I’m writing this article to provide you with good quality, free ideas for playing poker over the Internet. I have been playing successfully for a couple of years, and as such I can give you valuable advice that you may have to pay quite a bit for elsewhere.

One important thing you should realize about playing poker is that it should be fun. It is interesting to meet players from all cultures and backgrounds, and get to socialize with such a wide variety of people since you usually would not get the opportunity to do so. However, some of the players will deliberately try to antagonize you. This is a common tactic and should be ignored; the more these players wind you up, the less carefully you are likely to play against them.

Note that online, you often get to play twice or even three times as many hands in an hour as you would be able to in a casino. However, even in this accelerated environment, there come times when you will not receive a hand worth betting on in quite some time. You should try to be patient and bide your time; when you eventually get two good cards, you will get a chance to win a good pot. Do not fall into the trap of betting on lower cards simply because you feel you are “due a good hand”. This and similar mentalities can be devastating if you do not take care. Be patient and you will be making money online. There is no need to rush. The people who get bored are the ones who go in on small hands, and these are the people you will be taking money from when you get a great hand.

When you have not been dealt a good hand in quite some time, try to relax: maybe put some music on, or talk to the other players. Note that you should still stay somewhat attentive, as you might be able to pick up some information about other players by watching how they play certain hands.

There are some very aggressive and loose players online known as maniacs. Though these players might win in the short run, they will lose to their own greed in the long run. Keep your calm and stick to your game plan – do not let these players lure you in. When the time is right, they will lose all their chips, hopefully allowing you to double up on them.

You should be careful to keep your poker bankroll separate from money you need for important necessities such as food, rent and other bills. Too many players fall into the trap of losing all of their poker bankroll and as a result they deposit more, repeating this and ending up in a lot of debt. Play sensibly and do not allow yourself to become addicted. If you are losing, do the sensible thing. It is not a good mentality to try to play until you have won a certain amount; if you are down, you could well lose more instead of even becoming level again. Enjoy your games and try to concentrate on what is happening on the long run. We all have bad luck and we all have good luck.

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1. My House V.S. Your House

Both Roberto Romanello and Greg Geller get high sets off the flop. So they both have to be feeling pretty good about what they have. They move the game along quickly, until Geller and Romanello both hit their hands. Through some bizarre form of ESP, Romanello knows that he is done for, and folds his hand before Greg has a chance to send him packing to mind his chippie.
The best part of this round is simply everyones’ reaction to what they just saw. Matusow is particularly impressed, and one of the hosts of the show had better pack some sunscreen, I hear it’s warm in those parts.

2. Josh Arieh takes on John Murphy.

Murphy get the set of twos right off the flush, so he’s already fairly confident and Josh doesn’t want to give up his hand just yet because of the flush possibility. The turn comes as a queen that is of no use to either of them. Then …Bombshell! The Queen of hearts comes down on the river.
Arieh makes his hand, a king high flush, but the queen has also given John Murphy a full house. If Murphy didn’t call all-in as fast as he did, Josh’s chips would have probably walked right into John Murphys’ stack.

3.Doyle Brunson backs down from his old buddy Chip Reese

Watching these old friends play against each other is just magic. Doyle Tests to see what Chip is thinking, and without even looking at Chip until it’s over, Doyle knows he’s beat. Behind Doyles weathered frail exterior, is one of the hardest characters you would ever run into. When the man plays like this it isn’t difficult to tell why he is such a legend.

4.Daniel Negreanu reads Doyle Brunson like a book.

Of all the pro poker players out there few of them are more enjoyable and entertaining to watch than these two (with the exception of Phil Hellmuth, who is hilarious when he starts whining like a toddler with a skinned knee). Watch how seemingly uninterested Daniel is in the game, he seems more concerned with his golf game. Then he just nonchalantly tells the table Doyles’ hand. Doyle tries to throw him off but it doesn’t take Dan more than a second to figure out his strategy and he puts his cards down, much to the surprise of Doyle.
Just look at the smile on Doyles’ face as he collects the chips and you will see the face of an impressed poker veteran.

5.Mike Sexton and Andy Bloch

With two decent hands you are expecting to see someone leave in tears. The straight draw off the flop was enough to keep them both interested. The 10 on the turn got Andy’s attention, then he hits top 2 pair, which would be tempting enough for anyone after a fairly lackluster few rounds of betting.
Andy decides to cut his losses and fold his hand in probably one of the smarter moves at the table. Had the cards better disguised the hand, and more betting taken place, this would have been closer to the #1 spot.

