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2010



July

Not Such A Loose Cannon - Wednesday July 28th, 2010

The November Nine - Wednesday July 21st, 2010

A Surprise From Peter Eastgate - Wednesday July 14th, 2010

WSOP 2010: The Starting Days - Wednesday July 7th, 2010


June

Brits Now Breaking WSOP Records - Wednesday June 30th, 2010

2010 World Series of Poker (4) - Wednesday June 23rd, 2010

2010 World Series of Poker (3) - Wednesday June 16th, 2010

British Victory At WSOP - Wednesday June 9th, 2010

First WSOP Bracelet of 2010 - Wednesday June 2nd, 2010


May

The People You Meet - Wednesday May 26th, 2010

Dusk Til Dawn in Nottingham - Wednesday May 19th, 2010

A 26-hour Poker Tournament - Wednesday May 12th, 2010

When To Pass Kings - Wednesday May 5th, 2010


April

A Big Fold (pt. 2) - Wednesday April 28th, 2010

A Big Fold (pt. 1) - Wednesday April 21st, 2010

A Notorious Slow-roll - Wednesday April 14th, 2010

The Danger Of An Indecisive Bet - Wednesday April 7th, 2010


March

My First Game With An iPod - Wednesday March 31st, 2010

A Blinds Skirmish - Wednesday March 24th, 2010

A Tough Call In Berlin - Wednesday March 17th, 2010

A Bad Day’s Poker For Someone - Wednesday March 10th, 2010

Playing With Friends: Part 2 - Wednesday March 3rd, 2010


February

When Is A Friend Not A Friend? - Wednesday February 24th, 2010

Kamikaze Or Maths? - Wednesday February 17th, 2010

A Quirk To The AK Scenario - Wednesday February 10th, 2010

A Very Surprising Fold - Wednesday February 3rd, 2010


January

A Crazy French Hand - Wednesday January 27th, 2010

Agonizing Heads-Up Hand - Wednesday January 20th, 2010

Immortality At The PCA - Wednesday January 13th, 2010

Time To Sober Up - Wednesday January 6th, 2010



2009



December

Fight The Poker Tax - Wednesday December 30th, 2009

What Would You Do? - Wednesday December 23rd, 2009

The Lesson Of Bad Beats Online - Wednesday December 16th, 2009

Social Sundays Online - Wednesday December 9th, 2009

Bounty Stars Of Poker - Tuesday December 1st, 2009


November

Launch of the UKIPT - Wednesday November 25th, 2009

Late Night Poker final (part 2) - Wednesday November 18th, 2009

A New World Champion - Wednesday November 11th, 2009

Never Bluffing: Late Night Poker Final - Wednesday November 4th, 2009


October

Heads-Up Aggression: A Last Note - Wednesday October 28th, 2009

More Heads Up: Trends In Poker - Wednesday October 21st, 2009

More Aggression, Less Patience: Heads Up - Wednesday October 14th, 2009

On The Bubble: Any Two Cards - Wednesday October 7th, 2009


September

An Example Of Overplaying? - Wednesday September 30th, 2009

Shoving Light: Not Black And White - Wednesday September 23rd, 2009

No Retirement For Me - Wednesday September 16th, 2009

The Mysteries Of Late Night Poker - Wednesday September 9th, 2009

Late Night Poker returns - Friday September 4th, 2009


August

Recession? What Recession? - Friday August 21st, 2009

Mike Matusow’s autobiography - Friday August 14th, 2009

When They Call, Show Your Hand - Friday August 7th, 2009


July

Poker In The Dragons’ Den - Friday July 31st, 2009

The Best WSOP Final In Years - Friday July 24th, 2009

Day One Selection Strategy - Friday July 3rd, 2009


June

Masochism & Disappointment In Vegas - Friday June 26th, 2009

British Medals In The 2009 WSOP - Friday June 19th, 2009

Find Tournaments In The UK - Friday June 12th, 2009

From Turbo MTTs To The World Series - Friday June 5th, 2009


May

Turbo MTTs pt 3 - Friday May 29th, 2009

Turbo MTTs pt 2 - Thursday May 21st, 2009

MTT turbos - Thursday May 14th, 2009

Sportsmen, Poker And A Sniffy Press - Thursday May 7th, 2009


April

The Pros & Cons Of Charity - Thursday April 30th, 2009

A Curious Case Of Etiquette - Thursday April 23rd, 2009

No Privacy Please, We’re British - Thursday April 16th, 2009

A Super-Cheeky River Bet - Thursday April 9th, 2009

Don’t Mess With The Mojo - Thursday April 2nd, 2009


March

The Red Herring River Card - Thursday March 26th, 2009

The World’s Upside Down - Thursday March 19th, 2009

The Dangers Of Slow Playing - Thursday March 5th, 2009


February

The Money’s Too Big - Thursday February 26th, 2009

Taking On An All-In Man With No Pair - Thursday February 19th, 2009

