Texas Hold'em Poker's Stupidest Question

Poker's Stupidest Question : "Why didn't you quit when you were $17,000 ahead?"

Specifically, people will ask this question after you have lost a lot of your poker winnings or unfortunately turned a win into a loss at a poker table. Often they know approximately how much you were winning and will phrase the question similarly to what you see above "Why didn't you quit when you were $17,000 ahead?"

I will tell you why I didn't quit when I was $17,000 ahead! I didn't quit, because I wanted to make more money. I didn't quit because when I am winning, poker game conditions tend to be best and since I get paid by the hour, I wanted to get in more hours under those conditions. I didn't quit, because neither you nor I had any way of knowing at the time whether the poker cards would be good or bad from that point on.

Here's the main reason that "Why didn't you quit when you were $17,000 ahead?" is the stupidest question in Texas Hold'em poker : When you win $50,000, nobody ever asks it.

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Internet Poker Tips on How to Play a Poker Game

Opponents are more likely to fold in a Texas Hold'em poker game, if they are :

(1) looking at poker chips;

(2) reaching toward chips;

(3) staring at poker cards; or

(4) conspicuously staring at you.

Before you act on your poker hand, examine the poker players who will act after you. The four points above are strong indications that opponents aren't interested in calling any bets.

This is particularly important on the first round of betting. I am able to convince even professional opponents that I am in the poker game to gamble, playing poker hands that are too weak for my position - without actually doing it!

How ? It's simple. I just look behind me and when I see one or more opponents providing these strong indicators that they are going to fold, I relax my poker hand requirements, substituting what I need if I were that many seats later in position. It means I can profit from poker hands I would not have been able to play. If I weren't observant and at the same time it does wonders for establishing my carefree image.

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Features of Omaha ~ How to play Omaha Poker

Omaha is similar to Texas Hold’em in the fact that it is a poker game played with five community cards but the game is quite different. Even though Texas Hold’em is now the most popular poker game all over the world, Omaha poker attracts more and more players day by day.
Omaha was called Omaha Hold’em before. Omaha may look like Hold’em because it is played with five community cards but that is where the similarities end. In Hold’em you can use any five poker card combination. In Omaha you must use two cards from your poker hand and three cards from the board. In Omaha you get four personal cards instead of two. Some poker players may think that this gives them double the starting poker hand combinations but in reality with four cards you have six possible two card combinations. Starting hands need to be coordinated. This means that the four cards should work together such as having a straight possibility that may wrap around the flop. Double suited poker hands that contain aces are good for the nut flush however three or four poker cards of the same suit is a garbage hand in most instances as you diminish your flush possibilities.

There are two versions of Omaha. Omaha High and Omaha High-Low Eight or Better which is a game where the high hand and low hand splits the pot. Each version can be played with any betting structure: Limit, Pot Limit or No Limit.

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My Favorite Casino Games -- Baccarat & Blackjack Game

Unlike some kinds of poker games, such as Texas Hold’em, Badugi and Speed Hold’em, I think casino poker games need less skills while being more lucky. So you can play casino games just for fun if you think you are lucky enough. Among all casino games, my favorite are Baccarat and Blackjack. Why I like these two games? Simple as they are easy to play. You don’t need to know a lot of rules. But there are still some of the skills involved in these two games.

Baccarat is a simple game with only three possible results: 'Player', 'Banker' and 'Tie'. The term 'Player' does not refer to the customer and the term 'Banker' does not refer to the house. They are just options on which the customer can bet.

The object of the game, Baccarat, is to receive a hand value close to 9. The game is designed into two major betting areas said Banker and Player with a side bet area said tie. An ace has a value of 1 or 11 in blackjack game and a value of 1 in baccarat game. Cards 2 through 9 have point values equal to their face values. (E.g. 2 of spades has a point value 2) 10s, Jacks, Queens, and Kings have a point value of zero when it is a part of component in baccarat game and a point value of ten in blackjack game. Because blackjack has an element of player choice, players can reduce casino advantage by playing optimally.

The complete set of optimal plays is known as basic strategy. There are slight variations depending on the house rules and number of decks.

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The attractiveness of Texas Hold’em Poker Game

These days we talk a lot of poker games and casino games. Today, I realized that I should go further to talk some details about these poker games. So let’s start with Texas Hold’em.

Hold 'em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards and the player's own two hole cards to make a poker hand, in contrast to poker variants like stud or draw where each player holds a separate individual poker hand.

After slow but steady gains in popularity throughout the 20th century, hold'em's popularity surged in the 2000s due to exposure on television, on the Internet and in popular literature. During this time hold'em replaced 7 card stud as the most common game in U.S. casinos, almost totally eclipsing the once popular game. The no-limit betting form is used in the widely televised main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour (WPT).

Texas Hold’em is kind of poker which needs a lot of skills involved in it. While lucky is also an important part. But players win the game by using intelligence, tricks and bluff. The rules of poker are really simple and easy to learn. While if you want to become a real poker pro, it is not an easy thing at all. You suppose not only to know everything about the strategies of analysis, but also the abilities to know the tricks of the opponent. You should use different ways to beat different opponents.

While to my point of view, Texas Hold’em is like a long race. The one who has more patience, will probably win this poker game.

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Something about Poker Tournament

I think many people have seen the poker tournaments through the TV show. This is a party for some real poker pro. Actually, most of the times, we feel more excited than the players when we make ourselves involve in their poker game and the atmosphere. Before we discuss any further, I would like to give a simple definition of poker tournaments.

Poker tournaments are structured competitions where players compete against each other to accumulate all the poker chips in play. In normal casino games, each poker hand is unrelated to any other and players can quit whenever they want. In tournaments, players can not quit and cash out their poker chips. Play continues until there is a winner. There are different types of poker tournaments. But here I only want to discuss the most common and popular one. That is "Elimination" tournament. In this structure all players begin with the same amount of poker chips, and play continues until one player has accumulated all the chips. As players are eliminated, the active players are re-seated at fewer and fewer poker tables. While the winner of the tournament is the player who accumulates all the chips, the payout structure rewards several players.

"Rebuy tournaments" have structures where for an initial period of time players who lose all their poker chips are allowed to "rebuy" more chips and continue to play. Rebuy tournaments generally feature more aggressive poker play earlier on as players do not face the prospect of elimination if they lose all their poker chips. Rebuys often lead to larger total prize pools being played for than would be standard for the initial entry cost. In "shootout tournaments" poker tables are not combined as players are eliminated.

Rather, each poker table plays down to a single winner. Then table winners proceed to a finals portion of the event. So, if a poker tournament starts with sixteen tables, the sixteen table winners then compete elimination style until there is a winner. Shootout tournaments normally last several hours less than elimination events.

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Online Speed Holdem Gaming Galaxy for the beginners (Speed Hold'em)

I think that most of the poker games are harder to learn to play well than Speed Hold'em. However, keep in mind that the more hard a particular poker game is to learn, the more profitable it is to the poker player who has mastered it.

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Poker Tournament Overview

Thanks to the recent media explosion taking place around no-limit tournament poker, learning how to play in tournaments is becoming more and more advantageous for every poker player.

Poker Tournaments are vastly different from cash poker games because if you lose what you have in front of you, you are out of the poker tournament. You will come across many opposing strategies as you and your opponents wrestle with this fact.

There are very few players who have had substantial success in both poker tournaments and regular money games and I am fortunate to be one of them. I have had really good luck in tournament play over the years, even though I still prefer the cash games.

So the next few articles I will present you my thoughts on poker tournaments.

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