Category Archives: Gambling

Shove against a maniac in $5-$!0 NLH

6-handed loose aggressive table with 100 bbs effective. Maniac Utg opens 5bbs next player three bets to 16 bbs. CO calls and Hero in SB shoves with QsQh. Three bettor folds and 3 players. Flop comes A 9 5. Utg villain shows A8o while the CO shows 33. I’ll make $$$ on these palookas but just not today! 😡

Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov

As you probably already heard, Mikhal Shalamov left the pokerstars team. He worked with PokerStars for 10 years, but now he decided to change his comfort zone.

Do you think he will become an ambassador for another poker room like GGPokeroK or some other?

5 Common Mistakes When Dropping Down in Stakes (And 5 Ways to Correct Them)

Good players sometimes run bad. It’s the nature of this mercurial game. You can be crushing it for months and then go on a long losing streak for no apparent reason. I know. I’ve been there.

Big money on the table. (Image: Reddit)

Just about everyone agrees that if extended downswings put a significant dent in your bankroll, you should consider playing in a smaller game so that you can recover your losses and then move back up to your regular game. That’s the plan. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way.

I’ve noticed that otherwise good players sometimes have a problem realizing that goal. For many reasons, players dropping down in stakes sometimes make one of five key errors when they do so. These errors would be bad under any circumstances, but when they’re made on a depleted bankroll after a long period of running badly, they can spell doom. So, let me first identify the five problems, and then show you five ways to fix them.

Frustrated Negreanu Melts Down After Another Loss, Chances of Winning Shrink (VIDEO)

Daniel Negreanu expressed frustration with the distribution of cards on the WSOP.com poker site following Monday’s losing session against Doug Polk.

Daniel Negreanu melted down after yet another losing session against Doug Polk. (Image: YouTube)

Day 29 was arguably the wildest session of them all. And that says something considering the intense back and forth nature of Day 28 on Friday. For quite some time, both players had over $120,000 on each of the two tables, the first time that has occurred.

Given the stack sizes that had accumulated throughout the session, Negreanu had perhaps his best opportunity to put a serious dent in Polk’s grudge match lead. But he squandered that chance, and he believes luck was a major contributing factor.

Headlines Hurt: Concern Grows as Media Push for Tougher UK Gambling Regulations

Parts of the British media have taken a momentary break from sensationalizing COVID-19 to take aim at the gambling industry.

Gamblers in the UK are concerned that media scare stories may negatively impact the industry ahead of legislative changes. (Image: The Times)

As the UK government prepares to update its national Gambling Act, voices from both sides are starting to have their say. However, one side of the debate is currently drowning out the other, according to some members of the community.

The Times newspaper recently led with the headline “We lost £11.8 Million: It’s time to make the betting industry pay.” Horse racing enthusiast Jason Brautigam believes this article could harm the UK gambling industry.