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Five Tips to Amend Your Heads Up Poker Strategy

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:09:36 -0500

Texas Hold'em is one of the most popular games among poker players. One day you’ll find yourself gambling it for hours and hours. And it will be your hour when you will be sitting at the final table gambling heads up poker. Once the delight of making the final table has faded you will have to brass tacks and stake out your competitor.

Hopefully today you have got a good read on the gambler, their strategies, advantages and weak points. You also should know that poker gamblers often change their playing methods when it comes to heads up play. A poker gamblers heads up play may vastly differ from their usual play. We present some tips in this article. Hopefully they will help you to amend your heads up Texas Hold'em poker play.

An Ace in the Hole

The first tip of heads up poker play implies that when you dispose of an ace as a hole card you will always be in a commanding position pre flop. Yout task is to heighten /re- heighten strong to see what the competitor's answer will be. Often times an adversary will fold (is up to the own style of the poker gambler) with fright of the ace or a pocket pair.

Several times you may get called but don’t forget that in heads up poker gamblers often make loose calls. Odds are you will be in a commanding position as yet.

Lower Your Expectancy

The second rule of heads up poker says that while gambling heads up Texas Hold'em poker, opportunities are that you can’t permit to wait on a good hand. A quality hand in this kind of poker differs from the hand when gambling with a larger group. You may have to reside with J-6 offsuit and just see the result of this act. The odds are that a lot of times your competitor will have a bad hand as well.

Make an Attempt To Spy on A Wagering Pattern

A great deal of poker gamblers have many problems when gambling heads up. Some failure under the pressure and others become thoroughly obvious in how they wager in heads up. Remember that you should keep an eye on your adversary’s wagering tactics.

Every now and then you may have a desire to call a hand that you know your likely hit in just to see what the competitor has. If you can spy on an adversary’s wagering tactics you’ll see their hands.

Mix Up Your Play

The fourth tip implies that even when you don’t have good cards you should always attempt to mix up the play to throw your adversary off your scent. Heighten with nine-four suited. Call with A-three offsuit. This way your competitor can’t pick up a good wagering pattern from you.

A lot of poker gamblers show not great play when it comes to heads up poker. Managing to throw your adversary off your scent it likely that he will be lured into making a negligent all-in call.

Don't Over Do the "All-In" Call

With the fifth tip we recommend you not to go over board going all-in. Of course, you can rely on luck but it is unreasonable to wate that it will help you. Moreover, doing this is a clear give away that you may be less skilled and a top-gambler will wait for their chance and bury you.

Our advice is to mix up your play, raises, calls and folds. Only following this advice you will become the better gambler and win the play.

Two poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, Claim 60% Of Online Poker Market Share

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:10:17 -0500

In accordance to a recent report, two the most popular on-line poker rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, today control a tremendous 60% of the overall industry. When you undestand that the on-line poker industry consists of about five thousand operators, those are some rather impressive numbers for just two united sites.

This week independent poker tracking site, PokerScout announed that an overall enlargement in on-line poker traffic is 0.2%. But it seems that while the traffic itself is staying quite invariable, a great number of gamblers are changing there preferance from smaller poker rooms to these two giants in poker world.

In the end of 2008 PokerStars and Full Tilt were already claiming a half of the entire market share. Being the two biggest and the most popular on-line poker rooms in on-line poker business, both accepting the USA gamblers, it was just a matter of time before their share in this business rose to 60%. In other words, every six gamblers from ten from all over the world play at either Full Tilt Poker or PokerStars.

It doesn’t mean that this news bring inauspicious tidings for the rest poker rooms which take part in the on-line poker industry. Current year have shown a weighty increase in overall gambler traffic, even for the less famous opponents. But while these two giants saw a collective rise rate of 68%, the other on-line poker rooms share an entire rise of about 12%.

Notable growth is markerd for several other popular poker communities, such as Bodog, Everest Poker, Party Poker and the OnGame Network. Recently they were considered children in a world of mature poker sites. But today their popularity has already aged them past adolescence.

