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Ladbrokespoker – Side games are referred to sometimes in relation to players at the WSOP, and can be very lucrative for the best players around. They usually involve cash games being played for high stakes, in between, or after other events have finished, but they are not exclusive to Las Vegas.

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There are other types of sidegame played, with small scale tournaments sometimes starting up once players have been eliminated from the bigger game itself. This is something we managed to set up at our local game on Saturday, but the difference was that we were playing Omaha, and for a small buy in fee. The reason for this is that it would be good to introduce some of the players to this new game, and a smaller buy in fee might attract some interest to those who come over to observe the game.

I was lucky enough to win our little side tournament, but the main thing for me, was that we got several players interested. Playing a different game on the side can make a welcome change for players, and having any sort of side game at all makes for a more enjoyable evening I feel.

Rather than sitting at the bar wondering what went wrong in the main tournament, I would much rather be playing another game, even if the stakes aren’t all that high. You can introduce side games in home games too of course, and they are especially good for those reckless players who go out of the tournament early. In my opinion it is the best way to give players a way to carry on playing poker, without having to make the main tournament a re buy event.

www.celebpocker.com – With the emerging popularity of televised poker tournaments, recent years have brought a host of poker magazines to the shelves of shops too. There is one such magazine that I purchase regularly, and I find this is a great opportunity to catch up with all the big news from the poker world.

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Unless you check up on poker news websites regularly of course, it is difficult to know how the big live events on the other side of the world are going, and which players are emerging triumphant. Poker magazines provide a great insight into all this, but they also offer expert opinions on many aspects of the game. Teams of players/writers who detail their weeks poker playing experiences, provide others with a way to compare their own tactics, and examine the rights and wrongs of particular situations.

There are also often interviews conducted with the latest champions of the game, which makes for great reading too. You can find out what goes through the mind of someone on a final table at such an event, and also how they deal with adversity and transform it into an eventual victory. Another good point about these magazines, is that they seem to maintain a good balance of online play and live tournament goings on.

These magazines are on offer at reasonable prices, and the ones I have read myself certainly make worthwhile reading for aspiring poker players.

www.pacificpocker.com – The good form which came around so suddenly a couple of weeks ago, certainly seems to have faded a little, with 8th place on Saturday, and worse still this evening. Through this slight loss of form on the Holdem front however, I managed to win an Omaha tournament online, which goes to show how a change of game can bring changes in results.

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As for last nights Holdem game, the key error I made was after one hand, in which a player in late position put a strong bet out after it had been checked round, picking up the pot and showing a weak middle pair. On the very next hand almost exactly the same thing happened, with a similar raise from the same player, and I decided to put in a big reraise.

He called, and foolishly I bet out big on the turn as well. I hit top pair on the river but by this point I knew I was beaten and checked it down, being shown a flopped two pair by my opponent. I should have known that after showing his weak pair on the previous hand, he wouldn’t do the same thing again with a weak hand. After managing to double up, I pushed my still short stack in preflop, with (A,A), and got no callers.

The very next hand was (10,10) and I shoved again preflop, this time being called by (Ah,Qh). The Ace hit on the river unfortunately, and it was all over. Hopefully I can make up for things on Saturday when the next tournament comes around, but in the meantime I shall stick to the Omaha online tournaments.

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