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Poker Benefits for the Average Man

March 2nd, 2010

I am not a poker shark by any means. In fact, I am probably more guppy than Great White, but I know that poker can have a beneficial effect on my day to day life. poker online is not just for the rich and famous, or the well educated, it is now for the Average Man. People like me with nine to five jobs, houses, and mortgages can reap the benefits of poker. You may ask, what are the benefits of poker for the Average Man? I presume you mean more than the free spending money that can end up in your pocket, of course. First of all, poker offers an escape option from the glaring monotony of everyday life. It has the glamour and glitz that so many of us craze after day after day in the suburbs. It is a safe outlet for this desire for a thrill. The Average Man works under a boss they may despise, in a job they may loath. Poker offers you a chance to get away from it all and find a place where you are in charge of your destiny. It lets you share your own financial future, giving many people that authoritative role that they lack in their normal lives. Poker gives the Average Man the things they lack in life by providing a safe way to experience thrills and exercise authority.

Speculation

September 24th, 2009

Back when the gold rush was in full swing, or the oil industry was just getting it’s legs on the ground we had what was called speculation. That is, people would survey an area and based on an examination would predict what kind of a yield in profit the land would make be it gold or oil. Well in online poker, we do the same thing only on a much smaller scale. We’re not surveying land, but we’re surveying cards. And we’re playing these cards on the chances that something good will come. We’re speculating in the same sense as the gold rushers and the oil refiners. A lot of people call these kinds of poker online hands come hands, since you’re essentially betting on what will come. Let’s say you have AQh. And the flop comes Kd-8h-10h. This puts you in a very speculative position. You’re hoping to see a heart come to complete your flush, but at the same time, you have to be able to determine what’s worth continuing (i.e. if the land looks good enough to continue) or if you have to give up and play poker online another time. Just as the speculator of the days long past did, you have to look at the risk versus the reward. Is it worth it to dig for days only to find a small ore of gold that would barely pay your mens’ wages and leave you with very little? Of course not, you’d rather find a piece of land that would pay your workers and you a hefty sum. In poker, this analogy can be applied to pot odds. If you’re getting good pot odds to continue to draw, or speculate, then you’re making a correct play. You’re men (the cards) are doing the work for you, and you’re hoping they’re good enough workers to yield you a return on the money you’re investing in them. But again, you’re only speculating, since they may not find anything. In our example above, the AQh may not find it’s fifth companion heart on the landscape that is the turn and river. And thus your speculation didn’t yield. Again, this is where pot odds come in. Even if you don’t hit your speculative hands, if you play with the right odds in mind, or perhaps even semibluff your big draws, you can make money on your speculation, and that’s essentially how you play your big drawing hands.

STT SnGs

August 26th, 2009

A basic strategy for just about all tournament poker online play is to play tight early and open up later when the blinds are higher. This has never been truer for single table sit-n-go games. Here’s the logic. In many jeux de casino games, you’re going to get a lot of limpers early on, that limp with garbage since the blinds aren’t so valuable. Well, if they’re not valuable, why limp? Why not wait and catch a premium hand and raise. The next tip you’ll get is that you’re going to want to limp your pocket pairs lower than TT, especially if you’re in position. You do this for set value. Since when you hit your set 1.) it’s a disguised hand and 2.) it’s bound to pay off about 70% of the time unless your facing set over set or set vs. straight or flush. Both of which are highly unlikely on the flop. Finally, you get to the late poker online game. SnGs are easy at the late game, your decisions, they become so simple. If you’re high stacked, you bully. If you’re low stacked, you have only two moves, push fold. If you’re calling 200 with a stack of 1000, then you’re just wasting your time. It’s push/fold all the way. Again, because all-in scares people, and two, you can’t be bluffed off an all-in. Use these simple sit-n-go strategies and you’ll start to see your winnings jump exponentially.

Poker Tracker - Ace Heads up Display

July 6th, 2009

I’ve been watching a lot of poker training videos. I played a satellite poker game on Full Tilt and won, but was unable to play in the tournament. This is very unfortunate, because the tourney was a $250k guarantee that could only be bought into with full tilt points (FTP’s); no cash buy in available. There were plenty of pros already registered for it, and it would have been super fun to play in.

