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Absolute Poker · 9. November 2006

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Ultimate Bet · 30. June 2006

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Possible limits:

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Number of players in rush-hours: 10000 - 12000
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Some situation not to bluff in a poker game · 29. September 2005

When you bluff keep in mind that everyone else is also looking for an opportunity to bluff. You can spot them, but beware they can spot you too! You have to use bluffing sparingly.

So when no to bluff in poker?

Other players are expecting you to bluff

I suppose you don’t want to be the fish at the table. When you bluff and are caught you reveal your playing style to the others, so you will be vulnerable. Always consider this before you bluff.

You have been caught bluffing recently

If you were caught as a poor bluffer recently you should not bluff but start to build your reputation back.

Bluff when the flop is dangerous

You have to recognize whether is a flop dangerous or not. I know, it is a difficult task, but for example the flop contains an Ace, you could be sure that someone has an Ace at the table. People love their Aces and keep them almost until the end of the hand.

Lots of players at the table

With a lot of players at the table there is a great chance that someone has something that he will stick with. It is not worth the money to bluff in this situation.

Against bad players

It is much more profitable to play straight up in these games. They will bluff a lot, but will keep en eye on you too.

You have just lost a big pot

Not only might you be on a bad run, but other players will expect
you to be on a bad run, and will more readily call you.

In the blind positions

You really have to evaluate the flop, but generally other players
will think you have a poor hand and expect you to bluff.

To summarize: be careful with bluffing, always take into consideration when you bluff you could be caught.

Have fun at the tables!

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Noble Poker · 19. August 2005

Games played here:

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Possible limits:

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Position at the poker tables · 6. August 2005

Understanding position in poker

Let’s see the image below:

Click here to download the pdf document about positions in poker (contains the image above).

The dealer, small blind and big blind

The yellow button represents the dealer. He will act the last in the betting rounds. The first person to the left from the dealer posts the small blind. The second posts the big blind.

Early position

The first 3 seats to the left from the dealer are in early position. If you are in this position you have to act very carefully and play only strong hands. (An explanation about the starting hands will coming soon.) If you call in this position you could easily be raised later by the other players, so only call or raise when you have very strong hand.
If you posted big blind, and noone raised you can limp in with your hand to see the flop (because you have already put in your money at big blind, so seeing the flop can be seen as free).

Middle position

The next 3 positions are the middle positions. You can play here more than in early position, because you have already seen what some other players did. Altough you don’t have the full picture about your opponents, because you are only in middle position. If you have good hand you can limp in, but be cautious because others in late position can raise you.

Late position

It is the best position during a hand. You saw everyone’s acting so you can decide your actions more wisely. You have an approximate picture about what others have (or you can estimate, but don’t take your assumptions too serious, maybe one of them has stronger hand than yours, just not an aggressive player). In late position the very last player has the full picture about others. Players in late position can play wider hands not only the strongest ones.

Poker strategy vs. position

In general we can say that in early position you have to play tight and in late position you can play much loosey.

If you take into consideration where you sit you can greatly improve your game from the very beginning.

Click here to download the pdf document about positions in poker (contains the image above).

Good luck at the tables!

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Poker tips on betting and stakes · 31. July 2005

Take a break if you feel yourself losing emotional control

Players call this going on tilt, an expression that harks back to losing your hard-earned dollars. Having a bad beat or two can make you do crazy things in an effort to win back your losses. If you feel it, take a break and after that sit back to the poker table.

Play at comfortable stakes

Make sure that the stakes are approppriate to your skill level. As you get into higher stakes games, you can lose money very quickly, so find your comfortable level of playing.

Make sure that you can afford a loss

No one wants to lose, but it is inevitable in a poker game. Just try to limit your losses to a reasonable amount. Don’t play for your rent or grocery money. Poker is a game where you can have bad beats so prepare for them.

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How to start playing poker online? · 26. July 2005

Lots of our visitors ask us how to start to play poker online and what can be done in order to achieve success in a poker game at the online tables. You can find here some detailed info about starting YOUR online poker success.

This website is dedicated to help players to find reliable poker rooms to play and to give a hand when the players need assistance. We collected only the best poker rooms on this site and have close connection with all of them.

I’m interested in playing online, what to do now?

First of all, you need a poker software. All of the poker rooms on this website offer great software and they are FREE to download and use. Click here to view all poker rooms. Browse among them and pick some of them which you find suited to you (by the way, all of them are great).

