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BBO L1 "Duke" Solid Wood Pedestal Poker Table Leg - Piano Black

2010-12-26T00:20:00.000-08:00

Solid oak, heavy duty, claw poker table legs - ready to paint or pre-finished. Turn an average poker table top into a casino ready show piece with these heavy-duty, solid oak claw poker table legs. CNC cut and professionally turned, the "Duke" pedestal table legs are sanded and prepped to be stained or painted out of the box! Sold individually, the "Duke" pedestal legs come with a solid wood oak column, as well 4 matching, hand crafted claw legs.

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Also included in your order will be the "X" mounting brace (for table mounting), and all necessary hardware. Each "Duke" leg weighs in at 27lbs, and is also available pre-finished. Duke solid wood poker table legs come with a 9" center column with 4 custom carved claw legs and a "X" mounting brace for easy mounting onto your poker table. The pre-finished legs are ready for mounting out of the box, and the unfinished versions are primed ready for paint or stain.

Keep Your Facebook Poker Chips Safe from Hackers and Phishers in Facebook Texas Holdem Poker

2010-12-25T23:47:00.000-08:00

Facebook Texas Holdem poker is one of the most popular online gaming platforms for social networking websites. With this popularity have come the hackers and phishers who endlessly try to steal players' facebook
poker chips in the game. Player forums are awash with posts by people who have had their accounts broken into by thieves looking to gain access to their accounts for the sole purpose of getting their hands on their facebook poker chips. Imagine the suprise and shock of someone who has worked weeks to build up their points in the game only to login one day and find their accounts left with 0 points. There may be ways to get your poker chips credited back to your account by contacting Facebook staff and explaining the situation, but that could take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, and even then it's not guranteed to work. The best thing to do is to take a few steps to ensure that your account doesn't get hacked in the first place:

1) Don't fall for lottery scams. One of the more popular scams making the rounds on facebook and myspace is the lottery scam, where phishers send players in the game a fake message claiming that they won an in game lottery awarding them a certain amount of facebook poker chips. Then they instruct them to click on a link or email their personal login information to a certain email address so that the points can be credited to your account. Instead of getting free chips, the hackers use their login information to empty their accounts of any chips.

2) Don't download cheat programs from sites you don't trust. Many players search the internet for cheats for facebook poker or facebook poker bots that play the game for them and win chips with the consistency of robotic programs. Hackers sometime attach trojan virus programs to these cheats or bots that install themselves on the hardrives of players who download them. Then they log their details next time they sign into Facebook or MySpace and send them via the internet to hackers waiting patiently to steal their facebook chips. Try to avoid the temptation to use facebook poker bots or cheats.

3) Don't reveal your email address on your facebook or myspace profile. Clever hackers have been known to send requests to add people with the sole purpose of obtaining their email
address from their public profile. Then they use their email address and try to guess their passwords or use 'brute force' hacking programs to automatically try common phrases used for passwords

You don't have to be a computer genius or security expert to keep your facebook poker chips safe from hackers With these steps and a little commons sense you can keep your account secure and avoid embarrassing intrusions into your social networking accounts.

Phil Laak

2010-12-25T23:36:00.000-08:00

Name: Phil Laak
DOB: 8th September 1972
Nationality: American
Tournament winnings: $1.98m
Nickname: The Unabomber
Greatest moment: Playing in five seasons of High Stakes Poker

Formerly a world-class backgammon player, Dublin-born Phil Laak made his name with a series of impressive tournament cashes on the World Poker Tour throughout 2004. Rarely seen without a hooded sweater and sunglasses, the ‘Unabomber’ quickly became famous for his table banter, great friendship with Antonio Esfandiari and string of wacky prop bets.

Laak’s biggest tournament victory to date came at the 2009 PartyPoker.com World Poker Open, where he took home $250,000 and overcame a final table including Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz and Mike Sexton. Phil is yet to secure a WSOP bracelet yet came close in 2005, finishing second in the $2,500 Pot-limit Hold’em event behind Johnny Chan.

Despite a string of successful tournament results, Laak makes his living primarily through cash games in the Los Angeles area. Laak has been a regular player on the famous TV show High Stakes Poker, competing in all seasons except for season one. Season 5 saw him tangle with Patrik Antonius in one of the series’ most talked-about hands. Laak bluffed all three streets with A-J, finally betting $80,000 on the river of a 3s-2h-4h-Ks-Qd board. Antonius, however, called with just Ts-4s to win the $287,400 pot.

Alongside best friend Antonio Esfandiari, Phil also presents the TV show I Bet You – which gives an insight into the poker pro’s high-stakes wagering on anything and everything. Phil Laak is also in a long-term relationship with Bullets Over Broadway actress and WSOP bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly.

Caro's Book of Poker Tells

2010-12-25T13:45:00.000-08:00

One of the ten greatest books written on poker, this must-have book should be in every player's library. If you're serious about winning, you'll realize that most of the profit comes from being able to read your opponents. Caro reveals the secrets of interpreting tells - physical reactions that reveal information about a player's cards - such as shrugs, sighs, shaky hands, eye contact, and many more. Learn when opponents are bluffing, when they aren't and why - based solely on their mannerisms. Over 170 photos of players in action and play-by-play examples show the actual tells. These powerful ideas will give you the decisive edge. 320 pages

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A classic, and one of the most well known books on poker, it's been published again and again under different publishers with very slight changes over the years.

It's one of the only books on tells, or body language in poker - a bit surprising, considering the hundreds of poker books in print, and the popular conception that tells are a huge part of the game.

Caro, also known as "the Mad Genius of Poker," is a top-level poker player, credited as the best draw player in the world. Or was, at least - draw poker all but died out when other forms became legal in California, and he hasn't been heard from as much since then. Regardless, he's still extremely smart, a great teacher, and is always entertaining reading.

The book covers around fifty different "tells," of various types. Some are general profiling, such as what you can infer about an unfamiliar opponent's style by the way they dress or stack their chips. Most are behavioral - what it means when someone acts immediately, without pausing to think, when someone glances down at their chips after the flop, when they "splash" chips into the pot instead of stacking them, etc. A common theme is that "strong means weak" and "weak means strong" - when they sigh and shrug their shoulders as they raise, get out. It seems so basic, but often holds true even at relatively high levels. There are logical tells too, like when a conservative player bets without looking at his last card in stud, he already has a made hand.

One tell I've found very useful is when a player's hand starts to shake uncontrollably as he or she bets on the last round. Most people's initial thought would be that they're nervous and bluffing. In reality, it usually means they have a nearly unbeatable hand. The shaking is a release of tension; a natural, involuntary response as the nervous uncertainty of the hand's outcome is resolved. The shaking is most likely to occur when the stakes are very meaningful to the player. Sometimes this one is visible even on the WPT or WSOP coverage on TV. Even those who play for thousands every day can't control their reactions when they're suddenly playing for millions.