5. Negreanu Calls them again.

Dan Negreanu and Jerry Buss are the final two at the table, and they decide to go all in. Dan has the queen of diamonds and jack of spades, while Jerry has the Ace of diamonds and ten of spades. The flop comes down and pairs Jerry’s ten but gives Dan an open ended straight draw. Dan asks for an 8 of diamonds and gets it, much to their surprise. Daniel has the best hand at this point, but says he wants to improve it. Down comes the Jack of diamonds, giving Jerry a flush, but giving Dan a Straight flush.
I know, not really a bad beat but an entertaining clip nonetheless, goofing around seems to be something that Negraneau excels at making it incredibly enjoyable to watch.

4. WSOP 2008 Madness

This is really a handful of clips from the World Series Of Poker 2008. The Three of them together make a great video, and several broken dreams. In the First video we watch a rather animated Jean Robert Bellande take on Sarkis Akopyan. They go all in before the flop Bellande with Ace-Queen and Akopyan with 10-9. Jean Robert thinks he has Sarkis beaten, then the final card comes down with a huge outburst at the table and the commenting booth. Bellande goes home.

While not as exciting, Schoenfeld and Eskeland give a good show. Adam Schoenfeld just sort of walks away like he was expecting it to happen.

Next up is “Poker Brat” Phill Hellmuth and “some Internet player” Adam Levy. Phil Hellmuth basically disregards his opponent, and swiftly loses his chips. The best part isn’t the hand played, but rather the reaction from Phil. He calls the player who just BEAT him an idiot. Instantly the announcers start making fun of him, calling him sweetie and puddin’, and Phil demonstrates with fantastic ability why he has earned the name “Poker Brat”. He continues on berating the dealer, and Adam Levy, while the announcers mock him with names like ‘honeybunch’.

If there was any poker player I would love to play with, it would be Hellmuth. Not to test my skills against his, oh no. I would much rather mimic his style. I would whine and complain to everyone that THEY suck, after I just lost until no one could stand me, then I would abruptly stand up and apologize to everyone at the table for my behavior, then turn and look at Hellmuth and say ‘especially you’. Before he could say “why?” I’d cold clock him in the face, and run away while laughing maniacally.

3. Another Brat Tirade.

Constantly proving to be the Ire of poker players around the world, Phil Hellmuth again acts a fool on high stakes poker. Bryan Brandon admittedly didn’t play the hand as he should have, but half of the fun of poker is the risks we take, the crushing defeat when you lose on a bad call, and the rush when it pays off. It almost seems as though the whole table is trying to tilt Hellmuth, and when Bryan beats Phil on this hand, the whole table celebrates as Phil has a meltdown.

The somewhat calm table livens up as it becomes obvious Phil is annoyed. “Bryan I love you!” is shouted when Phil loses and the whole show devolves from there with cheers from everyone but Hellmuth, who is just a string of insults and curse words.

2. Danny Nguyen Win!

Danny Nguyen was smuggling horseshoes into this event. Not only does he catch running sevens to make his hand, but this is only ONE of his incredibly lucky wins that night. In an earlier hand Danny was holding 4-3 suited and was chasing a 5 to make his straight. Then he knocked Men “the Master” Nguyen out of the game holding pocket Jacks to Mens’ Pocket Kings. Danny got running Jacks to win with four of a kind. Danny held onto his horseshoe long enough to win over 1 Million dollars, with his winning hand being a pair of threes.

One Million Dollars….for a pair of threes…..

1. MADNESS!

Noone can quite believe this when it happens. Justin Phillips and Motoyuki Mabuchi are in a showdown. The river card is the ace of diamonds and Mabuchi immediately calls all in. Justin calls him immediately. Both players throw down their cards and look with amazement. Phillips just belts out “WOWWWWW”, and Mabuchi can’t believe his eyes.

They take pictures of the hand while Motoyuki still can’t believe what just happened. He Had Quad Aces in the 2008 WSOP and was riding high, only to be crushed by a royal flush. He felt giddy with his quad aces and felt like he was unbeatable only to find out that he has to pack his bags and go home, because the tournament is over for him.
But then….that’s poker.

Hi everyone, just would like to share a great money making style that I have been playing for the past week. I signed up for my rakeback for fulltilt poker from poker lessons that will provide me with 27% rakeback and I started playing with 120 dollars at the 6 player $1/2 No Limit $60.00 cap tables. I have averaged over $300.00 profit everynight through the week playing an average of 4 hours.

I am sticking to the hand chart offered on poker lessons and it has been working great for this format. I will let everyone know the results at the end of week 2.

