By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding" Pitt
One of the first acts we perform as an online poker player is choosing the screen name that we will be known as for the rest of our careers; on some sites you can choose an alias, too. For some this is a simple task that requires no thought at all, but your alias and avatar can give off information to your opponents so you should choose yours wisely.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Wed, 12/18/2013 - 15:11
By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding" Pitt
Here at Sit and Go Planet, we are fans of aggressive poker. By aggressive poker we mean we love betting and raising our way to victory, we don’t mean shouting and screaming in the faces of our opponents – although that does happen from time to time.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Wed, 12/11/2013 - 09:44
By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding' Pitt
As a tournament poker player you have two ways that you can measure your results and success in. You can either look at your Return On Investment (ROI) or your hourly earn rate ($/hr). Both are perfectly acceptable yardsticks – in fact a lot of players use a mixture of the two – but aiming to increase one will almost always see the other fall.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Mon, 12/02/2013 - 12:00
By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding" Pitt
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres once said: “You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that’s how it’s spelled.” DeGeneres must have been a micro-stakes poker player to come out with that piece of gold.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Mon, 11/25/2013 - 12:48
Fold. Pass. Muck. Three little words that mean you have given up on your hand and have tossed it back to the dealer, either real or virtual. It is a passive move to make and in a world where aggression is key some will frown upon you for such passivity, but sometimes folding is the best play even if it is one that your do not like to make.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 13:07
By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding" Pitt
Hello? Is anyone here? Good. Then let’s begin. Hands up everyone who has ever banged their fists on the table in frustration as they are outdrawn and lose to some seemingly ridiculous two pair hand. Keep those hands up if you continually blame others for your lack of results. I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but you are probably a bigger donk than those players you are calling a donk.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Mon, 10/28/2013 - 10:37
By Matthew "Yorkshire Pudding" Pitt
In many forms of life, poker included, you often have to speculate in order to accumulate. Putting it in simple poker terms for you fine people out there, you have to take the occasional shot at the big time if you want to make some serious money from this crazy game.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:44
By Matthew 'Yorkshire Pudding' Pitt
It sometimes feels like a month does not go by without a major online poker tournament festival taking place. Acronyms such as SCOOP, TCOOP, WCOOP, FTOPS, MiniFTOPS and MTOPS seem to dominate online poker sites’ offerings to tournament players. I’ve getting FEDUP of seeing them.
Submitted by Planet Mark on Wed, 10/09/2013 - 09:06
