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1. Early Position Raise: One of the biggest mistakes I see players make is not respecting someone who raises in early position. Remember he has another 8 people after him at the table who he has to fade, so chances are that he is holding a big hand.

2. When you have the nutz and someone betting into you: I was watching a friend of mine play a tournament online and although he made several mistakes that I corrected him on, the biggest mistake he made was pushing someone out of the pot by reraising him on the turn when he should have slow-played thehand. Let me give you the scenario. My friend Mike was dealt 10-hearts and K-hearts. Someone raises preflop and there are 4 callers including Mike. On the flop came K-diamonds, 10-diamonds, K-spades. Yes, he flopped the dead nutz. The first player checks, the second player who was the original preflop raiser bets $100. Next player reraises $100, the third and fourth players fold, lastley its up to Mike. He just called the bet which was the proper play. Next card on the turn was 3-spades, no help to anyone. Original player in first position bets $200, second player calls, and what does Mike do, raises the pot $600 and the other 2 players drop out. You need to ask yourself “What am I trying to accomplish with this bet.” What was Mike trying to do, make everyone fold. Number one he has the dead nutz, he already has position so it is imperative to give the other players an opportunity to catch their card. The proper play was to continue letting the player bet into you, then take him off on the river. He might have had 2 diamonds and hit his 3rd diamond on the river and you could have taken all his chips. You want those players to get so committed to the pot that they simply cant lay down their 2 pair or their flush or their set. Remember in no limit poker you can always raise the pot or even go all in on the river so its really quite simple. If your playing NL Holdem and someone is betting into you when you have the dead nutz and are in position, let him continue betting into you and do the raise on the river as to maximize any chance you have at getting most or all of his chips.

3. Protect Your Hand: Dont give players an opportunity to draw out on you, make them pay for it. If your holding top pair and there is flush or straight potential, dont let them get any free cards to draw out on you with. Bet the pot or double the pot as to thin the heard.

4. Thin The Heard: If your holding an adverage hand, say pocket 10s and there have been no preflop bets yet,, go ahead and make a bet, I prefer to triple the pot. You certainly dont want the guy next to you who has King Duece to hit his King on the flop and beat you. Your bet should thin the heard down and will lesson your chances of getting out drawn.

5. Chip Lead: Listen people, if you have the chip lead tighten up a little. There is no sense in getting involved in too many pots. I see it all too often, someone has the chip lead and calls a raise with crap. Then he catches one of his cards and gets committed to the pot and ends up losing 20% of his chip stack to the pocket rockets. You want to hold on to the chip lead, dont play anything but good cards and let the other players on short stack weed themselves out and you will find yourself at the final table.

6. Common Sense: Common sense supercedes all the advice given to me over the years. Use your head for crying out loud. My friend Mike was on the big blind and there were no raises preflop, so he got to see the flop for free. There were 7 people in the hand and the flop comes A-hearts, K-diamonds, -10-diamonds, now Mike was holding crap, 6-7 off suit. Well nobody bets and it comes around to Mike and he triples the pot. It goes around the table and one guy calls, another raises, then another goes all in. Of course Mike folds but common sense tells me with a flop like that everyone got a piece of it, wether its a gut shot straight or 4 to a flush or just top or second pair. My experience has been that usually players discard their low cards and stay in with their big cards or pocket pairs. When a big flop like that comes up common sense tells me when there are 7 other people in the pot that a few if not all of them caught some part of that flop. What a horrible time to try to buy one. Chalk another mullet move up to MIKEY lol.

7. Play like a champion: Try to imagine yourself at the WSOP final table playing for 1.5 million. Then ask yourelf how would Doyle Brunson play the hand. Take your time and you will probably make the right call. Remember skill will only get you so far, you also have to be lucky and not get too many bad beats to snap a big tournament off so dont get discouraged if you made the right play and lost the hand. If you played the hand like Doyle would have played the hand and you get a bad beat, well thats just part of poker so you might as well get used to it now and take it like a champion.

8. SURVIVAL. Your goal of course is to snap the tournament off, but your first priority should be to get into the money. Just use your head and play smart.

9. Study Your Opponents: Study your opponents and make note of their tendencies. For example, if you have a player that calls just about anything, obviously it would not be wise to try to steal a pot against him as he will probably call you with his low pair. Conversly, if you have a player like that and you have a strong hand, bet more than you normally would as you will probably get a call out of him unlike if your playing against a good player that would probably fold his adverage hand.