The USA gambler adoption cannot be the only motive that attracting so many new gamblers to PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. These two poker giants have more comparative advantages which help them to exceed in. PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have the greatest on-line poker competition schedules for starters.

Paying attantion to the two communities’s biggest weekly events as an example, we can clearly undestand the advantage. PokerStars is in the lead here, with a weekly $1.5M GTD or PokerStars Sunday Million in other words. Full Tilt Poker’s greatest weekly is the Sunday $750k GTD. The nearest opponent here is Party Poker, with a $300k GTD each week.

Isildur1 Major Defeat – Hastings Wins $3.2 Million

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:29:32 -0500

Isildur1, who has become a recent sensation, continues his series of defeats by losing as much as $3.2 million to another Full Tilt Pro Brian Hastings.

This session started approximately in the noon, when Isildur1 played with Brian Townsend heads-up at $500/$1,000 PLO. This was definitely a long session during which over 2,400 hands were dealt. The game lasted for about four hours. During it the largest pot of that day worth $757,998 was played. It was won by Townsend, but despite this fact soon he left the table with a little more than $45 thousand in his pocket.

After Townsend departure an empty space appeared, but it was free just first six minutes. The newcomer was Brian Hastings, also known as CardRunners instructor. His seat was opposite to unknown Swedish player. So Hastings started his attack that was not very successful in the beginning as soon he was losing almost $1 million. However this was by far not the end of the night. The 2,565th hand finished with a sick $4.2 million bankroll, giving Hastings a win of crazy $3.2 million.

While playing at one of first tables Hastings sat at the one called Stony Ridge. The game was hot and players started putting as much as $100k into the pot against enormous $200k across the table by Isildur1.

During the game several pots reached $100k+ and then the largest pot of the session appeared. Isildur1 moved all-in with two top pair in his hand. He was called by Hastings who had got a straight and, consequently, won $682,994 pot. After this pot and several other wins of $100k pots he turned his staring $100k into $1.3 million and dropped the table.

Unknown Swedish player suffered major loss and the $3.2 million defeat pushed him down over $2.1 million, making his position almost the same with the one he was 5 days ago.

Titan Poker is Ready For New Year Games With $2,010 Promo

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:39:23 -0500

Titan Poker today is already preparing to commemorate the 2010 New Year with two thousand and ten dollars in daily prizes.

In all, Titan Poker will present to it’s gamblers 120,000 dollars. The gamblers will compete in a two-month span which will contain different options for competitions, cash and sit and go gamblers. Today is the date when Titan Poker starts. It is going to run nightly competitions with a buy-in of only $2.10. The first 10 gamblers in each event will have a chance not just score their normal prizes in cash, but also get access to monthly $2,010 freeroll that happens on the site.

This week also begins with three independent frequent gambler point races. One of them will be organized for cash game gamblers, the other – for sit and go gamblers and the third one for competition gamblers. Each race will suggest 2,010 dollars in prizes.

Next week, Titan Poker will present some exclusive races in which its VIP gamblers wiil take part. The prizes of these races are varing from $2,010 up to $4,020. Meantime, new depositors will get four free accesses to special $2,010 freeroll competitions. If you want to learn more details you can see the website.

Moreover, Titan Poker is going to host its 1,580 dollars buy-in, 1.5 million dollars guaranteed European Championship of On-line Poker V major event on the 6th of December.

Satellites for the event begin at only 11.90 dollars and now are running on Titan Poker.

Texas Holdem odds calculating guidance

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:56:15 -0500

All gambling depends on odds. In case when the odds of a horse which is winning a race are 10:1 against, you get ten times your wager in case if the horse you're wagering on becomes the winner of the race. In situation when the horse becomes a winner just one time but it loses ten times, you break even. If the horse becomes a winner more often you have more chances to win, less often – than you come out behind. A lot of wagers, for instance, such as a horse race, do not provide you with the possibility for repeated trials, that’s why you either have to be successful enough to have put your wager the one time out of 11 that the horse becomes the winner, or you need to make wagers continuously where the odds of success are shorter than the ones you are getting paid off at.

