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Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Joe Hachem to Continue Playing in Major Poker Tournaments
Joe Hachem has announced that he will continue participating in major poker tournaments. This dispels the belief many held that he will limit his tournament activity and focus on developing the Asian Poker Tour and AsianLogic Group, now that he is on board as their new ambassador.
Hachem, who briefly held the record for the all-time biggest tournament prize when he won $7.5 million at the 2005 World Series of Poker, has said that most of the tournaments he’ll participate … Read the rest
Full Steam Ahead
I think I figured out why I have never been able to make it big as a PL Omaha cash game player; it’s because I steam. And I don’t mean that I play bad when things aren’t going my way. I mean that when people suck out on me, I become a 15 ton steaming locomotive on a one-way path to destruction.
I guess one of the reasons for this is that it’s so easy to make a hand in Omaha. This lets me get away with a fair amount of aggressiveness. Even when I run into monster hands on the early betting streets, I am often getting the proper price to call my opponent’s bet. It’s just too easy to suck out in this game.
One of the reasons that this has such a diminishing effect on my profits is not so much that I am giving away all of my chips by making bad calls with weak hands. It’s because bluffing is such a huge part of this game and I lose the ability to pull off “The big bluff”. This takes away a huge edge that I would normally have over my opponents.
In the game of Omaha, there are so many scare cards that can fall on the board that a player in position will often have the opportunity to bluff a player who flopped a premium hand. When you start to steam and the table is aware of this, you begin to lose your ability to bluff in these big pots. To make matters worse… players who are steaming will usually try to bluff in these spots anyway, thus finding out the hard way that they have lost their ability to outplay their opponents.
Even when I am steaming really bad I am just below being a break-even PL Omaha player. I’m able to off-set most of the negative effects of steaming aggressively by making good decisions on the later streets. It is only a small mistake to get caught bluffing before the flop or on the flop. It’s not until the big bets start to go into the pot that players need to be concerned.
When the cards start to fall your way, you can usually exploit your opponent’s perception of you and get them to put a lot of chips in with a second best hand…one that they might have folded to most other players at the table.