If you are from the U.S. then your choices will be tighter, because not every poker room accepts American players. Poker rooms accepting U.S. players can be found here.

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When you find your most liked room or rooms (we encourage you to try more than one poker room) click the “PLAY NOW” link on the detailed poker room info page or the “DOWNLOAD NOW” link on the Downloads page. This will take you to the poker room’s website where you can direct download its program. (In some cases there is additional download information on the website.)

After you have downloaded the poker software, install it. The program will create shortcuts on your desktop or in your Start menu. You are almost ready to play!

After installing

Click on the program shortcut to start to play poker online. You will be prompted to create an account. This is free, you don’t have to deposit any money so feel free to register and give your details. All of the poker rooms on this website offer free accounts and your details are in a safe place, so don’t worry. In some of the poker rooms you have to create your real money account separately, but create it now, it doesn’t require any money deposit at all, but necessary to participate in freerolls. (Freerolls are free tournaments where you can play toll free and can build your starting bankroll for free if you win on them.)

Account created, let the fun begin!

At this point you are ready to play and win. But before you start to play at high stakes poker table with real money try the play money sections. Every poker rooms have play money tables, but playing here is very different from the real money tables, so stay here only to learn the software itself. DO NOT stay here long because you will learn bad habits because people here behave far more different than at real money tables. (Because of there is no real money in the play money game.) Please refer our article about Low limit texas holdem for play money players.

Instead of playing in play money, try the freeroll tournaments to play (usually you can find them on the Multi Table tournaments sections in the poker rooms software). They are a little bit closer to online poker, but there are differences.

Before you play on a real money table you have to deposit money. The poker rooms offer wide range of depositing opportunities like credit cards, Neteller, wire, etc. The transfer is secure.

You can find all information about online poker on this site. The Poker Rules section will give you the basics of the game. (New players usually start with Texas Hold’em, it is the most played game in the online rooms as well.)

You can find tips and strategies on this site too. The Learn to Play Poker section is dedicated to learning the game, and there are a lot of poker guides about playing better your hands. You will find the Poker Dictionary very useful when it comes to read some poker terms.

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Fair Poker · 29. June 2005

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Low Limit Texas Hold'em for Play Money Players · 28. June 2005

The higher the stakes, the tighter the game.

When moving from play money to real money, you will have to tighten up your game as well, or you will inevitably lose money. The aim is to play a slightly tighter game than your opponents. On low limit tables however, this is no problem. The game is still pretty loose anyway.

Selecting Tables

Size of Table
The first decision to be made before playing poker is the size of the table. The strategy required for playing on a ten player table is completely different to that of a two player ‘heads up’ game. Pick a type of table and stick to it to make sure you learn it properly.

In general one can say it’s more difficult to play No-Limit than Limit Games and it is more difficult to play short handed than at a full 10-player table.

Opponents
Choosing your opponents is a powerful ploy to successful poker. By selecting the right opponents, you maximize your chance of profitable success. You don’t have to be the best player in the world to be profitable at poker, you just have to be better than the players at your table. (Actually, you don’t have to be the best player at the table either, as long as you know who the good players are!).

Find players that you are better than.

The first and most obvious piece of advice relating to your opponents is to find, and play at, your own level. Secondly, there is some statistical information in the lobby that you can use.

Limit
When, in this document, we refer to low-limit we’re talking about tables with $0.5-$1 and $1-$2. The information here should be sufficient for you to play on this level.

To play at $2-$4 and $3-$6 you need to understand the concepts described here on a slightly deeper level and gain some experience of playing.

Statistics
To assist you in finding the right table, you can use the statistics in the lobby.

Flop Percentage
The flop percentage is the most important figure in determining the quality of players at the table. It shows how many players are paying to see the flop. It will give a good indication as to how loose a game is. On a ten-seat table 25% would be very tight and 40% pretty loose.

Pot Size Average
Another useful figure is the pot size average. It will also give an indication on how loose the game is. If the pots are large, more players are likely to be contributing

Betting Rounds

This section will give you an introduction in how to adopt your play from play money to real money in the different stages of the hand.

Pre-Flop

Play the right Hands

The first decision is to select the hands you play. To learn more on which hands to play and when to play them, it’s recommended that you read a good poker book. A good rule of thumb is to play fewer hands than your opponents.

In loose low limit games, the pots tend to get big which makes suited connectors (even low) better as you will win large pots making a flush or straight.

