Posted in Poker September 20th, 2008
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A couple of important, but often over-looked statistics in most poker odds calculators are the “went to showdown percentage” and the “went to showdown winning percentage”. They may in fact be overlooked even though they are quite important as contributing to the over-all profile of your opponents combined with VPIP and PFR indicators.
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Posted in Poker September 20th, 2008
Slot machine game
What are your feelings about using betting or gambling systems that utilize statistics and mathematical tactics? Shouldn’t gambling be more of a game of chance? What about the inexperienced gamblers? Should they lose because of programs designed to beat the system? Or should it be left up to luck?
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Posted in Poker September 19th, 2008
Casino slot machine
In the casino gaming industry, it appears that close to 70% of their revenue comes from the casino slot machines. These slot games require no special skills and basically there is no strategy to winning either, making it enjoyable to both beginner and expert players. Since it is a great deal of fun and is based primarily on luck, it is easy to keep feeding a machine more and more coins, with the hope of winning a big pay out.
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Posted in Poker September 16th, 2008
Internet casino
At one time, if you wanted to play the slots or gamble, then Las Vegas or Atlantic City were pretty much your only choices. However, now you can go beyond the brick and mortar casinos to virtual casinos, also known as online casinos through the internet. Most claim that their percentages on payouts and odds are comparable to the traditional casinos, while others claim there is a higher payout percentage and better odds. Sometimes, these online games will even publish their percentage audits on their websites.
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Posted in Poker September 16th, 2008
It’s not easy to play poker when you are free falling. Your bankroll took a beating like you haven’t experienced before. The RNG has determined you as it’s next victim. This can be frustrating, since you really wanted to play and felt good before you started. It’s your day off and the house is to yourself. You have been looking forward to this day all week long. It’s just that the winning part of the plan didn’t come through.
Your instincts tell you to keep playing because that’s what you do. It’s important to play through bad times understanding it’s just about variance. The problem with thinking is that that is usually the time when your luck gets worse. On those days, as we have all been through them, your bankroll really starts to hurt.
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Posted in Poker September 16th, 2008
poker calculator
If you are like me and most on-line poker players, you have probably seen a lot of felt with 2 hole cards (Texas Holdem). Whether you are an experienced Omaha player, or are looking for an some variety to Holdem and just starting out with Omaha, Omaha Indicator (OI) is a must have tool.
Prior to using Omaha Indicator, I had never played Omaha, so this review comes from the view point of a beginner, who is, thanks to Omaha Indicator on a meteoric learning (and profit) curve.
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Posted in Poker September 14th, 2008
slot games
A mechanical device that uses three, four or five, and sometimes more, circular reels of different sizes is a slot machine. Each of the reels has several symbols, usually painted on and the most common designs are bars, cherries, the number seven and a jackpot symbol. The more modern slots operate by computer programs that select the winning combinations randomly. The percentage of winnings, as well as the odds, is normally set by the manufacturers of the program and millions of spin combinations are possible.
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Posted in Poker August 30th, 2008
Playing Texas Hold ‘Em poker is simple. Trouble is, whilst it’s simple to play, it’s not actually easy to play and win. You can learn the basic rules quickly and easily. But the strategies involved aren’t as easy. The best way to learn is to get a quick guide to the card values and betting rounds, then start playing.
When you start playing, make sure it’s for money. Although all the main poker sites offer free games, these aren’t played the same way as real money games (think how often you “gamble” when you watch a quiz show on television versus how the people playing for money change). Keep a close eye on how game play changes with the number of players as well. The winner of each round is the player with the highest hand and your aim should be to bet more on your better hands.
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Posted in Poker June 9th, 2007
Well, it is possible. They are call Freeroll tournaments. They’re exactly the same as any other kind of poker tournament except you don’t pay a fee to join them.
They are big business on the web. Anything that’s free tends to attract people. Attract enough freebie seekers and you’ll likely also get some money, especially when there’s a game like poker involved where people stand to win cash.
There is some prize money on offer, although it’s not in the same league as a paid-for game. But the cost of entry is zero, you get a chance to hone your poker skills and maybe even win the prize. So the low prize money isn’t necessarily an issue.
The prize may even be entry into the next level of the competition, where there are higher prizes at stake or even an entry into a real-world poker tournament.
A lot of poker players use free poker tournaments so that they can gain free entry into more major tournaments with the aim of winning larger sums of money without it costing them a cent.
Sometimes the prize is in the form of points that can be used towards entry fees in other tournaments. So you can see there are more ways to skin this cat and you can use free-roll tournaments to help your poker game progress rather than merely using them to learn how to play the game.
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Posted in Poker June 8th, 2007
The first thing that you need to know when you are learning how to play Texas Hold’em Poker is what a poker hand is. There are 8 different types of poker hands that you could have. Ranked in order, starting with the best and working downwards these include:
1. Straight flush. This occurs when you have five cards in sequence, all of the same suit.
2. Royal flush.ÂThis occurs when you have the Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 cards in sequence.ÂA royal flush is the highest-ranking standard poker hand, excluding 5 of a kind.
3. A 5-high straight flush, a.k.a. a steel wheel. This occurs whenever you have a 5, 4, 3, 2 and Ace.
4. Four of a kind a.k.a. quads. This occurs whenever you have a hand, which contains four cards of one rank, and an unmatched card. It ranks above a full house and below a straight flush. If you have a higher-ranking quad it will defeat a lower-ranking quad.
5. Full house a.k.a. a boat or a full boat. This occurs when you have 3 of what card and 2 of another. It ranks below a 4 of a kind but above a flush.
6. Flush. This occurs when you have a hand that contains five cards of the same suit, but they are not in sequence. This ranks above a straight but below a full house.
7. Straight. This occurs when you have 5 cards of sequential rank, but of varying suits. This ranks above a three of a kind but below a flush.
8. Three of a kind a.k.a. trips. This occurs when three cards of the same rank, plus two unmatched cards. It ranks above two pair and below a straight.
9. Two pair. This occurs when you have two cards of the same rank, plus two cards of a different rank, which match each other but do not match the first pair, and one unmatched card. This ranks above one pair and below three of a kind.
10. One pair. This occurs when you have a hand that contains two cards of the same rank, plus three unmatched cards. It ranks above any high card hand, but below all other poker hands.
11. High-card or no-pair. This occurs when you do not have two cards of the same rank, the five cards are not in sequence, and the five cards are not all the same suit. It ranks below all other poker hands.
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