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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Sky Matsuhashi |Robbie Strazynski |Santiago Garcia Mansilla
Showdowns are where you learn the most about each poker player. If you watched, and can remember, the action of the hand from start to finish, you can replay the hand in your mind and learn a lot about how a player thinks. You see the exact hand they called with preflop, the strength of hand they check-called with on the flop, the hand they check-raised 3x with on the turn and the hand they shoved with on the river.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Santiago Garcia Mansilla |David Huber |Sky Matsuhashi
A new poker documentary called “The Ultimate Stack” was released a few days ago, produced by POKER Films and the World Poker Tour. It lasts 90 minutes and was filmed during the 2023 WPT World Championship, which had a $40M guaranteed prize pool and was played at Wynn Las Vegas. The idea of the poker documentary is simple and original: start with a player in the tournament and follow him with interviews until he is eliminated.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | David Huber |Sky Matsuhashi |Santiago Garcia Mansilla
The WPT Global poker rewards (rakeback) program has arrived for online poker players in select jurisdictions. Between now and December 31st, players can earn up to 40% weekly rakeback just for being designated as a table starter. Read on to find out more about how these incentives can help you build your poker bankroll while playing online at WPT Global.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Sky Matsuhashi |Santiago Garcia Mansilla |Hill Kerby
The four poker plays I’m about to share with you are mostly used when your opponent doesn’t hold much of a hand. Because of this, I often attack these plays with raises. Without any further ado, let’s jump in. 1. Limping Into the PotAggressive poker is winning poker. Limping into the pot is the most passive preflop play somebody can make.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Mike Patrick |Georgina James |Santiago Garcia Mansilla |Sky Matsuhashi
The WPT World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas is just a couple more months away and at ClubWPT it’s crunch time to win your way to the World Poker Tour’s massive year-end spectacle. Plus, with the recent announcement of the ClubWPT Gold $5 Million Invitational Freeroll, ClubWPT is offering nine chances this month to earn a ticket into the largest Freeroll in poker history.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Sky Matsuhashi |Santiago Garcia Mansilla |Ivan Potocki
You can’t play a hand of poker optimally without taking a number of important factors into account. They each add critical information that helps you make killer reads and perfect exploits. Below, I’ll be listing each of these six factors in order of importance. For that reason, you might be surprised at what I place at #6, at the bottom of the list. Without any further ado…1. The PlayerYour opponent is critical and MUST be factored into your decisions.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Santiago Garcia Mansilla |Sky Matsuhashi |Ivan Potocki
Joe Stapleton, a.k.a., “Stapes”, has been in the poker world for almost two decades. He is the host of the popular podcast Poker In The Ears Podcast, a stand-up comedian, TV commentator and Hollywood movie consultant. Now he has added a written medium with the publication of the poker comic called Trapped, which Joe wrote together with Neil Gibson. According to Joe, Trapped can be described as a mix of Rounders, Deadpool and House of Games with a love of poker.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Jonathan Coffman |Sky Matsuhashi |Santiago Garcia Mansilla
Ed. note: This is the tenth and final article in a series designed to help recreational tournament poker players build their hobby into a profitable endeavor. Heads-up poker, the final stage of multi table tournaments, often gets overshadowed by the complexities of deepstack play and ICM . Many players shrug off the significance of heads-up, noting that you rarely get there and your overall poker skills should suffice when you do. But that oversight can be costly.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Sky Matsuhashi |Jonathan Coffman |Santiago Garcia Mansilla
A new student started with me last week, and the first thing I always do is I take a look at their statistics and win rates. It was evident right away that the leading factor in his losses was his preflop calling. Filtering for calling preflop 2bets in PokerTracker 4 across all positions showed a losing win rate of -223BB/100 hands. This means, on average, every hand he called cost him 2.23BBs.This is a huge (and common) poker leak!And when calling preflop 3bets? -467BB/100 hands. Another huge leak.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
cardplayerlifestyle.com | Robbie Strazynski |Sky Matsuhashi |Santiago Garcia Mansilla
The 2024 WPT Prime Cyprus Festival has officially kicked off, and in just under a week, I’ll be heading there to cover the festivities for Cardplayer Lifestyle. With a full schedule of events already previewed, there are a few standout aspects of the festival that I’m particularly excited about experiencing. From the luxury of the hosting venue to the thrill of the championship event as well as off-the-felt adventures to be had, here are five things I’m eagerly anticipating. 1.
