Archive for October, 2008
Folding can make you lose a Poker game
It has been confirmed that you might probably lose a Poker game if you fold the cards. In a poker game, if cards are distributed randomly, the probability of you winning any particular hand is less than 20% when you fold the cards. This also means that when the guy under the gun folds and you are in the big blind, you probably have an extra more than 20% chances of winning. When the next guy folds, you will also have a one-third probability of winning against the remaining six players. When everyone folds to the button you have your chances of winning increasing to more than 100% and this is the true fact about the game of Poker.
One of the most important thing is to keep a positive attitude at the poker table when you are in for a match. It is also important for you to know that no matter what the button does, you can three-bet your opponent and then triple barrel him with a shot-gun facing down the meter reader just because you have already won a pre-flop. If you want to keep yourself successful in the Poker game and as well nudge yourself into a happy mood each time you play, you need to train and cultivate the habit of not folding up while you are in a competition. If you fold up, your chances of losing a poker game is greatly increased, and you give your opponents the opportunity to override you each time.
Comments are off for this postThe PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour resumed with the largest poker tournament in New Zealand history in Auckland on Thursday. With 164 players taking the field on Day 1a, the SKYCITY Hotel and Casino played…
On October 7th, 2008, Lakes Entertainment announced it would be distributing all of the company’s shares of World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) stock. Lakes, a casino development and management company, is the largest…
A busy Tuesday night saw big winners at both PokerStars and Full Tilt, highlighting the night’s online action. ‘DidIGetBoned’ took down a big payday at Stars, while ‘I Pay Ur Rent’ captured the night’s biggest tourney prize…
A contentious hearing in the court-ordered forfeiture to the state of Kentucky of 141 Internet domains connected with online gambling will see another seven days elapse before the judge in the case issues a decision. Kentucky Governor…
Kelly Kim has to know the odds are against him. The 31-year-old poker pro from Whittier, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, is going into the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event with just 2,620,000 in chips…
Using a formula which has been part of the Dutch government’s official determination for games of skill when compared to games of chance, Dutch mathematics professor Ben van der Genugten has criticized the Netherlands’ official…
A healthy contingent of star players is expected to be on hand for the main event of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s upcoming Auckland stop, which begins Oct. 9th at Auckland’s SKYCITY Casino. It’s the third of five…
Debates about the best-ever poker movie nearly always resolve into discussions of the relative merits of a few favorites, with The Cincinnati Kid (1965) usually figuring as one of a small group of candidates for top honor. The relative
After two days and a couple of timely double-ups, EPT San Remo champion Jason Mercier came out atop the 85-player field at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London £1 Million Showdown. Mercier made it through…
Comments are off for this postA healthy contingent of star players is expected to be on hand for the main event of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s upcoming Auckland stop, which begins Oct. 9th at Auckland’s SKYCITY Casino. It’s the third of five…
Debates about the best-ever poker movie nearly always resolve into discussions of the relative merits of a few favorites, with The Cincinnati Kid (1965) usually figuring as one of a small group of candidates for top honor. The relative
After two days and a couple of timely double-ups, EPT San Remo champion Jason Mercier came out atop the 85-player field at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London £1 Million Showdown. Mercier made it through…
For the second consecutive Sunday, the major online tournaments at PokerStars and Full Tilt fell just short of their announced guarantees, thereby offering a bit of extra money for the players that did make it to the fun…
With the World Series of Poker Europe finished and the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London final table in progress, what better way for 85 of poker’s biggest stars, champions and action junkies to spend a rainy Sunday than…
In a comeback for the ages, Michael Martin battled back from a one-time micro stack to take down the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event title and its £1,000,000 first prize. The young American beat out…
In a brief update to its home page and a similar e-mailing to its customer base, US-facing site Duplicate Poker pulled the plug on its operations on Sunday, effective immediately. A check of the online Duplicate Poker…
I’ll admit right up front that I haven’t been impressed with most of the Harrah’s poker rooms I’ve visited. They’re adequate, to be sure, but they tend to be, in my opinion, somewhat cold and inflexible with too many rules…
The last 32 players standing in the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event returned to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino to play down to the eight-handed final table. Frenchman Philippe D’Auteuil started the day…
Comments are off for this postMethodical would be an understatement in describing the final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe. Clocking in at a record 22 hours, the finale was as much an endurance test as a poker tournament, as John Juanda…
Erica Schoenberg is one of those rare women who could stack you at no-limit hold’em in one moment and school you in beer pong the next. Equally at home in Manolo Blahnik stilettos or her beloved Cleveland Cavaliers jersey, Schoenberg…
Day 1b of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off with a field full of EPT champions, WSOP champions, online superstars and one Olympic gold medalist. A field of 309 players started the day…
Women have come a long way in poker. There is no doubt that we are strong in numbers behind the scenes and online but the number of women playing live is nowhere close to what it could be. I ask women who I know to be strong…
An overflow crowd of nearly 300 players descended upon the Grosvenor Victoria Casino for Day 1a of the PokerStars.net European Poker Tour London Main Event. The field was originally capped at 500, but the turnout far exceeded initial…
John Juanda kicked off Day 4 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event as the chip leader, and carried that designation throughout the day and all the way to the final table as top players from the live and online worlds…
Ivan Demidov, the 27-year-old from Moscow, Russia, poured himself into his first World Series of Poker this summer, playing almost every event over the seven-week series. By the time the Main Event was set to start, however…
The Empire Casino in London’s Leicester Square continued hosting many of the most famous faces in poker as Day 3 of the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off. Andy Bloch started the day with the chip lead, followed closely by…
The latest attempt at creating a safe, regulatory framework at the federal level for skill games such as poker has come about in the form of the Internet Skill Game Licensing and Control Act, S. 3616, introduced by Senator Robert…
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