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What is the drive for playing poker?-learn from the best

2010-01-28T05:56:00.000-08:00

Probably behind pure entertainment, poker is a game which improves our self esteem. Thanks to the poker we can measure our abilities to speculate, resist pressure and adopt strategies.
So poker is the game which builds our self esteem and helps us prove yourself in relation to some other people.
Nevertheless, poker is also associated with the glamorous world of the rich and the famous. All this combined creates the magic of poker.
However for some people playing poker is associated with being a star, a winner, a person to which success is everyday routine.
Many people play poker simply for the fact that it can make you a winner the easiest way-the cards are before you-not it is up to you how you are gonna play this. Some will call it a drive for the thrill of a strategy that will or will not work.

However many think of poker as their primary hobby and business in life. Such people practice, prefect their abilities of reading the opponent and try new tricks.

So there are different poker player who are driven by different incentives this game can provide for your life and personality.

Before starting a game try to pre-read your opponents in the category-who they are, what are their goals and how will they behave. Are they focused on winning the game or just having fun. How long have they been playing poker. Such a pre-game research is typical for chess mate players who try to ready the opponent and decipher his style of playing.

On the other hand do not let the other decipher you either before and during the game. If you are to lost do it in a style that the others won’t extract any information about your personality and skills or otherwise you are going to play again yourself in the next game.

Poker is all about the game of character, strategy and wit. It is not a game which is won by the best but by those who know the game…even the best players sometimes forget about it and having a good memory is also vital in poker.

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Observation of the opponents in poker

2010-01-27T04:17:00.003-08:00

Observation of the opponents in poker
By: Ian Johnson

One of the most important factors in playing poker is observation of our opponents and making notes. Not doing so is the most common mistake. Even if you fold the cards you should observe the action and how each of the players act.

We should note who and when play, from which position, with what hand and if they aggressive or passive. A good observation would give as an idea what kind of poker tells the players use on their side.

The best poker is not about our cards, but the opponents’ cards. If we would gather all of the information regarding a particular player’s style we would have a huge advantage as we would know what kind of hand he plays with. That’s the key to the success in that game.

We may influence our opponents. Poker is a game, where the rules are obvious. We can use all available tricks to get an advantage over other players. If we’d notice that one of the players gets angry easily we can use it by chatting with him for a while. This is a fight and the best wins – stronger personality, better skills and brighter mind.

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The mechanism mentioned above is very important from the winner point of view. We can not forget that without poker strategy those factors won’t help us much. Poker is a beautiful game because it is so simple and so complicated at the same time.

The most common mistakes in poker

2010-01-27T04:17:00.001-08:00

The most common mistakes in poker
By: Ian Johnson

Every player at the beginning makes a lot of mistakes, however with a proper education and practice we are able to minimize those mistakes. Our decision are getting better and better. Let’s name the most common mistakes made by the beginners then.

Beginners play too many hands. They have a problem with an estimation of the strength of the hand. This goes to checking too many flops. For total newbies most of the hands look good enough and the position doesn’t matter to them. They don’t only pay to see the flop, but sometime they take the game further and they loose much more.

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The best thing to do is to estimate a percentage value of the games we’d like to join. That could be less than 25%.
Another mistake following the previous one is playing even further after the flop. This one might be very expensive though. Mostly the beginner is deciding to play further if he has anything on the flop, such as a pair or a weak draw. Counting on the good card he looses his money, even though the odds are very poor. Especially a new player should play only strong hands after the flop.

Third mistake is also connected to the two previous ones. Poker is a game, where we should make a logical decisions, not based on the emotions at all. The logical decisions are based on the basic mathematic. Not too many players follow the odds and they play their favorite cards.

Paranormal phenomenon doesn’t happen at all. There is no such a thing as magical cards, even though we won with them once.
We shouldn’t follow our emotions during the game. This might happen to the beginner as well as an advanced player. More experienced player may control his emotions. We shouldn’t get emotional during the game or get angry at the other opponents. If we’d loose some of our stack we can not hunt the winner and get back on track, we can not play against one particular player because he comes from the city we don’t like.

The last common mistake I’d like to mention about is thinking in a short perspective of time. We should realize that poker is a game of the skills, however it is influence by the chance factor at the same time. We shouldn’t analyze our skills after one or two games, but check the progress on the longer perspective of time, months or years.

Beginners would like to end every poker session with the big winnings, even though they’re tired already they play to get back their lost money. This is a serious mistake and can bring a lot of losses.

Poker Tournaments. Sit & Go.