On the downside, the book's age shows. The pictures are grainy and black-and-white, and highlight fashion trends of the 1980s. Several of the tells are specific to draw poker, like determining whether a player who draws one has two pair or a four-flush; not very useful anymore, but still interesting.

For each tell, the text estimates how many weak, average, and strong players will exhibit the specific behavior, and gives a value for how much you can gain by understanding it and being observant. These are useful as generalizations, such as which will rarely apply in a higher limit game against more experienced players, but the "value per hour" figures are crazy. At the $100 limit, various tells are supposedly worth $11/hour, $96, $43, $128, etc. If that were true, a break-even player who studied this book would suddenly be making thousands per hour.

Reading people's body language isn't nearly that big a part of poker. Most decisions at the table are fairly clear based on the cards and logic. Only in borderline situations do tells become valuable, and even then, you have to be pretty sure your read is accurate; if you fold the best hand on the end based on a read you thought was accurate, when you would have called otherwise, you've just cost yourself the whole pot.

Lots of people have bought this book, or similar material, with the idea of studying it and suddenly making a killing, with no more than a basic understanding of poker. This is misguided, and probably not possible. Technical skill and a solid understanding of poker theory and game situations are far more important. Reading people is a useful and interesting supplement to that, not a replacement for playing well.

That said, I'd recommend this book to anyone. Even casual, kitchen table players will find it readable, interesting, and useful - maybe more so than more experienced players since their opponents will have a lot of obvious tells to be read.

Types of Poker Players

2010-12-25T13:43:00.000-08:00

What type of poker player are you? What type of poker player are your opponents? If you can’t answer those two questions, you’re missing a key component of your game. Poker players are generally classified by two attributes – tight or loose and aggressive or passive. These combine to create the four main player types:

* Tight-Aggressive
* Tight-Passive
* Loose-Aggressive
* Lose-Passive

Most successful poker players fall into the Tight-Aggressive category. That is not to say that all successful players are Tight-Aggressive, because that is definitely not true. A Tight-Aggressive player will usually only see a flop with a solid hand. That is what makes them tight. When they do latch onto a good hand, they will bet very aggressively. Because they are tight, they do not bluff very often, and when they do bet, they should be taken very seriously.
A Tight-Passive player is sometimes labeled as a scared player. These players tend to only play very good hands, and they will only raise when they have a strong hand. Since they are not risk takers, these players are better suited for limit games than no-limit games. If a Tight-Passive player makes or calls a raise, you’ll usually want to get out of their way unless you’re holding a big hand.
A Loose-Aggressive player is sometimes referred to as a maniac because they will play almost any hand and bet and raise even when they have nothing. These players are outrageous bluffers, which makes it difficult to gauge when they are actually holding a strong hand and when they are making a bluff with nothing. Playing against Loose-Aggressive layers can be extremely frustrating and it can take extreme patience to take all of their chips.
A Loose-Passive players is also referred to as a “calling station” in poker slang. These players will call almost any bet with any cards, but they seldom raise or fold after seeing the flop. These players are almost impossible to bluff because it is so difficult to get them to fold.
Now that you know the types of poker players, try to classify yourself and your poker buddies into those categories. The most successful poker players don’t fit into one category precisely, because they are able to mix up their play and fit into different categories during a cash game or tournament. The more you are able to successfully mix up your style of play, the harder it will be for your opponents to get a read on you.

The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success

2010-12-25T13:40:00.000-08:00

What "secret" separates top poker players from poker wannabes?

Is it zen-like mind-reading skills, a computer-like brain or thousands of hours of play? No. It is a series of established approaches and behaviors that enables these experts to bring their "A" game to the table session after session, regardless of short-term results.

In this groundbreaking book, Taylor and Hilger lay bare the secrets of the Poker Mindset: seven core attitudes and concepts that ensure you have the optimal emotional, psychological, and behavioral framework for playing superior poker.

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The Poker Mindset deeply explores vital topics that most poker books only touch upon:
- Tilt: What it really is, why and when you are most prone to it, and how you can avoid it.
- Bankroll: A complete examination of bankroll management from a technical, but more importantly, from a psychological and emotional viewpoint.
- Opponents: How to determine your competitors' mental and emotional processes so that you can dominate, out think and outplay them.
- Downswings: Every poker player experiences them, but you will truly understand and be armed against low ebbs when they occur.
- Bad Beats: The Poker Mindset will enable you to overcome the trauma of bad beats and losing big pots.

Poker is a fun game, but it is even more fun when you win. The Poker Mindset may be the most valuable poker book you will ever read. Embrace its concepts and you can overcome the unseen obstacles that are limiting your success at the table.

When you make the Poker Mindset your mindset, you will take control of your game and walk away a winner.
About the Author
About Matthew Hilger
Matthew Hilger's interest in professional poker is three-fold: playing, writing, and managing poker content websites. His first two books, Internet Texas Hold'em and Texas Hold'em Odds and Probabilities, became best-selling poker books around the world.

Matthew received his bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Georgia in 1989. He completed a master's degree in Finance at Georgia State University in 1991 as well as a master's degree in International Business from Thunderbird in 1996. Prior to embarking on a poker career, Matthew worked in various accounting, finance, and consulting positions.

Matthew cashed eight times at the World Series of Poker between 2004 and 2006, including one final table and a 33rd place finish in the main event. He also won the 2002 New Zealand Poker Championship.

About Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor is a professional poker player and writer. His articles have appeared in a number of websites and publications, mainly focusing on poker psychology, variance, and emotional control. You can find Ian posting on a regular basis in the Forum discussion group at InternetTexasHoldem.com.

Ian received a degree in economics from the University of Warwick in 1999, completing a thesis on risk tolerance and gambling. He worked in the IT sector for a number of years before embarking on a professional poker career.

The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition

2010-12-25T13:37:00.000-08:00

The professionals of Full Tilt Poker include the best and most famous poker players in the world. Their accomplishments are unparalleled, with countless World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour championships to their names and well in excess of $100 million in winnings in private games.

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Now, this group of poker legends has banded together to create THE FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE, which will stand as an instant classic of the genre and is sure to become the industry standard.

Texas Holdem – Analyzing the Flop

2010-12-25T13:34:00.000-08:00

Most of your important decisions in Texas Holdem poker take place on the flop. That’s why the ability to analyze the flop is essential for your long term results in Texas holdem poker.

You will not get anywhere in Texas holdem if you aren’t able to read the flop properly. Reading the flop means knowing what hands it makes possible, knowing what your own possibilities are as well as your opponents’. You must also understand how the texture of the flop influences the game, that is, how threatening the flop is – to you as well to your opponents.

