A beta version of the game has been launched and his audience seems to be his loyal fan base, much to the outrage of Tessa Munt, Member of Parliament for Wells. Munt told the Daily Mirror, I am outraged by this. It directly targets his fans, including children. The money he makes should go to addiction charities.”

You cannot make real money deposits on RobbieWilliamsPoker.com but you can win prizes such as meeting the great man himself. Interestingly, the release of the beta version has been given mixed reviews by his fans. Some of them can’t wait to try out the site, with a view to winning a tournament to meet their idol, and others are annoyed that they have to play poker in order to meet him instead of achieving the feat through his official website. It is not something that people playing Betfair Omaha Poker will have to worry about.

Every player who signs up to play at RobbieWilliamsPoker.com receives play money chips. These are used to play in the games and as players solve missions and unlock achievement bonuses they collect experience points (XPs). The more XPs you have the more perks you can gain access to on the site.

Not only will it be interesting to see how this project develops it will also be interesting to see if any other pop stars follow in his footsteps.

Negreanu has always been one of the most outspoken players on the circuit. You might not like, or agree, with everything he says but at least he lets you have a sneak into the world of professional poker. He has just updated his blog and this is what has been going on in the mind of Daniel Negreanu. Fans of Betfair poker will be keen to hear what he has had to say.

Firstly, he has been playing poker and enjoying it as well. He told the world that he had a great PCA and decided to keep the heat going with a visit to the Aussie Millions. He played in the $100k Super High Roller and talked about the merits of the structured 30-second thought clock. Negreanu believes that the game has slowed down in recent years, caused mainly by the inordinate time young players take to act. Therefore for Negreanu the 30-second thought clock was a nice improvement to the game. http://poker.betfair.com/en/promotions/

Negreanu also talked about some personal misfortune during the first month of 2012. His personal e-mail account was hacked and then subsequently his PokerStars account. A sum of $61,000 was sprayed around to a wide variety of players, money Negreanu will never see again due to a PokerStars stipulation forbidding the return of money should a player’s personal email account be hacked.

Last but not least Negreanu calls for more ambassadors in the game of poker and cites Phil Galfond and the next likely hero of poker.
Step forward Mr Sweets!

The game rules in Omaha confuse many a novice player and this can be easily highlighted for example with the following hand. Let us say that in four card Omaha you get dealt the Kc-Jd-10h-8s and the final board is 9s-9d-8c-4h-8h. In hold’em then you would have a full house of nines over eights because you can play one card from your hand. However in Omaha then the rules state that you must play two cards and so you only have one eight from your hand plus one other card! For you to be able to make a full house here then you need to have a four in your hand or a nine or possibly a pair of fours.

Another example could be if the final board is 9-9-4-4-9, taking your previous hand then you still do not have a full house. Remember that you must use only three cards from the middle and so the three nines must combine with two cards from your starting hand. Seeing as you do not hold a pair then you cannot have a full house. You would be amazed at just how many players I have seen commit huge errors in this area and even experienced players who should know better often misread their hand in Omaha. Just like in any form of poker then not knowing the rules of the game can really hurt you where it hurts the most…….in your pocket.

However the more that I studied poker then the more that I was drawn to other areas like psychology and electronic trading! This then developed into an interest in game theory as well. So to really evolve as an online poker player means having in depth knowledge of other areas and it is important for any online poker player not to get bogged down by using strategies that are no longer working or to be stuck on sites and networks with very little liquidity and therefore action.

In my mind then players struggle to make money in online poker in several key areas. Firstly they are too eager to move up to higher levels and this isn’t always the Holy Grail that they think it is. Secondly many players in my opinion simply stay on the same site for far too long. This in my mind has a detrimental effect on a players earn rate. I think that there is a delicate balance between the value of your tracker data and player notes and the fact that other players are using the same data against you.

In my opinion then it becomes very important to be able to change sites or at least have the chance to do so and be able to move to sites with good player numbers. This serves two distinct functions, firstly it freshens up your operation by basically making redundant all of the notes that your opponents have on you. There is another way and that is to play on the site under another account name but that is neither ethical nor allowed by the sites rules and regulations. The second one is that it also allows you to take advantage of the sign up bonuses of other promising sites as well.

On the other hand ask any poker player or those looking at Blackberry casinos what creates the biggest adrenaline rush at the tables and most, if not all will reply with an anecdote about how they managed to pull off a huge bluff. There is more to the bluff than first meets the eye though. It is almost never a random play forced through out of a macho sense of bravado (these bluffs tend to be the unsuccessful ones).

A bluff, when done properly, is actually not as risky as most people would assume. There are factors which you can use to your advantage to increase the chances of your bluff being successful.

To state the obvious, the best time to bluff is when you believe the entire table has weak hands. Position is important when considering a bluff. If you are under the gun (first to act after the blinds) then it is generally not considered a good move to bluff.

There are too many players who are yet to act; therefore you have no information on them. Therefore a later position will more often be a better one to try a bluff. But be warned; as this is common poker strategy, players may see straight through your play and your bluff might be snuffed out.

The style of the players on your table should factor into your attempted bluff. A tight player who has played a small number of pots will be easier to bluff than a player who is loose and free with his chips. But if you attempt a bluff on a tighter player and they come back at you with a re-raise, you can be fairly sure that they have you beat. Or that they are good enough to have picked up on your bluff.

For a bluff to be successful, you need to have picked up a good read on your opponent’s range of hands. If you have no idea what you are facing, a bluff is virtually impossible, but if you are confident that you can narrow down your opponent’s hand then you are in with a shot.