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...