Archive for October, 2009
Getting by with a Little Help from Your Friends
Posted by Lyndsie in Poker Strategy, Poker Tips on October 23rd, 2009
Did you know your friends can help you become a better poker player? Probably the best way to begin playing poker is by just playing with your buddies — and then talking about the hands after the game.
By doing this, you can get a whole lot of insights on a variety of different hands in poker, many of which you probably never considered.
Home games should be learning games, as well as fun ones; you may win some money but that is not the main point. Learning and growing as a player is what will actually earn you big money as you continue to play.
The internet can help you too. If you cannot play against your friends, there are plenty of web sites out there which will let you play against other players for free, plus you can find people to analyze hands and strategy with you.
Making Money as a Poker Player
Posted by Lyndsie in Poker Tips on October 15th, 2009
For some people, the whole point of playing poker is to make money. Even if they play for the love of the game, they would rather come out on top. However, newcomers who are playing poker for money do not realize the sheer amount of discipline and strategy involved in making sure this happens. They think they can come in and get rich immediately — and that is the surest way to lose your money from the get go.
You have to manage your money before you can bet it and hope to gain more. You cannot simply go the whole hog and sit down at a table with every cent you have to your name. You cannot go in with moderate skills and hope to come away a winner.
You need to polish your skills, you need to manage the amount of money you can actually afford to play, and most of all you have got to exercise as much discipline as you can.
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Posted by Lyndsie in Poker Tips, Runner Runner Flush on October 8th, 2009
I recently got to thinking. A novice to the world of poker is apt to think that we more experienced players are speaking in a foreign tongue. Some of them see a movie like 21 or something and may go through an entire game chanting things like, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner,” even though that applies far more to Blackjack than it does to poker. Whereas, they might stumble upon this blog, for instance, and have no earthly idea what “runner runner” itself stands for, let alone what a runner runner flush is. So what the heck, I figure they should be enlightened a little bit.
Actually, there are lots of different definitions for what a runner runner hand truly points to, but most of them revolve around pretty much the same thing. Typically, the term refers to a situation in Texas Hold ‘Em or a similar game wherein a player needs certain cards in the Turn and the River in order to make his or her hand. Other terms for this situation are “backdoor” and “perfect perfect.”
Bricks Casino: Becoming Obsolete?
Posted by Lyndsie in Online Poker on October 1st, 2009
There is nothing like your first glimpse of Las Vegas, coming up over the hill to see all of those lights, all the people, all the mile high promises that you can win, win, win! People go to Vegas for a variety of reasons, but most of them find some time to gamble at least a little while. Tourists, especially, typically cannot wait to step inside one of the sprawling casinos to play poker or Blackjack or craps or even the slot machines. However, with the advent of online casinos, where playing poker becomes endlessly more convenient, are bricks casinos becoming obsolete?
Sometimes it seems that way. Certainly, there are a lot of advantages associated with playing poker online. It is more convenient, sometimes it is easier to walk away when the game gets too hot, and it can be a whole lot of fun. On the downside, however, people tend to talk a lot of smack on the internet in general. When playing poker, they tend to talk a whole lot more. The cloak of internet anonymity gives players a sense of bravery they might otherwise have.
But does this mean the end of Las Vegas and Atlantic City? Heck no. Where else can poker players go to find some civility?
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