Sportsbooks and Poker

If you are thinking that the best traders are all nerds and scientists think again, because one of the most successful groups of traders are ex professional poker players. So why does this group make such great traders. The answer is the same skills you need to win at poker are needed to win at Forex trading. When trading Forex, there are no certainties only probabilities and to win, you need to trade with the odds on your side. Many traders come into Forex trading, under the illusion that prices move to some higher force or science and they believe the vendors of cheap Forex robots who claim 95% accuracy and say they can trade with little or no draw down but all these systems lose money. When trading an odds market, you will have lots of losses but that doesn't matter, if you keep your losses small and hit and hold the big trends which can cover your losses and give you an overall profit on your account. Most traders hate taking losses and run them but the good poker player, does...

All in or fold? The concept of bluffing can be very easy or very difficult one to master. There are many ways to grasp this concept of bluffing, but that does not mean it will always be successful. Bluffing can reward you or demolish you. When playing free poker online is one thing, but if playing real money, I would be extra careful when it comes to bluffing. I will discuss my ideas and concepts of bluffing in no limit Texas holdem poker. Although a lot of bluffing comes down to judgment and instincts there is still an awful lot you can learn. The 1st example of bluffing amounts to the majority of play: if your instincts kick in after an opponents checks from the flop, turn or river then you can gamble high. A great example of this when playing an opponent heads up. If there are only 2 players and you're holding a top pair or top kickers- you have a brilliant chance of winning. I will explain why; your opponent only has 2 cards from the pack the same as you meaning the chances ar...

Texas Hold 'em Poker is not something that is not familiar to people any longer these days. As a matter of fact, it has turned out to be a game that has the biggest fans base in the world today. Due to this, there have been quite a few poker guide books published. But one good book that may actually help people win may be the book that is written by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth entitled Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players. The book categorizes the starting hands to 8 categories. The book also explains how people should play each category in different situations. The book also emphasizes that raising will give players better chance instead of calling in the conditions where: There has not been any other player that enters the pot formerly. The player has got a considerably playable hand. The player assumes that there is a reasonably good chance - a percentage as low as twenty five may even be fine - that all the players that exist behind them, not excluding the blinds, ar...

Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. As you can tell by my previous posts, I'm not a nutritionist. I'm a pharmacist. However, every medical provider knows the value of a good nutritional plan. In fact, the first therapy a medical provider should recommend is a nutritious diet. By just changing your diet, you can cure almost any disease known to man. There is no drug in the world that is more efficacious than a quality diet. I'm not going to go into detail about how nutrition can benefit the human body. There are plenty of books that I can recommend that will do a much better job than I can. However, I am going to give you some basic tips about nutrition. These tips aren't the end all-be all of a quality nutritional regimen. They are a good start though. In fact, if you're diet sucks and you follow my recommendations, you'll notice the benefits within a week or two. Even though these tips are specifically geared toward poker and mental performance, they'll benefit almost ev...

If you like to play poker, it's likely that you play no-limit Texas Holdem. After all, it does seem to be the most popular game, these days. If you want a real challenge, though, you should try switching to limit Texas Holdem. Here are some limit tips to get you started. First of all, resist the urge to get involved in too many pots. It's easy to do because it costs next to nothing. However, remember that, when there's a limit to what you can bet, there's a limit to how much you can win. To use simple numbers, if you lost a dollar a hand for 10 hands and won a dollar on hand 11, you still would have lost nine dollars. That's why it's still important to be picky, even with cheap pots. Second, remember that a lot of limit hands that you do play are likely to go all the way through to the end. So, you should only play those hands that you're willing and able to protect to the end. It's very unlikely that you'll get anyone to fold the hand and give you ...

Thinking of striking it big in the poker leagues? You might be in for a surprise, and a rather unpleasant one at that. Playing poker offline is the same with playing online with one major difference: you cannot see your opponents. Maybe you think you are well versed in common poker strategies such as bluffing or slow playing, you could be, offline. Playing online is strikingly different because you do not get to see your opponents face to face. You can only observe their behaviour with regards to playing their hand. So before you set out to play poker online, it would be good if you practice poker first. I know, I know you might be a champ in your neighbourhood poker competitions or in your state play offs. But if this is your first time to play poker online, you might be in for a big surprise. Do not get this wrong, playing online is exciting and challenging, but the lack of face to face encounter severely alters a player strategy. Thinking of calling a bluff online? Well, you should...

