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Texas Hold'em Betting Strategy
Friday, October 30th, 2009 | Hobbies |
If you're just learning to play one of the most important things you can spend time learning is basic Texas Hold'em betting Strategy. Some of the most important things to learn are basic to poker betting strategy in other poker games as well. Here's some very basic terminology, relating to Texas Hold'em betting strategy. The most common type of betting in Texas Hold'em is a fixed limit. In a fixed limit game, there are two betting amounts. The low and the high. We'll use a $5-$10 Texas Hold'em ...› Continue reading
2005 World Series of Poker -- Complete Report
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 | News and Society |
Over 29,000 poker players came to Las Vegas from 40 different countries all over the earth to play in the 2005 World Series of Poker tournament events. This generated a total net prize pool of over $103,000,000 dollars, more than twice the total prize pool amount in 2004. New records were being made and old ones being broken so fast the challenge was to keep up with them all. Here is a "complete report" of what went on at this years World Series of Poker. It is complete because it covers ...› Continue reading
Free Poker Tips to Increase Winnings
Monday, October 26th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
There are hundreds of poker rooms on the Internet serving millions of customers throughout the world. Since the game of poker has become one of the main sporting activities on television, people everywhere are now familiar with the varieties of poker and how the best players in the business manage their game. Many of the world's best poker players got their start online in poker rooms. They were able to gain seats at prestigious professional events, such as the World Series of Poker. The best ...› Continue reading
Poker popularity for beginners
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | News and Society |
The game of poker is cherished since a long time. It has caught a lot of publicity and fanfare in past few decades. Now there are many poker tournaments across the world and even online. Poker lovers all over the world are glued to their television channels like ESPN when these tournaments are telecasted. Poker is not just confined to casinos or bars. In fact it has traveled back to our homes from where it supposedly originated. A surge in the popularity of the game has given rise to ...› Continue reading
Texas Holdem Tournament Strategy - Winning vs. Aggressive
Thursday, October 22nd, 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 ...› Continue reading
Live poker less entertaining than an arrow in the neck!
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
itting comfortably in the 4 walls of an office, playing free roll poker and enjoying a nice cup of coffee one can sometimes not really find anything more peaceful. Online poker is like that, its fast, furious and fun all in one and whilst the games are only for a few chips to possibly get into a second round one has to say it beats live poker on the television hands down. They certainly are professional, playing at high stakes in front of television crews, lighting equipment and thousands ...› Continue reading
Three Card Poker Basics
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | News and Society |
Three card Poker is a fast paced game which is easy to learn for the novice card player. This game is played with a 52 card deck and is played between a dealer and a single player. The player and dealer are each dealt 3 cards which are placed face down. The object of the game is for you to get a higher three card poker hand than the dealer. An important rule that people must remember when playing three card poker is regarding the hand ranks. In three card poker a straight is higher than ...› Continue reading
Freeroll poker tournaments - the greatest deal of all
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 | News and Society |
Freeroll poker tournaments are daily events that happen on a lot of the best online poker websites. Freerolls are much loved by the poker playing community as they offer the poker players the chance to win some real money without losing any. The entry to these freerolls is ' as the name suggests ' free and prize money can range from a few dollars for a placing to hundreds of dollars for winning the big freeroll Texas Holdem poker tournaments. So why do the poker sites have freerolls? Is it ...› Continue reading
Three Card Poker Betting
Friday, October 16th, 2009 | News and Society |
A player must be aware of how to place bets in three card poker. The playing area both live and online will have three areas where you place bets. The three areas are as follows: 1) Ante Here one places a bet at the start of the game and it is mandatory. You place this bet before you see your cards. 2) Play (sometimes called Raise) Here one places an amount equal to the ante if you want to see the dealer's cards. You will be able to see your cards before placing this bet. If you are not happy ...› Continue reading
Three Card Poker Hand Rankings
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | News and Society |
Even though Three Card Poker is a fairly easy game to learn, one must pay particular attention to the composition of your poker hand. One of the major decisions in this game is whether to raise or fold and this you determine by your hand ranking. This article is intended to help you make that decision more easily. These are the Three Card Poker hand rankings which I will rank from lowest to highest: High card : A single card value, no duplicates, not in sequence and all must be of a different ...› Continue reading
Free Roll slots the new black
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
As times change in our world as do online casinos and in particular the online slot games that are currently on offer to the gambling masses. The latest "new thing" to hit our PC monitors is free roll slots which, much like free roll poker is exactly that, its completely free with thousands participating, only if you are knocked out would you have the option of paying something as a re-buy to give you anther chance of grabbing that jackpot. Very much like free roll poker it works in the same ...› Continue reading
Poker Tournaments
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | News and Society |
Most people believe that poker tournaments are for the most experienced and most aggressive poker players. But this is simply just not true. There are actually many more low-limit tournaments (that attract beginners mostly) than high stakes tournaments. Low-limit Poker Tournaments usually only attract beginners because the betting stakes are restricted to small amounts. The basic structure of Poker Tournaments Online poker tournament are events in which players compete to win a part of the ...› Continue reading
One Million-Dollar Texas Holdem Poker Tournament - How a Brit
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 | Art and Entertainment |
One Million-Dollar Texas Holdem Poker Tournament - How a Brit Beat the Yanks at their Own Game! Lee Biddulph a chef from Thornton Cleveleys near Blackpool, a resort town on the north west coast of England, returned to Manchester Airport from an amateur poker tournament in Costa Rica almost $1m (£567,420) richer after beating nearly 4,000 other players in an amateur poker tournament. Lee's biggest win was only £28 before the tournament! This is a striking example of how lucrative poker ...› Continue reading
There's more to poker than Texas Holdem!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 | News and Society |
Texas holdem is taking over the world, but believe it or not there are many other poker games you can play. Most of them fall into one of three categories: - Stud Games (for example 7 card stud) - Draw Games (for example 5 card draw) - Shared Hand Games (for example Texas Holdem) There are also some other obscure games that don't fit into these categories, some of the more popular of which are high/low pig, bid poker and guts. In almost all types of poker game the hand rankings are the same, ...› Continue reading
World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | News and Society |
On October 25, 2004 Harrah's announced the creation of the World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit that marked the beginning of the 36th annual World Series of Poker season. And with it began their efforts to evolve the World Series of Poker from a month long frenzied rush into a year long sport. The Tournament Circuit is a set of poker tournament stops at different casinos that will host all-comer events for players seeking high-level top quality poker action. It also allows players based on ...› Continue reading