There are a number of patterns you need to be looking for on each and every flop. They may show up alone or in combinations. Each of those patterns, or structures, gives rise to a certain type of post flop play, all of which you must learn to master.

Let’s walk through those patterns one at a time.

Possible straights

If there are three cards with two gaps or less between them, someone may have a ready-made straight. For example, if the flop comes 9-8-5, T-9-8, or 3-2-A.

Of course, the chance that someone actually has a made straight depends on what precise cards arte required. Q-J-T makes a lot more straights than 7-5-3, since it’s much more likely that someone who has stayed in to see a flop has A-K, K-9 or 9-8 than 6-4 in the hand. Hands like 6-4 are very often thrown away preflop.

This kind of board is pretty infrequent though, and if it’s you who have the straight, you typically won’t get a lot of action from the opponents, since the straight is so obvious and the pot is usually relatively small at this stage.

Possible flush

If all three cards are of the same suit, someone might have a made flush. Just like with the straights above, this doesn’t happen often, and if you have a flush here you often won’t get paid a lot, unless an opponent has another flush that is lower than yours. Which is really rare.

When you flop a made straight of flush, you may be tempted to slow play it in order to entice a bet from another player rather than scaring everyone off. That might be okay, but don’t overdo it. Your hand is never the absolute nuts, there are always cards that may come on the board that will look really bad for your hand.

For example, if the board pairs, your flush may not be good anymore, or if you have a straight and the board flushes.

Pairs on board

With a pair on the board, a lot of dangerous hands become possible: quads and full houses as well as trips and two pair. Once the board is paired, the value of straights and flushes go down, the value of straight draws and flush draws too.

If you get a lot of action on a paired board, you must be able to lay down for example a flush. At the same time, a paired board is a good bluff opportunity, both for you and your opponent. So don’t fold your flush automatically. Think it through!

Also remember that when a pair is on the board, hands like three of a kind and two pair are much weaker than if the board is un-paired. You may be up against one of those super strong hands just mentioned, or else someone may simply have the same trips with a better kicker.

Straight draws

If two board cards are within two gaps or closer, someone may have flopped a straight draw. This means that if you have a made hand, like two pair or trips, you’ll need to protect your hand. Meaning, you have to bet properly to put any drawing hands to the test.

This doesn’t mean that you should bet twice the pot or even move all in, that may be a bit over-protective. Just make a well sized bet so you don’t give away free cards to the drawing hands. Then, if a card arrives that could have filled someone’s straight, then you need to decide if it’s actually the case or not. It’s not easy to separate made hands from bluffs – but that’s poker.

Flush draws

Flush draws are possible as soon as there are two cards of the same suit at the board. Just as with straight draws, a made hand needs protection through a decent bet.

If you flopped a flush draw yourself, you should be aware that there are usually nine cards in the deck that will make it for you, which means you have odds 4-1 on the next street and 2-1 if you get to see two more cards.

Also realize that if you make a flush on a later street, you’ll often not get paid very much since the flush is pretty obvious. People notice when there are three hearts on the board, and they typically won’t give you much action. Unless they happen to have a strong hand, like a lower flush.

Straights are often much harder to see. Imagine a flop of A-8-4. You bet out with A-K and get one caller. The turn comes a 6. The pot is getting bigger, and you want it. You bet and the opponent re-raises. Would you really put him on 7-5? It’s pretty hard to believe. Also, players often may not even notice that a straight has become possible.

If a player draws to a straight and a flush simultaneously, there may be as much as 15 cards that fill at least one of those hands.

Of course, both potential straights and potential flushes give players opportunities to bluff. If you consider drawing to a flush, check if a straight draw is also possible, in which case you have a second way out if you don’t make your flush: representing the straight.

High cards or low cards

If the pot comes with one, two or three high cards, chances are that someone has made a connection to his or her hand. At the flop, high cards are much more likely than low cards in players’ hands, since people tend to fold hands with low cards preflop.

This kind of flop leads to a lot of action, and you have to be well aware of your chances as well as the dangers involved. Fasten your seat belt!

High cards also present you with some bluff potential, since they look scary to the other guy. Of course, this is a sword that cuts both ways.

On the other hand, if the flop holds low cards only, it’s very possible that it missed all players. If you raised preflop with a high pair, you’re probably still good after a low flop, even if it actually missed you as well. You can play your overpair strongly here.

On the other hand, the fact that it’s hard to lay down premium starting hands against low boards has given rise to a whole new strategy concept – set mining. This consists of taking flops with low pairs and hoping to hit a set. Then the idea is that your opponent who’s playing a strong starting hand will pay you off big time even though he missed the flop, since he can’t get away from his premium hand and the low board looks innocuous.

For set mining to show long time profitability, a few requirements must be in place. The opponent must have a strong hand. For example, a raise in early position from a tight opponent is a good signal of strength. Also, both you and the opponent must have big stacks, so you can win really big when you hit your set – to compensate for all the times when you miss (7 out of 8 times).

Combining the board and your hand

As a last step in the Texas holdem flop analysis, you should compare the board to your own hand. This can led you to some pretty strong conclusions.

For example, if the flop comes Q-J-6 and you have a pair of tens, the risk for straight draws is much decreased, since you hold half the tens need to form a straight. You have straight blockers.

Or if a player raises preflop, you have an ace in your hand and the flop comes A-A-5, it’s suddenly quite unlikely that the opponent has an ace – there’s only one ace left unseen.

Once you have learned to read the board, this kind of combined analysis is the next step to perfection in texas holdem.

Poker Pro Erica Schoenberg

2010-12-25T13:29:00.000-08:00

Name: Erica Schoenberg
Age: 31
Current Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
Relationship Status: in a relationship with fellow poker player David Benyamine

Erica Schoenberg is a classic example of what you call a lucky beauty. She’s drop dead gorgeous but gentlemen, really sorry to break your hearts as the Ohio-born Erica is currently in a relationship with high stakes poker player David Benyamine. Before going pro at poker, The 31 year-old has worked as a pro beach-volleyball tournament trainer, personal trainer and a kickboxing instructor.

Erica’s Top Placings: 16th in the 2006 World Poker Tour $25,000 championship, 3rd in the 2007 World Series of Poker, won the $2,500 No Limit Hold’em Mandalay Bay Poker Championship.

Poker Rakeback Tips and Strategies

2010-12-25T13:26:00.000-08:00

Once you have signed up to your chosen online poker room and have a rakeback deal in place it is worth knowing a few tips on how to maximize your rake back return. Here are a few tips compiled by the team at rakebackpoker to give you a bit of a head start when playing cash games. There are cash game tips in total but please check out our full poker rakeback tips and strategy articles.
5 Tips to make you a better cash game player

Cash games, also known as ring games, is where players bring real money to the table and are defined by the fact that the game has “no pre-determined end time”. Players may come and go as they please and bring more funds from their bankroll to the table if they need to. The great thing about cash games is that your potential winnings are only capped by the amount of money that all the players have at the table. Even at very small No Limit stakes, single pots of $100+ can be won. Cash games are riskier than tournaments and if you play too loosely or are very unlucky, you are likely to lose more than you would in tournaments.

