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Playing in position is one of the fundamental concepts that you have to come to grips with if you want to consider yourself at least a decent player. Most poker professionals will tell you that position is one of the most important concepts, if not the most important concept in poker. Position can be the difference in wheter you win or lose a little or a lot. One of the reasons behind this is because position plays a significant role in your ability to bluff. Bluffing becomes easier as you play from later positions. There are three positions you can be in on the poker table; early, middle or late position. Continue reading →

The early stages of a tournament plays a significant role in how the rest of the tournament will play out for you. If you gain an early chip stack you can use it to your advantage and can have a smooth ride throughout the rest of the tournament. If you are unsuccessful in doubling up a couple of times, you may find yourself pushing all in on a regular basis later on to keep up with the blinds and to have a decent chance of winning the tournament. There are three main strategies that people adopt in the early stages and these will be analysed in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. Continue reading →

Patience in poker is one of the fundamental skills that poker players often overlook or disregard the importance of. Patience is a key ingredient in the makeup of the success of a poker player. It can often be the difference between a winning and losing session or having a big win in a tournament compared with a cash finish. This article will examine the key factors to think about when playing both online and offline poker for cash games and tournaments. Continue reading →

Sit N Go tournaments are among some of the most popular games on Full Tilt Poker. In a full ring Sit N Go on Full Tilt, you are playing at a nine handed table, and the tournament pays the top three. Because of this structure, the usual strategy is to play a tight aggressive game, being quite selective with your hands, and as the game becomes short-handed, to open up and be much more aggressive.

Many newer players on Full Tilt Poker like the nine handed SNG’s better, feeling they can get in a good amount of play with the blinds rising every six minutes. As you play more on Full Tilt Poker, you should look at the other SNG offerings, such as a turbo full ring game, or a six handed game, where only the top two places are paid. Continue reading →

Playing Suited Connectors

There has always been a debate over how suited connectors should be played. Some players argue that suited connectors are best played in late position and should never be raised pre-flop. Other players such as Daniel Negranu and Gus Hansen prefer to raise suited connectors in early position and argue that if you connect on the flop players will never suspect the strength of your hand. While there is some weight to both theories, the best strategy to use with suited connectors is a combination of both.

Before we get to the strategy, it’s important to have an idea of the odds and involved in playing suited connectors. Continue reading →

You will find various approaches and strategies that I employ while playing NLHE small stakes online poker in this article. Now that is a tongue twister!Let me start off by saying I have battled long wars at the poker table of the past 4 years, and I have come to one major conclusion in today’s poker age;  Attack or be attacked. If you are not the aggressor in today’s games you will not survive. It really is that simple. Passive play can get you by so far, but if you are not beating people into the pot with constant C-Bets, and hand protection you simply are losing equity in the long run.

For today’s example we will be focusing on stakes from .50/$1 - $1/$2. Do not let those stakes fool you. The action can get fast and explosive.

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Poker affiliates often have their own website. The site is the primary tool to get new players and more money. I will present one important aspect and tool for affiliates and webmasters in this post.

If you’re a succesfull affiliate, you most probably have a 1920×1200 screen etc. However, that is not what your customer has most often. Many webmasters just build their page and never look what it looks like with different screen resolutions. That’s really bad.

To get a grasp of your customers resolutions, get a Google Analytics account. It will help you to track your users.

After that, use this page to see how your website looks like in different resolutions. It should support all the different resolutions your users use. And if it can’t do that, be sure that it supports at least all resolutions used by more than 3% of your users!

Hope this was helpfull!

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So if your Wordpress poker theme is a bit out of date, upload this new beauties and start making some poker affiliate cash!

Poker affiliates aren’t always the greatest webmasters. This isn’t really a surprise. As an poker affiliate you have to be good at three things, them being:

• Poker
• Marketing
• SEO - Search engine marketing

It’s not easy to master all the three categories. Often poker webmasters start out as players, then proceed into the affiliate market and only then starts to find out about SEO etc. That’s why poker webmasters needs to wake up and start thinking about this stuff. A poker webmaster has to do the same thing as a normal internet marketer plus be good at poker.

We here at Online Poker Swamp are going to help you becomming a better webmaster. We have a lot of knowledge in poker, marketing and SEO. We know that we can offer you great pieces of advice! So hang out for the great guides comming up!

There is a lot of money to made in poker. Affiliates takes a cut from all the players they refer to pokersites. This has lead to a situation where there are a million different websites on the market. Are they all truthfull? Are they all telling the truth with no hidden intensions? No.

This is where the Online Poker Swamp comes in. We won’t sacrifice this page to ridiculous marketing or attempts to fool you.

Hopefully you will enjoy our posts and get your facts straight about online poker!