As a consolation, I unregistered and got the 5,000 FTP’s. I pondered what I could do with the points and eventually cam to a decision. I could have used the FTP’s to try and satellite into larger events or even hang onto them for another huge prize pool event. Instead I decided to invest the points toward a month-long membership to StoxPoker.com. They have classroom exercises as well as video streams of live play and recaps of old sessions.

While watching some of the live pokersession play in these videos, the players spout out these numbers and statistics that are completely foreign to me. Above each player’s avatar is a collection of stats in different colors. These stats are compiled through a computer program that gathers data on player tendencies when you sit at a table with them. So, essentially a computer program is taking very precise notes for you so you don’t have to think at all about your opponents. This is great for multi-tabling, when you don’t have much time to watch each player’s action intently.

I found one of the main programs that use this software to be Poker Tracker. They use the Ace Heads up Display program, or Ace HUD. Very nice program!

Deceptive Poker Pocket Cards

November 14th, 2008

There are a lot of things in pokern that should go without saying, but there are some other rules that don’t seem obvious. Some cards are deceptive-they look a lot better than they really are. Here are a few dangerous pocket poker en lignehands to watch out for.

Avoid small and medium online poker pairs in early position: Smallish pairs are never a good idea in the early position, because there are too many chances for someone to raise behind you, and you don’t want to pay more than the blind to see if they turn into a set.

A-K is a draw hand: Ace-King looks great in your hand, but don’t forget-it’s just a draw hand until the flop. Unless you’re playing at a short table, you need to pair at least one of those cards on the flop for your hand to be worth anything. I’ve fallen in love with this hand and it’s cost me way too much money.

Don’t pay too muc for trouble hands: Ace-Jack, King-Queen, even pocket Jacks and Ace-Ten suited are all sketchy hands. They look pretty, but there’s not much substance with these guys. They’re bust hands until the flop saves them, because there are so many ways for these hands to get beaten that often times it’s not worth paying more for the blind to see the flop.

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October 6th, 2008

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That’s why there are absolutely fantastic swimming pools to be won at online contest and internet sweepstakes this year. A lot more online game contests are choosing to enter online easy sweepstakes. Entering sweepstakes by mail is passing up in good popularity at this present. You can win super kitchens now every 4 weeks even if you live in Evanston Illinois or in New Rochelle New York, isn’t that fantastic. Online sweepstakes and actions are prohibited from requiring a bribe to enter. Thats realy terrific to win Hummers worth 128 euro and that simple. Sweepstakes are mostly much more easygoing and faster to enter than online contests.

The Bright, Inviting Lights of the Online Casino

October 1st, 2008

Casinos are a wonder to behold. Full of bright lights, comfortable air and invigorating noise it is no wonder many people love to spend time within the artificial world of the casino floor. Ranging from the one armed bandit called a slot machine to the table games where crowds can often bee found cheering or booing all based on the turn of a die or the flip of a wrist. Even an online casino is designed to keep you inside, and they do a very good job of this. Yet even the most awe inspiring casino in the world could not keep you in unless it has games which interest you. These games are actually the purpose of the casino and those who love the casino know these games well.

The most numerous game by far are the slot machines. The reason for this is fairly simple; slot machines are the most cost effective game in a casino. They only require that someone pay the power bill and the occasional maintenance call. They are built to provide just enough play to keep someone interested while slowly loosing their money. However the reason that these machines are not the only offering of most casinos is because not everyone is willing to sit down in front of a slot machine.

For this reason games such as roulette, where everyone bets on a ball landing on a particular number on a wheel, and games such as craps, where everyone bets on the outcome of a dice roll are offered. These two games while apparently different actually share much in common. They both are completely random in their results, yet people willingly bet that they will be able too come out ahead at the end of the day. Finally there is the famous game called black jack. This game pits you and other players against a dealer. The idea is to beat the dealer by getting closer to the fabled number of 21 without going over. Many people believe that this game gives you the best chance of winning, and it seems that math would support that.

In the end there is a game that should appeal to almost anyone who enters a casino. So next time you find yourself surrounded by the bright lights of the artificial universe of the casino, take a deep breath and enjoy it.