Firstly I’d like to welcome the people who will (hopefully) be my loyal readers throughout my time here at PokerEagles. If you’re reading this after a Google search or some such that led you straight to this page I strongly encourage you to sign up to the forums here and peruse the tons of other articles and information on this site.

This blog will run a minimum of once a week every Wednesday, with another post from my esteemed colleague on Saturdays. I’ll be discussing poker events, poker strategy and reviews of poker books, websites and everything else under this gambling sun.

This week’s post is about broadening your horizons (and I apologise for my extended solar metaphor) with regards to your poker playing. I’d say it’s a fairly safe guess to assume the majority of the people on this website play NLHE almost exclusively, however this is definitely a mistake. Even if you’re a NLHE God then to deny yourself the experience of other poker games is idiotic. Limit Hold ‘em might be boring for a no limit player but it will teach you the intricacies of post-flop play better than NL ever can. Omaha will teach you the value of pot control and playing the nuts, and Stud the ability to read your opponents hand and gaining free cards. Even Razz, a game considered a joke by a lot of players, is a valuable tool in a player’s arsenal – and it’s fun too. Stud, Draw, Chicago, Pineapple, Irish… there are so many forms of poker out there for you to play that you’re making a mistake to restrict yourself to one.

PokerEagles has forums for all kinds of poker, and while at the moment they’re not the busiest, soon they will be, what with all the work Nima is putting in to this site. So stick around, sign up for the RSS Feed, join the forums – and leave that hold ‘em table.

FYI - Jn5EE is five-card draw where Jacks and Fives are wild and there are rounds of betting after the draw where players show down their cards one at a time and bet on each one.

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