Small pairs are good if there are many callers.

High cards are sometimes not as good as you might immediately think. (E.g. QT unsuited is normally not a good hand at a 10 player table)

On the Flop

• Abandon bad flops
  If the flop doesn’t fit, abandon it. It is very expensive to hope to make something from nothing at the flop. A lot of times you won’t, and a lot of times others will make even better hands when you actually do improve.

• Inside Straight Draws
  An inside straight draw is normally not so good to bet with, unless there is a lot of money in the pot already and the risk of being raised is very small.

• Flush and Straight Draws
  A flush or outside straight draw at the flop is normally a good thing. If there are others in the pot, try to raise – if it doesn’t scare people off – to get more money in, as you will win your fair share of the hands.

• Pocket Pairs
  Pocket pairs that haven’t made trips on the flop and with over cards on the flop are not so good. The chance of improving on the turn is very small.

• Scares
  It is important to identify scares on the table. That is flops that can make draws for other players. When this happens, you will probably win less frequently than on a top pair * Three consecutive or close cards might very well give someone a straight draw. * Two consecutive cards may give a two pair (more connectors played than other cards)

A two flush on the board significantly reduces the profit of a straight draw. One in four of the cards you are waiting for could possibly give someone a flush!

On the Turn

Coming to the turn, the bet increases. Here’s an opportunity for a lot of money to be won or lost. Managing to make it two bets on the turn when you’ll win and no bets when you would have lost anyway, makes a winner in low limit Texas Hold’em! (Easier said than done, though!)

• Check Raise
  Frequently go for a check raise on the turn with premium hands, as you’re often checking/folding less good hands on the turn anyway. This way, your opponent will not be able to read your hand effectively.

• Acknowledge Bets and Raises
  In low limit games, bluffing is not very common, which leads to another rule of thumb:

A raise on the turn almost always means that the other player has a good hand

This is especially true when there are more than two players in the pot. Don’t be surprised if the opponent has trips or a made flush/straight.

• Don’t bet on Draws
  At the turn, the probability for making your hand is substantially lower than on the flop, and the number of opponents calling is probably less. Checking and calling is often the right thing to do, while betting is mostly wrong. (Unless you think you can scare the opponent off).

On the River

• Checking a weak hand
  Normally you should bet out on the river if you feel you have a strong hand. There is one exception though. If you have a hand that was good at the flop but unimproved since (like a top pair with a weak kicker), have continued betting and just been called throughout the hand, you should probably be checking. The reason for this is that it is unlikely that you’ll be called with a hand worse than yours (giving you no profit from betting) and you take the risk that someone has made a stronger hand on the river (maybe a two pair), and will raise you (making you lose money). This is a typical no-profit-for-risk scenario.

• Seeing it through
  Frequently on the river there is enough money in the pots to make it worthwhile calling a bet, even if you are unsure if you have the best hand.

Other Concepts

Bankroll
Poker is a game of edge. By playing better than the opponents, you gain an edge and win money. There is, however, a large element of short-term chance, which results in possible swings. To play consistently, you’ll need to have a sufficient bankroll to survive.

Even a very good poker player may have a bad day, a bad week, or a bad month!

In low limit poker you can handle the situation of losing your entire bankroll, as it is in small manageable amounts. Playing high stakes would require maybe $1,000,000 in bankroll, which is difficult to replace if lost.

A good starting bankroll would probably be 100 small bets. (On a $1-$2 table, this would require a $100 deposit.) Playing conservatively will give you a buffer for losing streaks. Depositing less money is of course possible, but you should be prepared to deposit more to cover an unlucky streak.

On winning, it’s important to build your bankroll in order to be able to try a higher stakes table. This way you can move up the limits without any further deposits.

Large Multi-way Pots
In large multi-way pots, the number of players going all the way to the river constitutes the number of Miracle Rivers thus making your opponents hands increase. It’s all a question of probabilities.

On the other hand, the pot will be large, so by not betting on bad hands, you’ll not have to win too many pots to end up a winner.

Be aware of made flushes and straights, as well as possible third pairs making trips, so you don’t pay unnecessarily over the odds on the turn or river.

General on Bluffing
In loose low limit poker, bluffing is generally a bad thing and will not be profitable. Use bluffing scarcely to put people off. It can sometimes be good to be caught in a bluff early in the game to draw more callers when you have a good hand later in the game.

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