Pure Play Poker Tips

How to use Poker Chips There are numerous kinds of chips on the market. Generally, you`ll probably want a good quality poker chip for learning tricks. Numerous experts recommend the eleven. 5 gram chips since they are closest to what exactly is used in the casinos. These poker chips tend to be more expensive than the nine. 5 gram poker chips, so if budget is actually a big concern, start with a cheap set until you can afford the good ones. The  most important thing is always to find chips which you like and will want to practice with. What [...]

Poker Bots in online Poker The newest rage by poker lovers and programmers is to make and use a poker robot (Bot) that will automatically play online poker with minimum human interaction, with the ultimate aim of winning money. This particular recent craze has alarmed each online poker sites and gamers as the fear of a pc program that has the ability to win online poker, will essentially be able to outsmart live poker players of their hard-earned cash and eventually rob the online poker sites of quality players frightened to play against a lot of poker crawlers. A recent industry study [...]

Hosting a game of Poker Arranging a get together for buddies to meet and enjoy with each other is a great concept. For such occasions having a game night for you and your friends should be just right and also be the perfect way to relax. Playing poker in your own home is fun and enjoyable, only if you know how to host a great one. If you are a  poker enthusiast and want to take pleasure in the wonderful experience of actively playing the game in your own home, there are some poker supplies that you simply cannot give [...]

HOW TO READ A POKER PLAYER One of the key skills most good poker players have is the ability to read their opponents at the table. That is why you hear so much about “poker tells.” A “tell” is any physical reaction, kind of behavior, or habit that gives (or tells) the other players information about your hand. If you learn the most common tells, you can not only watch your own behavior to make sure your body language isn’t telling all your secrets, but also watch for the habits and tics in the poker players you’re at the table [...]

Mistakes made in Pure Play Poker Want to know the top 10 poker mistakes? People who lose money at the poker tables keep making these mistakes over and over again.  They may know all the holdem strategy rules and wonder why they still lose money.  This is because they haven’t recognised the 10 key areas where their mistakes are made. Have a look at our top 10 poker mistakes and see if you’re guilty of any of these. Don’t worry if you are, even the pro’s make one or more of these poker mistakes at some time. Poker mistake 1:   Going on tilt. [...]

Poker tips There is a very steep learning curve in Poker. At the start a little information will take you a long way, but as you improve, the new information you learn won’t add as much to your game. So if you are a beginner poker player reading this article, this is probably the most useful and money saving information you will ever read. If you absorb all of the Poker tips for beginners below, you may even turn from a losing player into a break-even or winning player. These beginner poker tips won’t turn you into an expert player [...]

Play Omaha pure poker Omaha Hi poker, usually known simply as Omaha, is very similar to Texas Holdem. There are two main differences between the games: In Omaha, instead of receiving only two hole cards, each player receives four. In Omaha, players must use exactly two of their hole cards in combination with three community cards to make their five-card poker hand. Structurally, Omaha is pretty much the same game as Holdem. Let’s take a look at the rules: A small dealer button identifies one player as the dealer. The dealer button moves clockwise around the table, and is passed [...]

Mastering the Art of Bluffing in Poker Some players — and it’s only a few of them, to be sure — never bluff. After you figure out who they are, playing against them is easy. If they bet once all the cards are out, you can safely throw your hand away unless you believe that your hand is superior to theirs. If it is, you should raise. Other people are habitual bluffers. When they bet, you have to call as long as you are holding any reasonable hand. Although habitual bluffers will also make real hands every now and then, the [...]

Best Table position for Pure Play Poker Some definitions, first: “Having position” on another player means he acts before you. “First position” means you act first. If you’re dealt-in in fourth position, but the blinds and the player UTG (“Under The Gun“, first to speak after the blinds) folded, you will be in first position for the rest of the hand (until you fold, at least). “Last position” is your position relative to all the other players still in the hand, meaning that even if you’re not dealt in on the button, you’re still in last position if no one [...]

Good starting hands in Pure Play Poker: The best no-limit Hold’em players are selective when it comes to the hands they choose to play. For someone just starting out it is a good default strategy to be selective as well, and only get involved when you’re likely to be in a decent spot thanks to your starting hand. Properties of Starting Hands We can start out by dividing starting hands into two groups — paired hands (two cards of the same rank) and non-paired hands (two cards of different ranks). Pairs Being dealt a pair doesn’t happen that often in Texas [...]