Cash games are played for “table stakes”. On Betfair Poker, players can play from as little at 5cents/10cents blinds right up to huge stakes such as $1,000/$2,000. These blind levels do not increase as they do in tournaments and this is one of the reasons why cash games require different basic poker strategy.

1. Look out for the Loose Players

If you are playing at poker rooms like Cake or Interpoker then it is likely that you will be playing with some very loose players. This is great because they both calculate rake with a contributed method so you will earn more rakeback playing cash games. One sign of a loose player is if they post their blinds too quickly, it shows they are careless with their money and are willing to gamble. If you are a solid tight player and wait for the optimum time against a loose player they will gamble big usually resulting in a big win for you.

2. Pick your Tables

When choosing a cash game online, look at the players at the table spot the regulars and stay away from that table. At most Rakeback Poker Rooms you will have a variety of tables to chose from and are able to view whose playing, how much money they have, how many flops per hour and the average pot. When you see a table that has a high Average Pot it usually means it’s a loose table a lot of money is being tossed around. This little tip offers an extra edge in your profit per hour.

3. Table Hop

Use online poker to your advantage and don’t be scared to hop around and find the juiciest table. If the game isn’t good, the table is too tight, too many good players then leave. You should table hop find the best game and then glue yourself to the seat. This is also the case for if you are losing, don’t be stuck to your chair if you’re down – try another table. To be a consistent winning poker player you need to look for all the little edges around you, and use them to your advantage.

4. Use the power of bankroll in No Limit Cash Games

No Limit Cash Games give you the option to buy in for a minimum or maximum amount. Choose a table that has a lot of minimum buy in as this is often an indication of loose or low confidence players. A tip from regular professional poker players is to buy in for the maximum at a no limit cash game. A bigger bankroll is intimidating to a lot of players and can often give the first impression to new players to the table that he is a good player. Plus you always want to have enough money in your bankroll to cover anyone at the table.

5. Know when to walk away

Every poker player in the world loses, that’s a part of the game and if you’re able to leave a game with a loss without even hesitating then you’ll end up winning a lot more in the long run. The natural thinking of the brain is to stay and get your money back; it takes a lot of discipline and skill to know when to leave a game. Once your able to conquer this inner psychological trait that every human being posses, then you are a good player.

Harrington on Hold 'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, Vol. 1: Strategic Play

2010-12-25T13:09:00.000-08:00

Poker has taken America by storm. But it s not just any form of poker that has people across the country so excited it s No-Limit Hold Em the main event game. And now thanks to televised tournaments tens of thousands of new players are eager to claim their share of poker glory.

Harrington on Hold Em takes you to the part of the game the cameras ignore the tactics required to get through the hundreds and sometimes thousands of hands you must win to make it to the final table. Harrington s sophisticated and time-tested winning strategies, focusing on what it takes to survive the early and middle stages of a No-Limit Hold Em tournament, are appearing here for the first time in print. These are techniques that top players use again and again to get to make it to final tables around the globe.

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Now, learn from one of the world s most successful No-Limit Hold Em players how to vary your style, optimize your betting patterns, analyze hands, respond to a re-raise, play to win the most money possible, react when a bad card hits and much, much more.

Dan Harrington won the gold bracelet and the World Champion title at the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold Em Championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. And he was the only player to make it to the final table in 2003 (field of 839) and 2004 (field of 2576) considered by cognoscenti to be the greatest accomplishment in WSOP history. In Harrington on Hold Em, Harrington and 2-time World Backgammon Champion Bill Robertie have written the definitive book on No-Limit Hold Em for players who want to win ... and win big.
About the Author
Dan Harrington began playing poker professionally in 1982. On the circuit he is known as Action Dan, an ironic reference to his solid but effective style. He has won several major no-limit hold em tournaments including the European Poker Championships (1995), the $2,500 No-Limit Hold em event at the 1995 World Series of Poker, and the Four Queens No-Limit Hold em Championship (1996).

Dan began his serious games-playing with chess, where he quickly became a master and one of the strongest players in the New England area. In 1972 he won the Massachusetts Chess Championship, ahead of most of the top players in the area. In 1976 he started playing backgammon, a game which he also quickly mastered. He was soon one of the top money players in the Boston area, and in 1981 he won the World Cup of backgammon in Washington D.C., ahead of a field that included most of the world s top players.

He first played in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold em Championship Event of the World Series of Poker in 1987. He has played in the championship a total of 15 times and has reached the final table in four of those tournaments, an amazing record. Besides winning the World Championship in 1995, he finished sixth in 1987, third in 2003, and fourth in 2004. In 2006 he finished second at the Doyle Brunson North American Championships at the Bellagio, while in 2007 he won the Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Club. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most respected no-limit hold em players, as well as a feared opponent in both no-limit and limit hold em side games. He lives in Santa Monica where he is a partner in Anchor Loans, a real estate business.

Bill Robertie has spent his life playing and writing about chess, backgammon, and now poker. He began playing chess as a boy, inspired by Bobby Fischer s feats on the international chess scene. While attending Harvard as an undergraduate, he became a chess master and helped the Harvard chess team win several intercollegiate titles. After graduation, he won a number of chess tournaments, including the United States Championship at speed chess in 1970. He also established a reputation at blindfold chess, giving exhibitions on as many as eight boards simultaneously.

In 1976 he switched from chess to backgammon, becoming one of the top players in the world. His major titles include the World Championship in Monte Carlo in 1983 and 1987, the Black & White Championship in Boston in 1979, the Las Vegas tournaments in 1980 and 2001, the Bahamas Pro-Am in 1993, and the Istanbul World Open in 1994.

He has written several well-regarded backgammon books, the most noted of which are Advanced Backgammon (1991), a two-volume collection of 400 problems, and Modern Backgammon (2002), a new look at the underlying theory of the game. He has also written a set of three books for the beginning player: Backgammon for Winners (1994), Backgammon for Serious Players (1995), and 501 Essential Backgammon Problems (1997).

From 1991 to 1998 he edited the magazine Inside Backgammon with Kent Goulding. He owns a publishing company, the Gammon Press, and lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife Patrice.

Red Felt Poker Chip Table with Dark Wooden Race Track & 10 Cup Holders with Solid Wood Construction

2010-12-25T13:04:00.000-08:00

This is our red poker table with racetrack and stainless steel cup holders. This poker table has a vinyl rail with extra thick foam padding. The racetrack is wooden with a dark wood veneer that enhances the luxurious look of this poker table. This poker table has two sets of folding legs that allows for easy set up and convenient storage. The table playing surface is also padded to reduce chip bounce and minimize messy pots.

