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How to Buy Cheap Poker Supplies and Still Get Value

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:51:07 +0000

While poker has always been one of the most beloved card games on the planet, the skyrocketing popularity of “Texas Hold ‘em” and Lady Gaga’s hit single “Poker Face” prove that poker is back in a big way! Whether you operate a casino or just want to kick back and enjoy a friendly game of poker with your buddies, you may want to find cheap poker supplies. Here are some tips to assist you:

1. Look for sales at offline discount stores or game shops

Poker has made a major comeback in recent years, due in part to the popularity of Texas Hold ‘em, which has multiple variations. While getting these items at offline stores is generally not as convenient as buying online, the main benefit is that you can save on shipping and handling costs. And if you periodically shop at game shops and discount stores anyway, you won’t have to make an extra trip there!

2. Surf the Net

As with just about everything else, whether you need poker cards or poker chips, you can find quality cheap supplies, by surfing the Internet. It’s wise to always use the “rule of three”: compare the prices of at least three sites, in order to find the best deal. Remember that you can ALWAYS find a better price!

3. Consider the quality of poker supplies that you want

When hunting for cheap poker items, you should consider the quality of supplies you want. It’s likely that you want your poker cards and poker chips to last for more than one hand. But you have various options when selecting your supplies, such as the materials of the chips, the durability of the cards, and so on. If you want gold or diamond poker chips, you’re unlikely to find them at Target or Wal-Mart!

4. Compare online and offline prices

This step in buying cheap poker items is a little trickier than you might expect. As a general rule, shopping at offline stores will be cheaper, while shopping at online stores will be more convenient. Thus, you should do some number crunching to determine which option is the best one for you. Besides the bottom line for each type of shopping, consider the amount of time and effort needed as well. For instance, is waiting in traffic and waiting at checkout lines worth saving a few bucks on poker items? It’s a decision that only you can make.

5. Consider exactly which cheap poker supplies you need

Besides the standard poker chips and poker cards, you might need other supplies, such as a poker rack or poker table. Knowing exactly which type of products you want and your spending limit will help to make your hunt for poker items more efficient.

Whether you own a casino in Las Vegas or want to enjoy a game of hand or two of poker with your buddies, you can find quality discount poker supplies. Use these tips so the only gamble will be at the poker table!

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Poker Pros Understand Fold Equity
A level of online poker aggression that rarely gets discussed, but yet is quite prevalent and a large part of Texas Holdem poker games is fold equity. Fold equity is an advantage that the poker pro creates for himself by betting and raising, rather than just calling, with the intent of making his opponents fold their hands.

Choosing the Ideal Starting Poker Hands Guide

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:03:27 +0000

A simple online search on the keyword ‘starting poker hands guide’ reveals that there are a number of such basic poker guides; which is just as well, as there are so many different forms of poker. Moreover, poker is a highly dynamic game, a game in which new developments are coming up by almost every passing half a decade (although the fundamentals, of course, never seem to change); so that basic poker guides that might have looked great in the early 90s might not really provide the information a person getting introduced to poker in today’s age of online poker would be looking for.

The journey towards choosing the ideal starting poker hands guide has to begin with the (potential) player working out what type of poker they are really keen on playing – as there are different types of poker, from the popular Texas Holdem rules poker to the lesser known forms of the game like ‘carbon poker.’ As it turns out then, the ideal starting poker hands guide for someone who is keen on Texas Holdem rules poker might not be the ideal starting poker hands guide for someone who is keen on say, carbon poker.

Indeed, the more specific a potential poker player can be about the type of poker they are considering playing, the better their chances of getting the ideal guide for their purposes. Someone who is really keen on Texas Holdem rules poker, for instance, will tend to discover that there is still a variety of Texas Holdem rules varieties they can specialize in, an example of which is for instance the preflop strategy; which is considered by many authorities to be the best way to get introduced to Texas Holdem poker.