Premier League: watch and learn - Thursday February 12th, 2009

UTG raises in the PCA: last comment - Thursday February 5th, 2009


January

Half-hands in late stages (conclusion) - Thursday January 29th, 2009

The Joy Of Sixes (last week continued) - Thursday January 22nd, 2009

Team Spirit - Thursday January 15th, 2009

Losing the minimum - Thursday January 8th, 2009



2008



December

Another Little Squeeze - Thursday December 18th, 2008

Hidden advantage of day 1a - Thursday December 11th, 2008

The funniest P.L.P. hand - Thursday December 4th, 2008


November

Girl On Girl - Thursday November 27th, 2008

A Little Quiz - Thursday November 20th, 2008

WSOP 2008: They Don’t Care - Thursday November 13th, 2008

Budapest - Thursday November 6th, 2008


October

Small but relevant hands - Thursday October 30th, 2008

River value bets illustrated - Thursday October 23rd, 2008

Last week’s hand resolved - Monday October 13th, 2008

A controversial hand - Monday October 6th, 2008


September

A Huge Hand Or Nothing - Monday September 29th, 2008

The Danger Of Poker Awards - Monday September 22nd, 2008

The Tour - Monday September 15th, 2008

New School Term - Monday September 8th, 2008

Terrible Table Manners - Monday September 1st, 2008


August

Is poker a sport? - Monday August 25th, 2008

Online cash game etiquette - Monday August 18th, 2008

The Palm Beach - Monday August 11th, 2008

You Have No Decision To Make - Monday August 4th, 2008


July

The November Nine - Monday July 28th, 2008

Most of the time it’s just fate - Monday July 21st, 2008

Not the 2008 World Champion - Monday July 14th, 2008

Pre Flop Flummery - Monday July 7th, 2008


June

Fear of exit - Monday June 30th, 2008

Betting on the WSOP - Monday June 23rd, 2008

Big opening fields - Monday June 9th, 2008

Detective work - Monday June 2nd, 2008


May

Local rules - Monday May 26th, 2008

Body language - Monday May 19th, 2008

WSOP final table - Monday May 12th, 2008

Long-term winning strategy - Monday May 5th, 2008


April

The domino effect - Monday April 28th, 2008

Flying blind - Monday April 21st, 2008

A world-class fold - Monday April 14th, 2008

An old fella - Monday April 7th, 2008


March

Chasing rainbows - Monday March 31st, 2008

Annette Obrestad - Monday March 24th, 2008

After a nasty loss - Monday March 17th, 2008

Dealers - Monday March 10th, 2008

Quit when you’re losing enough - Monday March 3rd, 2008


February

Hellmuth’s full house - Monday February 25th, 2008

Don’t change your mind - Monday February 18th, 2008

Price your bets correctly - Monday February 11th, 2008

You do realise that’s a 50/50? - Monday February 4th, 2008


January

Double flop hold ‘em - Monday January 28th, 2008

Dealer’s choice - Monday January 21st, 2008

Late night poker - Monday January 14th, 2008

Celebrity late night poker - Monday January 7th, 2008



2007



December

Induce Mistakes - Part 4 - Monday December 17th, 2007

Induce Mistakes - Part 3 - Monday December 10th, 2007

Induce Mistakes - Part 2 - Sunday December 2nd, 2007


November

Induce Mistakes - Part 1 - Monday November 26th, 2007

Perfect river cards - Monday November 19th, 2007

Sharkscope - Monday November 12th, 2007

Three aces beat three jacks? - Monday November 5th, 2007


October

“Ghosts at the table” - Monday October 15th, 2007

Knock-on effect - Sunday October 7th, 2007

It’s hard to win the same tournament twice - Monday October 1st, 2007


September

Annette Obrestad - Monday September 24th, 2007

Erick Lindgren - Monday September 17th, 2007

Super-satellites - Monday September 10th, 2007

World series comes to London - Monday September 3rd, 2007


August

Premier league poker - Monday August 27th, 2007

Rule of three - Monday August 13th, 2007

A tough commentator - Monday August 6th, 2007


July

2007 WSOP - Part 5: The Winner - Monday July 23rd, 2007

2007 WSOP - Part 4: Cash Game - Monday July 16th, 2007

2007 WSOP - Part 3: ‘Donkeys’ - Monday July 9th, 2007

2007 WSOP - Part 2: Roulette - Monday July 2nd, 2007


June

2007 WSOP - Part 1 - Monday June 25th, 2007

Interpreting a river bet - Monday June 18th, 2007

When a bad hand is good - Monday June 11th, 2007

Mental focus - Monday June 4th, 2007


May

