An Introduction to Fifth Street Trading

May 10, 2011

Since several of my friends have been thinking about leaving poker after the DOJ seized the domains of several poker rooms I have asked Brian Wideman of Fifth Street Trading to write a guest post about their investment coaching program for professional poker players. Video Walkthrough of Fifth Street Trading Visit Fifth Street Trading Fifth [...]

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Should Hand History Collection (Datamining) Be Banned?

December 3, 2010

The argument for datamining is an ongoing one and has been for the last couple of years. There are people for it and people against it. This is despite the fact that players are losing the ability to datamine themselves simply because the option to buy hand histories from sites such as PTR or Hand [...]

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Free Hand Histories from Poker Table Ratings (PTR)

November 17, 2010
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See how to get free poker hands from Poker Table Ratings. Poker Table Ratings has just released a new promotion giving users a free sample batch of hand histories. Depending on the game, variation and stakes you choose, you could find yourself the proud owner of up to 10,000 hands. I visited PTR today and [...]

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How to Benefit from Buying Hand Histories

November 12, 2010

Up until recently, when I started to do research and write about purchasing hand histories, I never considered buying hand histories for myself. I didn’t have a reason to – or at least I didn’t think I did. To me, buying hand histories seemed to be a waste of money and figured that if I [...]

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What HUD Stats Should You Use?

November 5, 2010

When I first bought my HUD, got it installed and running, the biggest question that I had was, “what stats do I need?” I’m sure I’m not alone here. There are more than 200 different stats (Hold’em Manager) that players can choose from. This is a lot, especially since you need to narrow this down [...]

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The Day Poker Datamining Died

October 29, 2010

Idleminer – The company that has created the handgrabber software that let poker players datamine, has sold their domain name to Poker Table Ratings. This is my take on what has happened and what it means to us poker players. I don’t have any inside information, but running this site has given me a pretty [...]

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HUD Stats – Defining Common Stats and Their Purpose

October 22, 2010
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Poker HUD software is one of the most useful tools that an online poker player can invest in. It provides the information you need without having to keep tabs on each opponent on every table that you have up. This is great for you since you can then have more tables open at once, thus [...]

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Should You Buy Hand Histories?

October 15, 2010

Buying hand histories is an investment like any other poker tool, book, software or resource that helps your game improve. And while reasonably priced, especially when compared to other means, buying hand histories can still add up over time with prices ranging from $10 to $200 per batch. So the question is – should you [...]

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HHDealer Video Walkthrough

October 9, 2010
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We have added a new addition to our HHDealer Review page. The new addition is a video review which is much like our written review of HHDealer except only in video form. We walk you through HHDealer’s site, show you what sites are supported, how to go about purchasing hand histories (including your payment options [...]

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Poker Table Ratings Video Guide

October 4, 2010
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We have added a new section to our Poker Table Ratings Review. The section we have added is a video review which is similar to our written review of Poker Table Ratings. It covers how to set up an account, how to find the buy hand histories page, the steps you go through to purchase [...]

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