Poker Blog

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Welcome to our poker blog. As some of you may know, we started out our first website as just an online poker forum. We then built a little website around that but then switched our focus to the online casino world where our real passion lay and thus Slots Guide & Yes No Casino was born! The poker forum is still alive and kicking and soon we are going to be merging the two websites into one which will allow us to concentrate our focus rather than spreading our resources too thinly.

On our poker forum though we have a large core of loyal, regular and dedicated players, some of whom have actually started their own blogs. We are going to be showcasing those blogs here in this poker blog section, though our most active poker blogger, Tom, is going to be getting his very own separate blog as it is fast becoming an epic monster blog which deserves it’s own dedicated separate section!

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Zoom, Life, Balance

Alright guys, it’s been a while since the previous post but I’ve been grinding for the most part. So far for “the month” (inverted commas since it includes last few days of September) I have 28k hands. Again results are only at the end of the month so you’ll have […]

Team Liquid at PokerStars

Leading professional eSports team, Team Liquid, have joined forces with PokerStars to hone their skills at the world’s largest poker site! Are you ready to challenge them? The global eSports organisation is one of the most feared in the industry, and over the coming weeks and months, Team Liquid will […]

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iPoker Network Re-vamp

Tournament poker is one of the most exciting formats of the game, which is why every online poker site worth their salt has an extensive tournament schedule. Players who frequent the sites on the busy iPoker Network have seen extensive changes to the tournament schedule there, including revamped structures, and […]

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WCOOP 2016

The WCOOP (World Championships of Online Poker), which made its debut in 2002, will feature a record 82 events this year, a marked increase over the 70 on the 2015 schedule. It begins Sunday, Sept. 4 and ends Monday, Sept. 26. New and returning events include a four-day “marathon”, three-max […]

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Wednesday – My Life

So this post was meant to include my Trip Report (Wednesday Post) but instead something happened today which I feel is more important to address. I mean this blog is called “My Life” so it’s only fair talk about the ups and downs of everything. So for those of you […]

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Summer challenge

So for those of you that don’t know from the 30th June I’ve decided to do an MTTSNG challenge in which I plan to play 3k MTTSNGS from that point up to September 30th. So far I’m getting in a fair amount of games, starting to know the regs, I’ve […]

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Poker session planning

So today I thought I’d talk about something I haven’t heard many people on this forum (let alone in the MTT community) bring up. I’m sure a lot of you play relatively consistently, I’m sure lots of you play long sessions (Sunday being a prime example), I’m sure lot’s of […]

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101 Deep Run

So I had a deep run in a hyper as of late and thought it would be cool to review some hands from it which I found interesting. Feel free to comment and let me know what you’re thinking.   So here I open a7o 4 handed. Whilst everyone has […]

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Scoop in session

So the first day of SCOOP for me was yesterday (next time I’m playing is actually on Saturday so quite a while away) and I thought it would be cool to review some hands on here with semi-interesting spots. http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/19055230_1C679E3A02 ^ I open QQ in EP to 2.5x. The 3 […]

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Scoop update

So I feel like giving you guys a pre SCOOP update on how the past few weeks have been for me and what my plans are for the forseeable future alongside a general chat about where I’m at currently. So since the month and a bit since I last posted […]

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TCOOP 2016

Turbo Championship Of Online Poker 2016 Here is the tentative schedule for TCOOP 2016… Final schedule yet to be confirmed Thursday, 21 January 2016 10:00 ET — Event 01: $27 NL Hold’em [6-Max, Turbo, Final Phase 2] 14:00 ET — Event 02: $82 NL Omaha H/L [6-Max, Turbo] 16:00 ET […]

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Happy Birthday Staking 101

Happy Birthday Staking101 – $200 added main lobby stars tourney Very excited as Staking101’s first birthday approaches, to launch our first tournament in the main PokerStars Lobby!!! This tournament is password protected, and is for registered and activated Staking101 members only!!! The password can only be retrieved from myself (Staceyb) or […]

Bounty Builders

Bounty Builders is a series of exciting Progressive Knockout tournaments running daily, each with a guaranteed prize pool. In addition to cash prizes, many tourneys on the schedule also award tickets to the Battle Royale on Wednesdays, where the regular $109 tourney guarantee of $40,000 gets bumped up to a […]

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RunItUp Reno

Run It UP! Reno hosted by Jason Somerville is just around the corner. The six-day festival will take place Oct. 20-25 at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, Nevada, but it plans to be much more than just your run-of-the-mill poker tournament series. Events on and off the felt […]

WCOOP 2015

World Championship Of Online Poker 2015 The World Championship of Online Poker is the most prestigious poker tournament series anywhere online. Each year, thousands of players compete for the biggest tournament prize pools in online poker – including the $10,000,000 guaranteed Main Event – and the chance to call themselves […]

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PokerStars Common Cents

PokerStars Common Cents Tournaments PokerStars is launching a brand new series of tournaments called Common Cents… The first one of which will be on October 5th and the buy-in will be $0.01 only!!!! Capped at 200,000 players and with a prize pool of $100,000 this is one not to be […]

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Felipe “Mojave” Ramos

This summer, Brazil’s Felipe “Mojave” Ramos made a deep run in the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event. His run was made all the more special when football superstar Neymar Jr. stopped by to cheer on his friend. Ramos finished in 136th place for $46,890. Things got even better […]

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Poker Software

Poker software is becoming more and more crucial for the serious online poker player. The average online poker player is getting better and better and poker training software as well as poker tracking software is now a crucial element in any players armoury. Having the right poker software available and […]

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Poker Podcast

We have been very lucky to have permission from Jared Tendler to post his poker podcasts on our site. They vary in content and a lot are with PokerStars Pros! Hope you enjoy them. Very soon, our very own king of the poker blogs, Tom will be starting his own […]

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Poker Live Stream

We have a lot of poker forum members who make their live poker streams available. In order for us to list you here you will need to provide us with a good description of yourself, your experience and what you are making available along with any relevant contact details and […]