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Are online sites crooked?
I think I must have answered or replied to this question more times than I can care to remember but I got an e-mail from a guy called Robert today who asked me a series of questions of which this was one of them. Actually Rob please forgive me if I don’t answer them all [...]

How Important is Bankroll Management in Poker?
I think that this is perhaps one of the most asked questions in poker or if people are not asking this specific question then they are asking questions that are related to it. I have made some controversial statements about bankroll management in the past and received stick for it. But this in my mind [...]

The Dean Explores One of Pokers Biggest Myths
There is a tremendous amount of poker literature these days, not to mention websites, magazines, DVD’s and televised programmes that are all connected with the game. All this exposure can either be a very good or a very bad thing when it comes to attempting to learn the game. Of course having all these avenues [...]

Do You Want To Win At Poker? Then Go Fishing!
We all know what a fish is in the real world don’t we? Well in the world of poker the term “fish” means something totally different. It is in fact a rather polite term for a weak player or novice. The number of descriptions that fit both good and bad players in the world of [...]

You’ve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two Boys
Let’s face it ladies and gents, most of us are crooked to a certain degree. Think back through your life and remember all those times that you have told lies to further your own ends. Most of the time these fall into the category of little white lies which are relatively harmless. But we go [...]

Dirty Poker Part 2
As I looked around the room, I could not help but notice a number of very shady looking people in what looked to be business meetings of some sort. I certainly was not going to ask what kind of business was being discussed, I was just going to keep my nose out and just do [...]

Dirty Poker Part 1
It was around the middle of November 2003 as I recall when I received my first invite into “big Mik’s” cash game that was being run in a quiet suburb of Birmingham at the time. My good friend Andy called me one evening to inform me of the game and ask me if I was [...]

Poker In the Gutter 3
“I only play these because my son’s birthday is on the twenty fourth”
That was the excuse put to me for why the large round portly lady in the red blouse sitting to my immediate right had just player the 4c-2d and flopped the nut straight and cracked my pocket kings. That sure as hell did [...]
Poker in the Gutter 2
I had played poker numerous times in Nottingham but this private cash game at Steve Tangs place was something new to me. It would be a far cry to the rundown snooker club that was Dale Regan’s place that was for sure. I always hated motorway driving at night and especially on my own with [...]
Poker In The Gutter
Peering out through the taxi window into the dimply lit back streets, I was appalled at the sheer number of young girls that were prostituting themselves all for drugs. Is this modern England in the twenty first century? It really does not matter where in the world you are, city centre backstreets seem all alike. [...]

Deal or No Deal
With the current poker boom in full swing and the number of players that are playing the game at an all time record high, tournament poker has never been so popular. With the World Poker Tour events being shown on our screens on a regular basis, not to mention a wide assortment of other tournaments, [...]
Watch Out - The Screen Has Ears!
Any successful pro will tell you that a large part of their game is picking up on and then exploiting tells and other bits and pieces of information that players give off around a poker table. In fact players who are very adept at this can even achieve success in poker despite some of them [...]
Here Come The Hendon Mob
As a very keen supporter of European poker, Pokersharkpool were more than happy to review one of the most successful bunch of professional poker players in Europe, if not the World…..The Hendon Mob. Consisting of Joe Beevers, Ram Vaswani and the Boatman brothers Ross and Barney, they are now some of the most recognised faces [...]

Cheating Techniques
BEST HAND PLAY
Best hand play is perhaps one of the more subtle methods of cheating in the poker world today and when performed well, it is very difficult to detect even for experienced players. It involves two or more players communicating their hand values to each other and the other weaker hands who would have [...]
The Story Behind The Quad Aces
The Story Behind The Quad Aces
On the header you will have undoubtedly noticed four aces. Rather than just having any old poker motif at the top, there is a very interesting story behind this hand. The very first game of No Limit Hold’em that professional poker player Carl “The Dean” Sampson played online involved this [...]
Multi-Tabling - To be or not to be
Today’s poker players bear little or no resemblance to their ancestors of yesteryear. Gone forever are the dashing river boat gamblers and the scruffy tough cowboys playing for their wages in saloons all over the wild west. Gone also are the grifters and hustlers of the early Vegas era of the sixties and early seventies. [...]

Adapt or Fail
Whether it is business, life or poker one thing is certain….you must evolve and adapt in order to survive. Imagine for a minute a businessman who has a range of clothes shops who never changes his line from season to season and from year to year. Slowly but surely his stock just gets more and [...]
No Limit Holdem Cash Game Strategies Online
Playing Aces
As I have told my students many times, there are major differences between online games and bricks and mortar cardroom poker. Success in one does not guarantee success in the other and experience of playing a certain form of poker in one environment is not necessarily going to help you in the other. But [...]

Pit Bull Pete’s Poker Party
I always used to have a soft spot for the two casinos in Derby, small down to earth places where everyone knew everyone else and no one walked around with a chip on their shoulder or had an ego problem. The blackjack games were very good or at least they were back in 2002 when [...]
The Firm - Cheating in Poker
Come on now, lets be honest here…poker is not always played on the level. I think that anybody who thinks that is probably being a little naïve to put it mildly. Poker at the end of the day is played for money and just like with everything else, there are certain people out there who [...]

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