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Slow Rolling

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Poker is a cutthroat game-you’re constantly deceiving your poker online opponents, you’re playing mind games, heck, you’re trying to take everybody else’s money! You’re playing to make money, not friends. Although your aim isn’t to walk away from a game with a new best pal, there is a certain respect among poker players, and with that respect comes a certain expectation of etiquette. You are playing a tactical game of nerves and perception-skilled players generally hold each other in a high regard, if not an amicable one. Certain things can destroy that amicability, things like slow rolling, for example.

Slow rolling isn’t illegal, but it’s a great way to turn an entire pokertable against you. Slow rolling is when a player wins a hand at the showdown, but delays turning his cards over, acting like he’s lost the hand. Usually, the slow roller will wait until the loser thinks that he’s won the hand, then he shows his cards and rakes in the pot.

It’s a real dirtbag move to let your opponent think that he’s won, and then dash his hopes with your cards. Few things feel worse than losing a hand at the showdown, and rubbing in someone’s face is pretty despicable. Remember this next time you play poker online.

Back in the Old West, Er… East

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Back in the days of the pioneered west, where mining camps were abound and the only law was the law of the gun, where cowboys and law men had standoffs on a regular basis, you’d expect to hear the argument put forth by Israel about an upcoming poker online tournament scheduled to take place at the end of November.

When there were guys toting six-shooters and you could drop dead in the blink of an eye if someone was too liquored up and got a little angry, I could understand the rationale. But in today’s world, we are a global citizenry that touts itself as one a little more refined, civilized, cultured.

After police objected to the Israeli high-roller poker online tournament, the Israel Poker Association sprung into action. They petitioned the High Court of Justice to allow the game to go on. And their hard work paid off, for a moment.

They were given the go ahead. But again the police took to the lobby. Declaring the game as one that attracts “criminal elements,” it seems that their point won out in the end.

While the IPA argues that poker is a game of skill and not like, and more importantly than that is entirely legal in Israel, they seemed to be shouting toward deaf ears.

Even after the high court’s approval, the State Prosecutor decided to weigh in on the issue. And the issue came down in favor of the anti-poker people. He argued that according to Israeli penal code, poker is an “illegal game, and that the large sums of money involved can cause violent disputes among criminals.”

It will be interesting to see if the IPA will once again challenge the state to cite the penal code that bars poker and ultimately denies the right of having this tournament. Perhaps they could start by attacking the flawed assumption that poker players are inherently “criminal.”

Unlike Typical Lottery Syndicates – the Elottery Syndicate System Have the Most up to Date Methods

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The Elgordo Lottery is a part of the Euromillions Euro lottery, but if you don’t know anymore than that here’s some actionable information. With payouts up to more than two and a half billion Euros, the lottery claims one of the world’s richest jackpots. Yet, this isn’t the end of the story. There is even more you must know . This lottery puts more than 13,000 prizes up for grabs, which makes for a prize winner for every six contestants. A surprisingly good rate when examined in the context of other branded lotteries.

Interested in entering this lottery? There are two basic choices; the first is that you can buy a “serie” or a full ticket. There is also a cheaper option; called a “d©cimo” which is worth one-tenth of a full ticket. Unfortunately, both these choices are comparatively pricy ways to play and they won’t increase your prospects of a win . Because of this the Euromillions Euro Lottery has additionally provided an e-lottery system.

There is one draw each month in the Euromillions Euro lottery. Three months each see bigger lotteries guaranteeing way grander prizes. More specifically: January’s “El Nio”, summer’s “San Ildefonso”, and the Christmas “Elgordo”, with Christmas’s Elgordo draw being the biggest of the twelve.

Unusually among lottery systems, the balls required by the Elgordo lottery draw have five digits on each, in a numerical range from 00,000 to 84,999. In this system, one ball is selected from a bowl to determine the winning number while a second is drawn from a second bowl to find the prize value.

Everyone’s guaranteed to win a prize when play the e-lottery system. You just buy your way into the Elgordo Lottery syndicate which will then divide you up into teams. Each team is assigned a number from 1-9, the last digit of the winning number in the draw identifying the team which wins the money. All members receive their share . In preparation for next month’s lottery, the syndicate offers subscriptions once again to continue the e-lottery.

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Poker Player Types: the Robber Baron

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

For some types of poker players, it’s not just enough to catch good cards and win pots. To some, poker online is about what you can get away with, the thrill of winning something you didn’t technically “deserve.” More than straight gambling, these types of players fall in love with the idea that they can are smarter, more aggressive, and more tricky than their opponent. They like to put their skills to the greatest force while pushing you to the max.

