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and Welcome to Texas Holdem Guide This site will provide you with advice on where to play online, Poker strategy, tips, systems and more... |
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An excellent place to start online for beginners or experienced players is Full Tilt poker where you can play for free or for money. You will find a full tutorial on the site with expert video commentary. Full Tilt poker also offers a welcome bonus of up to $600 free to new players. Click here for more details. In fact you can take advantage of any of the welcome bonuses listed in the table below.
31st May 2009 What you eat can affect how you play poker. Did you know that you diet can affect the the way you play poker. To play your best you need stable blood sugar level. This is particularly important in long tournaments. Eat foods such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains. And stay hydrated by drinking water frequently. Avoid foods such as chips soda drinks and candy bars they will spike your blood sugar level quickly. 1st June 2009 Money Management. To manage your bankroll effectively only buy into cash games for 5% or less of your bankroll. Exit the game if at any stage you have greater than 10% of your bankroll on the table. Move up levels as Your bankroll grows. Move back a level if your bankroll decreases. Never play for increased stakes if your losing. With multi table poker tournaments buy in for 2% or less of your bankroll. Single table tournaments up to 5% of your bankroll. 2nd June 2009 Value bets If you think your ahead on each round of poker then bet. Your opponent may want you to check but its better to bet out your good hands. You then have two ways of winning: your opponent may fold or you may have the best hand. By checking you will only win if you have the best hand at the river. 3rd June 2009 Royal Flush This is the best possible hand in poker. There are only 4 ways you can get one. The odds of making a royal flush from 5 cards is 1 in 649,740. A royal flush consists of AKQJT of any one suit. 4th June 2009 Best starting hand The best starting hand you can have in Texas Hold'em is AA a pair of aces. 5th June 2009 Computer Hand This is Q7 the hand gets its name as it is said to win often if you are playing online not really sure about that myself. 6th June 2009 Final Table If you reach the final table of any tournaments this is time move up a gear. If you have been playing tight, (which I do not necessarily advocate) then you need to become a lot more aggressive especially when you get down to only a few players left or heads up. 7th June 2009 Last World Series Winner The last winner of the world series of poker main event
in 2008 was Peter Eastgate. 8th June 2009 Rounders What is a poker rounder? Its a poker player who travels around to play high stakes games. As in the movie Rounders (1998) staring Matt Damon, Edward Norton and John Malkovich as Teddy KGB. 9th June 2009 World Series 2009 Qualifiers You can qualify now for the 2009 World series main event
at Full
Tilt Poker. 10th June 2009 APL Australian Poker League You can play APL poker in Australia for free at most cities and larger towns. The poker is played usually in a friendly pub or club. Players can obtain an extra chip by buying certain products from the establishment. Monthly regional tournaments and quarterly state tournaments. Winners form state tournaments go on to play in an annual tournament of champions which attracts significant prize money. 11th June 2009 Poker Bonuses Tip If you are going to sign up with any poker site they will usually offer you a sign up bonus. (As with Full Tilt Poker $600) You will only get this initial bonus once and it will usually be the best one offered while at that poker room. For this reason it makes sense to make you first purchase for the maximum amount you can afford i.e. with Full Tilt the maximum bonus is $600 so if you can buy in for $600 you will then receive a bonus from Full Tilt of $600. Some smaller bonus offers may be made to you in future but it will most likely not be as good. 12th June 2009 Favorite poker Books I have read a number of poker books some good some so so. One of my favorites is 'Making the Final Table' by Erick Lindgren. This book give a good overview of how to play sensible aggressive poker. Check my books page for more poker books... 13th June 2009 Weak Ace This is a hand that can get you into a lot of trouble
if not played carefully. A weak Ace also known as a 'Soft Ace' or 'Ace
Rag' is an ace accompanied by a weak card such as 3, 4 etc. I actually
prefer ace 2-5 to Ace 6-9 you cannot make a straight with the latter
set. If I have a weak ace I am usually looking for a straight, 2 pair
or better. 14th June 2009 On Tilt Players can go on tilt if they have just lost a big hand. If you think you are going on tilt its best to leave the table at a cash game or take a break to get your breath in a tournament. When players go on tilt they become reckless and can make irrational bets. Other more experienced players will take advantage of you in this state. 14th June 2009 Language Support I have now added support for other languages on this site. Just click on the flags above for translation of this site into the following languages, Chinese Simplified, Chinese traditional, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. 15th June 2009 A Rush When a player has a rush they will have an unusually good run of cards and may win several pots in a row. 16th June 2009 Poker Points Most card rooms including Full Tilt have a bonus points system. You are awarded points based on the amount in the pot of any cash game or the buyin amount of tournaments. You can use these points to gain prizes such as books or clothing etc. or use them to buy into special tournaments and events. 16th June 2009 Railbird This is a person who watches poker but does not play and may stand in the card room near the rail. 17th June 2009 Overpair This is a pair that you may hold in your hand that is higher than any of the community cards on the table. 18th June 2009 Satellite This is a tournament that lets you win entry into a larger tournament. 19th June 2009 Home Game This is poker event that is organized in an informal manner in someone's home. Local rules are agreed among the players. It is usually a fun event comprising of a tournament or cash game. 20th June 2009 Buy In The amount players pay in order to take part in a tournament or cash game. |
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