Should one start out looking for a starting poker hands guide, then narrow down their search to a particular variety of poker (say poker starting hands guide for Texas Holdem), and then further narrow down their search to a particular strategy in Texas Holdem – say to a guide on the preflop poker strategy, then they have chances of getting a highly specialized poker starting hands guide that can provide them with highly specialized information, which if well practiced, can turn them into poker specialists on that particular type of poker they happen to have so gotten inducted into.

The fact that there exists highly specialized poker guides (like the preflop poker strategy guide mentioned earlier, which deals with one particular strategy in one particular form of poker) means that the starting poker hands guides are not a preserve of novices looking to learn and try their very first hands in poker, but also experienced poker players seeking to enhance their knowledge of poker – since poker is a very extensive and ‘quite brainy’ game; of which no one can honestly say they know everything about.

So the next time you see someone searching online for, or reading through a poker starting hands guide, don’t assume that they are absolute novices at the game, as they could be world champions on the game – just seeking to learn one more form of poker.

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British Poker Software Company Joins with Italian Poker (source: launchpoker.com)
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Texas Hold Em Poker Schools With No Deposit Poker Bonus

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:12:55 +0000

Interested in learning poker online for free? Then check out one of the best ways to learn poker: Free Texas hold Em Poker Schools. No matter if You are an absolute newbie or an advanced player, these poker schools will have the right poker lessons for You.

To get started You will have to open a free account at the poker school and You will get access to to the Beginners Learning Materials. Usually the schools offer a choice of articles, videos and coaching sessions to teach You poker. The Beginners Sections are usually aimed at teaching You a small stack cash game strategy.

Once You mastered the basics You can take a simple poker quiz at the free poker schools. If You pass the test You will be given a no deposit poker bonus. The Texas Hold Em Poker School will start Your poker bankroll for free. Up to $150 is given away to players by the poker schools. No Deposit Needed.
This way You can start to test Your new Texas Hold Em Poker Skills at real money tables without investing own money.

Should You make some of the typical beginners failures then it will not cost You any of Your money but just the bonus You got free. This also puts You in a situation without any presssure and helps You to develop Your best game this way.

As You continue to become a more advanced player the poker lessons the schools offer will become more complex and YOu will learn a big stack strategy then and also learn about the right tournament play. The Online Poker Schools have poker lessons available for every level. Their Poker Courses are aimed at helping You to improve Your game and a solid bankroll managment, to help You to climp up the limits You play at.

All the poker lessons are usually presented in different media. You can read articles to learn poker or watch a video that will tech You that lesson. In the bigger online poker schools these materials are available in different languages, so everyone will find the right way to learn poker for him.

Although these schools don’t charge You for their poker education they offer You live poker coaching sessions. The Coach is playing online and will discuss his concepts and strategy right as he plays, while You watch it live and can contact the coach via internet directly. It’s a great way to learn poker. You get Your questions answered instantly and can get back to coach in real time with everything You don’t fully understand.

Compared to Poker Books or Poker Lessons DVDs the Texas hold Em Poker Schools on the internet offer You more varieties of learning materials. They also put You in contact with many other players via their forums and communitites. You will always have someone at hand to help YOu if You should get stuck. I think You can learn much more much faster this way then at home with a book or Poker Lessons DVD. The hand discussion forums of the online poker schools alone are worth joing these sites.

And only the online poker schools will give You free money to play poker with. Remember that You will get a free poker bankroll for passing the beginners quiz. A Poker Book or DVD has to be paid for ( and unfortunatly the rather good ones aren’t cheap ) while the free online poker course pays You to learn poker. Can it get any better than this?

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New rooms at PokerStrategy
PokerStrategy has added two new poker rooms for their members to receive their $50 free bankroll in; Mansion Poker and Pacific Poker. This brings the choice of poker rooms up to six. The PokerStrategy deal gives their members a $50 starting bankroll in any one of the six available rooms, but only gives the bonus [...]