These kinds of players will often talk more than average. They will play a lot of pots, and bet out a lot, especially at signs of weakness. They are pretty much interest in pressing as many buttons and applying as much pressure as they can in the mindset of letting you make your own mistake. Their mantra could be, “When in doubt, bet.”

As when handling most types of more aggressive players, the best way to handle these sorts is to play more conservative, careful poker than you might against your average opponent in casino online. Because they are that much more ready to catch you slipping, the less you slip the less opportunities they will have to do so. Throwing in some fireworks in the right spots will also keep them guessing, and wanting to come after you even more.

Drawing Dead

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

There are two ways to be drawing dead in poker. One is if you’re all in and you see that you can’t possibly catch a hand at the casino online that can beat your opponents. This is fairly common at the lower limits, and you catch a lot of opponents who get their money in bad with dead hands. However, there is a second tragedy where one is drawing dead, it’s a trappy kind of play where you’re drawing to a big poker online hand, and even though you get the card you need to complete your draw, your opponent ends up making a better hand despite your catch. Here’s an example. You’re dealt KQo in position and you call a small raise. The flop comes Ah-Js-Ad. Your opponent is holding AKs. Your opponent checks and you check behind and you see a 9s on the turn. Your opponent bets out and you decide to call for the price, the pot even though you’re not getting good odds, but this player is loose and you’ve seen him bluff on the turn before. The river comes 10s. You’ve made your nut straight, but you’ll notice that there is also a flush on the board. This is the second kind of drawing dead. Any other 10 would have been perfect for you. But not the 10 of spades. No this is the one card that should scare you more than anything else. Because chances are if you’re opponent has any sense, and he slow rolled trip aces to the turn, then bet out, he probably had a chance of improving just as much as you did. In his case any A, J, 9 or K would give him a full house, and any spade would give him the flush. In your case, you couldn’t improve to anything but the straight, which despite being strong hand, is very weak comparatively on such a dangerous board. Essentially, the 10s killed your hand instead of helped it. Even though at a cursory glance it seems as if it helped it tremendously. And chances are if you’re not paying attention, you’re going to have your blinders on and only see your straight and not regard what your opponent can have that could beat you. This is the kind of drawing dead that causes you to hang yourself. Such a dangerous catch. So pay attention to these situations where you opponent could have you trapped. Sometimes you have to lay down the best hand to be a great player. And sometimes what you think is the best hand is really the best loser.

Poker Warfare – Learning from Mistakes

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Because playing poker online is a game of incomplete information, deception and calculation, new players typically make mistakes that cost them lots of chips when playing poker and other casino games.

The only way to improve one’s poker game is to learn from these mistakes and play poker online. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, “It is only those who are acquainted with the evils of war that can completely understand the profitable ways to wage it.” This is applicable to poker too, where mistaken decisions cause players to lose.

There are lots of books that explain different theories and strategies for winning poker, but nothing beats actual practice and experience. Online poker, especially the “Play Chips” rooms for beginners, provides an excellent and safe environment for learning from mistakes.

Getting check raised is painful. Being the victim of a bad beat is both infuriating and humiliating. Folding to a bluff is regretful. Yet it is these very experiences that teach players how to recognize the possibility of these tactics coming into play and defending against them.

Once a player becomes familiar with the painful losses caused by the check raise tactic or slow play deception, then the player can learn how to use these as weapons to deploy against their opponents.

Do not let getting beat by a well-executed poker tactic interfere with your game. Learn from your mistakes and incorporate them into your own arsenal.

Great prizes to win at Dutch Windeprijsvraag.nl this year

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Anyone can win marvelous Porches now every 11 days even if you live in Lancaster Pennsylvania or in Corona California, isn’t that realy terrific. Entering sweepstakes by mail is defying in good popularity at this present. 7 months ago also a Belgium online company started a contest website and is also legally indifferently. Fun websites are toughened much more differently than the winners who are not chosen by chance but by an good element of difficult skill. Thats really great to win swimming pools worth 728 euro and that simple. That’s why there are fantastic speedboats to be won at funny online contest and easy sweepstakes this week. Actions advertised as contest websites, thus far, can need an entry fee or certificate of buy. Many more funny online contests are select to enter online online sweepstakes. Cyber sweepstakes and online actions are banned from taking a purchase to enter. Internet sweepstakes are also legally different from the online game contests in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Cyber sweepstakes are mostly much more prosperous and quicker to enter than online contests.

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