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How To Play Texas Hold Em Poker
Monday, August 31st, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Texas Hold 'Em resembles Seven Card Stud only in that a total of seven cards are dealt out in the end, and that five of the seven cards are used by players to make the best possible hand they can make. But this is where the similarity ends. In Texas Hold 'Em, generally known simply as "Hold Em", all players at the table get two cards face down, which only they can see, but the remaining five cards are dealt out face up, in front of the dealer, and are common cards to all the players in the ...› Continue reading
My Official Cheapskate Guide to Las Vegas
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | News and Society |
TRAVEL- The following is my penny pinchers guide to Las Vegas. The best way to cut your vacation costs is to travel cheap. The cheapest flights are mid-week, Tues & Wednesdays are best. If you are 'self employed (a professional online poker player who sets his own hours)' Go last minute. There are almost always last minute deals to fill those empty seats. So travel midweek and even better travel off-season. This will cut you total vacation expenses down greatly. TRANSPORTATION- When in Vegas ...› Continue reading
What the hell is Texas Hold Em?
Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Thank Texas Hold Em for this huge poker craze that is sweeping the country. This unique kind of poker is responsible for the rise in popularity of poker in the last few years. Perhaps it's because the game is so different than your run of the mill five card draws and seven card studs. Maybe it's because the game is new and fascinating. Or maybe it's simply because people love to gamble and lose money! Whatever the reason, this poker game has a grip on American culture. It's featured in weekly ...› Continue reading
Lucky Texas Holdem Tips
Friday, August 28th, 2009 | News and Society |
Texas holdem poker is one of the few online casino games in which you can actually consistently make money. These lucky texas holdem tips will put you in the driver's seat of most online poker rooms. You can use these lucky Texas holdem tips to gain the advantage at most short handed poker tables. Many poker players believe that luck plays a large part in Texas Holdem Poker, but the truth is, if you're good enough you can win at least one big bet an hour. That means that if you're playing a ...› Continue reading
Holdem Starting Hands
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | News and Society |
Top starting hands should be raised and played aggressively. AA, KK, QQ, AK, JJ, AQ, these hands are most likely to be the best before the flop. By raising and eliminating other players early you reduce the risk of getting outdrawn. These hands will hold up the majority of the time against 2 or 3 opponents. So it is important to reduce the number of opponents you face early by betting strong. Other factors when deciding on how much to bet is your position. If you are first to act then you ...› Continue reading
Live Casino Games are Everywhere!
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Have you noticed lately that live casino games are popping up everywhere? Most people have noticed the WSOP or WPT on television where they show live clips of the players at the tournaments, but I'm talking about the live casino games that you can play directly from your computer and watch on a video stream with a live dealer. Years back, Stanley Ho, the billionaire casino mogul from Macau launched a live casino game suite where you could play blackjack, roulette, or baccarat with live asian ...› Continue reading
The Other World Series
Monday, August 24th, 2009 | News and Society |
Growing up, the American dream for many boys was playing major league baseball and hitting the game winning home run in the final game of the World Series. This dream is usually shattered for most when in their teen years the reality hits, that they're not an athlete and have no chance at a career in professional baseball. There is however another World Series that anyone can participate in. The only requirement is that you're over 21. I'm talking about the World Series Of Poker, which takes ...› Continue reading
How to play Texas Hold em Poker
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- Visit Our main site The Poker Forum Playing poker for real money is fundamentally different compared to playing for play money. The rules may be the same, but the difference is in the way people bet. When winning and losing start making a difference, people are much more considered when they actually put money into the pot. We call this playing 'tighter'. The higher the stakes, the tighter the game. When moving ...› Continue reading
Secure Maximum Lottery Cash With These 5 Top Tips
Friday, August 21st, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Here are five top tips to think of next time you complete your lottery play slip. These suggestions won't enhance your odds of success but they can radically add to the sum you collect if you do win the lottery. These 5 lotto winning tips are focused around avoiding the way a lot of other people pick their numbers. If you choose your numbers using a system that not many other people use, if you should be lucky enough to hit the jackpot you won't have to split it with a huge amount of ...› Continue reading
Texas Hold'em
Friday, August 21st, 2009 | News and Society |
Texas Hold'em has become the most popular variation of Poker currently being featured in the gaming world. Due to the popularity of Poker parties, the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour, more and more people are developing an interest in Poker. Further, the game of Texas Hold'em is of particular interest to gamblers. Texas Hold'em is usually played with several people (usually more than 2 and less than 22). The game begins with the dealer doling out two cards face down, to each ...› Continue reading
