Rushing in blindly to a heads up poker game is like diving into a body of water full of sharks. Correct adjustments must be made to make sure that you stay afloat and stay alive on the table. Here are some tips:

Widen Your Starting Hand Range

Playing heads up poker may require you to open up a bit and widen your horizon on your starting hand. With only two players on the board, the cards that will join the flop may be worse than when you have a full packed table. Don’t wait for premium hands since you will be playing the blinds with every hand. On the button, King Deuce suited might be a raising hand!

Know Your Position

You need to play your position in heads up poker. It is either you are on the best position or on the worst end. When playing as the dealer, play every hand and be aggressive on the preflop. You can also raise the stakes if you have pairs, suited connector, big cards and the works. As the big blind, try to be conservative and be watchful of the dealer’s raises.

Semi Bluffs vs Spot Bluffs

If you want to cash in some chips, you can play small bets to unraised pots when you got a piece of chance on hand. On the other hand, if you are facing aggressive players, you need to block his semi-bluffs and re-raise to see how he reacts

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Belgian poker player Jonathan Abdellatif is my bet when I had to put a name down for a Euro player to win the main event of the WSOP in the next couple years. We had to write down a name nobody else had heard of, that we believed had the skills to become a WSOP champ.

I picked Alosta Rounder Jonathan Abdellatif, who got his first fifteen minutes in the poker spotlight after being the chip leader in the ’08 EPT Deaville for quite some time, playing an aggressive and inspiring game that impressed the pundits.

Here’s his pic – MEMORIZE IT – I’m sure we’ll see more of him in the near future!

I am a luckbox, but I did create some of it myself – to be honest. Here’s a rundown:

• First hand I pick up aces on the button (so lovely), I raise 8 big blinds, short stack pushes in against me and a guy in the middle who limped in first calls the shortstack’s raise. I smoothcall decided to shove the flop. Flop comes K92, villain bets, I shove, Villain calls with KQ. I scoop the pot. I say, go aces, if I get ‘m again I’m pushing it right in!
• I pick up aces the very next hand on the cutoff, one guy raises it up in early position, i push in, he calls, TT. I take the pot.
• The hand after everyone limps in, I raise it up. Guy re-raises after me and I say “dude I’m running so good why re-raise against me?”. I push, he calls me down with KJos. He hits two pair on the flop bot the board pairs fives on the river giving me the pot.

I love live poker.

If you play online roulette games or play online poker, make sure to know your odds - it's vital for doing gambling correct!

When you are planning to go to the casino in your hometown always be prepared to lose some money in the process. The kasino in your hometown wouldn’t be there if they lost all their money to players like you. Of course there will be a chance that you walk away with money even in the beste online casino.

If you go to play poker in the kasino then there is a very good chance you will walk away with some money. This is because you don’t win the money from the kasino but from the other players. But if you really want to make some money you should go and play online poker or play poker in an online casino. In an online kasino you make more money and the payout rate is better. Also there are much more tables in a online poker room. So you can spot the donkeys much faster. And you can use tracking software that will make the life of a poker player much easier.

So remember poker online and casino online is the way to go.

Been spending a lot of time playing small limit cash games on Cake Poker recently. Must say it is going pretty well so far but what really got me excited is when I got my rakeback report at the end of the month. It was like icing on the cake, after being up a decent amount of money over the month I also received a couple hundred through my rakeback program. So this post is for everyone who isn’t a registered rakeback account holder. There are tons of different offers out there which are available for most of the biggest poker rooms.

Every rakeback affiliate has different promotions and bonuses that they provide you with when you sign up so make sure to go through the main ones instead of just jumping onto the first thing you see. Rakebrain.com caught my attention by always offering all kinds of different free rolls for their members and having rake races with the winner being awarded a decent cash prize. So be smart and get rake.

How can you not fall in love with the breathtaking Vanessa Rousso? Look at her — she’s adorable…

Vanessa if you drop Chad let me know — I have no money but people say I have a cute nose!

Rofl. I always dread these aces versus aces situations because you just KNOW someone goes on to make a Flush, right?

Well, not this time — the two luckboxeschop it, and I suppose that’s best for everyone…

Found these at  poker97.com!

If you play a lot of heads-up poker you’ll know a killer heads-up power play when you see one. I just read a post titled Heads-Up Strategy: The Re-Raise/Shove Routine on Teh Jinx Poker and I’m very much sure it’s a winning strategy. Test it out on the online green felt!

Too bad for this guy he wasn’t playing high stakes poker…

Source: Royal Flush at Unibet @ Vincent’s Poker Blog

Maya Geller is a poker babe and I hate Patrik Antonius for being the one being able to do her EVERY SINGLE TIME HE WANTS TO.

Does anyone have a phone number for me? I have a couple hundred dollars less than Patrik but hey, her love don’t cost a thing, I’m sure!

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