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Paris Got It’s Last Poker Club Shut Down

10.10.2018

Live poker in Paris is in crisis. Last week the last of the poker clubs at the capital of France - Clichy-Montmartre – was shut down. What was Clichy-Montmartre famous for and why the biggest club in Europe stopped its operational activity as well as when it is going to host new visitors – let’s try to find the answers to those questions together with PokerDiscover.

What is a Variance in Poker and How to Get Over It

12.06.2018

Getting to know math helps a lot with having a winning game. One is able to be free from working with poker calculators and get nothing in hand ranges, but he can’t deny the fact that basics of poker math are a must-know. Variance is one of the fundamentals of game theory.

What’s more important in poker: luck, talent, or hard work?

07.06.2018

People who are barely familiar with poker think that the ingredients of the win are bluff, skill to read the opponents and blind luck. So what does really matter in poker: luck, talent, or hard work one put’s into it?

How to Find Out Your Opponent Bluffs

11.05.2018

The skill of defining the strength of your opponent’s hand on his/her appearance is one of the necessary weapons in the range of a good player. Understanding of whether your opponent bluffs or shows his strength in reality sometime can be perceived as some sort of magic or demonstration of extrasensory abilities. In reality, the key to understanding opponent’s strength is in being good at observations.

Poker Teaches Courage and Humility

02.05.2018

In poker, you are constantly enduring extreme situations that cause your character to show itself very clearly. Impatient people become even more restless, timid yet defensive, while dominant people become particularly pushy and confident.

Justin Bonomo – is the best player of March 2018 according to PokerDiscover

18.04.2018

First month of spring has come to its end and it’s hightime to select the best offline poker player of the month relying on the results of the biggest latest poker series. It was a pretty hard choice, there were a plenty of vivid poker wins in the poker world. To our subjenctive view an American poker player Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo deserves to lead our top-list the most.

Will the movie "Molly’s Game" become poker classics?

28.03.2018

2017 was marked by the release on the wide screens ot the long-awaited picture “Molly’s Game”. We’ve decided to speculate whether this movie is able to stand in the place of well-known masterpieces of our rating and get its place in our TOP-5.

Choosing the profession: software developer or poker player

26.03.2018

Today we’ve decided to discuss the topic that would be interesting for young people aged 18-20. This is the time when we ask ourselves one of the life questions that matters the most: whom do I want to be? Let’s take a smart guy who’s recently graduated from high school. During his studies at school he was fond of math, visited programming courses and got himself prepared for entering the corresponding college.

Viktor Blom is the player of the month according to PokerDiscover

13.03.2018

Isildur1 got out of online to the world of live people at the series partypoker Millions in Rozvadov and confirmed his top class skill with the win in this tournament.

How to Make a Deal at the Final Table

03.03.2018

Tournament poker is a marathon, and the winner takes the biggest prize in it. On course of tens of hours, players compete hand after a hand. In those rare moments when they manage to get to the final table, the main quality turns out to be not poker, but negotiations skill.

Maria Konnikova: a writer, a psychologist, a PCA tournament winner

01.03.2018

Maria Konnikova has become famous in poker community after winning at PCA National Championship in January, 2018. In the tournament with buy-in of $1,650 this girl managed to outplay 230 opponents, among which were Chris Moorman and Andrei Streltsov. Together with PCA Cup, Maria took home $84.600.

Five best poker movies you have to watch!

16.02.2018

This rating is by no means the main rating out there, this is mere PokerDiscover edition. After watching these five movies you will get a sense of what poker really is and will get some ideas to think on along with big wave of emotions.

How do I tell my relatives that playing poker is normal?

27.01.2018

People who only start playing poker get to the thought that the poker world and the world of other people aren’t similar.

Five stories about poker players who got behind the bars

22.01.2018

Poker players are ordinary people. They also make mistakes at the poker tables and in their everyday life. There are more of those who are trying to get financial success, and sometimes they try to get it using the means that are not lawful. Tens of these cases got poker players to the court. We will tell you about five players who got in jail during recent years.

6 Tips for a Poker Player Girlfriend

10.01.2018

Success in poker depends not just on the skill of the player and the luck he’s got. It is also influenced by his inner atmosphere and the conditions of his surroundings. Girlfriends and wives who go long with poker players are able to create this comfortable environment and help reaching a maximal success. PokerDiscover decided to advise you on how to better understand your man and come to a better understanding of each other.