HOW TO BE A PROFESSIONAL POKER PLAYER

As everyone may know, poker is a game of not just skills but also luck. The ways to win this game is to have the highest hand and the best poker face among the players. These ways really requires, number one, luck and, the second, talent.

Before they start the game itself, they shall first agree on the maximum amount that they can bet. An ante shall be placed on the pot by each player before cards can be dealt. Every player’s bet on ante shall be equal to each other. The dealer will then deal the cards to each player from the one who is in his left until all players get their own cards. Cards that are left undistributed will be placed in the middle of the table. Opening, seeing, checking, raising, folding, and a lot of bluffing will follow.

The strongest hand to the weakest hand is as follow:
• Royal Flush
• Straight Flush
• 4 of a Kind
• Full house
• Flush
• Three of a Kind
• Two Pair
• Pair
• High Card

Bluffing is the most important aspect of poker but it is not given enough attention. It means making others believe that you have a better hand even if you really do not. Just keep a poker face by not giving away clues to your opponents by your eye movements, facial expressions, etc.

You have to be an experienced bluffer if you want to master the game yet having no enough riches to shell out. Luck should not always be the basis o the game. You must have the strategy and the guts of trying the game even if you think you cannot give much money and wants to get more from it.

No Leads To Thief Of $100,000 Chip Theft Stolen From Crown Casino

Someone has stolen a $100,000 gaming chip was stolen from the Crown Casino. According to the reports the thief stole the chip in one of the more secure areas of the casino. Over 50 employees of the casino were interviewed and hours of security footage were analyzed – but the police were not able to turn up any leads.

The Victoria Police department believes that the thief might have been someone who is familiar with the workings of the casino a how everything is set up. This means that only a member of the staff would have been able to swipe the chip at the right time without getting caught.

The police reported to the Sunday Herald Sun that the $100,000 chip was stolen out of a cupboard in the counting room – which is one of the areas that has the most security within the whole casino besides the casino floor.

Close to 80 people have access to the counting room and over a dozen were interviewed to determine what had happened. The theft was first reported to the police back in 2006 and despite thorough investigation they have been unable to reveal any leads.

Gary O’Neill – the spokesman for the Casino confirmed this week that the casino was indeed down $100,000. "It is an on going investigation by police, we will leave it up to them," he said. "We are co-operating and continue to co-operate with the police. It is a police investigation, which is still open.

"Since the incident the casino has spent time and money to install better security cameras. "The existing cameras didn't capture anything. A couple of the cameras passed over the floor (where the theft happened) but they didn't show anything," stated a source."Obviously it was someone on the inside. But short of anyone coming forward, the police don't have anything to solve it. It appears to have been an isolated incident."

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Texas Hold'em Tournament

For someone who really loves poker, nothing beats the thrill of playing in a hard fought game against a bunch of great players and coming out on top. Not only is the money good but so is the feeling that comes along with besting a group of great players. But even this can get boring after a while and so what does one do then? Find a tournament to play in.

A person can find a good tournament to play in just about anywhere. Most towns will have these types of events at local clubs and bars. Some areas are even lucky enough to have their own card room where a person can easily find a tournament any week.

But if you aren’t the type that likes to play online poker against a big group of people, then you can easily find a Texas Hold’em tournament on the Internet. There are many card rooms like BetUS that constantly offer these types of poker tourneys and all you have to do is search for them.

You will find that a tournament is held in many different types of formats as well. Some involve hundreds of people while others only have a handful of people playing in their room. And the amount of money to get into a tournament varies as well. Some will charge a big entry fee to get into and offer a big prize while others may have a small entry fee but a small prize for the winner as well.

Whatever type of tournaments you choose to get into depends on your interests though. But the point is that it serves as a nice change of pace for people who want to get away from the cut and dried format of typical poker.

World Crown Poker - is a live poker tournament that will be held on May 8 in Barcelona

888.com, one of the biggest online gambling companies, decided to give all poker players around the world the chance to win millions of dollars.

