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Playing poker on the internet is nowadays one of the principal pastime activities for most people. Yet, the world of online poker can sometimes be confusing for a lot of people. First, obviously there is the question of security. How can a player determine if a poker site is legal or just fake trying to scam of people’s hard earned money.
It’s true that there are a lot of poker sites that aren’t properly licensed and are after the money of innocent players. But the truth is that the huge majority of online poker sites is completely legit and is licensed by state government institutions. Playing at these sites is completely safe and will not put the player in any risks imaginable.
One of these sites is Poker770 that is also one of the leading poker rooms on the internet. Not only is it properly licensed by European Union governments, it also provides high-quality services and unusually big bonuses. Each player that registers at Poker770 and uses a Poker770 coupon code will be awarded with a 200% up to $2,000 first deposit bonus.
Another site that can be considered a top of the line poker room is Party Poker. This site is also the sister site of Party Poker being also licensed by leading European governments and also offers some of the biggest deposit bonuses in the poker industry. The only thing people need to do in order to claim a fantastic bonus from Party Poker is to introduce a Party Poker bonus code 2012 upon registration.
Poker can be extremely entertaining if played online, but of course only if you choose the best sites. You have to evaluate several factors when deciding to sign up, factors like gameplay, graphics, a valid license and much more.
Like you could have noticed, another important aspect is the bonuses offered by the poker site. Another successful online poker site that is also licensed and offers great services and big bonuses is Cake Poker. Likewise, you can claim a significant first deposit bonus if you introduce a Cake Poker bonus code when you register.
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I am looking to get into poker and am wondering if anyone has some used books do not want or use anymore. I would be happy to buy them. I am particularly interested in David Slansky (Theory of Gambling), Mike Caro Book of Tells), Doyle Brunson ( Super System). I am also interested in a book called “A year in the life of a professional Poker Player” I don’t know who wrote it. Or any place to buy them cheap would be useful.
Answer 1:
You’re going to get people to dump those, easy. I think the last one is Tony Holden’s Big Deal
Answer 2:
I’ve been able to find quite a few poker books on eBay. I recently bought Anthony Holden’s “Big Deal”, as well as Seven Card Stud for Advanced Players by Sklansky, Malmuth, and Zee. I believe there is currently an auction going on right now for Sklansky’s “The Theory of Poker”, although it might be over
now. Anyway, I would check eBay on a weekly basis, as there are always more auctions being added. Actually, I just found the auction for Caro’s “Book of Tells”.
Answer 3:
Why should, you need this? Do you think it’s possible to study poker through reading? You can only study poker through playing it.
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At Hollywood Park Casino they had Mexican Poker. Could someone please explain what the rules are?
Answer 1:
The rules are:
Everyone antes. Then, most of the people at the table give their money to John Hartzell. After that, John leaves and goes to the Bike. There, the pattern is repeated. No seriously…it’s 5-card stud. There’s a joker. The deck is stripped of 8s, 9s, and tens. Straights beat flushes (7J are connectors). You get a card up and a card down. On each round, you can choose to receive your new card up, or to expose your hole card and receive your card down. If the joker is dealt to you down, it’s wild. If it’s dealt up, it’s a bug. (Ace or completes a straight or flush).
Answer 2:
I ran into him a couple of times during the Bike’s MSOP event, and played some live no-limit with him at the Bike a couple weeks ago. And he came to our RGP home game this past Saturday. So yeah, he’s around.
Answer 3:
You’re not allowed to throw your chips over the betting line. They have to sneak past.
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One of the potential positives of online poker is that you can sit down and take notes with pen and pad during each hand and nobody will look at you like you’re crazy. So… if you were bored enough to do such a thing… what would YOU write down that would help you make the best decisions in some later hand. Simply Name -Tight or loose? Bluffer? Passive? Rock? Fish? etc. And what is the most profitable info you can learn about someone in the online game. Would this practice help or hurt your casino game?
Answer 1:
What I’ve been doing is keeping a spreadsheet with the following information: Name, # of preflop raises, what they raised preflop with, # of check raises, what they check raised with, what they called multiple bets with, and whether they are tight, loose, aggressive, strong player, weak player, etc. By keeping the spreadsheet up while I play, I’m able to update it on the fly, and it also forces me to focus on the game instead of the tv, or any other distractions available. It does become a bit tedious at times, but I feel it will be
worth it in the long run.
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Any body know-how/thought-about eavesdropping on the signal off of the wire before it gets to the client software, so that you could have all your bookkeeping done automatically? I haven’t played any online poker yet, but was thinking about it. It would really be cool if all your hands could be cataloged, sorted, and analyzed in a customized way. If it was on a Linux box, I could do it. Pretty clueless about how to do it on a NT/windows machine…. and it seems like that’s what all the clients are 4. I guess I could set up a Linux box at home as a proxy and play through it. That’d be a good excuse to waste lots of time.
Answer 3:
Most of the software out there encrypts its data to and from the client. It isn’t as hard to encrypt everything as you might think; there are open source routines available to do it.
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I’ve had great success at Planet Poker but Paradise is kicking my ass. Any suggestions from someone who has played both? The games seem looser at Paradise, how do I need to adjust? Anyone else experience or notice this?
Answer 1:
Of course, this is based on sufficiently large sample size and painstaking statistical analysis. Oh wait, maybe it’s just a WAG.
Answer 2:
I’ve played both Omaha and Hold’em on both Paradise and Planet at every limit they offer (although my experience in Paradise’s 15-30 and 20-40 is very limited, like less than an hour.) First, I have no doubt that both games are on the up and up; while collusion is certainly a possibility, the idiots who keep screaming “look at all the quads! Look at all the flushes that get there!” are losing players looking for some justification for their losses other than “I’m a losing player.” Second, unless you’ve been playing a ton on Paradise, like close to a thousand hours, you could simply be experiencing short term bad luck on Paradise, or even short term good luck on Planet.
You need to analyze your play on both to try to determine whether or not something needs adjustment. For starters, have your losses been due to bad luck, i.e. your aces in hold’em got cracked by 86o that made two pair on the river, or your nut flush + nut low draw in Omaha/8 got cracked when the board paired and your low didn’t get there? Oh, a third additional comment about Paradise–heads up hold’em seems to be more popular there than on Planet, and you should probably avoid playing heads up because the rake is quite high: if you play quickly, as much as $100 per hour could come off the table. I made the mistake of playing a bit heads up there against opponents who were worse than I, but not awful, and got eaten alive by the rake.
Anyway, regarding your questions about adjustment–I haven’t noticed too much difference regarding the dynamics of the games on either site. On both Planet and Paradise, I’ve noticed both loose-passive and loose-aggressive games at the low-limits, and even a couple games bordering on tight-aggressive, or at least not ridiculously loose. (I saw a $2-4 Hold’em game yesterday morning where quite a few pots were heads up on the flop!) At the mid-limits, the games can range from
ridiculously loose for $20-40, to pretty tight and tough. So, I don’t know if I could recommend any specific adjustment in regards to the game in Paradise. I might venture that the loose players on Paradise tend to be more loose-aggressive while the loose players on Planet tend to be more loose-passive, but that’s a generalization, and there are exceptions to every rule.
Answer 3:
Could the number of hands dealt an hour and the convenience of playing anytime have something to do with these perceptions? I’m willing to bet that most players on-line play a ton of hands more per week than they did before they began on-line play. Such a huge increase might tend to make things look out of whack.
