Archive for the ‘Poker’ Category

Poker – Is there no limit

Posted by on March 14th, 2010 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

Tournament Limits The only difference between Fixed Limit, No Limit and Pot Limit is the amount you can bet or raise when it is a players turn to act. In Fixed Limit, the amount you can bet is determined by the limits and the current betting round. The rules for the amount a player can [...]

Poker – A Social Thing

Posted by on March 13th, 2010 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

The problem with the weekly poker game is that it is only weekly. Being able to escape into that alternate world where the only thing that matters is the game should happen more often than that, shouldn’t it? Great news: it can. When you play online poker at Internet casinos, a great poker game is [...]

A Poker Tournament

Posted by on February 27th, 2010 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

I’m only going to see other players and myself as caricatures on my screen. Facial expressions, hand gestures, body motions will all be absent, as well as eye squinting, blinking or twitching – those ‘giveaways’ on TV and why many use sunglasses. Add to this the screen names: how do I know that Tiny Tina [...]

Buying Poker Chip Sets

Posted by on February 22nd, 2010 under Poker Tags: , , , , ,  •  No Comments

How much can you afford to pay for your chipset and how many players will be using the chips in a game. As with most things, you pay for quality and the best advice is to buy the highest quality you can afford. It is rare to be sorry that you opted for a higher [...]

Playing Online Poker

Posted by on February 16th, 2010 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

There are so many tremendous advantages to playing these poker games via the internet. First of all, it is convenient in that you do not have to drive a long distance or even short distance to a gaming facility as you will most likely only need to walk into the other room where your computer [...]

Easy Lesson in Calculating Outs

Posted by on December 29th, 2009 under Poker Tags: , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

You also have to decide on whether the hand that you are trying to hit will win you the pot or not. How to calculate pot odds: In this example, if the current pot contains $80, and the amount required at the next call is $20, the pot is laying you odds of $80 to [...]

The Fallacy Poker

Posted by on December 10th, 2009 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

Online poker gambling is a game of skill and many people believe that they have the right set of skills in poker games to win the pot with less effort. Most people, however, believe that this is just the fallacy of online poker gambling. A skillful play will never really aid gamblers and players of [...]

Understanding Poker

Posted by on December 3rd, 2009 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

Online poker is poker or card game played using computers connected to the Internet. It is assumed that online poker has further, and dramatically in that sense, increased the popularity of poker worldwide. Brief background on poker To better understand the nature of online poker, it would help if you will know something about the [...]

Play Poker Tournament

Posted by on November 27th, 2009 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

When you play online poker tournament, you agree to follow the rules of the game. Cheating is prohibited, however certain user privileges like a card statistics and graphical card history can be used as long as it is allowed for play online poker tournament. There are three ways play online poker tournament: ·       Freeroll tournament [...]

Playing Poker

Posted by on November 14th, 2009 under Poker Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

As more and more people play online poker, all sorts of complaints started to come up through the surface. Most players claim to observe several instances of “bad beats.” bad beats are usually large hands that are pitted against the others very often that at its going rate it would seem that it is more [...]