10. Realize The Amount Of Players Left In The Tournament And Where They Stand In The Money: If your in a tournament that pays the top 9 places and you have 11 people left in the tournament, this may be a good time to steal a couple of pots if your in position. They are trying to get into the money and wont risk their chips unless they have a premium hand. On the other hand, once everyone is in the money, if your going to play a hand make sure it is one where you are willing to risk a large part of your chip stack on. My experience is when it gets down to the money players, you see many people on the short stack going all in so although it may be tempting to play that 9-10 suited, it may not be a hand you want to risk a large amount of chips on.

Written by Kevin Venclauskas http://www.bonusgeek.com

Poker is called the American national game. But in reality, poker comes as close to being international as any card game possibly could. It probably originated in Persia; it developed in Europe; it did attain its present form in the United States — probably in the 1830s — but today it is played in every country in which playing cards are known. Nevertheless, since poker reached those countries from the United States and since it is internationally known as our national game, every American as a point of patriotic pride should know how to play an acceptable game of poker.

No one knows surely where poker originated, when it originated, or how it got its name. The basic principle of poker is that the most unusual combination of cards is the winning hand. This is such an obvious basis for a game that there may have been ancestors of poker stretching back to the year 894 a.d., when playing cards were invented. (They were invented by the Chinese.)

At least four hundred years ago the Persians had a game called As Nas in which there was a twenty-card deck, four players, five cards dealt to each, and betting on which player had the best hand. Since no cards were left over, there could be no draw; and the idea of stud poker had not yet been thought of. As early as the late 1600s, the Germans had a game that they called pochen, their word meaning to “bluff,” or “to brag,” and from this game developed the early English game brag and the French game poque. It cannot be proved, but it is irresistibly plausible that our name poker derived from this French name poque.

Until the Louisiana Purchase, in the year 1803, New Orleans and the entire Mississippi River and its valley were French territory. The people spoke French and if they played card games they played French card games. After the Louisiana Purchase thousands of English-speaking citizens of the new United States poured into the territory and took over the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi Valley, but they could not help being influenced by the French customs and terms that they found there. So they adopted the French game poque but changed its name to the familiar English word poker. That, at least, is the logical assumption; and while no one can prove it, all poker historians have accepted it.

We are all familiar with the prototype (and stereotype) of the Mississippi River steamboat game that arose sometime in the 1830s and prevailed at least until the Civil War. The rules were very simple. Each player was dealt five cards face down, and after the deal was finished everyone bet on whether or not he had the best hand. There was no limit and either of two customs governed the betting (it is hard, here, to differentiate between fact and legend): A man could bet anything he wanted to. His opponent, according to some stories, could always call (”have a sight̶ for as much money as he had with him; or, according to other stories, his opponent was always given twenty-four hours to raise the money required to call.

The entire history of poker since that time is the history of repeated efforts to pep up the game, to encourage players to stay in and to bet. Mathematically, a man playing straight poker (no draw) in a two-handed game should bet against his one opponent if he has some such hand as a pair of fives. Psychologically it doesn’t work out that way. The hand just doesn’t look good enough. So first the element of the draw was added, giving a venturesome player hope of improving when he wasn’t dealt a good hand originally; then a few extra winning hands, such as the straight, were added; then the ante was added, so that there would always be something in the pot for a player to shoot for; then came wild cards, and then stud poker, and then freak games of all kinds, and now it has reached a point at which there are probably thousands of different games called poker.

All of these variations are all related yet no two are exactly alike. Therefore you can make few general statements that apply to all games; in fact, you can make few general statements that apply to even two or three games.

The popularity of Texas Hold em poker has grown exponentially in recent years. But where did Texas Hold em come from? Poker itself is derived from a French bluffing game called Poque. The French brought the game to New Orleans, where it became popular and evolved into the game we now call poker. Although there is no clear verification of this, it is said that the Texas Hold em version of poker was first played in the early 1900s in the town of Robstown, Texas.

In 1958, Texas gambler Doyle Brunson joined with two other legends to be, “Sailor” Roberts and “Amarillo Slim,” to become a fearsome poker team. This trio traveled around Texas and the Southwest, finding and crushing poker games wherever they could, often utilizing their skills at No Limit Hold em. During this time, the men, especially Brunson, dealt out thousands of Hold em hands manually, just to determine the frequency of certain holdings winning out over certain others. These data proved invaluable in live games.

