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Many online poker rooms would be perfectly content to send the weak, innocent and untaught poker players that visit their site right into competitions.

Aztec Riches Poker, is definitely not one of those poker rooms. As a matter of fact, they train the members to the best of their ability, it members so desire.Aztec Riches Poker School, makes an honest effort at keeping its players informed and providing all active players with good, solid and competitive games via their service.

PKR Poker recently signed a deal with Bluefire Poker, one of the leading online poker training resources.

Bluefire is owned by the high stakes legend and WSOP bracelet winner Phil Galfond. The site uses instructional video tutorials to help players learn all sorts of different poker strategies. Through this new deal, PKR Poker is going to start featuring selected articles by Phil Galfond himself in the website’s Raise Your Game section.

PKR Poker overhauled their whole website last month, and the upgrade included the addition of some great new features.

One of the most exciting parts of the new PKR website is the Raise Your Game section, which is a collection of poker articles, tips, and strategies to help players hone their poker skills.This Raise Your Game section is continuously updated with about 15 new articles every week. They are all written by professional poker experts, who are all willing to share their knowledge and secrets. 

I’ve been playing poker for 23 years, and one thing I can say about my play with great pride is that I never steam.

In fact, that’s true of a lot of pros. In general, the more experienced a player is, the less likely he or she is to have a steam factor.But because your opponents might not realize that you don’t go on tilt, one of the most profitable plays in poker is the "fake steam". 

In the second week of the 2004 Series, I just missed a final table, finishing eleventh in a $2,000 Limit Hold’em event.

Daniel (Negreanu) went on to win that tournament for his third bracelet. What I remember most about that tournament was a hand that came up about eight hours into Day One. "Syracuse Chris" Tsiprailidis had pocket queens, Cecilia Reyes Mortensen was dealt pocket kings, and I looked down at two aces.

The key to succeeding in tournament play is being able to handle the ups and downs, because it's not always going to go perfectly.

Your chip stack is not always going to shoot upwards, which means you'll often need to make good decisions when you don't have a lot of chips.Many players get frustrated when they have a short stack. They look down and see Ace-rag, King-Queen, King-Jack or some similar hand and they just focus on their own cards instead of seeing the whole picture.

In my last tip, I talked about the necessity of loosening up your pre-flop game, especially in the late stages of a tournament.

This week, I'm going to provide you with some more specific examples of the kinds of hands you may want to play when you are under the gun or on the button, and the ways you may want to play them as you get closer to the money.

Knowing what to do and when to do it is what separates those who just play in tournaments from those who make final tables.

This is especially true in No-Limit Hold 'em, where the first decisions you're faced with are what hands you should play and when you should play them. As the blinds get bigger and antes come in to play, these decisions become even more crucial. In these situations, one of the most critical errors that people make is not varying their pre-flop strategy enough.

In poker, image matters.

Throughout a tournament, your table image will help determine how much action you'll get and, ultimately, how you can manipulate your opponents into making big calls or big laydowns at the wrong times. While establishing a loose, aggressive image early on can help build your initial chip stack, I believe it's important to develop a tight table image in the later stages of a tournament because it gives you the ability to maneuver at the times when the chips matter most.

If you want to become a complete poker player, you need to learn how to play all the variations of the game.

You should do this because it’s no good being the world’s best Hold ’em player when the biggest sucker in town only wants to play Seven-Card Stud. Ideally, you want to be able to play whatever game looks to be the most profitable on any given day.

Most of the time when you’re engaged in a poker hand, you’ll be thinking about what decisions you will make before you have to make them.

For example, if you call a raise with K-Q, you’ll think to yourself: Okay, if I hit top pair, I’m going to play this hand. If I have a gut-shot and two over-cards, I’m going to play this hand. If I have an open-ender and two over-cards, I’m going to play this hand.

I'm aware that most poker players know me primarily as a poker commentator on shows like NBC's "Poker After Dark" and "National Heads-Up Poker Championship", but I also happen to be a pretty serious Limit Hold ‘em and mixed game player.

I particularly enjoy HORSE, so I thought I'd give one quick tip on each of the five games to help players who are beginning to explore this challenging format.

Hand coordination is the relative strength of your hand compared to your opponents’ hand, and it’s probably the single biggest factor determining whether you have a good or bad session playing poker.

If it’s working in your favor, whenever you flop a monster, one of your opponents will also make a big hand, just not quite as big as yours. In this situation, playing your hand as fast as possible usually gives you the best chance to make the most money.