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Poker books go into great detail discussing the various strategies necessary to get to the final table of a tournament. However, not as much has been written about final table playing strategy.
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The tournament culminated in a live, three table grand finale featuring 27 determined poker players all vying for their own piece of a $2.5 million prize pool. After 16 hours of intense poker action, Nagel and his final US opponent, Jerry Watterson of Jacksonville, FL, had virtually even stacks when heads up play started. In the third hand, Nagel was able to topple his opponent and take the stack of one million dollars in cash positioned in the center of the felt.
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — (PRESS RELEASE) — SpadeClub, a groundbreaking poker community, awarded its first $40,000 monthly tournament winner on March 2, 2008. The first-place winner cashed out for $10,000. SpadeClub establishes one of the premier social networking systems for online poker players, offering tools to improve poker skills, and awards more than $100,000 in cash prizes each month.
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At the final table of a poker tournament, you must base your choices on how your opponents are playing -- in other words, what they're giving you. If the table is playing passively, and everyone is waiting for others to get knocked out, that's your cue to drive the lane and play aggressively.
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