has two angles.
One, if you flop your ace, you may end up be playing from behind against a stronger kicker. An A-8, for instance may bring you into a situation where you could be going against a player holding a bigger ace (A-K or A-Q) – as a result you will be thinning your chances in hitting your kicker.
The second point is that unless you are able to absolutely guarantee that your challenger is sitting on a fat pair (pocket kings or queens), you must go in with caution and maintain a small pot. If you flop your kicker, the dangers increase.
Remember the “middle ace” is not the ideal hand by any means and should be disregarded as a form of battle in any form of poker.

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Show me your cards!

Who is the most agitating player at the poker table? How about the individual who is adamant to display his cards when he is the last to fold, or when he wins a pot without a showdown.
You give in to him in the big blind and he turns around and shows you that he was holding, which is often not too impressive. If you get him to fold, he’ll show you that he can make a tough laydown when he folds top pair, top kicker. This is quite common.
However, someone who shows their poker cards every so often is not obnoxious, here, we find that there may a reasonable need to do so. Although most do not subscribe to this style, arguing, why would one want to give his opposition information, there are a few circumstances where this works in your favour.
The primary component to this strategy is found in the core stages of a tournament- the goal being, you are trying to catch as many blinds and antes as you can from players who are desperately trying to score. The more strapped your opponents think you are the better the chances that they will fold to your raises. Especially if you are aware that you are a tight player, then all the more reason that you want to make sure that everyone else knows too.
Therefore, during the core, mid-stage of a tournament you ought to go ahead and display a few strong hands after everyone else folds. If you can lay some seeds down, those that make the other players believe that when your chips move in, you mean business.
Another quick point in advocating the display of cards is if you have had a successful streak of raises; after a few of these hands, you suspect that your opponents will become dubious towards your next hand. This is a good moment to think about showing your hand. It should be underlined here that if you feel the necessity to show your cards, in whatever circumstance, then you should do so. Poker works on style so add your own; just know what you are doing first.

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