Posts Tagged ‘Poker’

Betting On the Turn – Smooth Move or Bad Idea

Ah, the turn. If there’s one thing that poker players of all stripes seem to like, it’s the turn. That’s because a lot of action happens on the turn. You can have a bad flop and suddenly, that turn card — that one little card — can change a bad hand into a good one. [...]

A Return to Bluffing – Without Losing Your Cool!

Bluffing is something that can be good or bad depending on the game at hand, but not knowing how to bluff is a grave error in the world of poker. Every time you sit down to play poker, you should assume that at least one person is trying to bluff you out. You won’t naturally [...]

Can Poker Be Considered Gambling?

The day following the Melbourne Cup, the biggest horse race in Australia, I began thinking about gambling and whether or not poker is considered to be a form of it.
Even though I travel to the event once every year, this horse race still stirs excitement. While I do enjoy myself, I am still stickler for [...]

Spotting a Tell

The most feared word in the language of poker is tell. A tell is a physical trait that indicates a player is bluffing.
Many players spend a lot of time and effort trying to spot tells when they’re playing at a table game. A person who can spot a tell can figure out who is bluffing [...]

Reading Poker Hands

The one skill that every poker player wants to master is reading other poker players’ hands. The art of trying to tell what cards the other players have from the expressions on their faces and their actions.
In reality, the only way to learn this art is to play a lot of poker. To spend hundreds [...]

Bluffing Online

Playing online poker presents a lot of challenges you don’t have when you’re playing at the table.
One of the biggest is spotting the bluff; when you’re online you can’t actually see the other players. This means you can’t spot physical tells, you can’t look the other players in the other eyes or see what they’re [...]

How to Select the Best Possible Online Poker Room

One of the mistakes many people make when they decide to play poker online, is they just enter the very first online poker room they come to. This is a very bad idea. When you are choosing an online poker room, you want to make sure the room you choose provides you with safety, quality [...]

Playing Omaha Hi Low

When poker players get bored with playing Texas Hold Em, they often try Omaha Hi Low. Omaha Hi Low is the second most popular poker game that exists within the world of poker.
The first difference between Texas Hold Em and Omaha High Low is that a player can build a hand from nine cards at [...]

Multiple Poker

One of the biggest attractions that online poker has for serious players is that they can play in more than one poker game at once.  Some players even play in several games at once, which enables them to increase their winnings or at least their odds of winning. Multiple poker can be more profitable and [...]

An Introduction of History of Poker

The source of the game that we nowadays call Poker is doubtful and debated. Almost all researchers have the same opinion that the name Poker derived from the game popqu, which is a French game, which in rotate originates from the sound pochen, which is German ‘ to knock.
It is though uncertain whether Poker actually [...]

Learning How to Play the Earning Game – Poker

While poker is both a game of skill and luck as well, it is notable that luck plays a negligible role where a tremendously knowledgeable player rutted against a player who has less knowledge. In addition, part of ‘knowledge in poker’ knows what the odds of winning a particular game of poker are if you [...]

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