"Internet Texas Holdem" (ITH) 1st Anniversary
Again, appologies for the lack of recent posts. We still haven't got internet installed after our recent move.
As you may have gathered from the title of this post, today is the 1st Anniversary of www.internettexasholdem.com. I can't recommend this site strongly enough and for those of you who read my blog regularly and have not yet had a browse on this site, then shame on you!
The first poker book I bought, after a couple of days of fooling around on the 'play-money' tables, was "Internet Texas Holdem - Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro" by Matthew Hilger. This is an excellent book. He also set up ITH, the website, as a means of being able to answer questions about his book and as a forum for internet poker players. Over the last year the site has grown massively and yet it has still been able to maintain its incredible community and friendly atmosphere that is not even come close to by other poker forums (ahem: 2+2). The atmosphere aside, there are some extreemly expeirinced and talented players that regularly post on the site, offering strategy, hand examples, critique, and some great stories, including Matthew himself. There is enough information on that site alone for one to be able to become an extreemly acomplished poker player. If all this wasn't enough of a reason to visit the site, you can get his book for free by following various links on his site and opening a poker account at one of various online poker sites!
A recently added post on the forum(click here), looks back at one year of ITH.
My favorite post of all time is the one about "The Super-Duper System". For those of you less in the know, "Super System" by Doyle Brunson was one of the first really insightful books written by a poker professional and allowed many merely good players to become very sucessful professionals and paved the ways for many more intsructive poker books. For those of you who have played a bit of poker (especially internet poker), you will be familiar with some of the horrendous plays made by inexperienced players who then get horribly lucky to beat you on the last card. The Super-Duper System is a brief poker mannual for these kind of players. Even now when I read it, I end up in floods of tears.
Tonight, there is a huge tournament being held on Paradise Poker for active forum members of ITH. Because of our lack of internet at home and the firewall on the college network I've been running around like a headless chicken trying to find some way of being able to play in the tournament tonight. After trecking round most of the internet cafes in oxford which all close to early, I manged to install the software on one of the computers in the Graduate Common Room in college, which doesn't appear to be as fiercly protected as those in the undergrad room!
I'll let you know in due course how I do in tonight's tournament and I promise a full update on my last two month's poker exploits really soon (there's sure pleanty to tell!). In the meatime peaceout and roll with those badbeats!
As you may have gathered from the title of this post, today is the 1st Anniversary of www.internettexasholdem.com. I can't recommend this site strongly enough and for those of you who read my blog regularly and have not yet had a browse on this site, then shame on you!
The first poker book I bought, after a couple of days of fooling around on the 'play-money' tables, was "Internet Texas Holdem - Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro" by Matthew Hilger. This is an excellent book. He also set up ITH, the website, as a means of being able to answer questions about his book and as a forum for internet poker players. Over the last year the site has grown massively and yet it has still been able to maintain its incredible community and friendly atmosphere that is not even come close to by other poker forums (ahem: 2+2). The atmosphere aside, there are some extreemly expeirinced and talented players that regularly post on the site, offering strategy, hand examples, critique, and some great stories, including Matthew himself. There is enough information on that site alone for one to be able to become an extreemly acomplished poker player. If all this wasn't enough of a reason to visit the site, you can get his book for free by following various links on his site and opening a poker account at one of various online poker sites!
A recently added post on the forum(click here), looks back at one year of ITH.
My favorite post of all time is the one about "The Super-Duper System". For those of you less in the know, "Super System" by Doyle Brunson was one of the first really insightful books written by a poker professional and allowed many merely good players to become very sucessful professionals and paved the ways for many more intsructive poker books. For those of you who have played a bit of poker (especially internet poker), you will be familiar with some of the horrendous plays made by inexperienced players who then get horribly lucky to beat you on the last card. The Super-Duper System is a brief poker mannual for these kind of players. Even now when I read it, I end up in floods of tears.
Tonight, there is a huge tournament being held on Paradise Poker for active forum members of ITH. Because of our lack of internet at home and the firewall on the college network I've been running around like a headless chicken trying to find some way of being able to play in the tournament tonight. After trecking round most of the internet cafes in oxford which all close to early, I manged to install the software on one of the computers in the Graduate Common Room in college, which doesn't appear to be as fiercly protected as those in the undergrad room!
I'll let you know in due course how I do in tonight's tournament and I promise a full update on my last two month's poker exploits really soon (there's sure pleanty to tell!). In the meatime peaceout and roll with those badbeats!
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