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Understand Basics of Texas Hold’em Poker

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

texas-hold-em-pokerPoker has many variance but I would imagine most popular being Texas Hold’em poker. While I was explaining my wife on how to play it, I thought to write it down as well on this blog.

The special feature of Texas Hold’em Poker is that players have five cards dealt face up in the center of the table which are called either community cards, or shared cards, or the board cards.

At the start of the play, each of the players are dealt with two cards that are face down. These cards are known as pocket or hole cards. They stay on the table all the time but the player has the right to look at them whenever she wants. The purpose of the game is to make the best combination possible with the hole cards and the board cards. That means that this combination shall include your two cards and three of the five cards on the table, one of your cards and four of the five cards on the table and sometimes even of all the cards on the table. Player who makes the best combination wins the pot. Pot means the amount of money all players bet together.

Let’s check out some terms in Texas Hold’em poker:

Call - post a bet equal to the big blind or to the straddle

Raise - post a bigger bet than the previous player

Fold - the player leaves the cards face down in the middle of the table and does not attend the play till the end of this hand

Straddle - Big blind posted by the player who is sitting next to the left of the big blinder

I will come up with some more details soon while teaching to my wife.

No Deposit Poker Bonuses - A Good Way To Start Poker With

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Everyone wants to play poker but people are skeptical about depositing money in online poker websites. Most of the poker rooms online offer only deposit bonuses which means you would have to invest your money to play poker. You might get even cent percent bonuses, but it would be 100% equaling to your deposited money in there. Many of the online casinos provide free instant poker bonuses; Casinator.com has good reviews of casinos that provide bonuses, worth a read!

Being new to poker will anyways push you losing that money so getting bonuses will be anyways losing more money. The best thing for newbies would be then to get no deposit poker bonuses!

Basically the casinos do it for promotion and there is no catch, really! So there is no harm in trying out those no deposit bonuses.

While we discuss about not depositing the money, we can also look at another option of playing poker freeroll. Just incase you don’t want to risk your money. A poker freeroll will be a tournament that you can enter and which is free to enter but if you win you get entered into another tournament with a big cash prize or you win the one tournament and get paid there and then. So it’s an useful information to find best poker freerolls around if it looks like best of both worlds. I am sure you would need to.

Poker Paypal - Safer Way to Play Poker Online

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

If you have been aware of online casinos, you either have got into it or stayed away from. Many times the reason to stay away is the online users are hesitant to reveal their credit card information in online gambling sites. It’s obvious and legitimate reason, I have experienced myself my credit card being charged by some companies affiliated with eCommerce website like buy.com, without any purchase from them. So it becomes more confusing to decide on whether to use the credit card at online gambling sites are not.

You want to play poker online but you can’t! I have a solution for you. Poker Paypal is a solution for all such problems. It offers you details on the online casinos that accept Paypal as funding options for you to play there.

What is the use of funding using Paypal?

Paypal helps you to keep your credit card or bank account information secure, by not exposing it to the merchant but still make it possible to pay them using your Paypal account. Paypal account is nothing but an email address that needs to be revealed. I am using Paypal since last 5+ years, and I never found a security threat to my account or funds in Paypal.

What you can do using Poker Paypal?

You can securely play poker at online casinos, and Poker Paypal website does the work for you to find out online casinos that accept Paypal as funding option.

I found it very relevant and useful information for myself, simply because I can use my Paypal account now and be worryfree. Poker Paypal not only helps you to find out the online casinos, but also enlighten you with the information on ongoing promotions at various online casinos. Hope you find this as a great resource of information. I bet!

Free Poker Strategy Tips

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Poker may be considered an easy game of betting. But, poker strategy tips can prove to be very helpful especially for new players. If you are new, please make sure to read basics of poker game. So, let’s have a look at some of them.

Poker is a game of psychology

It is important to note that poker is more of a psychology game, especially when betting is involved. Hence, it is important to note the way your opponent acts or reacts and, when poker is played face-to-face, your opponent’s body languages. Most of the time, the type of hand that your opponent holds can be found in the way he moves. Most players tend to focus on the hand they are holding and do not look carefully in their environment and their co-players. But making mental notes on how your opponent moves-from his hands to his feet to his eyes-and how he behaves can help you determine if he is holding a strong or a weak card.

Art of Bluffing

It is important for a player to master this technique as, most of the time, this strategy misleads your opponent and confuses his efforts of reading you. Unfortunately, bluffing is a strategy which can be mastered only after thousands of poker games. Upon mastering this skill, the player should also be able to determine when is the best time to open, to check, to see, to raise or to fold.

Ability to be Flexible

Another helpful poker strategy is the ability to be flexible wherein the player can make favorable adjustments to his game. Firstly, the player should be able to identify what type of player each of his opponents is. Loose players are usually the ones who stay on the game in spite of the weakness of their card. They usually continue to bet heavily in a manner which they see as bluffing. The uptight players, on the other hand, are the ones who usually fold all the time. They are often considered passive players. This kind of players only bet generously when they are very confident with the cards they are holding.

Although there are a number of poker strategies in which a player can immensely benefit, these are better learned and understood when one is an active participant of poker games. A long-term participation in any game of poker not only polishes your knowledge of the rules, but more so, of the strategies and techniques needed to become a guaranteed winner.

Basics of Three Card Poker

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Three card Poker 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 a flush because there are fewer ways to make a 3 card straight than a 3 card flush.

There is little strategy and absolutely no bluffing involved in this game, which is why I said at the beginning that it is a game for the beginner. The main decision in this game comes when the player first looks at the cards he is dealt. Here he must decide whether to fold or to raise. In three card poker a raise means you are paying to see the dealer’s cards.

The minimum hand you must have before raising is at least an ace high with either a king or queen, otherwise one should fold. There is a twist in this form of poker though, whereby the dealer can have a higher three card poker hand than you and still lose the game. It works as follows, the dealer must have a queen high hand or better, or his hand does not count for the game. So theoretically if you are dealt a hand with just a ten in it you could still win the hand. For this twist to happen though, you will have to raise the dealer, so think carefully before raising with a weak hand.