Online Poker Archive

Etymology of Daniel Negreanu’s Power Hold’em Strategy book in today’s poker world. There are few poker players in the world more famous than Daniel ‘Kid Poker‘ Negreanu. He’s a gregarious player with an extraordinary ability to read opponents. He’s famous for calling out a player’s hand strength, if not exact hole cards, based merely...

Connor “blanconegro” Drinan dominating live and online poker from Canada. Connor Drinan isn’t really a household name in the live poker world, and yet he has amassed more than US $11 million in tournament cashes. His online poker moniker, “blanconegro”, has been known to strike fear in the hearts of those who know it,...

Does your poker game have a perceivably passive or aggressive personality? We’ve been talking recently about identifiable player types; labels that make others easier to read and exploit. Yesterday’s segment, entitled Get a Grip on Poker, deals with the difference between loose and tight play, and the hand range equated to each. Today, we’re...

Comparative theory of poker grip – loose versus tight hand selection. There are a lot of different player types out there. Pay enough attention, and you can throw multiple labels on everyone you come up against on the felt. Two of the most common types you can expect to come across are loose poker...

$1.9m GTD PartyPoker LIVE World Cup of Cards is coming to the Playground Poker Club in Montreal Jan 20-Feb 6. PartyPoker will return to its new favorite haunt, the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, next month. This time, the popular online poker operator is organizing a two-week festival that will see $1,926,000 in guaranteed...

Five reasons why PartyPoker will retain the title of best online poker site in 2019. PartyPoker made a lot of big moves in 2018. Some were extremely successful, impressing the operator’s worthy dominance of the industry upon players throughout Canada, Europe, and beyond. Others were, well… not so well received. But together, all of...

A close-up look at small-ball poker, the modern-day bet sizing strategy of Daniel Negreanu. It wasn’t too long ago that tournaments thrived on big bets from big players. You were either a weak limper, or an aggressive pot-multiplying raiser. The unleashing of so much aggression is what reduced the fields so quickly. The aggressors...

PartyPoker Shatters Record with Largest Online Poker Tournament, Paying Near $2 Million Over its $20M GTD. Records are set, broken, and broken again all the time. It used to be a common occurrence in the online poker industry. Nowadays, it takes something truly exceptional to attract the attention of Guinness Record officials. PartyPoker did...

Home Game Essentials: Set the scene for a great poker game at home. Home poker games can be a lot more fun than the live casino or online variety. In a physical casino, everything’s so officious. Following rules and game etiquette isn’t important, but that stiff atmosphere can make a lot of players uncomfortable....

A quick tutorial in mixed games poker tournament rules. If asked up front how to play Texas Hold’em, Omaha, or 7 Card Stud, most beginner level players would have no problem giving me a quick lesson. But what if I asked how to play H.O.R.S.E.? Did I stump you on that one? If so,...