In 1971, the first official World Series of Poker Main Event was played. The game was No Limit Hold em, cementing its place as one of the most skillful types of poker. In 1973, Doyle Brunson took his family and moved to Las Vegas, the Mecca of card playing. As Brunson is widely considered to be the greatest ambassador of the game of poker, this was a key event in Hold em poker history. Four years later, Brunson introduced a book on poker “How I made $1,000,000 Playing Poker,” which was later renamed “Super/System, A Course on Power Poker.” The book, which gathered the best poker players in the world to each write a section on the game of their specialty, changed the way people think about and play poker. Doyle authored the section on No Limit Hold em and in it made the case for why Hold em is the “Cadillac” of poker games.

In 1999, a British television program called “Late Night Poker” began using new technology to televise poker, in which viewers could see the hole cards of the players as the hand progressed. This concept revolutionized poker and led to an explosion of both televised poker and poker in general. Shortly thereafter, The World Poker Tour and the Travel Channel used updated technology to bring televised poker to living rooms throughout the United States. The game used to showcase all of this technology? Texas Hold em, of course.

In 2003, an accountant from Tennessee named Chris Moneymaker came from out of nowhere to win the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. He got there for only $40, taking advantage of “satellite” tournaments which award seats to bigger tournaments as their prize. Chris won his seat and the championship, at No Limit Texas Hold em.

Today Texas Hold em is by far the most popular poker game in the United States, if not the world. Thousands of people play in the World Series of Poker’s No Limit Hold em event and millions more play online or watch it on T.V. Doyle Brunson’s prediction has been borne out. Texas Hold em truly is the Cadillac of poker games and everyone wants to get behind the w

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The Home poker game scene is one of the fastest growing leisure activities around just now. With the explosion of TV poker there is an enormous interest in the game and of course people want to try it for themselves.

One way to play of course is on the internet in the online poker tournaments, but if you’d rather experience the real thing, setting up a poker game at home is the ideal choice for most people. So what do you need to get started playing your home poker games?

Firstly of course, you’ll need some friends! One of the greatest things about poker is of course the flexibility of the game and the fact that it can be played by any number of players. Around six to eight is probably best for an average home poker game.

Almost as important as having friends however is to make sure that what you are doing is legal. In some parts of the world gambling is illegal, even if you are doing it in the privacy of your own home so check it out before you start.

You’ll need to decide what game you are playing and for this I would look no further that Texas Holdem as it is the easiest game to learn and of course most people know how to play it as it has become the standard game for TV poker.

Next you’ll need to get your equipment sorted out for the home poker game. The main things you’ll have to get for this are pretty obvious of course, a poker table, a couple of decks of cards and a set of poker chips.

Let’s take the table first. What, you’ve already got a poker table in the spare room? Great! You’re all set to go. Most of us however won’t have the luxury of a ready made poker table so what are the options? Well if you don’t want to get too technical about it, any old table that can comfortably seat the players would do. If you want to get a bit more professional however you can either buy a ready made poker table or make one yourself.

Poker chips are the next thing on your list and there’s a huge variety of them available. Plastic, clay and plastic/clay composite are the three main materials used to make the chips and there is a big difference across the board in price and quality. I’m not saying for a moment that your friends would cheat, but if you have a regular game and are using freely available cheapo plastic chips there might be a temptation for somebody to bring a couple of their own!

As with the poker chips, playing cards vary considerably so try and get yourself a couple of decks of decent quality cards.

Now you’re friends are all set and you’ve got the equipment sorted out, there’s only one more thing to consider before you’re ready to go. People are going to be there for a few hours, so you’ll have to lay on a few snacks and nibbles at least for them.

You might even want to lay on a couple of beers!

If you have ever tried to make money through sports betting, you will know just how hard it is to make any money. However with online sports betting there are ways in which people can benefit from the multi-billion dollar industry without having to risk a penny. The online surge in sports betting has allowed for numerous subsidiary business enterprises to appear. Businesses that allow even the most standard of Internet users to profit from a booming industry. The most prevalent of these in the sports betting industry is that of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing programs work as a reward system for website owners who choose to host advertisements on their sites. Whether they choose to cover the site in banners, or simply include a few word links is up to them, but the results are the same. Essentially the rewards of the affiliate program work in such a way that even the smallest site can get a piece of the action if they are lucky enough or if they market themselves successfully. Many industries utilise the affiliate marketing schemes, but few of these can match the potential gains that are associated with the sports betting industry.

