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Online Poker Sit-N-Go’s
2008-02-06 18:02:00
Sit-N-Go’s are a great way to make a stable income playing poker online, but many people do not understand the concept of bankroll management. One of the biggest problems many players face when playing Sit-N-Go’s is they will play tournaments to high for their bankroll. This can cause you to lose all your money quickly and go on tilt. A general rule of thumb is to have a bankroll of roughly 20-30 times the Sit-N-Go buy in amount. I have made a simple chart below which you can print off and use over and over again. It has helped me greatly. Lots of poker players throw bankroll management out the door and don’t believe in it. I got news for them, YOU NEED TO START BELIEVING, and in a HURRY! Here is a great tip: Move up or down a level as your bankroll allows. If you are losing, move down in buy-in level and if you continue to win move up. Use good judgment and take action quickly. If you wait to long you will lose, all of it! Also play at a meaningful money level to ...
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Poker Strategy - Playing Trap Hands Like King-Queen, King-Jack, Queen-Jack,
2008-02-04 18:12:00
One of the most frustrating and subtle strategies of playing poker is through the handling and play of these range of hands that actually are badly overrated by amateurs and beginning players. They are referred to as trap hands because they appear as a premium hand but they are actually really just high suited or unsuited connectors that most players aren’t aware of. The beginning player will be dealt King-Queen and will likely think, “Oh, sweet this is just like Big-Slick.” They could not be more wrong. Great players that want to play tight, smart poker probably do not even have king-queen on their list of starting hand requirements and if they do it’s in very late table position. These hands need to be treated similarly to 9-8s, 10-9s and other suited connectors, the only difference is that they are high in card rank but do not make the mistake of playing them like a premium hand because they are not. Let us look at a quick example. You are dealt K-Q suited...
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Online Poker Tells Can Damage Your Online Game
2008-02-01 15:32:00
When playing online, it is very easy to fall into a rhythm. The game is set up to move as quickly as possible. There are preset buttons to fold, call or raise. The cards come hurling from the dealers hand and each player is expected to act fast. The fast pace of playing online could be doing more than keeping the game moving smoothly. Fall into too much of a pattern and you just may develop a VIRTUAL TELL. Be careful how fast you click your mouse, you may be giving your hand away. Just because you’re not sitting next to other players at the table doesn’t mean you cannot read them and they cannot read you. A common misconception of online poker is that it removes the aspect of reading your opponents and looking for clues to determine what they hold. A virtual tell is just like any other tell. It is a subconscious action that you perform in a given situation that gives other players at the table clues to what you’re holding. Do you constantly use the automatic raise ...
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Blind-Stealing In Poker Tournaments - 5 Common Mistakes And How To Avoid Th
2008-01-31 08:54:00
In poker tournament games the blinds and antes will increase rapidly the longer you play. Since premium hands do not come along too often, ’stealing’ these by raising from late position becomes a critical strategy to maintain you chip stack. However many players make mistakes in blind steals which actually end up costing chips instead of accumulating them. This article looks at these common mistakes and advises on how to ensure that you win more blinds than you lose. 1) Is The Reward Worth It? Stealing blinds too early in a poker tournament is rarely worth the risk. Yet many players do this in the early rounds. When the levels are 10 / 20 chips (for example) the benefit is not worth the chances of running into a big hand. Instead wait until there are enough chips to cover 10% to 15% of your stack on the table. 2) Not Every Time! Some players will attempt to take the blinds every time they are folded to in later position. This is asking for even the most passive player to...
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How To Play A Small Stack In Online Poker Tournaments
2008-01-31 08:53:00
Something that every poker player will encounter at some point in their career is dealing with a short chip stack in the later stages of a tournament. There are many ways in which you can find yourself in this situation. These include losing a big pot, suffering a bad-beat or simply having no playable hands while the blinds catch up with you. This article looks at some of the important factors involved in playing situations where you are the small stack. Correct play - along with a ‘never give up’ attitude - can get you quickly back into contention for a major prize! With less than 10 times the big blind the number of ‘moves’ you are able to make is extremely limited. In fact your decisions will be made before the flop. With a short stack you are not able to raise and then fold. This is because the ‘pot-odds’ that you are offered to call any subsequent raise are too good. Any hand that you legitimately raised with becomes an easy calling hand if y...