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Trademark Poker Full Size Texas Hold'em 83 x 44-Inch Poker Table (Green Felt)

2010-12-25T13:02:00.000-08:00

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Evil facebook poker bots..

2010-12-25T12:15:00.000-08:00

The most frequent comments and emails I receive are probably about facebook poker cheats and whether I know where to find them. The second most common question I get is about facebook poker bots or zynga poker bots and whether they actually exist. As I’m sure you well know by now, a poker bot is an computer program that completely automates the process of playing poker for you, in theory winning you facebook poker chips while you snooze or clean the house or look at online porn (yea we all know about that). They have been in use in real money poker games on the internet for years now, with some people claiming to make be making thousands of dollars a day or week by using them.

Whether or not these claims are true is irrelevant, as there is simply no way to prove or disprove such claims because anyone who uses these programs would never announce it to the world due to the fact that they are illegal on most poker sites and are grounds to have your account banned if caught using them. These poker bots are extremely good at emulating human play though, so it’s next to impossible for sites like poker stars or full tilt to actually catch the bot users. Since there’s a lot of money in for real money bots there’s a big incentive for producing working programs for these games. But what about facebook poker? Would anyone really invest that much time in to such a complex program that can only win facebook poker chips?

Apparently there is or was a working facebook poker bot at one time that players could download and read about at http://www.botage.com. While I don’t know whether it works the way it claims to, I guess it answers the questions of whether or not someone would really spend the time to make a working facebook poker bot. It probably doesn’t work anymore and I don’t advocate using or downloading bots for poker games anyway, so anything on that site is meant strictly for entertainment or educational purposes.

Everyone thinks they’re a pro in facebook poker.

2010-12-25T12:13:00.000-08:00

Anyone who watches an episode of the world series of poker thinks they’re a seasoned pro. But if you find yourself playing like a donkey, here’s some tips to improve your game and help you win more facebook pokerchips:

Minimize losses while maximizing gains.

In orther words, make strong bets on hands that have the highest odds of winning, while letting go of and folding the weaker hands that people tend to chase unsuccessfully. Whats this mean for you? Don’t call huge raises when you only have a pair, hoping to land the three of a kind. You’re just wasting your facebook poker chips. On the other hand, if you flow the flush or trips, bet strongly with guns blazing. This is how facebook chips are won.

Learn patience and self discipline.

This ties in with the previous point about playing good hands strongly. But in order to get those strong hands you must show disclipline and patience and fold a lot of weaker hands that only serve to whittle away at your facebookpokerchips stack when you chase them. While this sounds like an easy concept, it is in fact, one of the hardest principles to learn in facebook texas holdem poker. Players chase garbage hands all the time simply because they want to be involved in the hand “just incase” their cards fall. The few times that they kick themselves for folding because their flush showed up only strengthens the “I shoulda played it out” mentality, because they forget about the 1000 times they actually did play it out and lost.

Manage your facebook pokerchips.

Doyle Brunson once said “texas holdem is like a job, the more hours you work, the more money you’ll make” Facebook chip management means, to put it simply, knowing when to get out of the game and when to stay in. If the table is hot and the other players are loose and wild, stay. If you notice theres some really skilled players sitting with you, get up and look for another table.

Observe other players

If you don’t waste too much time getting involved in weak hands that never materilize, you can spend more time observing the other players at the table. This is infinitely more valuable than chasing hands and will make you a better poker player in the long run. Pay close attention to what they’re doing right and the mistakes they make. Winning facebook poker chips is all about correcting your own mistakes.

Don’t be too predictable

Try to vary your play. Even if you aren’t paying attention to the other players at the table, you can be sure that the more skilled amongst them are watching you carefully. So while you’re watching the latest episode of House on hulu.com, they’re watching how you react to big raises, all in bets, reraises, etc and making mental notes. If you play too predictable, they will be able to predict within reason the type of hand you have. This is why it’s important sometimes to just “go nuts” without sacrificing too many facebook poker chips. If you have an opportunity to do something illogical and unreasonable without risking too many facebook chips, and if it offers a reasonable chance that you might win a big pot if it turns out the way you hope, go for it. It’l keep your opponents from labeling you as any specific type of player and the next time you make a big raise or go all in, they won’t know if its just another crazy move or if you really have the best hand.

9 mistakes you probably make in Facebook Texas Holdem Poker

2010-12-25T12:10:00.000-08:00

Make sure you’re not wasting your facebook poker chips in Facebook Texas Holdem by making these amateur mistakes.

1- Too Much Bluffing – Sometimes winning facebook poker chips with a bluff is more exciting than winning with a good hand, leading many facebook texas holdem poker players to overbluff in the game.

2- Focus On Your Own Cards - Pay attention to your possible outs and the strength of your hand relative to the cards on the table.

3- Betting With a Mediocre Hand on the River – It’s usually not a smart move to bet with facebook poker chips on the river.

4- Too Much Slow Playing – Hiding your strong hand and deceiving opponents while forcing them to feed facebook poker chips into the pot is always fun, but too much of this can bite you in the ass if you don’t consider the type of hands your opponents might be drawing on.

5- Checking the Bettor – Don’t let opponents see “free cards” if you have a strong hand. Bet aggressively when you believe you have the strongest hand.

6- Not Wanting to Get Bluffed – Some players will continue playing and calling bets of facebook pokerchips even when they have a bad hand, simply because of ego or not wanting to get bluffed out of a pot.

7- Mood Related Mistakes – It’s normal to get angry after a big loss or missed opportunity, but if you let your emotions make the call on the next hand you’ll only dig yourself a depper hole in facebook poker.

8- Under Betting the Pot – When you feel someone is on a draw and waiting for their cards to fall, make strong bets to force your opponents to make a bad decision.

9- Wrong Bluffing Amounts – Will a million facebook texas holdem poker chips force out your opponents? How about twenty million? You have to accurately gauge what a “big bet” is when trying to decide if it will force them to lay down their hand, otherwise you are just throwing away your chips for the benefit of whoever has the strongest hand.

Winning facebook chips with the “sometimes concept”

2010-12-25T12:08:00.000-08:00

The easiest players to play against in facebook texas holdem poker are those that are consistent. The ones who always raise with certain hands, fold on other ones, go all in when they flop a flush or straight, etc. A facebook poker player can be tight, agressive, loose, or any other playing style they choose that wins them facebook poker chips, but when they begin to become too consistent they give away their edge and allow more experienced players to gain too much insight into their poker strategy.

For example, a good facebook poker player who studies texas holdem strategy extensively and tries to implement it at the tables during tournaments or games might find themselves being outplayed by other players because they’ve read the very same strategy pointers, tips, strategy book and watched the same videos. Once they recognize that you’re a “by the book” player who raises when he should and checks and folds when its statistically optimal, they can use that very same strategy against you to take all your facebook poker chips.

