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This website aims to be an informative website about the fascinating World Series of Poker event (wsop) with its history, interviews with participants, videos, news and related poker promotions. Let us become your poker guide to this exciting event which every year see fighting the best players in the world.
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“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. Poker can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately poker is fair, and right, and just.”
Lou Krieger
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Preparing for the WSOP
by Mark A. Seif
It is for sure the most exciting time of the year for serious poker players! The World Series of Poker kicks off with a $25,000 buy-in, No Limit Hold'em event, followed by two events (usually) each day until the main event. In all, there are 58 events. Each of these WSOP tournaments is a grueling marathon that takes place over three days usually, and this goes on for five weeks! Simply put, in order for you to have any chance of making a deep run in these huge field events and winning a ton of money along with the most coveted piece of poker jewelry in existence, you must be prepared - very prepared. So this piece (and some subsequent ones) will focus on just that, preparing for the WSOP. For this first instalment, I will focus on getting your mind and body ready for the big challenge.
You should make sure to get plenty of rest in the days leading up to the WSOP. It's also a good idea to set your sleep schedule to coincide with the times you will be playing. In other words, if you are staying at the Rio or close by, try to go to sleep around 3 am and wake up in time to be ready to play by noon. That's right, a typical day will last from noon to 2-3 am. You need to be sharp the whole time so condition your mind and body to be awake, alert and focused during those hours.
Eat healthy and do not over eat. Try to stay away from turkey because it contains L-tryptophan and that will make you drowsy and tired. Bring healthy snacks with you to keep your energy (blood sugar) levels constant. Also, during the dinner break, make sure to eat lightly, and again avoid steaks and turkey so as not to have a post dinner let down in energy.
Even a minimal amount of stretching and exercising is hugely beneficial during the day. Also make sure to oxygenate all day. Take huge deep breaths periodically and practice that as often as you can. Your brain and body need that extra oxygen. It will help you stay sharp.
While this may sound terrible, it’s super-important to be selfish! No distractions. No business matters. No family matters. No calls. No e-mails. Absolutely no parties and minimal socializing. You are at war and this is not the time to be lolly gagging. You can party your pants off when you become the World Champ and win $10 million!
We'll talk more next time about focus and hard work at the table. Until then, start to plan especially how you will take steps to achieve the above goals. Take care and happy prepping.
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Do you want a seat at the next year’s WSOP?
The World Series of Poker or in short WSOP is an annual poker event, taking place in a top Las Vegas casino, opened for both professional and amateur players, featuring dozens of tournaments that no poker aficionado should miss out on. Basically, this is the largest poker tournament that anyone that has been playing poker, regardless of whether it is for a living or as a hobby, dreams of entering. The huge prizes, the atmosphere and the fact that you have a chance to sit down at the table and play poker games with the best of the best are three of the reasons why you should sign up and try to qualify for the WSOP.
In order to qualify for the World Series of Poker, you will need to pay the entry fee, which is currently set at about ten thousand dollars. Most professional players choose to pay the entry fee and save themselves the hassle of undergoing countless elimination tournaments. While it is true that for amateurs, this is a large sum of cash that may pose some difficulties to gather, keep in mind that there is also a lot of money that can be won in the tournament as well. Alternatively, if the ten thousand dollars are simply not an option at the moment, then you should enter the qualification tournament and get some more practice.
A third possibility of qualifying for the WSOP is to play poker online. In fact, due to the popularity the online poker has gained recently, most professional poker websites now offer their players a chance of qualifying for the ultimate competition. However, it is important to note that, despite the fact that each site has its own set of rules; the grand prize is always a seat to the famous World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
In case you are trying to qualify via your poker websites, then it is important to take some time and learn more about these connecting tournaments also dubbed as satellites. It is necessary to point out that the satellites will also require you pay an entry fee. The cheaper the entry fee, the longer the path to winning the completion and qualify for the big event. On a side note, some satellite tournaments may require the players to participate in about five or six other tournaments in order to award them the seat to WSOP. To put it simply, if you are considering starting out with one dollar and turning it into ten thousand dollars, that is not easy nor the best strategy at all times.
