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First we brought you Northern California’s only poker newspaper. Next came our website giving you easy access to our comprehensive cardroom directory and tournament schedule for Northern California. Now, The Cardroom is pleased to announce that the race to be named the NorCal Poker Tournament Player of the Year is officially underway.. click here to read the whole article! |
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NVC reforms image, has big
aspirations The Napa Valley Casino in American Canyon has blossomed into a great example of what a cardroom can be. The current owners have remodeled the interior and brought in new staff as a start towards the even bigger goals they have of making NVC a premier destination. “We want to be the Bellagio of Northern California,” said Brian Altizer, one of the owners. They’re already well on their way toward making that dream a reality. click here to read the whole article! |
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Charity tourney comes to Fresno On Saturday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m., Club One Casino and Fresno Councilmember Mike Dages will host their fifth annual Charity Poker Tournament. For their $125 buy-in (with all proceeds going to charity), players will participate in the tournament as well as receive an elegant buffet dinner for themselves and a guest. click here to read the whole article! |
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Sometimes your Poker Ambassador gets to make a nice, neat trip to several cardrooms within a relatively defined geographic area, and sometimes he’s bouncing all over Northern California. Such was the case recently, as my travels took me from the Yosemite gateway to the North Sacramento Valley, then to the gold country northeast of Sacramento. This was followed by a visit to Napa and Sonoma counties, finishing up in the East Bay. Whew. It’s been a few weeks and I feel like I’m still trying to get my land legs back! click here to read the whole article! |
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Kamikaze Korner By Davin Anderson In my last article I discussed how to play big connectors and now I will move on to middle connectors. The heart of this discussion begins with recognizing the right scenarios to play them, and then using the proper tactics to maximize profits and minimize losses. Just as with big connectors, the biggest attraction with playing middle connectors is the possibility of making a straight. The biggest difference is that middle connectors rarely make top pair, and rarely win pots on the strength of one pair.. click here to read the whole article! |
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On the Button
Tournament hand analysis: Top two
and deep stacked Here’s a typical situation that comes up in no-limit tournaments that can be very deceptive and quickly become critical. I will illustrate it using a real example that occurred recently to Chad, a long-time player and friend of mine. Early in a tournament (blinds at 15/30) two people limp in early position, and Chad limps from middle position with K-J of spades. The button limps and both blinds are in. Since it’s early in the tournament everyone has 3k in chips (the starting amount) or more, thus creating a deep stack situation. click here to read the whole article!
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Book
Review In the last edition of The Cardroom I reviewed the first book in the “Harrington on Hold’em” series by Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie (Two Plus Two Publishing). That book is titled “Strategic Play” and I mentioned that I was going to compare the Harrington series with Arnold Snyder’s “The Poker Tournament Formula” because there is somewhat of a debate going on in the literature right now over what is the optimum tournament strategy.. click here to read the whole article! |
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Virtual Roundtable What elements make the ideal tourney? With this issue, The Cardroom has launched the race to be named the 2008 NorCal Poker Tournament Player of the Year, so we thought that was a good excuse to look at tournament structures. Poker tournaments come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, with buy-ins, length of rounds, starting stacks, blind structures, rebuys/add-ons, and size of field all leaving their mark on what becomes the “environment” specific to any tournament. In this issue’s Virtual Roundtable, we took the opportunity to conduct an informal survey and ask the usual suspects— cardroom owners, poker managers, tournament directors, and everyday players— what their preferences are in a tournament. click here to read the whole article! |
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