Action Dan Poker

All the money goes in on the turn – excellent play by Teh Jinx, obviously.

It’s good to see players make big mistakes with “just” top pair in Heads-Up poker.

… he would have won the 2001 World Series of Poker against Carlos Mortensen.

What have we learned today? ONLY PLAY THE NUTS, KIDS!

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Even though short term gains are possible in the form of winning pots in individual rounds, if you want to make a considerable gain out of playing the game, you will have to learn the importance of exerting control over your psyche and harnessing all energy such that you never lose sight of the goal as a result of minor obstacles. Discipline, self-control and restraint are the three most important characteristics any poker player must learnt to inculcate in order to overcome the wide variety of problems that can come in the way during the course of the game.

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Me, a bed, Vanessa Rousso and Kimberly Lansing.

F*CK YES!

LOL funny stuff. Phil Ivey being his “MAN I’M RICH FOOL”-self against Doyle Brunson who apparently is trying to chicken out of a losing sidebet.

Phil is the man, isn’t he?

Action Dan Conquering what looks like an Audi TT M2.

Facebook is catching up with the Action Dan Hype.

Good stuff.

Via Facebook.

He slowplayed the nuts pre-flop, but does make the painful laydown on the flop. World class durrrr!

You may go for a bluff when you have read all the signs and see that all other players have weaker hands. It can also be done if you are in the late position and you think your cards are far superior than what others are holding. Sometimes playing bluff on one on one games has good winning potentials.

The worst time to bluff is when your playing with strong players who are unlikely to fold. A bluff will also be useless if the other player bullies the table with his tons of chips. It will also be bit hard to read and execute a bluff I there are still too many players in the hand.

First of all – Action Dan Poker is not about Dan Harrington. I know it’s his nickname — but Action Dan refers to the legendary hand 10-3 (preferrably off suit) that’s seen as the absolute pre-flop nuts in No Limit Hold’em by expert players all around the world who understand Aces are way too easily crackable.

Action Dan plays more subtle — allows for easier mucks when it happens to get outdrawn, and basicly has the same nutty taste as the aces.

Playing Action Dan requires skill, experience and cojones.

For a nice archive on playing Action Dan in online poker – check out Teh Jinx Poker’s Action Dan archives.

We’ll have more soon – and more general poker strategy and info too! Stay tuned!