2010-01-27T04:16:00.001-08:00

Poker Tournaments. Sit & Go.
By: Ian Johnson

Poker Tournaments – this is what magnetize poker players the most. No matter if a big tourney on TV to watch or a satellite online to play. One of the famous poker players said once that cash games are mostly for the money, but poker tournaments are for fame. There’s a lot of truth in that sentence.
We can earn big money by playing cash games, but it is not the essence of the sport rivalry. Thanks to that many people started to notice that poker is a sport, that the tournament is the sport.

Poker tournaments require more skills than cash games do. In the cash games – if someone prefers to play tight he might wait ages for the good cards. Blinds comparing to the stakes are low and they aren’t raised. There is no pressure of time. Poker tournament on the other hand require a constant change of the style. Blinds keep raising, we have to control our own stack in compare to the blinds, other players’ stacks and general results in the tournament.

Sit&Go Tournament
These tournaments are the most popular online. There is no start hour and the number of players is limited. We have one table tournaments, which start as soon as 8, 9, 10 players will join and two or multiple table games, which start once the players join the game.

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Sit and Go Tournaments are available to anyone at any time. This is why they’re so popular. We can find an interesting tournaments at any time, signup and wait at least 5- 10 minutes. These tournaments have a quite aggressive structure of the blinds (1500 chips and 10 minutes levels.

Multiple Tables Freezout.
These poker tournaments are also popular, mostly because of the huge winning pot. In this kind of games we have a few thousands players. Freezout is this kind of poker tournament, when once we’ve lost all our chips we don’t have a chance to redeem ourselves. Because of the huge number of the poker players we have to find at least 4 hours to play in it.
Big freezouts are the best tournaments in poker. Beside that they give a chance to check our skills against hundreds, thousands players and give a possibility to win big prizes. If you are willing to play with 30 – 50$ buy-in you might also meet the celebs of the poker world.

How to improve your game?

2010-01-27T04:15:00.001-08:00

How to improve your game?
By: Ian Johnson

Let’s say you play well already but you are not able to change the level up. To improve yourself you’d need to find all the situation you can not deal with. Some of the players don’t know what to do with their AK hand without a position after a bet, when the flop is a different story. First of all we should prepare ourselves to make difficult decisions.

Let’s think of ten most common situation which are difficult to us from some reasons. Each of the situations should be analyzed from every possible angle. If we miss the flop with AK for example we should analyze if we play in the position, what type of player we have to play against, what is our image at the table, etc.
If we help somebody else by explaining in details what to do in a particular situation we might learn as well.

If our student ask why we have raised we have to explain the reason of our move. Teaching requires thinking, so there is no place for an automatic play this time. The best way of teaching is by showing the students the hands already played. You might be surprised how many of those hands are played without a logical explanation. If we do not have any student we can always give some tips to the forum members. Poker forums are the best place to exchange information regarding particular situations and moves.

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Give up the sick ambition. Y u don’t have to be the best poker player. Sometime grinding at $1/$2 - $5-$10 at a couple of tables might bring you more than playing at $30/$60. You do not have to be a poker hero. The most important is the process of winning itself. Try to write about poker a lot. That would motivate us to the game more seriously.

If we already are able to win, but we can not change the level then making another step might be very difficult.

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2010-01-27T04:09:00.000-08:00

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Poker etiquette.

2010-01-27T04:02:00.003-08:00

Poker etiquette.
By: Ian Johnson

Poker as a live event requires some kind of an etiquette. It prevents from making mistakes, which would make us unprofessional player. First of all we shouldn’t make any scenes, no matter if we win or loose. After a good game and bigger winnings we should take our chips out of the table and run away. It won’t be in a good style, however plenty of poker players practice that. Let’s estimate that we would play carefully further games and after half an hour we can stand up from the table. Otherwise you might have problems with finding poker pals to play with.

We shouldn’t think of the past hands to much. We should wait until the end of the game to analyze our play. If we experienced a bad beat it might be even more dangerous to our further play. There is no point of doing so out loud as it might frustrate our poker pals and the good atmosphere is the most important after all.
Don’t comment the game while you’re playing. If you’d play a serious game you might by punished by sitting-out. Don’t react once you fold the cards. For example if you have 2-7 and the flop shows 7-7-2 don’t make any weird sounds as this might frustrate other players.