So how can this be countered? It’s quite simple really. “Sometimes” you need to do the oppositve of what you normally would do in any given situation. This doesn’t mean you should be calling raises of hundreds of millions of facebook poker chips with 7♣ 2♥, but if you can change up your normal texas holdem strategy just a little, you can throw off more experienced players from reading your every move and predicting your next one. The best part about the “sometimes” concept is that you only have to use it “sometimes”, meaning just enough times to keep your opponents wondering if “this time” is one of the times you’re messing around with them or whether you reall just flopped a monster hand.

Are facebook poker bots any better at winning facebook poker chips than..your cat?

2010-12-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

Lately it seems that everyone and their mother is after a working facebook poker bot to help them win more facebook poker chips. But can a bot really play facebook texas holdem poker well enough to win you chips reliably on a regular basis? Are facebook poker bots really just a set it and forget it program that you can leave running overnight so you can wake up in the morning to 100 million facebook poker chips? Despite endless searching on poker forums, there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward answer.

Poker bots tend to fall into 1 of 3 main categories:

1) Independently programmed bots: These bots do exactly what the name implies, they read the cards you’re dealt and then automatically respond by clicking check, raise, fold etc. Their decisions are based upon a very detailed and complicated set of algorithms that must be programmed into them so that they have a clear set of instructions on what to do in each situation. These are usually very advanced and a person needs to have a good understanding of programming to be able to tweak and modify these types of bots to customize their levels of play.

2) Third party decision brain bots: These types of bots are created by third parties and usually consist of a pre-written odds calculators that instantly calculates the number of outs and percentages of winning for each hand. Some examples of these are Poker Inspector and Poker Android. Some of these programs feed you the odds of each hand and let you decide how many facebook poker chips to wager, while others make the decision for you.

3) Stand alone applications: These types of bots are hard to find, and are usually the most advanced because of the amount of variable they take into consideration, such as number of players, previous hand betting etc.

So do any of these facebook poker bots actually work well enough to consistently win facebook poker chips, or would you better off buying your cat a laptop to grind away at the poker tables all day? Judging by the information available online, unless you have a good understanding of programming or at least a very good understanding of computers in general, it’s going to be very difficult for anyone to use one of these programs because of the level of customization needed to obtain success. You will never find an out of the box poker bot that is ready to go with one click, there are always variables that need to be set to acclimate the program to the unique game that you are playing.

In other words, unless you know what you’re doing, you’d probably be better off buying your cat a laptop.

How to get your Facebook Poker account unbanned

2010-12-25T11:59:00.000-08:00

Players in Facebook Poker have been known to get their accounts banned for a number of reasons. Swearing at the tables, being abusive to other players in the games, dodging blinds at the tables, using multiple accounts, or even posting photos of your girlfriend dressed as a half naked teddy bear (am I the only one?)

Whatever the reason may be for having your facebook poker chips frozen or your account suspended, it usually ends up coming as a suprise to most players who are horrified to find out they’ve been banned the next time they log into their Facebook or MySpace accounts to play a few hands of Texas Holdem Poker. Are these suspensions the results of totalitarian game administrators hell bent on banning everyone’s account so players will buy more facebook chips (like some people claim on internet forums) or is it just the efforts of game developers trying to keep their virtual environments a safe and friendly place for gamers to have fun and socialize?

Although I’m sure there have been many cases where game administrators overstepped their duties and unfairly banned the accounts of some Facebook Poker players, for the most part, people get their accounts banned because they broke the rules meant to bring order to social gaming worlds. Without a little order, let’s face it, these games would quickly turn into competitions to see who can insult an opponent the most rather than who can win the most facebook poker chips.

Here is what you can do to get your facebook chips back and your account unfrozen:

• Contact the game developers directly and fill out a support ticket. There are millions of players in Facebook Poker games so a little patience is needed until you receive a response. Most developers get back to you in 1-3 days, though sometimes it can take a week or more to get your issue resolved if they have to pull up your account to confirm or disprove any supposed abuses.

• Don’t be a jackass when writing to them. Insulting them won’t get you priority service. And don’t write an essay about your life either, they don’t need to know how you’ve been divorced 6 times, lost all your limbs in Vietnam, or how your mother forced you shave her legs with a dull razor and traumatized you when you were a child. Keep your communication short, sweet, and to the point and be sure to include a link to your profile so they know who you are.

Will you always get your account and facebook poker chips back? Ofcourse not. Some players are just psychos incapable of socializing in the real world let alone a virtual one where they have the advantage of being nearly anonymous. It’s only reasonable that game admins would not want to let some socially malformed players back into the game. If you fit this description, you’d probably be better off microwaving puppies or throwing bricks off freeway overpasses anyway, rather than playing online poker.

Zynga Texas Holdem players can contact Zynga here: Zynga Poker

What makes a bad facebook poker player?

2010-12-25T11:56:00.000-08:00

As with almost all things in this life, most people don’t like taking responsability for their shortcomings or mistakes. Burn down your house? It’s the toasters fault. Crash your car? A dog ran across the road officer. Lose your job? Bankrupt a company? Cheat on your wife? “Not my fault!”

It would seem that the same thing applies to facebook poker, noone likes to admit when they’re a bad player, so if they lose all their facebook poker chips it’s generally someone elses fault.. so they say. They’ll blame it on other players, their internet connection, horrible luck, the alignment of the stars – anything to avoid having to admit that they might have played poorly or made a bad decision. Here are a few qualities of exceptionally bad poker players, which ones apply to you?

1) You hate math - At its most fundamental level, poker is a game all about numbers. What are your pot odds? How many outs do you have? What percentage of the pot should you raise when you have a good hand? These can all be answered with even the most basic level of statistical and mathematical knowledge, no more complicated than what you might learn in the 10th grade. But most people just refuse to use it, either from an inability to understand it or mental laziness. You don’t have to be a math genius to figure out that if you have a pocket pair you have a 1 in 8 chance of getting three of a kind on the flop. Knowing this would help you decide how many facebook poker chips to bet instead of just making blind raises.

2) You have no discipline - Ask the pros in poker what they believe their best quality to be and most of them will tell you it’s their discipline. Anyone can read a book about poker or watch the WSOP tournaments on television, but it takes strict discipline to win consistently at poker. If you can’t be discriplined at the poker tables, you’re susceptiple to spells of boredom that will cause you to call when you should fold, raise when you should check, etc. Without discipline any bad beat can easily put you on tilt and make you lose all your facebook poker chips.