You have probably heard players complain that pokerstars is rigged or you may have seen someone chatting about the full tilt rigged debate online; however is there a way around cracking poker to avoid the rigged sites and the bad beats? There is a real poker crack to winning if you follow a well laid out plan to win. In order to win at poker, you must first lay out a plan that will give you a chance to win. One of the most effective poker strategies to build your bankroll, is to play a sit n go poker tournament. The best of these are the double or nothing sit n go's where you are playing against 9 other players and 5 of those players will get paid double their buy in. One of the major reasons many people will claim pokerstars or full tilt is rigged, is because of the bad beats they get when playing. Top pair will get rivered by two pair and a straight will lose to a flush more times than it is seemingly possible. However, you can avoid a lot of the suck outs in poker online by fol...

Playing the Game of Hold 'Em You park yourself down at the poker table. You see 8 other people. If so, then leave. Your odds greatly improve for winning faster chips at the 5 seated accommodation tables on Zynga's servers. Everyone nowadays has the same initiative and chip stacking goals you do, so you have to outfox them with skill, technique and a little luck. This pays great dividends, trust me. I've gone from 10,000 poker chips to about a million in a single day. Then back to 10k a day later. This happens thanks to the never-ending server list of city names, countries, capitals and bot players using them. With so many people on Facebook and Myspace, these mega socials sites that host this Zynga game make chips easily available by joining the page and activating the app in your networking homepage, starts you off with an average of 2,000 chips. This is okay, but most of the time after logging on and sitting at a table via the server, almost everyone has more than you. P...

It is simple to start your own poker website and start earning some real profits from the business. If you wonder if this is really true, think again. You need not have a legacy of million dollars to start your own poker website. With White Label poker technology, a small fraction of that amount will be enough. In this operational model, an entrepreneur simply needs to join as a licensee of the White Label network and get their own branded poker website up and running quickly. What the entrepreneur really needs to take care of is the marketing. Once 'real' players start logging-in to the site and play poker the site profits start showing. The network charges a commission while the entrepreneur keeps the rest. Now let us check out the investments because that is one of the prime interests of any entrepreneur. A white Label site can be launched for an investment of USD $ 10,000 to USD $ 60,000. This includes a customized website and the required infrastructure to launch the oper...

Poker is a game of finesse and experience. Many a novice poker player has lost all his money in thinking that the game requires minimal effort and skill. Still, there are those who master it with ease and subtlety. You can be one of them if you only know where you can find a decent poker game practice website. Having a poker face is not enough to win you the game. I will give 3 advices for those who are aspiring to play poker: practice, practice, practice. Some players would ascribe to strategies given by a certain fellow named David Sklansky. Loosely, the theorem states that you have an advantage if you play your hand like you would if you are aware of the cards that your opponent is holding, and you are also at an advantage if your opponent changes his strategy if they are aware of the cards you are holding. It might be confusing but it simply means play it out of instinct and do not hesitate. In personal face to face games, this strategy is valuable because you could see your oppon...

There are few skills in life that can also be described as an "art", but bluffing in texas holdem poker is definately one of them. I say it's an art because when it's done wrong it's ugly and hideous and sometimes even painful to watch, but when performed correctly by a master it's a beautiful to watch, like looking at the Mona Lisa. A successful bluff involves many psychological, emotional, and social elements and only when all of these have been taken into account and calculated can the bluff be effective. Bluffing in Facebook texas holdem poker with Facebook poker chips, rather than real money, adds even more elements to the mix because players cannot see their opponents faces and wagers are virtual poker chips rather than money, but there are still ways to master the Facebook poker bluff. Here are some points to keep in mind when you try to bluff in texas holdem poker games on Facebook and myspace. The pure bluff: This is also known as a "stone cold ...

A great way to play your way in to big money poker tournaments for very little or no money is to participate in satellite tournaments. All the big online poker rooms run them. Simply put a satellite poker tournament offers a number of seats to a larger one. A disciplined and strategic approach can see you work your way up to a slice of big money action. Here's how. An initial consideration you must take is to understand the structure. It may be offering a guaranteed number of seats to the next stage for example. Once you know what the cut off point is to secure your progression then that becomes your goal as there is often no prize money on offer in a satellite poker tournament. All you need is that seat to the next round. The number of seats on offer to the later stages will affect your strategic decisions as by their nature satellites tend to be very similar to multi-table tournaments. Always be aware of how many seats are on offer and where the cut off point is. Your sole goal ...