The old principles of craftiness - Monday May 28th, 2007

Characters in poker - Monday May 21st, 2007

‘Bigger deal’ - Monday May 14th, 2007

Could be the perfect play, could be suicidal - Monday May 7th, 2007


April

Charity tournament - Part 2 - Monday April 30th, 2007

Charity tournament - Part 1 - Monday April 23rd, 2007

Desperate housewives - Monday April 16th, 2007

Poker is a slippery game - Monday April 9th, 2007

GUKPT - Monday April 2nd, 2007


March

HORSE tournament - Monday March 26th, 2007

Playing like a man - Monday March 19th, 2007

Poker tells - Monday March 12th, 2007

A monkey could do better - Monday March 5th, 2007


February

Group hugs don’t win poker trophies - Monday February 26th, 2007

My new nickname - Monday February 19th, 2007

Poker nicknames - Monday February 12th, 2007

A secret about high-low games - Monday February 5th, 2007


January

Seven-card high/low split - Monday January 29th, 2007

Lowball - Monday January 22nd, 2007

Seven-card stud - Monday January 15th, 2007

New Year’s resolutions - Monday January 8th, 2007



2006



December

Greg ‘Fossilman” Raymer - Monday December 18th, 2006

Position in Omaha - Monday December 11th, 2006

The benefit of Omaha - Monday December 4th, 2006


November

Betting on poker - Thursday November 30th, 2006

The do-re-mi of poker - Monday November 27th, 2006

Another view on Casino Royale - Wednesday November 22nd, 2006

Poker variants - Monday November 20th, 2006

How to play poker - Monday November 13th, 2006

UK poker ban - Monday November 6th, 2006


October

Poker robots - Friday October 20th, 2006

European Poker Tour - Baden, Austria - Friday October 13th, 2006

Poker ban - Friday October 6th, 2006


September

How to win £500,000 - Friday September 29th, 2006

The European poker tour - Friday September 22nd, 2006

All-in….. - Friday September 15th, 2006

No limit cash games - Part 2 - Friday September 8th, 2006

No limit cash games - Part 1 - Friday September 1st, 2006


August

Don’t tap on the aquarium - Friday August 25th, 2006

2006 WSOP - Part 4: The Winner - Friday August 18th, 2006

2006 WSOP - Part 3: Celebrities - Friday August 11th, 2006

2006 WSOP - Part 2: Vegas - Friday August 4th, 2006


July

2006 WSOP - Part 1 - Friday July 28th, 2006

Online behaviour - Friday July 14th, 2006

Gambly young opponents - Part 2 - Friday July 7th, 2006


June

Gambly young opponents - Part 1 - Friday June 30th, 2006

Swimming with the devilfish - Friday June 23rd, 2006

Recommended poker books - Friday June 16th, 2006

Home games - Friday June 9th, 2006

Poker is cruel - Friday June 2nd, 2006


May

Half a hand - Friday May 26th, 2006

Your opponents stack size - Friday May 19th, 2006

Feeling the greed - Friday May 12th, 2006

Counting your stack - Friday May 5th, 2006


April

Adam Lee - Friday April 28th, 2006

Celebrity poker - Friday April 21st, 2006

Women and poker - Friday April 14th, 2006

A bad beat whinge - Friday April 7th, 2006


March

Tournament pace - Friday March 31st, 2006

Online tournaments - Friday March 24th, 2006

The tournament trail - Friday March 17th, 2006

Mix it up - Friday March 10th, 2006

Taking a free card - Friday March 3rd, 2006


February

Position - Friday February 24th, 2006

Look beyond your hand - Friday February 17th, 2006

Semi-bluffing - Friday February 10th, 2006

Bluffing - Part 2 - Friday February 3rd, 2006


January

Bluffing - Part 1 - Friday January 27th, 2006

Luck v skill - Friday January 20th, 2006

Beware the TV - Part 2 - Friday January 13th, 2006

Drawing hands - Friday January 6th, 2006



2005



December

Suited connectors - Friday December 30th, 2005

Christmas competition winners - Friday December 16th, 2005

Pocket pairs - Friday December 9th, 2005

Christmas competition - Friday December 2nd, 2005


November

A pair of kings - Friday November 25th, 2005

The rules are there….. - Friday November 18th, 2005

Ace King - Saturday November 5th, 2005

A single ace - Friday November 4th, 2005


October

Aces - Friday October 28th, 2005

Raising - Friday October 21st, 2005

How much to play for - Friday October 14th, 2005

What not to wear - Friday October 7th, 2005


September

Beware the TV - Part 1 - Friday September 30th, 2005

Introduction - Friday September 23rd, 2005