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Taking Advantage Of A Large Chip Stack In Online Poker Tournaments
2008-01-31 08:52:00
Having a large chip stack in an online poker tournament is a great situation to be in. Yet all too easily the other players can catch up, or even overtake your table chip lead. One ill-timed confrontation with a medium stack and you can be sitting - frustrated - on an average stack once again. Many players actually misplay their large chip stacks in multi-table tournaments. There are some fundamental adjustments required - but making the wrong adjustments is actually the number one reason that many players go deep in tournaments, but never seem to win. This article lists 4 ways in which online poker tournament players make mistakes with their large chip stacks - and suggests how to correct them. 1) Calling Too Much. Your large chip stack puts you in a great position to win chips with aggressive and positive play. However, calling too many raises from other players is a common mistake. The player who raises has already shown strength, and you need a legitimately strong hand to call t...
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Caribbean Stud Poker - A Premier Casino Table Game
2008-01-28 17:16:00
Casinos are entertainment zones which offer individuals to play various casino games by placing their stakes. These games are usually games of chance though there are certain games which require the use of sheer intelligence in order to win. Poker is a very significant and popular of the various casino games and it is played widely all over the world. Its increasing fame has led to the introduction of innumerable variants to the original game of poker. Caribbean stud poker is a kind of casino table poker game and with reference to the gaming strategies, it is quite similar to the five card stud poker game. Most of the regular poker games are played between the players themselves. Unlike so, in the Caribbean stud poker game, the game is played against the house and another significant feature of this game is that it is impossible to beat this game eventually. This game does not provide any opportunity to trick the opponent or deceive him and this is why many poker players refuse to a...
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Let It Ride - Casino Poker Game
2008-01-28 17:15:00
Gambling activities have been immensely boosted by the presence of casinos and at present there are various casinos in different parts of the world which encourage placing of bets and promote themselves as centers of entertainment. Casino gaming facilities are often available in markets and other places of public gathering apart from being located commonly in hotels and restaurants. While it is true that excessive allegiance to gambling can result in addiction and this can prove fatal as it affects one psychologically. However, on a casual level casino gambling can be simply an activity of fun. There are various casino games of which one among the most popular is definitely poker. With the coming of the internet and the emerging popularity of online casinos, it has been noticed that the fame of poker has increased further, there are various kinds of poker games currently played in the various casinos worldwide and one among them is Let it Ride . This is a kind of poker game where the...
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Play Money Vs Real Money - Changing Your Mindset
2008-01-26 03:48:00
In order to be a winning poker player you need to have the right attitude. You have to have the right mindset. If you want to play poker for fun, great, drink some beer, get together with your buddies and lose fifty bucks, hey its all for fun, right? However, if you want to play for money and profit then you have to change your thinking. Sure you can still have fun, but if your number one goal is to be making a profit then you must approach poker from a different stand point. A lot of my friends refuse to play with me any more. Why? It could be the fact that I am ultra competitive and hate to lose or it could be the fact that I usually walk away with most of the money afterwards. A very famous player once said that he would bust his Grandmother in a game if he had to. Now that’s winning poker. If you are one of those people that are looking at this as your part time job or a second income then you had better start treating it that way. Once you start to falter from that and st...
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Using Poker Tells to Win Bigger Pots
2008-01-26 03:43:00
If you are new to playing poker, the term “tells” may be new to you. In essence it is a physical hint or a tip as to what your opponent holds in his hands. There are certain hand gestures or mannerisms that we all have when we are lying. Some of us look at the ground or look away when we are telling a lie. Some of us hold our hand up to our mouths. It is no different when we are sitting at the poker table. Mike Caro has dedicated a lot of time and effort in researching poker “tells.” Caro is big on the saying “strong means weak and weak means strong.” If you interpret someone’s body language as acting strong he is probably weak and vice versa. Also remember that this is not 100%, there may be some who purposely act a certain way to try to throw you off. Just be sure to pay attention while you are at the table and you should be fine. In this article I will be discussing a few of the common tells to look for. The shaky hand is one of the most ...