Because the sports betting industry is so competitive, there is a need for sites to utilise all of the available means to advertise their presence. The more visible they can make themselves the more likely they can attract customers. Just like in any other industry that is run on profits, the customer base is key in creating or maintaining success. It is through the affiliate program that many of these sports betting sites have been able to contact such a vast clientele and maintain their status. By rewarding the affiliates with a percentage of any player that they attracts overall money generated, for the entire lifetime they can create a huge incentive. With percentages ranging from 20 to 35% the potential gains for an affiliate are immense. Therefore affiliates are clambering to get more customers not only for their external sites, but also for themselves. Because in the affiliate industry the more customers that an affiliate can attract, the greater the revenue they can command.

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Danie Negreanu

2004 Borgata Poker Open

A great river card propes Danie to a position among the chip leaders

My plan when traveling cross-country to play a tournament is always to get plenty of rest and make sure that I arrive at the facility early enough so that I can get acclimated.

So, I booked my flight at the last minute and arrived in Atlantic City just prior to midnight on the evening before the tournament; so much for planning.

When I went to tournament registration, the line was about three and a half miles long, and suddenly panic set in: This thing wasn’t going to sell out, was it? I was genuinely worried that my dog, Mushu, and I had traveled all that way and wouldn’t get a seat. You know, it’s funny; I hadn’t had a dog since I was a little kid, and never really understood why people get so attached. Jennifer (Harman) used to tell me things like, “Oh, I can’t play too late; the dogs are at home alone.”

I’d respond, “So what? They are just dogs. They’ll be fine on their own.”

Then, I bought Mushu, my 5-pound Chihuahua. Now, I fully understand what Jennifer was going through when she said she had to quit to go home and take care of her dogs. I’m fully sucked in. I just can’t go anywhere without my little buddy. I called the Borgata in advance to make sure that Mushu could join me, and they obliged. He’s a good boy, and doesn’t bark much or soil the carpets.

Finally, after a nerve-racking wait, I made it to the front of the line, ensuring myself of one of the remaining seats in the tournament. All told, there would be 302 entrants and a prize pool of more than $3 million. I took Mushu for a walk in the park, so he could do his business, and finally got to bed at around 4 a.m.; so much for being well-rested.

The one drawback to bringing my dog was that I’d have to wake up earlier. The tournament started at noon, but I’d have to get up earlier to take Mushu out for a walk. Strangely enough, I was able to wake up at 10:30 am., take the dog for a walk, have breakfast, and get to the Hold’em poker tournament on time. Sweet!The Borgata gave us $20,000 in chips to start, and I had my stack up to about $30,000 about halfway through the day. I took a tough beat for a small pot and had $24,500 when the following key hand came up:

With the blinds at $300-$600 and a $50 ante, I limped in from first position with the 8+ 7+. Everyone folded to the button, who made it a total of $3,000 to go.

I didn’t know the player well, but I was pretty sure that his raise meant that he had a couple of high cards — either A-K or A-Q, or maybe even A-A, K-K, or Q-Q. The price seemed reasonable, so I called his raise, and took the flop heads up from out of position: 5+ 3 2+.

That was a decent flop for me, and I had lots of options at my disposal. I could try a semibluff on the flop or I could try to win a big pot if I hit my flush. Assuming that my opponent had a big pair or an ace-high hand, I decided to check. He bet another $3,000, which made it an easy call for me. At this point, I wasn’t sure if I was looking at an overpair or ace high.

The turn brought the 6. That was a great card for me. Not only did it give me a straight and a flush draw, it also was a scare card to my opponent’s hand. If he had no pair, he couldn’t call, and if he had an overpair, he would be in a difficult spot.

I decided to use the “weak lead” and bet $4,500. If I checked texas holde poker. I would have to worry that my opponent would bet too much for me to call. By betting a smallish amount, I got a good price on my draw in a situation in which I simply couldn’t be raised. Since my opponent had raised from the button, that board was unlikely to have helped him.

I was a little surprised when he called. I had a new dilemma: Should I continue with the bluff if I miss, or just give up? The turn card may have given my opponent a spade draw, which seemed like the most likely hand. Usually, I have a game plan for what I’ll do on the river, but in this case, I had no idea how to proceed.

The river was the OK, there was no need to worry, because I had the nuts now! I had $13,000 left and there was already more than $20,000 in the pot. My opponent seemed to be a little stubborn, so I decided to make it look like I was.