The 2007 Pro Poker Season
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | Sports and Fitness |
Who would have thought 10 years ago that such an easy to learn game would become the biggest and most popular table sport in the world? Since it's inception, the world of pro poker has been the fastest growing and most widely played sport in the world. Tournaments are help regularly with top prizes ranging in the millions of dollars, and it's not stopping there. Pro Poker has spawned it's own gaming products, video games, and probably the most important - it's own television specials that take ...› Continue reading
Get Free Money With Poker Bonus Codes
Monday, August 17th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
Have you ever watched the pro's play poker on television and thought to yourself, that looks like fun? Do you hear co-workers talk about all the money they are winning online playing porker and wonder how they do it? What if I told you that you can get free money to play poker online? Do you want free money to use to play poker? Many game rooms offer free money to those players who enter the special code. Some of these bonuses do not even require you to enter the code. They pay you ...› Continue reading
When Knowledge is your downfall
Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
The recent success of the World Poker Tour is really great for the poker world. I don't think anyone can argue the contrary. It's getting more people in the pokerrooms, more players in tournaments and it's sharpening poker's image as a game of skill. There's been a huge amount of poker scenes on television in the last year. Shows like CSI, Line of fire and Las Vegas all had a character say poker is a great game where skill plays an important part. Maybe some day we'll have the same ...› Continue reading
Gus Hansen Opens Online Poker website Pokerchamps.Com
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 | Internet |
Top poker player Gus Hansen ("The Great Dane") has launched an online poker room he has called "PokerChamps". A unique feature of www.pokerchamps.com is that you can play at four hands simultaneously on a single screen. You can select OneScreen, EnlargedScreen, DuoScreen or FourScreen windows. PokerChamps is the only Internet poker room in the world that offers players this facility. In addition, the double World Poker Tour winner gives tips and hints on the website - and frequently plays there ...› Continue reading
How to Play Texas Hold'em
Friday, August 14th, 2009 | News and Society |
Have you ever wanted to learn how to play texas hold'em. This is you chance. It is all free of charge. Simply click the link below, or copy and paste it in to your browser, and it will take you to a site that is instructional on how to play texas hold'em. Learn the step by step; as well as, the more advanced concepts. Learn how to bet effectively. Learn how to judge your opponents hand strength by the bet he makes. Learn how to play your medium strength hand so that you don't end up being ...› Continue reading
The Truth About the World Poker Tour
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
The World Poker Tour is famous for its close up, table level views that show the viewer what each player is hiding in his hole cards. It adds an excitement to viewing poker that's as close to actually playing with thousand dollar hands as possible. But possibly the true excitement is knowing that you can turn off the television at any moment and enjoy your own poker thrill. Whether you're anteing with one thousand dollars, or one, you can get juiced up over a few hands of poker yourself. That's ...› Continue reading
Poker
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
After you have got your two cards, you need to decide whether you have a chance to get anything with them or not. Whether it's useful to put more money into this game or not. Firstly, there are certain cards you should always play (if they are suited): AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ Why these cards? These cards have the highest possibility to beat others - to get high pairs, full houses, flush or four of a kind possibilities. Of course, you do need to think about how much money you need ...› Continue reading
Limit Texas Holdem Poker
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | News and Society |
b>Limit Texas Holdem Poker is the most popular type of holdem poker, attracting many novice poker players. The reason it is so popular is because the betting is not too aggressive. The stakes are not high and because the betting is limited, you can easily compete with very little money. If you are playing at a 50c/$1 Limit Texas Holdem Poker table, the betting will be limited to increments of 50c for the pre-flop and flop, and $1 for the Turn and River rounds. If you are unfamiliar with these ...› Continue reading
Biggest Mistake while playing Texas Holdem POKER
Monday, August 10th, 2009 | News and Society |
The BIGGEST MISTAKE you can make while playing no-limit Texas Holdem is to focus too much on your cards... If you're playing draw, stud, limit, or any other form of poker, then it's important to concentrate on MATHEMATICAL ODDS and PROBABILITIES. But no-limit Holdem is different. MUCH different. You can be a math WIZARD and know the odds of every possible scenario in the deck... but it won't do you much good at the no-limit table. Hell, you can even know how to COUNT CARDS... but I'll ...› Continue reading
The SECRET To Poker...