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Buy Poker Chips - A Lesson Learned
2008-01-24 03:38:00
If you are like me and have decided now is the time to buy poker chips, then you are likely dealing with a bit of information overload. There is absolutely an enormous amount of information, and misinformation, available to the avid poker player regarding the selection of poker chips. After having waded through the market myself enough to know it very well, I have been able to sort through all of the style choices, color combinations, chip sizes, case preferences, and available accessories to reach the following conclusions regarding the best way to end up a happy camper when you decide to get some poker chips for yourself. 1. Determine Your Budget While this step may seem obvious, determining your budget for spending on a set of poker chips will actually help you narrow the field of choices more than any other factor. Once you decide how much cash you’re willing to lay out, the number of available choices narrows considerably. If you are the occasional poker player and just w...
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Sports Betting Champ Review On Costs
2008-01-23 17:32:00
When The Sports Betting Champ System is reviewed on the basis of cost, you will see that it is a sports betting system that is very cost effective. When you review its’ cost compared to the costs of getting the same type of information elsewhere the difference will stand out. To get the same type of reliable information elsewhere you only have a few options and they are all quite expensive. The only truly reliable options are going to a professional sports handicapper or purchasing statistics sheets and using that information to determine picks. Both of these have downsides, the first of which is the cost and with the statistic sheets time also becomes a major downside. There are of course the same old unreliable sources, such as free picks on the Internet or out of the local paper, by trying a “free” system , or using your old system that has never really worked. First, lets start with The Sports Betting Champ System. It has a one time cost of just under $200 at t...
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Online Sports Betting Tools - What Every Bettor Needs To Make Money And Bea
2008-01-22 05:30:00
After few years in betting industry you start to put pieces of puzzle together to get a bigger picture. After seeing a bigger picture, you start looking at whole online sports betting industry from a different angle. Fact is that 98% of online punters are constantly losing money with online betting, so this also explains why bookies are so generous by giving a deposit bonuses up to $500 to attract new bettors. Bookies are not so successful because they are so much smarter then bettors BUT because they are using betting tools that help them in making the right decisions. I mean if you think that also bettors are now united in betting forums (where they exchange sports betting information from all over the world), then bettors should start making money and beat their bookies.Yet, average bettors are still losing money every day. You have to know how your opponent thinks and maybe even more importantly - what does he have to beat you constantly. If you can get access to same betting to...
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Differences and Similarities Between Online and Offline Poker
2008-01-21 07:29:00
It’s not a secret that some of the best live poker players in the world have trouble beating online games. While there is a distinct possibility that these guys who have grown to rely heavily on their player reading skills, suddenly find themselves without one of their main weapons, and thus are unable to deal with the situation on their own terms, but there are other factors at play here too. If you sign up to an online poker forum, you’re sure to come by comments made by online poker players who claim the game is rigged, because there seem to be far more bad beats in it than in live poker. While the claim about the bad beats is true, it doesn’t represent any sort of proof. Bad beats can be explained with some pretty straightforward reasoning, (believe me, I’ve suffered many bad beats in online poker too), as well as the reason why there are more of them online than offline. For one thing, online poker is about playing far more hands per hour than live poker...
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Online Poker Games Offers Strategy at a Great Price
2008-01-17 10:35:00
Okay, what is better than learning something at a cheap price? How about learning it for free? That’s what I found out when trying to strengthen my poker strategies without having to lose all of my money in the process. How did I do it, you ask? Well, it all started when my friend who is a ...
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Full Tilt Poker Strategy - Excessive Aggression at the Low Levels Will Cost
2008-01-15 21:55:00
If you have read any popular poker forum online you can undoubtedly come up with a never-ending slew of bad beat stories that can fill a weekend’s worth of useless reading. Some forums actually have separate sections just to manage the foul hand histories along with the depths of despair in one dark little digital ...
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Campfire Poker and Conversation
2008-01-15 07:23:00
Tonight it appears that one of my comrades is rather anxious to start the campfire. He said earlier in the day he had purchased a new hand forged campfire poker and I am inclined to believe it has something to do with his actions. There was a small fire earlier, reduced to hot coals to cook ...