Pot Odds in Texas Hold'em

What concerns Pot odds in Texas Hold'em, they work like the odds in the previous example. In case when the wager is one dollar to you and there is five dollars in the pot, then we have 5:1 pot odds. Analogously to the horse race, you should win that pot once. If you five times lose then you break even. In situation when you'll become the winner more often, you have positive expected value gambling (+EV). Otherwise you have a negative expected value gambling (-EV).

Calculating Pot Odds in Poker

In most cases the wager will be more than one dollar to you. You need just to abate the ratio by dividing the sum of the pot by the sum of the wager to you. For instance, if there is a five dollars wager to you and you have an opportunity to win a 25 dollars pot, then you should divide 25 by 5 and ger 5:1 pot odds. In case when the pot is for about 100 dollars, for example 98, and the wager is 25 dollars to you, then you have about 4:1. There is no need to make exact calculations,like 3.92:1.

Using Pot Odds in Poker Games

So, now you imagine how to calculate pot odds. The next step is to get know whether you must call a wager by knowing the odds of winning the hand (poker odds, in other words). It is possible to fix it by calculating the ratio of cards that remained to cards that will make you the winner.

Poker odds in most cases come into play at the time of a drawing hand. You'll wonder if the odds the pot is suggesting you are better those which are your actual odds of hitting the hand. If you want to calculate your odds of a concrete hand you need count the number of cards that are considered to be "outs," the cards that will finish your hand, and parallel them with the number of cards that left. For instance, you have AK on a board of 3 9 5 8 and you are sure that your adversary has top pair. In this case any Ace or King will give you the pot. So, you get six outs, three of them for the remaining Aces and three more for the remaining Kings. You know your six cards. It means that the last 46 cards you have not seen. Six cards of 46 give may make you the winner and 40 do not. Then we calculate the odds ratio which is 40:6 or 6.5:1.

These calculations are not exact but simetimes it is not easy to make them in a game. That’s why you must have concrete poker odds entrusted to memory. The most important of them are listed below:

The odds of flopping a set from a pocket pair are nearly 8:1.
The odds of making a flush on the following card in case when you flop a 4 flush are nearly 4:1, when you have a chance to see both cards it is almost 2:1.
The odds of making a straight on the following card in case you are open-ended are nearly 5:1.
In situation when you have 4 outs with only one card to come you are nearly 11:1, when 2 outs then about 22:1, when just one out then 45:1.
Playing a no limit game, you will know how much to wager so that adversaries aren't getting the necessary odds to call to make an attempt to hit a draw (a pot-sized wager or bigger will play a trick on you if you're not certain).

Full Tilt Poker News - $1.1 Million Pot is Won by Isildur1

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:53:56 -0500

Isildur1, a genius of a poker world, makes his new deadly move, keeping everyone even more amazed. He manages to defeat top world’s players one by one. Not so long ago Isildur1 was not in his best state, as he lost the largest online pot to famous Full Tilt professional Patrik Antonius. Then Isildur1 faced Tom “durr” Dwan one more time and this was definitely not a happy day for Dwan as Isidur1 crushed him for enormous $650k. However, the next opponent was Phil Ivey and he stopped Isildur1’s winning march. Antonius and Ivey – only these two players have managed to defeat Isildur1. But during the latest session things have went completely out of order.

Ivey and Isildur1 had one more playing session and Ivey managed to win over $1 million until the tables started turning. Isildur1 showed aggression during preflop and Js-Ks-Jd ran at the board. The stakes ran high, the turn brought 10d and some other big raises added as much as $354K to the pot, but this was just the beginning. The next card after betting round was 5d and it only raised the stakes. Overall approximately $700K was added to the pot and the time of the show final began. Isildur1 showed his hand – Kd-4d-5h-Kc – and Ivey mucked his. Overall Isildur1 has won over $1.1 million, making this pot the second biggest in online poker history. No need to say Isildur1 took more than he previously had lost to Ivey.

