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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Poker Video Training Sites
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 by Phil
Over the last 6 months it seems as though I have seen an overwhelming number of new poker sites pop up. I think that the biggest trend by far is the growth of video training sites.
Some of these sites are pretty good, some are not so good, but the sheer number of people who think they know how to teach other people how to play poker is staggering.
I don’t subscribe to any of the video training sites anymore. Back when I was really learning how to grind the poker tables I was watching a lot of these videos, but not so much anymore. I have a few pet peeves with these sites.
The first thing that I see on most of these sites is something like this…
Here is our list of poker coaches;
- Alex “Suckmyballs” Alfred
- Max “Beat_Your_Mother” Jefferson
- Alan “The_Ass” Mathews
When you build a site like this, the whole point is build respect for
the people making the videos so that their advice has some weight and authority.
I understand that they want to make sure people can research who these players are in order to establish some credibility, but these guys really need to come up with some screen names that are a little bit more professional. If your goal is to inform people about the coaches, you should really just do a bio page for each of them so that you can keep the list of coaches on your homepage looking clean and respectable.
Another gripe that I have…It also gets pretty annoying listening to these guys try to flood their videos with poker lingo. “I got flatted by a TAG in the cutoff who then floated me twice with 2 overs and a gut shot… blah blah blah”. I can’t say that I never do this myself, but some of these guys are just ridiculous.
