The decision to start playing small ball poker and integrating it into an overall adaptive poker strategy is a change players on all levels are making.  The style of play now known as ‘small ball’ has probably been in circulation as long as poker has.  However, its recognition and emergence as a profitable form of play has been assisted through it’s adoption by poker pro Daniel Negreanu, the man also responsible for the styles current moniker.  For those of us who have suffered one too many bad beats at the business end of a massive pot, it seems there might be some pretty tempting reasons to implement small ball poker into our playing repertoire.  Read the rest of this entry

This PokerVT review (aka Poker Virtual Training) focuses on a new online poker training site which is the brainchild of much revered poker pro Daniel Negreanu.  Kid Poker has developed an intentionally unique method of poker training, which sees some of the top pro’s from both the real and virtual felt joining forces to provide an insightful yet practical approach to turning average players into profitable ones.  

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Following on from an earlier video, this is another example of Daniel Negreanu’s ability to analyse a hand, read his opponents, and make plays accordingly. His ability to reconstruct a hand is something of an artform. If you haven’t already, check out his blog. You’ll see him discussing hands he played days ago, and will be able to tell you exactly the amount of the pot, the cards, how the play went, and why it was interesting. It’s a brilliant insight into the mind of such a kick ass player. This is another example of Negreanu ‘doing his thing’ at the WSOP.

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Daniel Negreanu is something of a freak when it comes to reading poker.  In fact, some of the time we’d be forgiven for thinking that we the public trust Daniel’s reads better than Daniel does, given his tendency to tell opponents the exact cards they have, confirm that they have him beat, and then call anyway.  This video isn’t an example of that, but it is just one of many examples of Negreanu’s uncanny ability to know exactly where he is in a hand. 

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