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Texas Holdem Secret on Problem with Large Signup Bonuses

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:34:59 +0000

Many poker rooms offer some very large signup bonuses of several hundred dollars.

The problem is that many times these bonuses are very hard to release and will often expire before you play enough to release the bonus.

So my online poker texas holdem secret is that you should choose a poker room with a signup bonus that is released in smaller increments and do not expire very fast.

A good example of this is Everest Poker as you get a partial bonus release every time you leave a table and you have got 30 days to earn it all. But unfortunately Everest Poker do not accept players living in the United States of America but they do accept players from most european countries.

Poker tip on being careful or your poker nuts may get crushed!

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:12:59 +0000

The origins of the phrase poker nuts are uncertain although it is thought to have come from old slang meaning “delightful thing, practice or experience”. It is a “delightful thing” of course, because in Texas Hold’em the poker nuts is the best possible hand that you can have at any point in the game.

If you have the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that point in the hand. This is the crucial factor that a lot of inexperienced players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one player to another and your hand which was the nuts on the flop or the turn can end up being crushed on the river!

The following example should demonstrate the fickle nature of the cards in Texas Hold’em poker and how your nuts can quickly turn to pulp!

You are playing a hand of Texas Hold’em poker and there are three players still in the game at the flop. You get dealt 7 of clubs, 8 of diamonds; Anne has 5 of spades, 5 of clubs and John’s hand is King, 9 of hearts.

The flop is dealt and the cards are 9 of hearts, 6 of hearts and 5 of diamonds. This is a great flop for you – you’ve got the poker nuts! At this point you have a straight – 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 – which cannot be beaten by any other combination of cards.

Now you decide to “slow play” your hand and try to draw a bet from somebody with a high pair who will like this flop, so you simply check. Anne likes the look of her hand now as she’s flopped three 5s so she makes a bet which is called by John as he now has a pair of 9s with a King kicker. You like the way it’s going so you call the bet.

The turn card is Ace of hearts. John is now smiling to himself as he has just managed to make the poker nuts with a flush; his two hearts in his hand plus the three on the table with Ace King high now give him an unbeatable hand. John bets as he knows he’s got the nuts but he wants to extract the maximum cash from the table so he keeps his bet low enough to get called. You still think you’re winning with the straight; in fact the Ace has strengthened that belief as you now reckon John probably has an Ace in his hand and maybe even two pairs.

He has fallen into your trap you may think.

The river is dealt and it’s the 5 of hearts. This is a blow to you as there are now four hearts on view, so anyone with a heart is beating you with a flush. John is happy with the 5 as he still feels he is winning with the top flush, while his opponents may also have made a flush and think they are winning. Anne of course is the real winner as she has just made the nuts with four 5s; her four of a kind can only be beaten by a straight flush or a better four of a kind. There aren’t enough connected hearts showing on the table to make a straight flush and there isn’t another pair showing so it is impossible to make four of a kind.

Anne wins the pot while you and John reflect on what should have been.

Both of you held the poker nuts at one point in the game but failed to realize that the poker nuts – and your fortunes – in Texas Hold’em can and often will change completely on the next street of card.

Online poker texas holdem secrets Psychology

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:39:59 +0000

For those of us interrested in this competitive world of online texas holdem secrets poker we breach the boundaries every day of the game being just a fun hobby, outright competition, a risky business, or even a merciless illness. What exactly it means to any of one us could be a combination of these or many other schemes we self manifest if only to justify playing at 2 am on a Thursday morning.

Having a healthy psychology for playing online poker is reliant on your overall attitude of the game and yourself. There is no avoiding being proficient at one or the other, at least long term. There is also no check and balance system. You will only have yourself to deal with the inevitable trials this game will force upon your inner character in a way that will test your true dark depths of hatred, anger, jealousy and revenge. Until such point that you have faced those haunting, ugly facets of your character and learned to deal with them advantageously, they will be slithering like undetectable blood suckers leeching onto your bankroll.

You will probably never eliminate such character sets, but you can manage them via physical real world practices that are easily adaptable to any type of game you play. So aspiring to that next level may simply involve better structural management and due diligence consisting of your bankroll, skill set, and psychological stability.

There is a lot of help online for bankroll management and as part of your game you should be reviewing your bankroll level daily. Now by using good bankroll management, you are basically assured of never playing higher than your limit, keeping your training costs as low as possible, and limiting your exposure to mistakes, bad beats, and losing streaks. One of the best features though of keeping yourself inside your bankroll is that it can help curtail your biggest weakness which for many are greed.

As a poker player you also need to keep learning. You learn everyday by watching other players – good and bad, by monitoring your mistakes, and by practicing your reading skills. We all pretty much learned that certain hands are strong and certain hands are weak in our first couple hours of playing, but everyone else knows that too. It’s our skill set beyond that, and how you build on that – each hand, every game, every day, and every tournament. Think of extending your skill set here as raising the bar not only on your opponents but on yourself too, by way of introducing new challenges, new poker books to read, and new variations of poker games to master. Extending your skill set is your real job here and a cornerstone to managing your poker game into constant profitability.

As you can now understand, poker in my view is much more than a game. Poker, among other things, is an intellectual challenge that introduces potentially profound influences on your very character. A lot of struggle you may be familiar with might very well be as a result of incongruence between your game and your ability to manage your emotions and mental stability. Seriously. If you find you spend most of your time at the table angry, anxious, impatient, vengeful, or otherwise irritated, then you simply haven’t faced your demons yet. Your only solution here may very well be to drop your game down to a level where you are actually having fun while you are playing and can appreciate the game without fearing to lose any pot.