November 2011

  • November 2011
  • 56 Cover story – Eoghan O’Dea: Meet the son of Donnacha and the great Irish hope
    Features
    30 November Nine Profiles: “There can be only one!”
    26 Beer and Roving in Las Vegas: A boy’s guide to Sin City
    44 EPT London: A look at the phenom that is Benny Spindler
    46 King of the Spinners: The most heroic spin-ups of all time
    Buzz
    6 Newswire: Rolling poker news from around the globe
    10 The Beat: With Neil “Bad Beat” Channing
    12 Big Deal: Nick Wealthall watches Harry Potter backwards
    14 Being Phil Laak: Random musings from the Unabomber
    16 Cashing Out: All the best poker apps
    18 Online Report: Snoopy looks at the Full Tilt scandal
    22 BEST Rankings: Who’s hot?
    28 Raw Power: Nicky Power reports from the Irish scene
    42 Diamonds and Clubs: John Tabatabai on the highs and lows of the poker lifestyle
    50 The Ogmore Poker Tour: Thrills and spills from the Tondu Festival
    52 Road Gambler: Charles Harrelson – poker player, cheater, hired assassin
    54 Grassroots: Supporting poker in the community
    64 J Tilly: Jennifer heads to Cannes
    66 Scottish Poker Championships: Sparks fly north of the border
    68 GUKPT: Julian Thew becomes first ever triple champion
    70 Poker in the Park Hall of Fame: All the winners from the world’s greatest free poker festival
    Poker Academy
    72 Pickleman: Why Full Tilt was not a Ponzi scheme
    74 Jeff Kimber: Jeff uses his love of TV poker to trick The Magician
    76 PokerPal: Get your hand histories analysed for free!
    78 Cardrunners: When to bluff the river
    80 Ask the Pro: Lee Davy continues his poker education
    82 The Maven: Punishing the limpers
    84 Alex Fitzgerald: Learn to size your bets
    88 Bluff Europe’s Sports Centre: Our picks for the tennis
    90 Live Scene: Poker games near you
    96 Card Gang: Check out our latest freeroll

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This is the seventh part of a coaching series featuring Bluefirepoker coach Alan Jackson, the goal of which to create a roadmap that gives amateur poker players the greatest chance for success when trying to take their games to the next level. In the last article we discussed betting the turn and this time we discuss calling the turn.

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“I’ll be really disappointed if I come ninth, especially since I’m bringing 50 or 60 people with me – that would be an anti-climax. We’ve been given ninth-place money, so it would be like getting nothing.”

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First it was the headline about November Niner Sam Holden in The Sun: “Jobless Brit eyes £5m poker prize”. At the time, we all thought it was funny. Those silly people, they just don’t get it. Sam Holden isn’t jobless – he’s a pro poker player! It should have been a wake-up call for us. Those silly people have some control over what we do, and they’ve been flexing their talons for some time now.

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Everyone loves a good spin-up story – a death-defying tightrope walk which, for a few hours or days – or years, in some cases – cheats variance and flies in the face of everything we try tell our readers about good bankroll management. Let’s face it; no one can resist a spot of impetuous, reckless heroism, whether it’s by impudently defying the house edge or just sheer common sense. So, from busto to robusto in as little time as possible, here are our favourite spin-up heroes…