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Play quick and don’t slow the play down. There might be some hands, which require more time, however most of the time you’d be able to make a decision quickly. Might be even better to switch the mobile off and focus on the game. There is nothing more frustrating the player who asks: Is it my turn?
If you fold the cards try not to show them. If there is all-in situation don’t show the cards before other players make a decision. Keep your stack visible to everyone. Don’t make a mess with the chips and don’t hold your cards in a hand. This might be badly seen by others and cause some misunderstandings.

Don’t teach others how to play. Even when some poker players don’t really know how to play poker, once you’re all in the game you shouldn’t tell them what to do in a particular situation. First of all other players would like to win as much money as they could. Second of all they might not want to hear our advices as they came to have fun.

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2010-01-27T04:00:00.000-08:00

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December treat for Fulltiltpokerrakeback Players!

2009-12-04T09:46:00.000-08:00

December treat for Fulltiltpokerrakeback Players!

This month we have 2 massive rakeback promotions for you. With a total prize fund of $80,000 you really will think santa has come early!

First up is our $30,000 Freeroll
Dates of Promotion: 1st December 2009 to midnight on the 31st December 2009

Qualification:
New Players: Earn 1 Full Tilt Point in December and you will get automatic entry to the Freeroll.
Existing players: Existing players must earn 500 Full Tilt points between the 1st December 2009 and midnight on the 31st December 2009
Prizes

The Freeroll will be held on Sunday 24th january 2010 at 20:00 GMT (15:00 EST)

Second is our $50,000 Full Tilt Rake Race

I guess there is nothing like going out with a bang and 2009 certainly will for Full Tilt Poker Player when they play in the exclusive $50,000 Rake Race Promotion!

Race Period: 1st December 2009 to midnight on the 31st December 2009

Prize Pool: $50,000

Race Details: Finish in the top 125 rakers at Full Tilt Poker during the qualifying period and win a share of $50,000

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Terms: The data we used is based on the 24 hour reports we get from the poker room. Players who finish in winning positions on our leader board will receive their prizes direct to their poker account on or before the 15th day of the following month.

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December Promotion- $15,000 Cake Poker Rake Race

2009-12-04T09:29:00.000-08:00

December Promotion- $15,000 Cake Poker Rake Race

Race Period: 1st December 2009 to midnight on the 31st December 2009

Prize Pool: $15,000

Race Details: Finish in the top 50 rakers at Cake Poker during the qualifying period and win a share of $15,000

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Ultimatebetrakeback.com reveals brand new UB.com screenshots

2009-12-02T02:23:00.000-08:00

Ultimatebetrakeback.com reveals brand new UB.com screenshots

After a decade, online poker room Ultimatebet.com has been rebranded to UB.com. The new look, which is not unlike famous Bwin.com logo shown in Lady Gaga’s Poker face video, is still in keeping with the old yellow and black logo. But the UB site is much sleeker now and has lots more for Ultimatebet players to enjoy.

The poker room’s logo has changed from the lowercase “ub” poker chip followed by “ultimatebet.com” (depending on the size of the logo) to a stylized, uppercase “UB.” The “B” has what initially looks like a tail protruding from the upper-right, but upon further inspection, the letter has been designed to look like a tilted spade. It is an upgrade from the old logo, which, while solid, was much busier compared to this one. The color scheme for UB.com is still black and yellow, but light blue has been added as an accent color and the yellow has been lightened just a bit, making the site look brighter and cleaner.

The other primary change is the lobby. The basic layout is still the same: tabs for different games are at the top, tables listed in the main window. UB.com has made the different table variations easier to see, however, with color-coded icons on each table listing, where appropriate. For example, a turbo tournament with re-buys will have a “T” in a green circle and an “R” in an orange circle in its row. One subtle thing that’s nice about this is that the icons are smack-dab in the middle of the row so they stand out. There is also an icon legend at the bottom of the screen.

Pro Poker Player and spokesman for the site; Phil Hellmuth said of the rebranding:

“In the ten years since I have been involved with the UB brand, I have never been prouder to represent the company as much as I am right now. We have great people captaining the ship, we have a great vibe and some serious swagger. I look forward to the day when we are the largest poker site on the planet.”

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Ultimatebetrakeback.com reveals brand new UB.com screenshots

2009-12-02T02:20:00.000-08:00

Ultimatebetrakeback.com reveals brand new UB.com screenshots

Pro Poker Player and spokesman for the site; Phil Hellmuth said of the rebranding:

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Vincent Diver wins PKR Live III

2009-12-01T09:15:00.000-08:00

Vincent Diver wins PKR Live III

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — 11/26/09 — $5 satellite qualifier Vincent ‘vd12345′ Diver made history by scooping the biggest ever PKR Live payout when he won the PKR Live III main event at London’s Loose Cannon this weekend.