Week 1 results:

Monday: $485.00 Profit

Tuesday: -$65.00Loss

Wednesday: $318.00 Profit

Thursady: $295.00 Profit

Friday: $427.00 Profit

Saturday: Day Off

Sunday: $124.00 Profit

Gambling in Great Falls

The drive down 10th Avenue South in Great Falls looked a lot different twenty-five years ago. Casinos started to spring up in the mid-80s and now you’ll find ten of them on the main drag alone. So what effect does the gaming industry have on our community nearly 25 years after the Video Poker Machine Act was passed? Jane Yonkin says she had a hidden addiction that consumed her life for fifteen years. “It was horrible, suicide was there…it was one of the options because I let my life go so badly…I didn’t feel I had anywhere to turn,” she said. The darkest hours of life were spent in front of the flashing lights of an electronic gaming machine. “Almost from my very first time, there was a problem. I lost like only a dollar, but I wanted to win it back like me versus the machine.”

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Card Player Player of the Year Update

A handful of players made progress on the Card Player Player of the Year leader board during the past two weeks, but two of them made moves near the top 10, as Michael Binger and Dario Minieri added to their point totals. Binger won the third poker tournament of his career when he beat 131 opponents to win the title at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Harvey’s Lake Tahoe. For his victory in the $5,000 no-limit hold’em main event, he took home $181,379 and 624 points. This took his point total up to 4,416 and put him in sixth place, ahead of David Benyamine. Read the rest of this entry »

Winning with RakeBack While keeping your Bankroll Even

Rakeback offers provide online poker players the opportunity to receive a percentage of the rake they contribute to each pot back at the end of every month. These rakeback offers vary by online poker room, but they all have one thing in common. You don’t have win in order to make money while playing your online poker rake back account.

Yes, this is the truth. Online poker players are playing every day with the objective of winning money at online poker tournaments and ring games without understanding the fact that by just playing you are generating money for yourself via the rakeback offer you have signed up for.

Rakeback is as simple as this: Your Rake Back = Monthly Gross Revenue X Rakeback %

Now we need a couple definitions.

1. What is rake and how is rake calculated:

The rake is the fee that every online poker player pays to the “house” or in this case the online poker room for playing in a hand at their online poker room. This fee is different from poker room to poker room. The rake is calculated in one of two ways, the dealt method and the contributed method. The dealt method is calculated by totaling up all of the rake in a hand and then dividing that amount between all players who were dealt cards in the hand. The contributed method is calculated based on the total amount each player pays into the pot. The dealt method gives an edge to those players who play fixed limit games. While the contributed method can add up to greater rake for No Limit poker players and thus earning greater rakeback.

2. What is Monthly Gross Revenue (MGR)

Monthly Gross Revenue is the total amount of rake you generate while playing at the online poker room. This amount includes all rake contributed while playing ring games as well as tournament entry fees. Some online poker rooms do not pay rakeback on tournament entry fees so you should check with the poker room before signing up. So now that we have these rakeback definitions down, we can calculate how much theoretical rakeback you can earn in a month. A player who generates $1000 in MGR over the month and is signed up to a 40% rakeback deal now will receive $400 in rakeback at the end of the month.

$1000 X 40% = $400 to your pocket.

Now this $400 is going to be paid to you wether or not you win $5,000 or lose $100 playing online poker. The rakeback is always going to be there and is only dependant upon how much you play, not how much you win. Now let’s take a look at yet an other example of how rakeback can make you a profitable online poker player.

Like all poker players you are going to go through hard times and find it difficult to even just break even. In our above example, you don’t even have to break even at the table in order to still earn a profit. As long as you generate the $1,000 in monthly gross revenue, you now have a $400 cushion to work with. So even if you happen to end the month down $200, you are still going to end the month up $200 after you receive your rakeback payment.

As you can now see, if you didn’t before, the importance of playing online poker with a rakeback deal in place for yourself. You can find many rakeback offers at Treasure Hunter Poker by visiting any of our rakeback pages.

Don’t throw your money into the muck with your cards any more. Start making money while your are making money at the online poker table today.

