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Searchable Hand Database This month, we're highlighting another of our handy tools that you may have missed before. It's a great learning aid featuring a wealth of information at your fingertips. With nearly a million hands to analyze, our Searchable Hand Database offers you the unique ability to gather real poker hands that people have converted and study how they were played. Finding the exact scenario you're looking for is made easy with a multitude of search options. You can learn players' tendencies from certain positions or with specific hands. How often are people protecting their blinds at the stakes you play? What is the game like at PokerStars versus Full Tilt? Check it out now and start improving your game today! Poker Psychology Articles We have recently added a new category to our Poker Articles library. As with all of our poker strategy guides and essays, those in this new Poker Psychology section are written exclusively for us by your fellow FTR poker community members! The psychological aspects of playing poker can be challenging to master. Sound strategy is obviously important, but the best players also develop sound minds to handle any situation that may come their way. These essays will help you strengthen this part of your game. We will be continually adding more articles here, so check back often. Foreign Language Forum | Foro de idiomas extranjeros 
With its continued popularity, our poker forum has recently seen more international members join our community seeking to learn from us and improve their game. To support this growing group of multi-lingual poker players, we have added a new forum: Global Village. If you wish to discuss poker in any language other than English, please visit this forum and start posting. Members speaking your language are here and waiting to talk poker with you! Con su continua popularidad, nuestro foro de póker se ha visto cada vez mas con miembros internacionales que se unen para aprender de nosotros y mejorar su juego. Para apoyar a este creciente grupo de jugadores de póker multi-lingüe, hemos añadido un nuevo foro: Global Village. Si deseas discutir póker en cualquier idioma que no sea Ingles, por favor visita el foro y comienza a postear. ¡Los miembros que hablan tu idioma están aquí, esperando a discutir de póker contigo! Mit steigender Beliebtheit hat unser Forum mehr und mehr internationale Mitglieder gewonnen, die von uns lernen und ihr Spiel verbessern. Um dieser wachsenden Gruppe von internationalen Spielern entgegenzukommen, haben wir jetzt ein neues Forum: Global Village. Wenn Ihr über Poker in einer anderen Sprache als Englisch diskutieren möchtet, dass besucht das Forum und fangt an zu posten. Wir haben Mitglieder in jeder eurer Sprachen die darauf warten mit Euch zu schreiben! Poker Talk Forum Fanatic: Let's Talk About Open-Limping the SB 
mcatdog invites members to discuss the dynamics of open-limping from the small blind with this opening post.Most people don't defend their BB nearly enough facing a raise from the SB. Against someone with a wide range, in position, getting a discount and closing the action, you should defend even more hands than you think you should. If someone folds too much in the BB, I just raise anything I want to play in the SB, but against tough players I've started open limping a lot. The reason is I think even hands as strong as A9o, JTo, 56s etc. may not be strong enough to open-raise profitably against a good player. Instead of just giving people 80% walks though, I like to open-limp some hands. Many people's first reaction is to assume I am a weak player and raise with ATC, which isn't a bad thing at all for me as long I mix in some limp-calls and limp-reraises with strong hands and some limp-reraise bluffs. Click here to read more from this topic. Poker News: SC Judge Again Declares Poker a Game of Skill, Not Chance 
PPA Press Release – Washington, DC (October 2, 2009) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide (nearly 10,000 in South Carolina), today lauded the ruling of a South Carolina court that confirmed that poker is a game of skill, and thus should not be considered gambling under the law.“Poker is not a crime in South Carolina or anywhere else, and we are grateful to the court for compiling the overwhelming evidence that proves this case and protects the rights of players,” said John Pappas, executive director of the PPA. “This ruling is fully consistent with the declarations of other judges and juries across the country that Texas Hold’em is clearly a game of predominant skill and adults who play should not be criminalized.” Click here to read more of this news. Poker Article: Mindset, Technique and Money Management 
In this excerpt, Carl "The Dean" Sampson begins to explain what a poker player can learn from the business of Wall Street.I am going to reveal something that I think is of immense use to any poker player. While it is critical to know how to play the game well, this is only a tiny part of being a successful poker player. Playing poker has so many similarities to financial trading that it really is quite spooky. Some of the most valuable pieces of information with regard to me improving my poker game have come from reading financial books either on trading or the stockmarket. As you begin to educate yourself in this subject, you will constantly be reminded of these three little areas that have to be mastered in order to make money, not just on trading, but in poker too. There really is no mystique to making money in poker. You need to get your mindset, technique and money management areas sorted. Click here to read more from this article. Or click here to submit your own thoughts on a poker topic and you may get published in our Poker Articles library! Poker Dictionary: Blocking Bet 
A bet made that is relatively small in order to prevent your opponent from betting too much if you check and used for pot-control to keep the pot smaller. Players use a blocking bet in various situations like trying to draw at a flush or a straight cheaply or just keeping the pot small when you only have a one-pair type of hand.Example: The flush draw on the turn was perfect for me to use a blocking bet so I could draw cheaply and perhaps get a free showdown on the river. Click here to read more from our Poker Dictionary or to add your own poker phrase or term. Exclusive Monthly Events All of our regular monthly private tournaments are listed below. Money-Added Tournaments are open to all registered FTR forum members. Extra money is added to the prize pool in each of these low buy-in tournaments. Qualified Member Freerolls are open to FTR forum regulars that meet certain criteria. Direct Sign-Up Freerolls are open to anyone who signs up to the poker room via FlopTurnRiver.com. 
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