3) You’re shortsighted - No I don’t mean you wear glasses or have contacts, but rather you can’t see the forest for the trees. In other words, you don’t plan for the long term. You may be great for those first 1000 hands of poker and maybe you can even win yourself a nice stack of facebook pokerchips to make you look like a bigshot. But what good is working for all those chips if you always sit at a table with your whole stack? You might convince yourself that you’d never go all in unless you have a royal flush, but emotions always tend to make people do illogical things at inopportune times. You may think you have the perfect hand and someone elses “more perfect” hand will knock you right on your ass. If you didn’t plan for the future and keep some chips on the side you are now broke and out of the game. Always keep some chips aside for a rainy day. Otherwise you’ll find yourself constantly scrambling to buy facebook poker chips again.

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4) You’re emotionally imballanced - This one is pretty straightforward. If you’re a little on the crazy side, if you’re prone to emotional outbursts, or have an overall dramatic personality, poker may not be the game for you. If you’re an emotional wreck in real life chances are you will carry this over to the poker table. You won’t be able to recognize when you’ve starting tilting and playing angry and you certainly won’t know when to stand up and walk away from the game and take a breather. Emotional players tend to play with an all or nothing mentality, for example “I’m either gonna win back all my facebook chips or go broke”. Emotions and poker don’t mix.

5) You can’t stand losing - This ties in with being emotionally imbalanced but it’s a very big factor of being a bad facebook poker player. If you feel that losing a hand is an insult to your ego or manhood or pride, then you should try playing shuffleboard instead. Losing is as much a part of poker as death is a part of life, it’s inevitable and it eventually happens to everyone, get used to it.

6) You need to see instant results - Patience is another quality bad texas holdem poker players lack. If they sit at a table and don’t flop a straight within 20 hands they start cursing their luck or going on about what a terrible night it is. If this sounds like you, then you might be a bad facebook poker player. You’d be better off renting a movie and cooling off a bit.

7) You hate chance – This is an important one, because lets face it, no matter how good you are or how many hands you’ve played or how many facebook poker chips you’ve won, at the end of the day chance and luck rule the field, especially in the short term. Are the players who win the world series of poker tournaments in las vegas the best players in the world? Of course not, but they’re all great players who happened to find a streak of luck and were able to use their skills to take advantage of that streak and make it to the top. Maybe the players who lost even played better than them and by all logical conclusions should have won, but logic and poker don’t always go hand in hand. Sometimes the donkey who calls with nothing will beat your flopped straight because he caught the flush on the river and ended up winning all your facebook poker chips.

If all these sound too familiar and you’re starting to think I might be talking about you, then maybe it’s time you starting taking the time to improve or change your playing style. Nobody want’s to be a facebook poker donkey.

Can multi-tabling win you more chips?

2010-12-25T11:53:00.000-08:00

What is multi-tabling in facebook poker? Multi-tabling is simply playing in more than one table, and usually more than 3 or 4 at the same time with the hope of winning more facebook poker chips. This is something that can only be done for online texas holdem games because obviously it wouldn’t be possible for someone to run around to more than one table playing different hands in real life.

What are the benefits of multi-tabling, and can you really win more facebook poker chips by doing it? Is it against the rules in facebook poker? We’ll there is nothing against the rules about playing in multiple tables as you are not violating any of the game makers’ Terms of Service by playing in more than one room at a time. And yes, you can win more facebook poker chips by doing it, as long as you follow a few simple pointers:

- Open a new browser for each additional room you intend to play in and resize it so that it fits onto your screen. If you’re playing in 2 facebook poker rooms place the browsters next to each other, if you’re playing in 4 tables, place the browser windows on top of each other, just as if you were stacking 4 boxes. Never open a new table in the same browser using the “tabs” feature as this will most likely cause your browser to crash and throw you out of the table.

- Firefox handles flash better than Internet explorer does and is much more stable. You can download Firefox direct from Mozilla.

- Close any programs that aren’t essential. Running multiple games of facebook poker in browsers can strain your computer system’s resources and if you’re chatting it up on MSN while watching clips of Girls Gone Wild on YoutTube at the same time, sooner or later your computer is going to freeze up and crash and eject you from all the tables.

- Forget about chatting in the chatbox. It might be fun to flirt or talk to friends when you’re playing in a single room, but multi tabling takes concentration and focus. Is it worth giving up a hand of a few million facebook poker chips when the timer runs out just to tell the hot girl seated across from you that you wana lick her face? Probably not, and “she” is probably a 45 year old man from Lebanon anyway.

The main advantage of playing in multiple tables in facebook texas holdem poker is that it allows you to see more hands than you normally would, letting you play a greater range of cards in a short amount of time. Any decent and careful player should be able to take advantage of this and use it their advantage to win more facebook poker chips. On the otherhand, if you play like a drunken monkey in heat and have the concentration of a stick you may want to think about passing on multi tabling.

Tips to Get More Zynga Poker Chips

2010-12-25T11:49:00.000-08:00

Playing the Game of Hold 'Em

You park yourself down at the poker table. You see 8 other people.

If so, then leave.

Your odds greatly improve for winning faster chips at the 5 seated accommodation tables on Zynga's servers. Everyone nowadays has the same initiative and chip stacking goals you do, so you have to outfox them with skill, technique and a little luck. This pays great dividends, trust me. I've gone from 10,000 poker chips to about a million in a single day. Then back to 10k a day later. This happens thanks to the never-ending server list of city names, countries, capitals and bot players using them. With so many people on Facebook and Myspace, these mega socials sites that host this Zynga game make chips easily available by joining the page and activating the app in your networking homepage, starts you off with an average of 2,000 chips. This is okay, but most of the time after logging on and sitting at a table via the server, almost everyone has more than you.

Play the "Turn", not the "River"

Play the turn card, or fourth card, if your hand sucks by this point, considering you already have three of kind, and cards are consecutive, get out of the hand. Someone has a straight in Zynga poker and will more than likely take your chips. By betting the river you have a 1 in 12 chance of scoring the card you need, unless it's a flush, but for the most part just fold. In rare occurrences, if you have a flush with the first five cards makes sure you have the Ace in that suit, and let the betters bet, if you raise too early people will get the picture, and not give up anything. This is done to let the aggressor bet, while you just sit and then check, always call, then get that fake Zynga chip chip count rising.

Getting an Advantage by the Dealer Chip

The flops in Zynga Hold 'Em are totally kiddish. I've seen four of a kind aces so many times. Watch for people that change their seats every other hand. They feel by avoiding the dealer button and sitting down where they won't have to pay after they've pushed the big blind that this gives them some sort of clever edge in taking the next pot. On second thought, just ignore these idiots. Most can't speak English anyway, so cursing at them won't help. You're not allowed to swear in there. Truth is, there is no gain or benefit by doing this, it's just it gives the player a different batch in the deck and an alternative chance of winning the next few hands. Never Go "All In" before Seeing the Flop

Never bet or raise extensively until you get an idea of what kind of cards are going to be spat out by the blonde mute sitting center face. I've lost at tables where players know each other and go all in on purpose to get your chips! This is a golden rule in staying afloat in your chip count. It only works one out of five times and the pots you win only double your bet. This is like most hands, unless you beat out several people with shitty hands, and that hardly ever happens.

