Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Beginner Tips Playing Texas Hold'em Poker

If you are a new to Texas hold em, do not worry it is very to understand and play. Even if you are a beginner but it will not take to learn how to play Texas hold em games. These games take only few minutes to learn and once you have gone trough the easy steps to learn. You would be proficient playing it if you are practicing for it. This is not a game that needs to remember some rules and regulations; it allows you to be master once you have been trying out it for several times of play.


The minimum number of player required to play this interesting game is two and the combination can be taken using two hole cards and five community cards. Dealer will be sitting in the middle and one player has to sit left to him, who put out blind bets and another player has to sit right to him, who put out big blind. After three cards s are faced up, flops on and betting will be begin with player left to dealer, he also can check and bet. Finally, when the fourth card is face up, another round of betting will be begin. Final card that was dealt will be face up and all the players need to show their cards. The person who made the best five cards will be winner. After all, all players reveal their hands and will showdown as per the game rule. The player who has shown the best card will be announced winner. This is the normal steps that one can easily understand how to play Texas hold em games. The basic structure is easy to understand and one can play it through variant that are available with this game.

The popularity of Texas hold em has now growing widely with the huge number of player’s everyday. The one of the good reason why it is getting so popularity and very interesting is that it is ease to play and with which players can pick the rules. This is a game that needs time to go through and once you know the basis structure of the game, you would become masters for lifetime.

The most interesting game is no limit Texas hold em, the most dramatic of all poker games are available, where any player, anytime can declare to bet everything. Almost websites that offer Texas holdem online games allow the players to the left of big blind to post. Looking to the success of Texas holdem online games, now the outcome has shown a great result and the number of people who are interested taking a great part for playing this game. It is very easy to learn and most interesting games that offer you to play anonymously on several websites. If you keep playing this game you can also play some live tournament with a huge winning amount. Websites also offers you to play with variant that allows you to understand every trick and tips that leads to the success in Texas game playing.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How to play Texas hold em

This Texas hold em fame has recently growing with a huge number of people. People really start like this game and playing in certain rooms that are available and also having fun with their friends, family and relatives. It is very easy and convenient to play. People find it more interesting game. The one of the good reason of Texas hold em is that it is very ease to play with.

Look! You do not have to remember some hard rule and somehow if you lost it from your mind, you will be defeated. No, this is a quite simple game to understand and takes almost two minutes. This is the game that takes less time to understand and once you understand you would become masters for lifetime. Texas hold em is the most dramatic of the three, where any of the player, anytime can declare to bet everything. Minimum two players required to start the Texas hold em game and the combination can be taken using two hole cards and five community cards. Let’s see, between dealer one players to sit left to him, who put out blind bets and another player sit right to him, who put out big blind. Face down the card is called holes and every player does it. Now, they start betting on.

After three cards s are faced up in the center of the table, which is called the board. Now, flops on and betting begin with player left to dealer, who can check or bet. When the fourth card is face up then another round of betting can begins. The final card that was dealt will be face up. And the all players will show their cards they are playing with and the person who made the best five cards has won.

You have seen how easy it is to play Texas hold em, simply follow the certain rules and even you do not have to bother to remember them. And once you have learned how to play you would remember it for along time. Few things one has to remember. Make sure you learn the best starting hands in Texas hold em poker to play. It’s always good to have etiquette while playing. Practice reading the beats and try to remember the cards you are playing with and perceive it what others have. This is a simple game to play with and it is really sound very interesting as it is being played in every home and also there are also some places that create room for the Texas hold em poker playing game. This is the game for enjoyment and neither have you to involve a huge amount for playing. This is very next door game now.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Playing the Tournament bubble

The bubble can be one of the most uncomfortable situations in a poker tournament. People become very serious, play tightens up, and all the players realize that they do not want to be the one to bust the bubble. In a poker tournament, the bubble is what is known as the point at which the last player gets knocked out before prizes are awarded. If twenty people get paid, then the player that goes out 21st would be considered to have “bubbled” the tournament. You will see play change drastically at times when on the bubble and approaching it with some specific strategies will have you staying around well into the money.