The 21-year-old community favourite from Surrey followed in the footsteps of previous winners Karl ‘discomonkey’ Fenton and Philip ‘escalope’ Conneller to win the main poker event title at PKR’s third ever live event and take home a $33,500 first prize.

In the toughest PKR Live field to date, the youngster showed his quality from the off, busting the very first player out of the poker tournament out when his pocket aces saw off ‘HYPERGAMBLER’s Q-Q to gain an early chip lead. Vincent continued to show his class throughout the two day event before eventually finding himself heads-up against UK tournament circuit regular Toby ‘badboy579′ Lewis. Buoyed by the huge support from the buzzing rail of followers, the Brit played solid poker – slowly taking chunks off his rival’s stack until the decisive hand brought him victory and a significant bankroll boost when his pocket twos held up for the win.

The PKR forum members were rejoicing once more when the $200 Bounty tournament was taken down by another well-known player in the PKR.com community – Irishman Karl ‘karlthekiller’ Sinnott who outlasted a strong field to scoop $5,778 and priceless bragging rights.

PKR.com CEO Malcolm Graham said,

“We are delighted with the turnout. PKR Live has become a regular fixture on the PKR calendar and both players and staff alike look forward to a fun filled event, with top-quality poker.”

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10 Free seats to Poker Heaven’s €100,000 guaranteed tournament

2009-11-19T07:28:00.000-08:00

10 Free seats to Poker Heaven’s €100,000 guaranteed tournament

Poker Heaven is feeling generous and are giving away 10 free seats to the €100,000 guaranteed tournament running on the 29th of November.

Here is your chance to qualify for free:

1. Play poker and acquire at least 200 FPPs from the 1st – 23rd of November
2. Receive your invitation to the 10 seat €100,000 Free Qualifier on the 25th of November at 19:00 GMT.
3. Register to the tournament and play, registration opens 4 hours prior to start time.

Always finish on the bubble? Don’t tilt, PokerHeaven will award the bubble boy with a €50 cash prize.

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Trishelle Cannatella is newest celebrity endorsment for Absolute Poker

2009-11-19T06:48:00.000-08:00

Trishelle Cannatella is newest celebrity endorsment for Absolute Poker

Many of you will know Trishelle from shows such as Punk’d and fear factor but she is infact also a serious celebrity poker player.

The first tournament that she entered was the Ceasers Palace Poker classic and she won that tournament and continued playing ever since.

Cannatella says that she is so happy to be joining such a great team and looks forward to her poker experiences. Poker has always been a passion for her and she is happy that she will get to dabble in the online poker scene and have the experience of playing with such great players as well!

We have included a picture of the lovely lady – Wonder if this was taken during a game of strip poker?

If so life could become a lot more interesting for the Rakeback players at Absolute Poker!

€10,000 Guaranteed Headhunter every Sunday at Poker Heaven

2009-11-18T08:04:00.000-08:00

€10,000 Guaranteed Headhunter every Sunday at Poker Heaven

November 17th, 2009

Look up promotions at Poker Heaven and you will find a few new gems.

Every Sunday at 18:00 GMT Poker Heaven is guaranteeing €10,000 in their brand new Sunday Head Hunter Tournament.

The Buy-in is €30 + €3

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• - Pay-out: Fixed – 45 players
• - Type: Head Hunter, NL Hold’em
• - Structure: 12 min blinds, 3000 starting chips
• - Min/Max players: 46 / 1500 players
• - Satellites: Running daily from €3 with at least 1 guaranteed seat
The bounty prize pool is split evenly on all players heads. The aim of the game is to knock out as many players as you can to collect the €12.50 bounty prize but at the same time avoid elimination to win the tournament. When you knock out any opponent you immediately win the full €12.50 bounty cash prize on their head.

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Google decrease the PR. Why?

2009-11-01T00:27:00.000-07:00

You should check the Page Rank of the sites where you bought links and see if they have decreased. If so, they have probably been "busted" by Google and you might think about removing the links because they have decreased in SEO value (probably being worth close to nothing).

Also, buying links is against Google's guidelines. Though, in my opinion, there is a huge grey area in what is a link that is an advertisement and what is a link that is only for raising your organic search rank or paying a blogger to review your product (and link to you). Google has to tread a careful path here, since they make BILLION$ from paid search ads they can't get too mad at others for making money on advertising. But, they do hold the keys to the castle. Overall, the best linking strategies are to build natural links to your website by having great content that people want to link to.