Getting a Royal Flush

The odds are very slim to get a royal flush in poker. On Zynga it's the same. I've played my 12,000th hand today and got it. Club flush. Don't be picky for a suit, it comes when it does. Have fun and be patient when playing this game, it's all about the thrill of winning.

Zynga Poker on Facebook

2010-12-25T11:43:00.000-08:00

To play Zynga Poker on Facebook, all that is required is a valid Facebook account. Once you have signed up, you can play with your friends and complete in various Texas Holdem leagues and tournaments for prizes.

Texas Holdem Poker itself is an easy to learn card game which focuses on betting, raising, and folding. Each player is given a two card hand, at which point they may choose to continue with the betting or fold and lose no chips. Three cards are then drawn from the deck which every player can use in conjunction with their two card hand to form any combination of cards, ranging from pairs to triples to five card flushes and straights.

The online variant plays in exactly the same manner, except the chips are virtual, and there is no real money involved. Poker has always been a popular online game but when used in combination with Facebook friends, it can on a new twist. Many Zynga games have a few hidden Easter eggs and cheats that can add interest to the game.

Zynga Poker is an online version of Texas Holdem Poker, playable free of charge on Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Bebo and iPhones. While there are currently no known cheat codes or other cheats that will work for this game, sometimes various glitches or loopholes arise that can help players win more easily or earn more money. When these arise, they will be posted on this page.

Zynga Poker cheats on Facebook are a fast and easy way to increase the amount of money you have or improve your hand of cards. While this can be a way to play with your friends and look like a Facebook Poker star, cheating when playing for real money can have serious implications. Since Zynga Poker is a non-serious, free online Facebook game, most people use the cheats found on this page to learn the game or to advance faster than their friends.

Often a Zynga poker cheat is a bug in the software or a logic workaround. These bugs are usually quickly identified both by the community and by the game creator, Zynga, and fixed. As a result, there are often few cheats available.

Even when there are no cheats available, players can download automated software or "cheat bots" to assist in game play. As with any downloads, it is important to only use trusted sources as there is always a risk of downloading a virus or spyware. There is also never a guarantee that the bot will work, and Zynga has been known to send warning emails to those who are caught using them.

Online Poker vs. Poker Table

2010-12-25T11:33:00.000-08:00

Before i go telling you why i love Online Poker, Poker Bonuses, Poker Rooms it is but proper to educate the beginners first and foremost.

Let me give you a couple of reasons why you should play Online Poker.

BIGGER MONEY

Money. Money. Money. Money. Money.- Is it not obvious enough that Poker Games will generate you large sum of money? I know you also earn a lot of money in table Poker, but the money is bigger in Online Poker. Online Poker offers big time profits that go along with many Poker Bonuses being offered in different sites. You just have to find the service that offers the best Poker Bonuses and from there, let the best Poker Room give you free money for doing nothing at all. You can find unbiased and honest Poker Reviews just by clicking the links in this post. By the way, Poker Bonuses are not something you can expect by going to a casino.

CONVENIENCE

Aside from generating money, Online Poker is a hit because of the convenience factor that goes with it. Playing table Poker means, going home and going back to the casino to meet Poker players. But with Online Poker your life will be much easier since you will just use your computer and log into your Online Poker account, and then basically play the kind of Poker Games you play outside, regardless of your location. By playing Online Poker, you save time and money because you won't need to travel back and forth anymore. Online Poker also means that you can play without someone looking over your shoulder.

FLEXIBILITY

And at last, the best reason besides convenience and more money, Online Poker lives you the freedom to jump from game to game without any restrictions or hassle. If you find yourself getting tired of playing the same Poker Game, Online Poker will give you the flexibility to enter another Poker Room so you can play a different type of Poker Game. When choosing a Poker Room make sure that you read Poker Reviews Online Poker website. Make sure that the Online Poker website you are visiting is honest and unbiased. If you will ask me, gives the best service when it comes to Poker Rooms, Poker Reviews, and Poker Bonuses. They actually made playing Online Poker easier for me because of their Poker Reviews and Poker strategies which will help you bring out the millionaire in you.

There are actually many more reasons why you should be playing Online Poker. Most people think that Online Poker is pretty much the same with table Poker with no Poker Game variety which is fact a misconception. Before you completely disregard Online Poker you should at least try it and sign up for an Online Poker account. This way, you will get to experience how it is to play Poker in the convenience of your own home. And once you've tried Online Poker, i'm sure you won't be visiting the casino as often anymore.

Are You a Good or a Great Poker Player?

2010-12-25T11:30:00.000-08:00

What is it that separates a good Poker player from a great Poker player? Well, you can find many answers to this inquiry, and without a doubt, one of the major answers you will hear is the value bet.

Being afraid to miss value bets is what keeps many good players from taking the next step towards becoming a great Poker player. This is really just common sense when you think about it. If you have the best possible hand, then naturally you will bet, but getting the full value out of less dominant hands is harder to do, the secret is having a healthy bank roll.

Value betting is situational like many of the more advanced concepts in Poker. You will decide how to play value bet based on the actual situation and your opponent, but even that said there are some general facts that good players know when talking about value betting.

In Limit Holdem, for instance, you really have to be very aggressive with betting. Because the bets are bound at levels that make them so small in relation to the pot, people will often regard your value bets as extremely weak hands. The typical mindset is, most of the time, that because the bets are so small, might as well be sure the guy is not bluffing you. This is actually a fish mindset, and it is this way that you get the pot built up to pay you off when you hit that monster hand.

It goes without saying that value betting in No Limit Holdem much trickier. First, you have to make certain on what the other player has, and then from there, you must be courageous to act on it. If you have a third pair, and you know that the player has something like A-Q and missed completely, are you willing to re-raise strong on a pair of fives? Well, putting an opponent on his cards is not only required to understand whether or not you have taken him down, it will also help you know how much you should bet by having a hand of “hidden value” such as a straight that is not obvious.

In addition to that, a value bet that is good considers what particular type of player you are up against. A regular player tends to call bets that have the same strength as his hand, meaning he won't consider a large bet with pocket threes. So if you think a player has a weak hand, make certain that the bet is not huge since you want a call. But if your opponent is a tough one, who may try reading you, then you can bet stronger and extract even more chips if not all of them out of that wrong read.

If you think value betting is complex, then you are right. It is so complicated that it can never really be taught. Poker players learn it as they go along. They see to it that they analyze their play and other's play. As you continue to play while studying the game, you will begin to gradually know how to value bet and how to maximize your money by employing it.