What you need to decide as a player is if your goal is going to be to simply make the money in the tournament, or if you are going to play to win. While you always want to cash in the tournaments you play in, you also want to make the ones you cash in count. Due to the high variance and structure of tournaments, playing for first prize once is going to be more profitable than playing to barely cash in several others. One thing to consider is the monetary size of the tournament you are playing in. Playing in a $100 poker tournament and finishing just inside the bubble may only net you a small profit, however winning that tournament can gain you thousands. Playing in a $1000 tournament and finishing inside the bubble may earn the same profit.

If you are coming into the bubble with one of the bigger stacks in the tournament, you want to kick up your aggression level. Take every opportunity you can when in position to steal the antes and blinds. Attack the medium stacks holding on for dear life, and force them into tough situations. While it will be worth to call some short stack all-ins, making them your prime target is not what you want to focus on. Short stacks are dying to double up, and you don’t need to be the one giving them that courtesy. When you are close to the bubble though, you will find the medium stacks playing very tight, and folding all but premium hands to you. Short stacks will call your raises a lot more often than a medium stack will.

If you find yourself on the bubble with a short stack, you are probably just looking to get that cash, unless you have just suffered a bad beat in which you lost most of your chips. If you want to advance up the payout chart, then you need to get aggressive here. If you are satisfied with just trying to make it past the bubble, then you need to protect your chips, as even the blinds will dent you greatly. If you feel like you are going to get blinded out, you need to pick a spot and make a move, and hopefully you can double up. Your hand range here cannot be to selective, as you are short on time and money. Hopefully you can double up, and wait for another short stack to burst the bubble for you.

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Internet Play Money Games

If you're not ready for cash stakes, you can play in mock games for play- money on the Internet. Your opponents may be anywhere in the world. They won't be in the same room with you, but they're real folks looking for a game.

You'll have to make a few adjustments when you move into online playing. Internet poker games take place in cyberspace, the universe of electronic connections that is at once everywhere and nowhere. At first it's a little disconcerting to hear a disembodied voice ask for your blind, or to have your cards yanked away by invisible hands instead of folding them yourself!

The Internet game designers have done all they can to simulate the sights and sounds of a real poker game:

• You see yourself represented in pictogram form, seated at a virtual table with other pictogram players, whose real counterparts may be anywhere in the world.
• Your player name or "handle" and the amount you have in play are listed above or beneath your virtual representative.
• Vibrantly colored cards, tables, chips, and player costumes mimic the visual elements of real casino poker.
• An invisible dealer announces bets and raises and declares winning hands. (However, he doesn't accept tokes.)
• You hear the sounds of cards being shuffled and dealt, and chips clacking when the pot is pushed to the winner.
• You "converse" with other players in the "chat window" by typing messages back and forth on your keyboards.
• To check, bet, or raise, you click on-screen choices with your mouse. Help and hand history are easily summoned by clicking other options. Want to leave the game or go to another? Click!

To play online poker is quite good and for practice also it good finally enhances your skills to play on real game.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Importance Of Live Cards

Stud poker is a game of live cards. If the cards you need to improve your hand are visible in the hands of your opponents or have been discarded by other players who have folded, then the cards you need are said to be dead. But if those cards are not visible, then your hand is live.

Many beginning Seven-Card Stud players are overjoyed to find a starting hand that contains three suited cards. But before you blithely call a bet on Third Street, look around and see how many cards of your suit are showing. If you don't see any at all, you're certainly entitled to jump for joy.

But if you see three or more of your suit cavorting in your opponents' hands, then folding your hand and patiently waiting for a better opportunity may be the only logical course of action.

Even when the next card you are dealt is the fourth of your suit and no other cards of your suit are exposed, the odds are still 1.12-to-1 against completing your flush. Of course if you complete your flush, the pot will certainly return more than 1.12-tel, so it pays to continue on with your draw. But remember: Even when you begin with four suited cards, you'll make a flush only 47 percent of the time. (The sidebar "Consider the odds" offers more statistics.)

If you don't make your flush on Fifth Street, the odds against making it increase to 1.9-tel -which means you'll get lucky only 35 percent of the time. And if you miss your flush on Sixth Street, the odds against making your flush increase t o 4.1-tel. With only one more card to come you can count on getting lucky about only 20 percent of the time.

This also holds true for straight draws. If your first four cards are 9-10-J-Q, there are four kings and an equal number of eights that will complete your straight. But if three kings and an eight have already been exposed, the odds against completing a straight are substantially higher and the deck is now stacked against you, and even the prettiest looking hands have to be released.