SuperStar Showdown: Blom seeking revenge on Haxton

If revenge is, in fact, a dish best served cold, Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom is doing it right. It’s been nearly 15 months since he played his first SuperStar Showdown match. Indeed, it’s been some 450 days since Blom dropped the first SuperStar Showdown to well-known rounder Isaac Haxton. Now, Blom wants another shot at Haxton. The dish isn’t just cold. It’s getting moldy. All the more perfect to shove it in Haxton’s face?

Well, that remains to be seen.

This Sunday at 12pm ET, Blom and Haxton will face off again for a high-stakes match on PokerStars. The four-table match will last for as long as 2,500 hands.

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Why players struggle in no limit cash games – part 3

Everywhere you look these days then there are poker coaches, poker websites and poker books and magazines all discussing no limit hold’em. But yet even as a full time player and writer then I am still not blinded to the fact that this form of poker is probably the most difficult of the lot for novice players to succeed at. In the final part of this series then I want to discuss variance and how this affects your mind set. I often hear how tournament poker has the worst variance out of all of the major forms of poker. I

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Online Poker Show: Sunday Million II, February 12

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Which is the best poker game to make money at?

I am often asked which is the best poker game to make money at. This is not an easy question to answer because it rather depends on many factors and too many for this article to address. If you have problems with your discipline then playing no-limit Texas Hold’em may prove to be somewhat of a problem. I have known many players in my time who really struggled with the fact that you could lose 100bb or more on a single hand of play. A better way to address this would be to look at which game currently has the highest number of weak players as a ratio of the total number of players in the game.

Firstly I do not think that this game is either limit hold’em or SNG’s. Limit

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TCOOP: Not everyone loves turbos (but you probably should)

Not everyone loves turbos, and I’ve heard some of my peers bemoan the lack of deepstacked, early level play with 100+ BBs. But from my perspective, deepstacked play is simply not the most important skill for a tournament player, and regardless of the speed of the structure, your success in a tournament will most often be decided by decisions that you face holding 10-40BB stacks.

To me, a turbo tournament tests the relevant skills of a tournament player in the most efficient, and fun, manner possible. You are forced to take thin gambles more quickly, and being able to properly take those gambles is the essence of tournament poker, whether it’s the $1 rebuy or the WSOP main event.

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