Winner of 623.000 Euro at Grand Final of Master Classics of Poker

Jan Sorensen Wins Grand Final at Master Classics of Poker

Jan Sorensen won the grand final of the main event at the Master Classics of Poker in Holland Casino Amsterdam. He won 623.000 euro. In the exciting final Gustav Ekerot came in second. The Master Classics of Poker is one of the biggest and best-known international poker tournaments in Europe.
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This year poker players from a.o. America, Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. attended the Master Classics of Poker.
About Master Classics of Poker
The main tournament in the Holland Casino Master Classics of Poker is the Lido Poker Tournament. This tournament takes place from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th November inclusive and has a buy-in of 6,000 Euros plus 200 Euros entry fee. The Master Classics of Poker comprises seven different tournaments where the types of poker played are Texas Hold’em and Omaha. The buy-in plus entry fee for each tournament varies between 330 and 6,200 Euros. The level of the prize pot for these tournaments is, of course, dependent on the number of participants. Each day the tournaments start at 2 pm except for the Lido Tournament that starts at 3 pm. More information on the MCOP and the full tournament schedule is available at http://www.masterclassicsofpoker.com.

‘Poker Wizards’ Reap More than $4,000,000 in Tournament Earnings in 08

‘Poker Wizards’ book contributors: Chris Ferguson, Daniel Negreanu, T.J. Cloutier, Kathy Liebert, Marcel Luske, Dan Harrington and Mike Sexton unable able to defeat the overwhelming odds in 2008 to make the recently televised WSOP final table, but as a group, they have been paid in excess of $4,000,000 for tournament winnings in 2008 even without cracking the Main Event.

In one of the years best new books, ‘Poker Wizards’, the best known names in poker explain how they make large sums of money year after year. An exclusive compilation of strategies, insights and winning tactics from some of the worlds best poker players combined in one book. Well known No-limit Hold’em champions Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Dan Harrington, T.J Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Mel Judah, Mike Sexton and Kathy Liebert, reveal the tactics and attitudes that have enabled them to make millions of dollars playing poker. The book also contains a bonus chapter on body language by world renowned body language expert Marc Salem.

Poke Wizards author available for media interviews.

Author Warwick Dunnett
Cardoza Publishing
Distributed by Simon & Schuster and available at:
www.pokerwizards.net

Century Casinos Announces Polish Open 2008 Poker Tournament

Century Casinos, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Casinos Poland Ltd. will present the grand Polish Open 2008, a four-day Texas Hold’em No Limit tournament, hosted as part of the fifth EPT European Poker Tour Season at its casino in the Hyatt Hotel in Warsaw from November 15 to November 19, 2008.

The tournament will be capped at 400 players who will play for a total prize pool of up to PLN 8,000,000 or approx. $2,700,000. The buy-in for the tournament amounts to PLN 21,000 or approx. $7,000. According to the official website of the EPT a lot of stars are heading to Warsaw for the next stop on the Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour. Among the top players set to compete at the four-day event are Team PokerStars Pros Gavin Griffin, the EPT Grand Final winner in Season 4, EPT Player of the Year Luca Pagano, PCA Champion Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, William Thorson, Season 3 Warsaw finalist Katja Thater, EPT London finalist Marcin Horecki, Dario Minieri, Alex Kravchenko and Isabelle Mercier.

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Poker Sites Block Balance of US States

Online poker rooms Poker Host and Eurolinx had already established that residents of certain states from the USA would not be allowed to play on their sites in keeping with local laws on poker’s legality, and now have made the announcement that all of the US is banned from play on their sites. It is believed that this action as taken in response to the actions of the Governor of one of those states, Kentucky, who sought to gain ownership of poker room domain names in an effort to shut them down.

Overlay Poker Tournaments: Gaining buy-in Advantage in a Guaranteed Tournament - CelebPoker.com

Poker players don’t get this opportunity often, but sometimes a poker player can make a financial advantage just by registrating for a Multi Table Poker Tournament

How is this possible? The answer is within the overlays given by guaranteed prizepools offered for some guaranteed poker tournaments

An example: On Sunday the 02/11/2008 the 250.000 Guaranteed Tournament at CelebPoker had a 320 Buy-In. 613 players registered for this tournament. Now the calculation fun begins!

First a player has to divide the offered Prizemoney with the number of players who registered. In this example: 250,000 / 613 players = 407.

This means that a players ticket is worth than 407. As your ticket costs 320, you are automatically gaining the equivilent of an extra 87 to pay for your entry (407-320 = 87). Ok, players don’t get the cash in the bank, but poker players do get it as an advantage for the buy-in as a player have less players to compete for the prizepool with.

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More students betting future at online casinos

Addiction comes in many forms, and while alcohol and drugs get most of the attention, university and college students are not immune to one of the fastest growing and expensive vices– gambling.

According to the Responsible Gambling Council’s Poker Poll and 2005 Prevalence Study, 6.9 per cent of young adults in Ontario have a moderate to severe gambling problem.

Online poker playing by young adults has grown by nearly 300 per cent, and 16 per cent of Ontarians between the ages of 18 and 34 believe that online poker is a good way to earn extra money.

