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At December I wrote about customized playing cards with Poker Evolver logo. The decks arrived couple of weeks ago so the delivery time was not very long. Here’s some thoughts about the cards.

It was a nice surprise when opening the package that the card cases had also custom image printed on them. You can see this from the photo above. (I’m sorry about the bad quality of the images, it was not my fault ).

The cards itself are coated paper cards ( I didn’t even expect plastic cards ). The quality of them is pretty standard. The cards are fine when you are playing home games with your friends. For more serious live games you should consider 100% plastic playing cards.

There is actually nothing very surprising about the cards. The quality is ok and so is delivery time (even to Europe). I think that customized playing cards would be probably a great gift to almost anyone since you can use whatever image or photo you like.

Customized playing cards can be designed at Custom Poker Cards

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Matti
Poker Evolver - Poker Tracking Tool

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Party Poker uses wrong rules at heads up situation

I was testing some Party Poker hand histories that were sent to us because Poker Evolver was not able to import them correctly. I noticed that those were all heads up hands which had problems.

The reason why Poker Evolver had problems interpreting the hands, is that in the heads up situation the player on the button gets Big Blind! Yes, that’s true, at least on the cash games. And it is definitely wrong. It is said in the Bob Ciaffone’s Rules Of Poker: “In heads-up play with two blinds, the small blind is on the button.” I haven’t played much at Party so I haven’t ever realized this before.

How should I adapt to these rules?

These rules gives a huge edge for the player on the button because he/she can act last on the pre-flop as well as on the flop. Having position is very important at heads up so you should play more hands than usual from the button and less hands when you don’t have the button.

A screenshot of a heads up situation at Party Poker above.

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Matti
Poker Evolver Team

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Everyone in the Poker Evolver team wishes you happy holiday season!

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I found that it’s possible to order customized playing cards without ordering hundreds of decks. Of course I had to try it out and I ordered couple of Poker Evolver decks The result can be seen in the video below.

I will report about the quality of cards after I get the decks.

Cards can be designed at: Custom Poker Cards  

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Matti
Poker Evolver Team

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Poker Evolver team will give another license for free as a christmas gift if you purchase Poker Evolver before the christmas.

On the purchase page of Poker Evolver you can now enter an another e-mail address. The gift license will be sent to that address at 23th of December with wishes you can write. So why not to give a little different gift for your friend at this year?

Click here to get two poker tool licenses for the price of one

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An amateur player ’wdom’ has an interesting challenge. He tries to increase his bankroll from $50 to $5000 by playing Texas Hold’em using bankroll management rules of Chris Ferguson.
He has already played about 15k hands and has increased his bankroll to $160.
You can check how he is doing from his blog which is updated once a week.

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New version is out with 3-bet features, enjoy and gain the edge. And the next version is already under development of course

For those who do not own Poker Evolver yet, there is now a great way to get it for free. Click here for more information.

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There’s an interesting video on Card Player’s site where you can see how it looks like in the home of the legendary Doyle Brunson. Video can be found here.

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