We have all read many articles and news features about bingo, its history, where the word ‘bingo’ comes from and other facts and details. We have all seen how, moving from land-based bingo to a more modern virtual form, online bingo has become part of many people’s lives, and forms a major part of their social activities.

Particularly for players who are housebound, perhaps old or with a disability, online bingo like many other forms of social networking via the internet, has become important in helping those people meet and chat with others from all over the country and even the globe.

Bingo’s addictive game play and social elements have increased the numbers of people playing bingo online in the UK to around 100,000 per year. Global figures estimate around 5 million people globally, helping fuel the internet gaming market and generating millions in internet revenues overall. Along with poker, bingo has become one of the biggest online gaming phenomena of 2005/2006, helping many companies become some of the biggest earners on the stock markets, and has provided a great revenue stream for online companies.

We have also seen many debates on whether bingo is a serious form of gambling and, programmes like Panorama’s recent documentary on online gambling, has added further fuel to both arguments for and against online bingo gambling.

Whether governments like it or not, bingo (like poker) is here to stay. Not even the recent Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act issued in America, or the soon to be issued gambling regulations in the UK will do much to stop people’s incessant need to play online games and have a little flutter here and there.

As a source of entertainment, how did bingo compare alongside the other leisure and entertainment sectors of 2006?

A recent study commissioned by St Minver Ltd, who operates the International Bingo Network, shows that admissions to bingo halls in 2006 were around 82 million. Compare that to visits to the cinema of around 200 million and you can see that bingo is not far behind. Globally visits to bingo halls were 4 times as many than visits to casinos. Visits to online bingo sites also doubled compared to last year.

Figures issued by the Gaming Commission show that in the UK alone, the average household spend on bingo is around £7.20. This is at least twice the amount spent on the national lottery or other forms of lotteries. On average, people spend around £16 per night on visiting a bingo hall, almost twice as much than when visiting a cinema.

So bingo really is up there in the entertainment stakes. This is what fuels the argument regarding bingo, and whether it is a serious form of gambling.

Many families visit local bingo halls as a place to meet or catch up with friends away from the madness of visiting a more youthful local pub or nightclub. Bingo is also the only form of ‘gambling’ where women exceed the numbers of men playing, some 85% compared to 15% male. “Try telling them they are serious gamblers!”

Honoring the select few individuals who have set themselves apart from the masses to become the exceptional figures in the world of Blackjack began in the winter of 2002, when a varied group of professional gamblers from around the globe nominated a group of 21 distinct persons. Each of these 21 was, at one point, at the top of the game as a professional player, expert, or author in the game of blackjack. Thus, the Blackjack Hall of Fame had begun, as both an honorarium and educational tool for the general public to learn about the creativity, drive, courage and intelligence of its players, not to mention their achievements at the tables.

Voting for the initial 7 inductees to the Blackjack Hall of Fame was open to the public for one month over the internet. However, the primary voting was conducted by professional blackjack players at the 2003 Blackjack Ball, an event for only the most prestigious players, for these are the individuals who know the most about their peers and their total accomplishments, both at and away from the tables. Plus, professional blackjack players are the ones who depend greatly on the publications of authors, so they are more than familiar with which theories are truly original as well as which have had the greatest impact on winning at the tables.

Oddly enough, the general public’s internet voting and the professional blackjack players’ votes were amazingly similar.

Since the time of inception, the Blackjack Hall of Fame continues with the same basic principals, as all current members are fully responsible for the nominating process as well as the voting. There are no limitations as to the number of possible nominees annually, but a biography of each player, coupled with a reason for nomination, must be presented to each Hall of Fame inductee prior to voting. All members then vote on their top choices, with each member’s vote counting equally. In order to maintain the integrity of the voting process, each member’s votes are willingly shown to all other members.

The Barona Casino in Lakeside, California is the physical home and sponsor of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. Here, each inductee is represented with a plaque, complete with a photo and a few kind words about their contributions to the game and their individual accomplishments. In addition, a museum of gadgets and gizmos used for cheating in blackjack, such as card-swapping devices, marked cards, computer shoes and other interesting contraptions, are on display for the public to view.

On an interesting side note regarding the Barona Casino, each of the Blackjack Hall of Fames inductees have been granted a full-comp room, food and beverages for life at the casino, as long as they promise not to play at Barona’s tables.