The author of this book, Phil Shaw is a high stakes online sit and go expert, regularly contributing to well known poker magazines and training sites. In this book he introduces the format, and covers the important aspects of winning at them consistently. "Secrets of sit'n'gos" is nicely written and well structured, after an initial brief introduction to the format, the first section covers a few things that many other books and guides gloss over, namely pre-game preparation. This section looks at game selection, blind levels, opponents, formats, and multitabling, among others. The next section contains a brief introduction to some of the concepts that come up throughout the book, including EV and ICM. Although these first two sections aren't that long, it's good to see these topics being mentioned before the author dives into the games! The next 6 sections are split between the different stages of sit and go play, with a section each for early, middle, and l...

I was watching the 2006 World Series of Poker on ESPN and saw a young player, I don't recall his name, behaving quite badly. In fact, being a jerk and got at least one time out from the tournament officials. What struck me though was my reaction to what I was watching – I wanted to see this person lose. Honestly, I've been playing Hold Em Poker for decades and I am a confirmed follower and advocate of polite poker etiquette. Following this very emotional reaction to the behavior of a total stranger on television, I wondered what I would do if I were playing Hold Em Poker against this person (or anyone just like him). I believe I would react exactly the same way. I would want to beat him and beat him bad. And therein lies the problem. Would I want to beat him so badly that his behavior caused me to leave my A game behind and play differently in an effort to accomplish that task? I then remembered an incident that happened to me in a 3-6-12 Hold Em Poker game at the Showboat in ...

You develop your poker skills so you can make money, but your intense emotional involvement in the game has its rewards as well. Every poker player, at least a little bit, craves the prestige that comes from being a winning poker player. It's almost as if a winning poker player is a successful alchemist, able to make gold from lead. When you join a poker game, you are hoping to perform this feat of alchemy by increasing the amount of money you possess simply by playing cards. If you can beat the other players when they bet against you, then you will profit, and this person-to-person competition is very alluring. In addition to winning money, the satisfaction that comes from defeating an opponent delivers an emotional reward. Everyone wants to feel competent and be recognized as such, and winning a pot in a poker game meets these needs. But winning a hand requires that you pick your battles well. You must become skillful at estimating what cards your opponents have. You gradually c...

If you have yet to try rush poker, you are in for a fast paced, action packed poker game that will keep you jumping and can get you to win pot after pot once you pick up on the game and form your own rush poker strategy. Because this is so different than any other type of poker game and is played on full tilt poker, you are going to want to get the hang of the game before you hit on the right strategy for you. You have a lot of advantages when it comes to playing this new poker game. You can be seated at a 6 or 9 person table and get moved quickly from table to table each time you fold. This gives you a new hand in which to play right away, instead of having to wait for the rest of the action to take place. Those who enjoy playing a fast paced poker game are starting to enjoy the action of this game. One of the advantages is that because it is so new, even the experienced players are working out different strategies that work for them. One rush poker strategy that may work for you is ...

Poker uses a number of distinct terms and phrases. When playing at a table it is often helpful to understand these. There are almost enough to write a poker language dictionary! Some of the more common terms are listed below: Flop - most commonly associated with Texas Hold'em and Omaha poker, this poker language term refers to the first 3 open cards which are dealt. Turn - this is the fourth open card which is dealt in Texas Hold'em or Omaha poker. River - the final card which is dealt in a game of poker. Nuts - at a given point in a poker game, this refers to the strongest possible hand. Big blind - usually payable by the player sitting 2 spaces clockwise from the dealer, regardless of his cards. Blind refers to the fact that the player has to make it regardless of his cards, or as though he hadn't even seen them. Small blind - the amount payable by the player sitting next to the dealer, in a clockwise direction. It is often half the amount of the big blind. Bluff -...

Rush poker is one of the hottest games on the internet and is a fast paced version of holdem games where you can move from table to table quickly, upon folding your hand. Rush poker bluffing is one way that you can beat your opponents at this game as many players are quick to fold if they do not get two high pocket cards. You can hang in the game and wait until they all start dropping, usually after the flop. Bluffing is a skilled strategy in every type of poker and one in which any poker player should possess. However, when rush poker bluffing, you want to make sure that you use this strategy sparingly as pretty soon, someone is bound to catch on and call you. You are much better off to bluff occasionally when you are playing poker. Before you start using the strategy of rush poker bluffing, learn how to play the game. This is a fast action game with low stakes that will automatically deal you a new hand and move you to another table when you fold. For those who are used to playing r...