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Casino Games For Female Gamblers
2008-01-10 09:23:00
The ‘average’ online casino player is female, aged between 46 and 55. The reason why is obvious, when you think about it - for years, land based casinos were male-dominated spaces where women, if they were allowed in at all, were seen as either waitresses, glammed-up escorts to ’serious’ gamblers or blue-haired pensioners piling coins into ...
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HORSE Poker - Can You Beat The Poker Pros?
2008-01-10 09:20:00
HORSE is a combination of five poker games: Texas Hold ‘em, Omaha Eight or Better, Razz, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud (Eight or Better Variation). This game was just re-launched in 2006 in the World Series of Poker with a buy in amount of a whopping $50,000. If you’re a professional gambler or ...
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Internet Poker Bonuses
2008-01-08 18:45:00
Lately, it seems that everywhere you turn, poker is there. Its on television, the Internet , the world seems to have become addicted to poker. It seems there is a reference to the various sites free games that give money to the players. After seeing the ads in any place of poker websites offering poker bonuses, ...
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Casino Games - The Ultimate Pleasure
2008-01-08 18:44:00
Online casino games can be the most fulfilling experience of your gambling life. This method of gambling through the internet, casino gambling has given a new way for gamblers who actually cannot make it out to the land based casino and still want to play their shots. So, if you want to get the pleasure ...
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Online Slot Machine Game Tips
2008-01-08 18:43:00
Online slot machine game is a surest way to fun, exuberance and complete pleasure. This exciting game accounts for almost two-third money of the entire casino collection. If you are a slot machine freak, considering following points can work wonders for you. The strategies involves in the slots You can begin with investing the minimum stake. It ...
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The Advantages of Playing With Live Dealers
2008-01-03 11:03:00
Playing with live dealers is one of the most heated topics in the casino gaming debate. Is it better to play the live dealer versions of the games or not? All things considered, the live dealer interactive versions of the games are way better than the traditional online version, simply because of the enhanced gaming ...
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Make 2008 YOUR Year to Become a Deliriously Happy Lottery Winner
2007-12-26 20:03:00
Each New Year gives us a chance to wipe the slate clean and start a whole year fresh. In 2008, why not make a deliberate effort to improve your luck with a winning image of yourself? If you put your mind to it, you can make positive changes that will last a lifetime. Many people do ...
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Bonuses Offered in Online Casinos
2007-12-26 18:43:00
The coming of the internet has facilitated the various modes of communication and today any information is just a click away. The use of internet networking has in fact rewritten the rules that dominated communication modes and therefore are today a very trustworthy and viable option for almost all consumers. Casino s are entertainment zones aimed ...
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10 Common Misconceptions about Poker
2007-12-22 09:04:00
If you play poker regularly, and you understand the game exactly as it is, you probably know that there are misconceptions among people with no direct experience. You’ve probably heard many of these erroneous viewpoints. If you are like me, you spend a fair amount of time explaining to uninformed people precisely what poker is ...
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The Game Of Bingo Versus Online Gaming
2007-12-22 08:35:00
Bingo is one of the most popular past times, especially amongst the elderly members of our society. Although bingo is a fun and interesting game that requires little skill and talent, unfortunately, it is a game that can become rather tedious, and extremely repetitious. I have been playing Bingo for a number of years, and ...
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Which Bingo Players Are More Generous After a Bingo Jackpot Win
2007-12-22 08:33:00
Economists assume that all individuals behave optimally, that is, they use all information available to them to make rational choices. However, when it comes to the opportunity of winning a prize such as a large competition cash win, men and women behave different. Rational decision making so often can fly out the window, but mainly ...
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Poker Rule - Texas Hold?em
2007-12-19 04:07:00
This poker rule is the most famous rule. It is quite simple, but still the most strategy of all poker rules. While the five cards known as the community cards. Your hand will have 7 cards which consist of 5 community cards and 2 hole cards. And you can use any five cards out of ...
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Roulette - Famous Casino Game
2007-12-19 04:06:00
The term ‘roulette’ has distinct French origins and it refers to a ’small wheel’. Roulette is a very famous casino gambling game. It is a very interesting game and roulette is played by a lot of people who wish to indulge into some fun and entertainment. The origin of roulette can be traced to the ...
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