In general, people that have participated in the low level satellites have stumbled upon wild and aggressive players that only had one thing in mind: win quickly and move to the next stage. However, the good news is that each stage of the low level satellites can be bought into. Therefore, if you do not have ten thousand dollars, but more like one or two thousands, then it would be less stressful to skip the low phases all together.
Once you enroll in the tournaments, it is important that you have the right mentality. Since the main goal is to qualify for the WSOP, then you should not focus on winning, but rather on lasting through the poker games. That entails you will need to play a bit more careful then usual, meaning that you should avoid making bluffs and any other risky moves that can cost you the game. The idea would be to wait until a sufficient number of players have lost the game, so you can increase your chances of getting one of the qualifying packages. In case you lose, you will have to work your way back through the satellites.
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5 Ways to Improve your Tournament Game
by James Campbell
1. Position, Position, Position; most important aspect of tournament poker. Try to play as many hands as possible in position and limit the number of hands you play out of position.
2. Mix it up a little at the start of tournaments. This is the time to see some flops play suited connectors, low pocket pairs, and try to hit a flop big and stack somebody who doesn't like to fold an overpair.
3. With a stack less than 15-25bbs you are going to be limited to what you can do. You don't want to be raise/folding very often and you don't want to be calling other players raises with marginal hands. So play tight solid poker.
4. With a stack of 15-25bbs you have a great "restealing stack". What I mean by this is if there is a late position raiser that has been active don't be afraid to reraise all in with marginal holdings. The raiser is going to need a big hand in order to call you and chances are he won't have it!
5. When you are a big stack attack the other big stacks. Tournament poker is all about winning! All the money is in the top 3 places of every tournament so you want to give yourself the best opportunity to win and there is no better way to do that than to attack the other big stacks. Apply some extra pressure to them when you have position and force him/her to a tough decision.
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A Synopsis Of The WSOP 2012
After more than 100 days of nerve racking poker playing, six of the nine finalists had been eliminated from the championship following 8 exhausting hours of tough decisions and, let's admit it, dealing with the skills and wits of the last three powerful survivors who made it to the final table. This year's WSOP championship was quite interesting, considering that it has seen two poker professionals and one college student to the final table, all trying their best to win one of the highest pots in the World Series of Poker competition – the $8.53 million top prize. Let's meet the WSOP 2012 victors.
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Texas Hold’em strategy tips
What is important to know about Texas Hold’em in the beginning
To have a chance of winning the WSOP main event you have to master Texas Hold’em poker. A good Texas Hold’em poker player should understand the psychology of the opponent and be able to calculate the various options. It is believed that a good poker player is not the one that wins a lot of money, but the one who loses little. Your primary task is to increase your stack as much as possible. Simple to say, more difficult to achieve. A few points should be considered.
Since in Texas Hold'em poker the betting order (like in many poker games) is determined by the position of the dealer (the button) and does not change through the course of the hand, one's position during the betting rounds is a key factor in the game, and for example at the last position you can keep some cards that should have been fold in early position. After all, the latter your turn is, more the information you’ll manage to get, and as we all know, poker is a game of information.
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Despite the huge variety of combinations of cards, in poker there are only 169 variants of starting two-card hands, if you count the cards, differing only by suit, the same combinations, i.e. the Queen of spades and the Jack of spades, we equate to the Queen of hearts and the Jack of hearts. Of course, if the flop reveals three spades, the first of these combinations would be more advantageous, but not having the gift of prophecy, these hands before the flop are equivalent.
All these 169 variants can be divided into 5 main categories: pairs, cards in sequence, gapped hands, cards in sequence of one suit and gapped hands of one suit. In case you don’t have a pair, your two pocket cards can be of one or different suits, be in sequence or not, have one or more gaps. Obviously, with cards in sequence you have more chance to form a straight, and the more gaps you have, the less is the probability to form it. In case you are trying to form a flush with suited cards the gaps are not important, but the higher cards are preferable.
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2013 World Series of Poker schedule announced - tournament will take place May 29 through July 16 at the Rio.