More No deposit poker bonuses
There haven’t been very many changes in the world of free bonuses lately. There is a new offer from PokerSource at RedKings poker room. You can find all the details of this and many other bonuses on the new site at No Deposit Poker Bonuses. This site has more than twenty of [...]

World Series of Poker – How it all began

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:57:00 +0000

World Series of Poker – How it all began
The WSOP history goes way back. Although the first WSOP event was held in 1970, the concept of organizing a series of annual poker tournaments was actually introduced more than twenty years earlier. In 1949, Benny Binion was approached by legendary poker player Nicholas Dandolos with the an unprecedented request to organize a high-stakes poker marathon. Apparently, Binion liked the innovative idea and agreed to set up a match between "Nick the Greek" and another legend, Johnny Moss. His only condition was that the event be open for public viewing.read more

Casino Holdem or Texas Holdem
The legendary Cadillac of Poker, Texas Holdem is clearly the most thrilling and popular poker game on earth, both live and offline. Casino Holdem is one of the most played poker games across North America and Europe. Each player is allowed to create a hand using a combination of the five cards in the middle of the table (community cards) and the players own two hole cards (pocket) to make a poker hand.read more

7 Deuce Hold’em Cash Tables at Absolute Poker are Doling out Added Dollars with $27,500 Leaderboard
Online Poker Players on the CEREUS Network won’t believe how much the worst hand in poker is worth with the 7 Deuce Daily and Final Leaderboard Competitions.

No Limit betting…

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:27:10 +0000

No Limit betting
No Limit (NL) Holdem is positively the most popular poker variant, coupled with the most widely used betting structure in the world. Texas Holdem is wonderfully suited to NL play and therefore NL has basically become synonymous with Texas Holdem. The biggest live poker events feature NL Holdem and while there are always numerous side-events with different betting structures, you can basically count on it that the Main Event will always be a NL Holdem MTT, regardless of whether its the WSOP, the WPT, the EPT or the APT youre talking about. Is NL that different from FL and PL? Definitely. NL Poker is based on pot odds and mathematics rather than more subtle, psychology related aspects. NL Poker is based on implied odds, reads and tells. You may heave heard that a good poker player plays his opponents rather than his hand. This saying was probably invented with NL poker in mind. The fact that you are a successful FL player and that you take down your 1-2 big bets per hour regularly, doesnt mean youll become a good NL player too. You need an entirely new set of skills and you need to take your game through several different levels of thought until you too will be able to play your opponents rather than your hand and pot odds. Lets now take a look at some of the most important strategy aspects concerning NL Poker. Pot control is the first NL issue you should tackle. Keeping the pot small when youre teetering on the edge of a fold with a marginal hand, and building it up when youre fairly certain yours is the best hand at the table is what successful implied odds play comes down to. Minimize your losses when you miss your draw and maximize your winnings when you hit it: thats one of the most important aspects of good NL Play, and the definition of successful implied odds exploitation. The NL betting structure allows you to bet as much as you want to, you can shove your entire stack right into the middle any time you want to. These are all theoretical possibilities though (which many a beginner decides to turn into practical ones). In practice, NL betting pretty much follows the size of the pot, and therefore carries many similarities with the PL betting structure. The bets players make on the flop, turn and river are usually percentages of the pot. How big a percentage they represent is to be determined by the player who makes the bet. I bet youve read about how important it was to pot commit your opponent on the turn, in order to get him all-in on the river. Well, this dramatic increase in bet size from the flop to the river, offers a perfect explanation for that. One more thing you need to consider when it comes to pot control: late position gives you all the tools you need to assert and maintain control over the pot, while early position leaves you without any such tools. That also explains why position is so important in NL Holdem and why the money often seems to follow around in the wake of the blinds. The implied odds: whenever youre deep-stacked in NL Holdem, you play a game based on implied odds. In order to become a successful NL Holdem player, you need to understand implied odds to the same degree you understand pot odds in FL. While the pot odds depict the relation between how much money there is in the pot and how much you need to put in there to continue in the hand, implied odds are the reflection of a relation between the money you need to put into the pot to stay in the hand and the money youre likely to get into the pot from your opponents, in case your hand fills up. Through the possibility it gives players to go all-in, NL poker offers a few outstanding advantages to players: they can protect their hands by actively ruining the pot odds for their opponents, they can make their bluffs more potent and they can become immune to bluffs themselves by exercising this option. NL hands tend to hit the maximum rake cap more often than FL hands although past certain limits one cannot talk of such a difference in generated rake between the two betting structures anymore. Anyway, regardless of whether you play NL or FL, you should sign up for a rakeback deal or a poker prop one. Poker propping offers you outstanding rake back percentages and often gives you the possibility to play completely rake free.

