Thu, 02/17/2011 – 00:23 – PokerPages Staff

Poker programming airing the week of February 17, 2011:

Full Tilt Poker 2010 Doubles Poker Championship
The Doubles Poker Championship’s unique structure pairs players in a team to compete for the one million dollar first place prize.  Thirty-two of the top professional poker players competed as two-person teams, each team sharing each hand.  The first place prize, awarded to the winning team, is $1M.  The championship began with 16 teams.  The final four teams are Allen Cunningham and Huck Seed, Antanas ‘Tony G’ Guoga and David Benyamine, Phil Gordon and Howard Lederer, and Phil Ivey and Chris Ferguson.  The 2010 Doubles Poker Championship is airing on Versus.

Poker After Dark
On NBC, Poker After Dark Director’s Cut wraps up the previous week’s action, including comments from the winning player and the week’s contenders:  David Peat, Howard Lederer, Eli Elezra, Phil Laak, Greg Mueller, and Olivier Busquet.

Full Tilt Poker 2010 the Poker Lounge
The Poker Lounge features one Full Tilt Poker (FTP) qualifier battling against five FTP Pros.  The qualifier is staked for the $20K buy-in to compete in six handed, winner take all action.  The 2010 The FTP Pros include Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen.  The Poker Lounge airs on Versus. 

Full Tilt Poker 2010 Aussie Millions
Check out the 2010 Aussie Millions, hosted by the Crown Casino, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia, airing on Versus.  Twenty one events ran in the 2010 Aussie Millions.  Winning the Main Event of the Aussie Millions was Australian Tyron Krost, cashing for AUD $2,000,000 from the AUD $7,500,000.00 prize pool.

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Fri, 01/28/2011 – 05:31 – PokerPages Staff

As a beginner poker player you have learned the basic poker rules, which included poker betting.  Now it’s time to advance your play with some basic tips to success in Pot Limit Omaha (PLO).

1.  Be selective with starting hands.  Premium starting hands in PLO are hands that have combinations.  Since you must use two of the four hole cards you receive, you have 6 possible combinations.  While top pairs will give you a good starting hand, in PLO they are not a premium starting hand.  A premium starting hand in PLO contains connectors and suited cards.

2.  In Omaha the winning hand is generally the nuts.  As such, it is not good strategy to play drawing hands that will not give you the nuts. 

3.  The goal of your game is to maximize profit.  In PLO, like other variations, there are two ways to maximize profit. 

A.  First, you want to extract the greatest amount of chips from your opponent when you hold the best hand.  This is accomplished with a value bet.  A value bet is an amount you believe your opponent is willing to stake with their hand.

B.  Secondly, you want to minimize loss.  This requires that you do not invest your chips with the second best hand hoping it is good enough.  The best strategy is to get out of hands when you know you are beat.

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