Amanda Stokes, project co-ordinator for Know the Score, the Responsible Gambling Council’s travelling gambling awareness exhibit, said her organization’s goal is to educate students about the risks of gambling.

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World Series of Poker has youngest champ ever

A 22-year-old Danish poker professional won the World Series of Poker early Tuesday, turning a wheel straight on the last hand to become the youngest champion in the history of the no-limit Texas Hold ‘em main event.

Peter Eastgate hit an ace-to-five straight on the turn and instantly called an all-in bet from Ivan Demidov on the river to win the title and $9,152,416. Demidov held two pair, twos and fours.

The previous youngest champion was 11-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who was 24 when he won the tournament in 1989.

“It feels good to beat Phil’s record,” Eastgate said after taking pictures with stacks of $100 bills and his new gold bracelet. “I was not focused on the record that I could break, I was just focused on the game.”

Eastgate said he got a call from Hellmuth wishing him luck before the more than three-hour session.

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Perth player misses making poker final

The final of the World Series of Poker, with its $9.15-million U.S. first prize, will be televised tonight with Scott Montgomery no more than a spectator.

The 27-year-old professional player from Perth reached what organizers labeled the “November Nine” in Las Vegas, but he bowed out Sunday night and missed last night’s final, which was taped for broadcast tonight (TSN, 10 p.m.).

“I certainly wanted to finish better than fifth,” Montgomery told reporters later.

This year has been referred to as his “breakout year” as a poker player, with more than $1.3 million in tournament earnings heading into the World Series, and he more than doubled that with his $3.1-million prize for placing fifth.

Montgomery started playing poker about four years ago, while teaching English in Japan, using his down time to play and study the game.

His great 2008 run began in February at the World Poker Tour’s Los Angeles Poker Classic $990,000 No-Limit Hold ‘em championship. He made it to the final table, which included eventual winner Phil Ivey, and won $296,000 for finishing fifth.

You gotta know when to Texas hold’em at UMSL

Are you good at card games?

If you are (or even if you are not), the University of Missouri-St. Louis holds annual poker games and this year was the “Texas Hold ‘em Tournament!”

The tournament is usually played with a 52-card deck, and needs at least two players with no more than 11 players.

The Texas Hold ‘em Tournament was held on South Campus in the Provincial Hall from 7 -11 p.m. on Thursday night and officially started at 7:15 p.m.

The event drew in 46 players.

Charlotte Caeys, graduate student, business administration, came here from France and said she learned to play poker here, and has loved it from the first time she played. “I found out [how to play poker] on the Internet,” Caeys said.

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What is Rakeback and Why is it So Important For Poker Players?

Rakeback is a term that refers to a refund on the rake that you pay when you are playing at a poker table. For any online poker site that you visit, the house takes a portion of every pot that you play. This portion is referred to as a rake and it is what the house does in lieu of actually being involved in the game the way they would be in casino poker. The rake is something you can not get away from as it basically represents the fee taken from the players by the house because the house puts on the game, hosts the accounts and invests their money into the creation of a poker website.

The rakeback is not always going to be equivalent to the rake that you give to the house and in fact in most cases will be quite a bit less than the rake that you give to the house. A typical rakeback would be in the 15% to 20% range, while a really good rakeback would be in the 35% range. However, if you become a prop player for a website that needs to have players in seats to get games going, you will find that the rakeback you receive is quite a bit higher and in fact can go to levels of 120% from websites that are grateful for your presence and your help. However, all of the larger and more established websites do not need prop players and that is why the typical rake back range mentioned above exists.

The rakeback is important to poker players for a very obvious reason. That reason, simply put, is that a rakeback gives them back some of the money they contributed to the house. If you are a break-even poker player, you would be a winning poker player if you got some of your rake back. If you are a losing poker player, you might have a chance at becoming a break-even poker player if you get some of your rake back. And of course if you are a winning poker-player, having some of your rake returned to you would increase your winnings and maybe allow you to reach some personal goals in the field of poker quite a bit sooner. All three of these scenarios regularly materialize under rakeback deals and that is why those rakeback deals are as important as they currently are.

One thing that is worth mentioning about rakeback however is that it is by no means easy to get. Most of the time it is not regularly advertised on the poker site and for that reason most of the time you will be forced to go through an affiliate in order to get it. Don’t let it discourage you however, since these websites are quite helpful and the rakeback you receive at the end will be just as valid.

If you are looking for the best rakeback deals for online poker look no further, go to rakeback.poker-lessons.net for the best rakeback and bonus deals for internet poker.