While this is mostly an online poker tournament, the 888 WPC final event will take place at a casino as a live poker event. The final 10 players that reach the final stage of the online tournament will be invited to play in this exclusive event (which will be broadcast live on TV) and win the big prize (guaranteed total prizes of $3 million and a guaranteed first prize of $1 million!).

This huge prize is for anyone to take. The World Poker Crown Final Event at Perlada Castle in Barcelona, Spain between May 6th to May 10th will be broadcast live on television and the internet.

As mentioned above, you could watch the live tournament on the internet at: http://WPC.888.com/ and vote for who you think will win. The viewers will get a chance to win a $17K package to the WSOP (World Series of Poker - another live poker event that will take place in Las Vegas later on - these are two separate events).

In addition, there will be three events during the broadcast:

Pre-event: all you need to do is to vote. All players who voted until the event started are eligible to play an online tournament that will start 3 hours later, giving the winner 1 WSOP package ($17K).
The WPC - World Crown Poker - is a live poker tournament that will be held on May 8 in Barcelona (see further details bellow).

During the event: freerolls in the 888 forum for all members who post their user name, prizes are tickets to your WSOP qualifiers ($550).

Post-event: another online tournament will be held, this time awarding

3 WSOP packages (3x$17K). This is open only to those who guessed / placed their bet on the player who actually won the WPC.

Another slogan - Vote now to win a free WSOP $17,000 package!

If you need further information you can go to:

http://specials.888.com/wpc/

The History of Online Poker

The late 1990's brought with it the beginnings of what was to become one of the fastest growing phenomena of the twenty-first century. The beginnings of online poker started with the free poker games offered by IRC Poker. This was such a hit that Planet Poker soon made its appearance online with electronic card games that could be played for real money stakes.

Soon established casinos entered the market with their own websites and games to encourage and entice new players to try their luck with the cards. The biggest difference in playing online poker is the speed with which play continues. While at a real casino, one must allow for the time to gather and shuffle the cards and count the chips, online poker is dealt instantly. The average for a physical game is about thirty-three hands per hour. Online this can increase to as much as one hundred hands dealt and played in the same hour's time.

Many of the real casinos use their online games as advertising for their physical locations and often reward players with extra Poker bonus that can be used when they visit. The laws regulating real casinos are different from the laws that regulate online gambling and there are some places in the United States that online poker playing is illegal. Therefore it is provident for the new player to check with local and state regulations to assure that online poker is allowed in your hometown.

Funding your games of Internet poker is easy to do. Some banks and credit card companies refuse to allow transfers to online poker sites. Thus the emergence of virtual credit cards and intermediary online "wallet" accounts allow the player to transfer funds without having to be constantly connecting to their bank accounts or being denied the use of their regular credit cards for funding their online poker accounts.

The online poker establishments use a number of methods including IP address checking and automatic scanning for evidence of "robot" program patterns to keep their online poker games fair and above-board. With online poker being a multi-million dollar a month enterprise, they make tremendous effort to maintain a high degree of ethical behavior to assure their users that the games are run fairly and properly.

Although the chance of winning with such speedy play increases more with the ability to play multiple tables and games at one time, there is the loss of ability to watch your fellow players for body language and the subtle signs of a bluff. However, this is again offset by the fact that even the beginner, or person with a small budget to wager, can find a game of online poker that will fit their needs. While the stakes start high at real casinos, the online poker establishments allow games with bets as low as one cent so newcomers to the game can practice their skill while learning how to improve their performance and not be merely discouraged at an early loss.

Online poker is not limited to low-stakes or purely web-based play. Increasingly Championship poker tournaments are developing online games that allow a person to win the right to play in real casinos in international tournaments. It was through such a "satellite" online tournament that Chris Moneymaker won his seat in the 2003 World Series of Poker and ultimately became the winner of the real-life game as well.