Indeed, the secret to successful poker — or any form of winnable gambling — is to not be carried away by your greed or desire for excitement. Sure, the clay poker chips being held by the other players seem enticing and so very available, but if you stay in too many hands you are more likely than not to find yourself down by a significant amount of money and tempted to lose even more as you pursue the oh-so elusive comeback. One of the best poker tools in the world is patience. You don’t go to war without the right weaponry; staying in without the right cards is the surest path to the poor house there is.

You might have noticed that many serious players bring their iPods and earbuds to the game with them. In almost any other social pursuit, this would be seen as pretty rank bad manners. In poker, however, it’s accepted because all serious players know that waiting for that right hand can be tedious business. Better to be entertained by your favorite musicians than play bad hands because you are starting to grow bored, impatient, and greedy for pretty clay poker chips. Poker is a game that rewards those with a cool head and the wisdom to wait for just the right time to strike.

“When a dealer deals a card to another player that accidently flips over. What is the ruling? Is the player dealt a new card, does he accept the card dealt, or is a new deal dealt?”

House rules will differ. If this was a private game, I would probably do a misdeal and redeal the hand.

In a licensed casino that makes money on every hand dealt, the last thing the casino wants is the hand to be redealt. Redealing slows the game down and they lose money. Instead, they usually have rules that say there is no misdeal, just fix the situation and continue on the same hand (which is quicker which increases revenue).

To fix the situation with the least minimal disruption to the hand, the following procedure is usually enforced:

Suppose everyone has received their first card. The first player to get his second card (let’s say seat 2) has it flip over on the deal. Then dealer should then continue with the deal as if the card was never shown. At the end, everyone has two cards. The same two cards they would have had anyways. The only difference is we’ve seen one of seat 2’s cards.

Now we don’t want to change the order of the flop, turn, or river, so how does Seat 2 get a replacement card to makeup for the exposed one, without changing the board to come?

Simple, you exchange the exposed card for the card on the top of the deck (the burn card).

In this manner evrything remains the same except one player has had one of his cards switched. This is the closest you can come to keeping everything the same.

While Luckalyzer is not designed as a poker tool I can see many applications for it in the world of poker.

For example, two players go all in and there are still cards to come on the board. Since both players are all in, there is no more skill. No one can be bluffed out. All that is left is to see if the best hand holds up or not. Will the underdog get lucky if Luckalyzer predicts him to be lucky?

This is the test I decided to put Luckalyzer through. The testing ground was the 2010 WSOP Final Table. There were 9 contestants left who showed up in Las Vegas to battle it out for all the money and the title of World Champ.

At this event there would be hundreds of hands played over 14 grueling hours (total hands played until they got down to 2 players was actually 219 hands). I expected to see dozens of showdowns (actual number of showdowns seen was 30). Would the lucky players win these showdowns?

Here is Luckalyzer’s analysis of each players luck listed in order from best (top) to worst (bottom):

Of the 30 showdowns, the lucky player was the underdog in 11 of them (“underdog” means his chance of winning the hand is less than 30%). The chart below shows the complete list of 11 hands. Luckalyzer’s choice to win is circled. Those in light green signify a winning prediction, while those in light red signify a losing prediction.

If you take a look at the odds of each hand sucking out in the chart above, you will see the underdog has only a 17% chance (on average, according to the odds) of winning each hand.

Yet, because the player was lucky, he actually won 64% of the hands! Thats 4x better than the odds say that player should win!

In conclusion, Luckalyzer proved to us it really does increase your chances of sucking out if you play on lucky days!

In the world of poker, you could use this new tool to decrease the number of bad beats and increase your win rate.

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http://www.examiner.com/online-poker-in-national/online-poker-scandal-poker-bots-caught-after-winning-58k-at-pokerstars

After reading that article, you’ll see that a few things tipped off the sites. Playing way too many hands. That would be the first clue. Try not runnning your poker bot for more than a couple hours at a time.

Predictable play was the next tip off. Try using a bot that mixes up it’s play and doesn’t do the same pattern over and over.

We did a quick search of Google and found the following bots:

http://www.pokerbot-online.com/
http://poker-bots.com/
http://www.pokerbot-smart.com/

We have not used these, we do not get paid to recommend these. Just a resource provided by us to help you find the latest and greatest poker tools.

As you saw in the above article, by using a poker bot you run the risk of getting your account cancelled and your winnings confiscated. Currently it is not illegal to use them so you can’t be prosecuted.

Unlike a casino where you have a dealer who looks out for you (you do tip the dealer whether you win or lose, correct?) at a home game all you have is yourself and your friends. You have probably played with your friends many time so you can trust them, but what about that guy your friend invited? Is he on the up and up?

One way to protect yourself is to buy a book or DVD on Poker Cheats or Card Cheats. learn the methods the cheats use.

Marked cards is one of the most popular ways. If you are playing at someone else’s home, make sure to riffle the deck while looking at the back of the cards. If you see dots, or parts of the background jump around while doing a riffle, you have a marked deck.

Sometimes the markings are invisible and can only be seen with the aid of sunglasses or contact lenses. Look for strangers in the game that wear sunglasses. Comment on how nice they are and ask if you can try them on. While trying them, look at the back of the cards to see if you can spot anything.

Another popular way to cheat is to switch decks. Most games use the red and blue bicycle cards. A poker cheat could easily set up a deck in his favor and then switch it when it is his time to shuffle. The poker cheat then does a “false shuffle” to look like he is shuffling but the cards stay in order. Now he deals out the set up deck with big hands and scores a big pot for himself. Just this one pot could make his night and then he never has to cheat again that night, watch for such a hand.

If you see something like this occur, you could always ask the player to empty their pockets to see if they are carrying a deck of the same color.

Sometimes they may have an excuse for carrying the deck. To thwart that, and if you are the host of the game, you could mark your Ace of Spades on the face. Take a photo of the marking with your cell phone. If a deck is found in the players pocket, check the Ace of Spades for the mark so you can prove the deck was switched. So the other players believe you, show them the photo of the mark and then see if the Ace in the deck has mark. This should get the others to believe you and back you when the poker cheat is thrown out.

Hopefully the tips above will help you avoid a poker cheat in your game. Please click the links below and share the knowledge with your friends, and don’t forget to leave a comment also.