Why Google decrease the Page Rank

2009-11-01T00:14:00.001-07:00

PageRank has nothing to do with the "freshness" of you content. It has to do with the quantity and quality of inbound links. It is a measure of link popularity. Period.

If you are using "cheap", low quality link building techniques like forum sigs, blog commenting, article submissions, etc. AND slowed down your link building, your PR will fade. The very nature of these types of link building techniques causes their effectiveness to fade over time. So if you rely on low quality links, you have to ALWAYS continue to build them... unlike natural links whose effectiveness does NOT tend to fade over time.

For example, when you first submit an article, it likely appears on some Recent Articles page that has a decent PR and backlink profile and provides a decent boost. But once your article rolls off of the Recent Articles page and can only be found deep in the article site's archives, the archive page that links to it likely has very few if any backlinks, so the boost that the backlinks in your article provide to your site diminishes greatly. And if your article didn't get any direct backlinks while it was on the Recent Articles page then it stands a very good chance of eventually getting deindexed. So when you submit articles for back links, build links to your article as well to keep it indexed.

Blogging has the same paradigm as posts move off the home page, and eventually off the category page, and is only accessible deep in the archives... Same goes for forum posts...

There could be a number of reasons. But, from looking at your site, you have a number of pages labeled "resources" or "partners" which seem to be a list of links to other companies in your industry. Following these links takes me to other websites which have similar pages and also link to a number of other websites, including yours.

These are "reciprocal links" established primarily to trick the search engines into ranking you higher. Linking specifically to increase your rank in search engines is against the Google webmaster terms of service. I believe that part of the changes in this Page Rank update reflect the growing ability of Google to distinguish link exchanges from genuine "natural" links.

You probably lost the value of those links, which were a key part of why you were a 4 before. Starting today, you should focus on building links into your site more naturally.

Full Tilt Player Phil Ivey listed in Poker Hall of Fame

2009-09-16T09:06:00.000-07:00

Full Tilt Player Phil Ivey listed in Poker Hall of Fame

EPT Barcelona won by Carter Phillips

2009-09-16T04:08:00.000-07:00

Carter Phillips has won this year EPT in Barcelona with 850,000$. Next EPT will be hosted in London and another one in Warsaw, Poland.

Ultimate Bet’s $150k Satellite Tournament July 28th

2009-08-11T10:52:00.000-07:00

Ultimate Bet’s $150k Satellite Tournament July 28th

No deposit Bonus. Hurry Up. The promotion ends next month.

2009-07-30T04:33:00.000-07:00

Hurry Up. The promotion ends up on the 30th of August. You can still register with PSO to get free no deposit bonus of 50$ to the poker room of your choice.

I've registered with them already and I am enjoying my free game. The emotions are huge. You also qualify for other poker promotions - check this out and choose for yourself.

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Get 50$ free for your poker play

2009-07-29T12:29:00.000-07:00

Wow. I found a really great poker offer on the page above. Poker Source offers at least 50$ for your poker play.

Just click. Register and claim your bonus for a free play at one of the poker rooms. You may choose between PartyPoker, Ultimabet, Absolute Poker and one more, which the name I forgot. Anyway take an advantage of it. The support is very nice and it will help you out with all of the issues you might have.

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Jackpotcitykasyno - oferta 500 Euro dla Polaków

2009-07-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

Kasyno Internetowe Jackpotcitykasyno.com kieruje ofertę 500 Euro także do Polaków. Każdy nowy gracz moze otrzymać na start 500 Euro i uzywając tego bonusu ugrać tyle pieniędzy ile zdoła. Promocja nie wymaga wkładu własnego. Suma wygranej - jeśli przewyzsza otrzymane 500 Euro jest mozliwa do wyplacenia, badz dalszej gry na swoje konto kasynowe.

Grać w kasynie internetowym trzeba umieć - jakby powiedział Ferdek. Proponuję więc zapoznać się z zasadami gry przed przystąpieniem do niej. Wówczas ma się pewność, że z bonusu można uszczknąć coś dla siebie. Warto bowiem wiedzieć jak wykorzystać okazję do końca w blackjacku, czy automatach wrzutowych.

Ruletka, blackjack, automaty i strategie będą przedmiotem następnych wpisów tak, aby każdy zainteresowany grą mógł rozwijać swoje zainteresowanie i poprawiać umiejętności w pokerze, tudzież blackjacku.

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2009-07-15T00:12:00.000-07:00

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