Other Full Tilt Poker news is no less interesting. On December 9th a series of mini FTOPS events will take place. All players who enjoy small buy-ins, hurry up as great prizes are waiting for you. If you prefer even smaller buy-in, then you’ll certainly like multiple satellite tourneys held at Full Tilt Poker where the smallest buy-in is just $0.50. Apart from money prizes such tournaments will award seats to various tournaments. The winners will have the right to participate in the main mini FTOPS event with generous $600K prize pool. This event will be played on Sunday, December 20th.

Greg Mueller Becomes a Winner of FTOPS Event

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:27:35 -0500

The forthcoming weekend will be the final one for Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) XIV. There are just three events remained to finish it. Getting to that point, produced some thrilling results and big payouts for the best gamblers of the on-line community though.

It was Greg “FBT” Mueller who gained the second perfect victory. The double-ply WSOP bracelet victor took down event number 19, a 6-max limit hold’em competition. He banked 36 thouthand and 81 dollars for the win, but what is more astonishing, that he did it in an event where he was a host, the only other Full Tilt pro Erick Lindgren to gain the victory an FTOPS event they hosted.

It is possible to distinguish two more winners. They are Chris “Genius28” Lee and Steven “UFman2” Burkholder. The last three events will finish on Sunday.

Home Poker Tourney

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:12:27 -0500

Home Poker Tourney - Advice on how to host and run a no-limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament in your home

Full Tilt Poker Affixes Tom "durrrr" Dwan to Team Full Tilt

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:41:35 -0500

At the time of the biggest poker's weekend, with the outcome of the World Series of Poker Main Event final table taking place on Monday night, Full Tilt Poker has declared a rare supplement to Team Full Tilt. Tom "durrrr" Dwan, probably one of the greatest high stakes on-line poker gamblers in the world today is a member of one the most elite poker group of professionals.

Not fear to run the risk of millions at a time gambling the biggest on-line cash games on Full Tilt against such Team Full Tilt members as Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius and Gus Hansen the supplement is not unreasonable. Dwan has always gambled the most of his poker on Full Tilt and has even had his own tables for the "Durrrr Challenge" since the tournaments were declared to the audience earlier this year. The supplement seems like a competition made in heaven, as ultimately the game's greatest on-line celebrity will be putting a Full Tilt logo on splendidly.

According to Howard Lederer, a member of Team Full Tilt, they did not take affixing a team member lightly. But he added that Tom Dwan had proven by means of skill and active play, that he would be a force to be dealt with for a lot of years to come. Howard Lederer also said that they are proud to regard Tom as one of their own.

Patrik Antonius is the last gambler who has been added to a Team Full Tilt for about a year ago (in June of 2008). Prior to him the team was supplemented by Gus Hansen. To that time the team contained eleven members: Andy Bloch, Allen Cunningham, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Howard Lederer, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Phil Ivey and Mike Matusow.

Dwan will not only gamble on the Full Tilt tables, but moreover he will be sharing his erudition with the Full Tilt Poker Academy, where gamblers have the chance to learn from some of the best pros in the world. And that’s all free of charge. He also will be sharing his knowledge and professionalism as one of a Full Tilt Team members on an special blog that you can find on FullTiltPoker.com.

Aussie Million Seats Can Now Be Obtained Through Players Only Poker

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:31:02 -0500

Aussie Million 2010 or The 2010 Crown Australian Poker Championship is a widely known poker tournament that is going to take place on the 24th of January. The event will be held in Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. If you feel strong enough and prepared for the real battle, you can try your luck and sink to this tournament via Players Only Poker that will send its players.

Aussie Million is a big event that, actually, contains several tournaments, but Players Poker Only is going to send its players to the main event only that will make the winner AUD $2.5 million richer.

So if you want to participate in this, here is what you need to do. Aussie Million satellites last until December where packages of $13,000 dollars are main prizes for each event. The package includes AUD $10,500 buyin and hotel reservation from the 22nd of January to the 1st of February (Crown Promenade hotel). Winners also get invitations to the Welcome and Farewell parties, $1,500 dollars for other expenses and an opportunity to win generous $50,000 dollars in freeroll.

You need just 2 Gold Chips or $10.50 to participate in tournament. In case you’re not yet a member of Players Poker Only, join it today and get nice welcome bonus to your initial deposit up to $1,000 dollars!