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
The SECRET To Poker... Let me ask you something. Have you ever played poker with someone who seemed to CONSISTENTLY catch lucky cards, time after time after time? I'm not talking about any luck. I'm talking about the kind of luck where your opponent flops a boat... gets dealt pocket rockets... catches a flush on the river... And so on. Have you ever found yourself wondering: "Jeez... he can't POSSIBLY catch another hand like that- it's simply statistically impossible!" Yet... the luck ...› Continue reading
Texas Holdem Tournament Strategy - Winning vs. Aggressive
Saturday, August 8th, 2009 | News and Society |
The Texas Hold'em poker phenomenon has taken the country by storm. There are reportedly over 100 million active poker players worldwide. Poker's popularity is largely the byproduct of technology and several recent trends: 1) online gaming, where players engage and socialize in real-time over the Internet, and 2) the broad publicity created by high profile TV shows like the World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour. With all the poker-mania, there's an amazing shortage of quality information to ...› Continue reading
How to master Low Limit Texas Hold'em - Part 1 - Introduction
Friday, August 7th, 2009 | News and Society |
I decided to start a series about how to learn and master Texas Hold'em because this is the most played game in the online poker rooms and it has large popularity. These tutorials are good for new poker players and we think the advanced players can find useful tips here, too. These articles try to show how to start to play online poker, how to behave at the tables and how to win in almost every situation. Our tips will be very detailed from the ground up in hoping to teach every kind of player ...› Continue reading
Video Poker
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | News and Society |
Video poker is usually played against a machine, which displays the player's cards on a screen. Combining elements of poker and slots, this form poker is one of the few games in the casino where you can actually have a realistic expectation of winning, as opposed to depending on the pure luck of slot machine games or roulette. The player places a bet and the video poker machine deals five cards from a standard 52-card pack. The player then has one opportunity to hold or discard any number of ...› Continue reading
>> How To Dominate The Poker Tables
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
>> How To Dominate The Poker Tables Have you ever lost a huge pot because you had a flush draw or straight draw and didn't catch the card you needed? It's happened to all of us. And frankly, it sucks. Because when you're on a draw, you're just ONE CARD AWAY from raking in a ton of chips. And you WANT to keep calling everyone else's bets, in hopes that your card will pop out on the turn or river. Am I right? Of course, what ends up happening is you have to put a ton of your chips in the ...› Continue reading
Online Poker Table Selection - How to find the most profitable
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | News and Society |
Knowing where and at what times the loosest poker games are played are the number one secret for those who play online poker successfully. Online poker professionals win most of their money from the weak players (fishes-suckers), so finding a table with two or three fishes on it, is extremely important if you want to succeed at this game. Tight and conservative poker tables are not profitable to play on, even for the professionals. Poker players that are successful at the game of poker, ...› Continue reading
Begining Texas Hold'em 101
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | News and Society |
Most beginners in Texas Hold'em are often inexperienced when it comes to what cards to play and what cards to fold. When given your two initial cards, you have the option of calling the blinds or folding, unless someone else raised. If these two cards are very good, you probably want to call the blind, or even raise it. Here are some excellent pocket cards to start with. 1. High Pocket Pair (2 Aces, 2 K's, 2 Q's, etc.) 2. High Cards in general(A-K a.k.a. "Big Slick, K-J) 3. Suited Connectors ...› Continue reading