A Big Question.. Why People Raise In Poker ?

August 10th, 2012

The act of raising just like calling has great significance in the game of poker. Basically, raising is the act of increasing your bet size. Raising forces the opponents to call i.e. to match the bet if they wish to stay in the game. This is one of the potent weapons used in different strategies [...]

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How Omaha Poker Rules Are Different From Texas Holdem

July 10th, 2012

Poker games are available with a wide range of distinct rules, which specifies how a game is played out. Omaha poker is one variant of the game which is quite similar to yet another variant called Texas Hold’em. On the other hand, regardless of the commonalities of the game to its version, there are actually [...]

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Beat Your Online Poker Opponent

June 10th, 2012

Playing and winning online poker is a science. It is both a skill and an art of mastering things that most players take for granted. If you are signing up for an online poker game, keep in mind never to choose the “any game at this limit” option. By choosing this, you are also effecting [...]

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Video Poker- Jacks or Better

November 10th, 2011

“Jacks or Better” is one of the most played and most popular games among the variation available in Video Poker and is also known as “Draw poker”. Irrespective of the way the game is played the game is one of the most loved games in both online casinos and even a brick and mortar casino. [...]

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Online Poker Basics

September 19th, 2011

Poker is a game of skill and strategy. As you may have read in many a poker blog, poker has a bunch of variants, these variants differ from each other in terms of the distribution of cards, how they are dealt and how different hands are being formed. In some of the poker games, high [...]

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Expenditure On Black Friday Full-time Professional Poker Players

June 10th, 2011

Fox News recently published an interesting article online regarding the impact on Black Friday is the estimated 50 000 full-time operators, professional poker in the United States. According to the article, drastic measures, the Department of Justice, poker at home, literally overnight, removed most of these players are their main source of income, and those [...]

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Online Poker faces 22% Drop in Traffic after Online Poker Shutdown

April 29th, 2011

Online Poker has noticed 22% drop in traffic after online poker shutdown or say online poker crash on April 15th, 2011, when the Department Of Justice went after PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker’s US operations effectively putting an end to online poker stateside. After around two weeks PokerScout have now released an online poker [...]

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Casino Mogul Steve Wynn: On Online Poker and PokerStars

April 8th, 2011

Just about 2 years ago Las Vegas billionaire and casino mogul Steve Wynn had met Isai Scheinberg for the first time. Scheinberg is the founder of PokerStars; the biggest online gaming firm. Scheinberg usually avoids traveling to U.S., but the meeting was on Wynn’s boat while it was anchored in the Mediterranean Sea. Over the [...]

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But How Will The Casino Buffet Lines Be Affected?

October 20th, 2010

With $575 million IPO filing, the online casino titan has some optimistic thoughts today. The effects of recession could be still felt, when Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. reported second quarter results. With a hefty 42,000 rooms, the company predicts a “$5 increase in ADR on an annual basis will equate to an improvement to EBITDA of [...]

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Online Poker Regulation in U.S. Face More Problems

September 29th, 2010

Some more obstacles for regulation and legalization of online poker in the United States crawled up this week, with very less chances that legislation will pass this year. The current session of the House ends on Oct. 8, before the congressional mid-term elections in November. First, Rep. Jim McDermott’s H.R. 2268, the Internet Gambling Regulation [...]

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On Loosing NFL Bets Online Casino Pays for It

September 10th, 2010

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Poker Hand Of The Week 9/6/10 : Phil Hellmuth

September 7th, 2010

I choose the poker tournaments that I play with great care. I don’t miss many WSOP events which means I’m booked in Vegas from the end of May until the middle of July each year. I also like to play the major WPT tournaments, so that’s another twenty days per year that I’m away from [...]

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The International Slots League Launched in New Online Casino Tournaments

September 6th, 2010

The International Slots League, in association with Platinum Play Online Casino and all of the Fortune Lounge Group of Online Casinos, has just launched four new tournament types as well as four new guaranteed tournaments on 6th September 2010, which can be viewed within the Slots League Schedule. The International Slots League has long been [...]

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Online Poker Bill – Jay Leno & Barney Frank Debate

September 3rd, 2010

The ongoing debate over legalizing online gaming made a pit stop on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Tuesday night when Barney Frank was a guest on the show and the topic was discussed. Congressman Barney Frank has been pushing congress to accept his online gaming bill HR 2267 to make online gaming legal in [...]

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In Disarray after Ban Online Gambling

August 30th, 2010

Gambling groups are uncertain about the impact of the Gauteng Gambling Board’s move to effectively ban online platforms, but for now it looks like operators not registered in South Africa will be hardest hit. This follows an announcement by the board last week that those involved in promoting, transacting or operating an online platform would [...]

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Future For Online Casino Market looks Bright

August 17th, 2010

A recent report has shown that the value of the online casino market will grow steadily over the next four years and be worth over $7 billion by 2014. The key provider of information for the online gambling industry, iGaming Business, has announced that they are launching a new report which will examine the growth [...]

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Chicago (poker card game)

August 16th, 2010

The poker-related card game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Sweden today. Relying on the keeping of score instead of the placing of bets, it is suitable even for environments such as schools, where gambling is often prohibited. The game exists in countless versions, so here a (somewhat arbitrarily chosen) [...]

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More common poker rule variations

June 25th, 2010

High-low split: the highest and lowest hands split the pot. Generally there is a qualifier for the low hand. For example, the low hand must have 5 cards with ranks of 8 or less. In most high-low games the usual rank of poker hands is observed, so that an unsuited broken straight (7-5-4-3-2) wins low [...]

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Poker Hand Ranks

May 14th, 2010

Hold’em, Omaha, Seven Card Stud, and Five Card Draw all use the traditional ‘high’ poker rankings. Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, and Stud Hi/Lo use the ‘Ace to Five’ (‘California’) low hand rankings for low hands. 2-7 Single Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw use the ‘Deuce to Seven’ (‘Kansas City’) lowball rankings for low hands. Lastly, Badugi [...]

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Texas Hold’em

May 13th, 2010

Texas Hold’em is without a doubt the most popular form of poker played in the United States, today. The World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, and countless poker tournaments across the country every day use Texas Hold’em to decide their ultimate champion. Doyle Brunson, aka “Texas Dolly,” calls it the “Cadillac of poker,” [...]

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