Let me start this off with the admission that I am not a Dutch Boyd in any way, but I have to give credit where credit is due in this instance.
On last weeks DonkDown Radio show, special guest Dutch Boyd talked at length about the Epic Poker League, and on one specific charge I couldnt agree with him more.
With Holdem games bing increasingly tough, a good way to maintain and increase profitably is to expand your game by learning to play lessmon poker variants such as Omaha Hi Low or Pot Limit Omaha Hilo (PLO8). Non-Holdem games are in general less solved and offer the potential to achieve considerably higher winrates. Perhaps the softest games around at the moment are Omaha High Low, or 08 games. Below are 5 tips that should enable all players to beat micro and mid-low stakes 08 games.
There is so, so much news emanating from around Full Tilt these days that its going to take a week or two just to catch up on all the good story lines. One of the most interesting plotlines is the suspension from Epic Poker League events of accused Full Tilt defendants Howard Lederer and Chris Jesus Ferguson, who along with Rafe Furst were added this week to the federal civil complaints surrounding Full Tilt. The three have already been served with notice that their assets are subject to seizure as well.
Furst was not eligible for the EPL despite being a former WSOP bracelet winner, but Lederer and Ferguson were, and Ferguson played the first event.
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Running up until the hour of 23:59 on Sunday 9 October, the promotion is allowing players to get their hands on more bonus money rewards than ever before.The game play and rules are simple. There are fourteen different segments to be found in the wheel. These segments come in different colours, one red, one black and one green black and one green.
Last year, Sorel Mizzi was sent home in second place at the World Poker Tours Rendez Vous a Paris High Roller event, after relinquishing a 2-to-1 chip advantage to his then opponent, Freddy Deeb. In 2011, Mizzi would face almost identical circumstances in the Grand Prix de Paris High Roller, only this time ending as the victor.
Mizzi, an established professional from Toronto, ON, needed to recall all of his prior knowledge from the 2010 WPT Rendez Vous a Paris High Roller as he was facing the exact same opponent, and a chance at immediate retribution.