Team CelebPoker – Poker Masters
Rein Zijda, a member of Team CelebPoker, announced his arrival on the Live European Poker circuit with a sensational third place finish in the 13th Poker Master Main Event in Seefeld, Austria. The 45 year old poker professional, from Gouda in Holland, walked away with a cheque for €19,150 after exciting the crowd throughout the two days with his fast aggressive style and nerves of steel.

The boogey-man of the beginner: the rake
Many online poker players start out by playing at the play money tables that most online poker rooms offer. Play money action might be a good way to get used to the interface and the rules of the game, but it isnt much more than that. Intricate strategy (or basic for that matter) is impossible to learn at the play money tables, and efficiency is truly one of the last things that ever cross a play money players mind. This is one of the reasons why it is much more difficult to make the transition from play money tables to real money ones for beginners. Another reason for it is a much less anticipated one: the presence of the rake and its effects on the players bankroll over the long-run. Real money tables feature rake. The rake is a small percentage raked off each and every real money pot that is won in a poker room. Thats how the poker room generates revenue, and thats how it collects the money it needs to keep up the services it provides. The rake is paid by all players who take an active part in a hand and not just by those who win the pot. The pot is a standalone entity at the table, it doesnt belong to anyone until after its been raked, so do not fall under the false impression that you are not paying rake unless you win. The bad news is, whatever you do at a real money table, you will end up losing money to the rake. In cash games each individual pot is raked in the above described way, in tournaments, youll be required to pay a tournament fee. The good news is though that there are ways to reduce the rake, and even to recover some of it. The most straightforward way is through rakeback. You sign up for a rakeback deal and youll be automatically making extra money on each and every hand you stuff money into the pot in. Rakeback is a very convenient setup, because its a self-sufficient system, that is, you will not be required to exert any sort of effort in order to make it work. Some rakeback deals, called prop deals, offer as much as 100% or even more of your rake returned, but they have special requirements towards players engaging in the scheme. A prop deal can be extremely lucrative for the right kind of players, because it does have the power to make long-term winners out of under-performing players. Game selection offers other more subtle ways to reduce the rake. In order to be able to dodge the effects of the rake through game selection, you need to have a thorough understanding of it. Lets see cash games first. You pay rake on every single hand you play. The more hands you play per hour, the more money you lose on the rake. Consequently, heads-up cash tables are the worst when it comes to the rake you pay, because they feature speedy play. Short handed cash tables are rake guzzlers too, but every cash game will ultimately eat up more money in rake than tournaments. In a tournament, you only pay a one time fee, which is around 10% of the value of your buy-in. You will not pay rake on every hand you play, and you will get a much bigger bang for your buy-in than in cash games. In Multi Table Tournaments your odds of making the money are low because of the high number of opponents youre faced with. In a STT (Single Table Tournament), you get better odds because youre only going up against 5-9 opponents, but your buy-in/potential payout ratio will suffer. Make sure you know where youre taking your hard-earned money and where you can make the most of it.