Online Poker With a Tropical Fruit

Poker is a century old game and the wonderful thing about it is people's interest in it is only increasing and intensifying! Today's online poker game websites stand as a living witness of this whole playful theory. It is no longer just casinos on Las Vegas streets or poker rooms in Atlantic City packed with bustle of players. Now, poker players and even novices of the game are highly indulging in playing poker online. Internet has turned out to be the biggest venue for playing and winning poker! Amateurs of the poker game can start playing it free and slowly push for real money with a stack of cards. It is no wonder now that there are well over 500 websites offering a virtual opportunity to play poker games for real money. It is one of the most popular online games in the world and can be played for fun and wealth. Moreover, now there are various types of poker games, which can be played online like Texas holdem and more instantly! Anyone who is interested can just take a few minutes to make the payments online in various international currencies and get an exclusive sign up bonus with such poker websites. Especially, for beginners, Texas holdem can be an amazing way to start understanding the variations and betting strategies for winning big games. Some other games, which are well famous, are the Omaha Poker, Seven-card stud, Razz and more. Online poker is a wonderful platform to make money quickly and it is a multibillion-dollar industry with attractive gambling options. Every poker game has its own individual rake structure and people can make good money by participating in such raked games. Some of the special tournaments conducted will charge some entry fees to play and can turn out to be a real adventure for money! The biggest difference is that players won't be facing each other while playing virtually and this means that there will be no more assessments of body language and vital expressions. People interested in playing poker online opt for it more than the real tables, as it can be played at anytime. In addition, the cost involved in playing online is far affordable and the age range is younger when compared to online table players. It is of course, vital for one to understand the rules and guidelines before placing their bets on the cards for real money. The author of this article has expertise in Online poker. The articles on Texas holdem reveals the author's knowledge on the same. The author has written many articles on Poker games as well.

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HOSE Poker Strategy

H.O.S.E. Poker is not just a poker game, but 4 popular poker variants jammed into one; commonly known as a mixed game. For this reason, developing a winning H.O.S.E. Poker strategy is more complex than a normal poker game. H.O.S.E. Is made up of the following poker variants: H = Texas Hold'em O = Omaha Hi-Lo (Eight or Better) S = Seven Card Stud E = Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo (Eight or Better) Playing H.O.S.E. Poker is not recommended unless you are capably familiar with each of these poker variants. However, there are specific H.O.S.E. Poker strategies and tips that can be applied, related to the entire mixed game, rather than the individual poker variants within. We have listed these below. H.O.S.E. Poker Strategy - Understanding the Sequence/Rotation A player should quickly familiarize themselves with the way H.O.S.E. Poker is played, both in sequence and rotation. The game sequence is found in the acronym of the name - H.O.S.E = Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven card Stud and Seven card Stud Hi-Lo. These are the games and the sequence in which they will be played. Once the sequence of Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo is completed, Texas Hold'em will begin once more. The mixed game continues in this fashion until the ring game session or tournament is completed. The Rotation of poker variants in H.O.S.E. Poker can be handled in one of three ways; by Hand, by Time or by Blind Levels. Rotation by Hand is a very fast paced game where players must pay close attention to each hand and its current poker variant. Rotation by time means the game changes after a preset amount of time (i.e. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc.). Rotation by blind Levels means the current game will change when the Blind Levels increase. Make sure you are aware of the Rotation being used so that you are never confused as to which game is being played. Confusion equals mistakes, and mistakes equal losses. Practicing H.O.S.E. Poker for play money is a great way to get accustomed to the frequent change-ups in the game. H.O.S.E. Poker Strategy - Playing Your Opponents Poker is not just a game of playing cards, but playing your opponents. Keep a keen eye on your opponents and try to pick up on any behavioral patterns, betting patterns and other observable traits. Determine whether a player is tight or loose, if they always bluff on the Button to steal Blinds/Antes, and that sort of thing. Is a player only moving on with premium starting hands? Do they only raise with a monster hand? Do they slow play the nuts, but bet aggressively with marginal hands? If you can figure out your opponents', you can siphon their chips into your stack regardless of your own holdings. H.O.S.E. Poker Strategy - Changing Up Your Game Play Just as you are trying to read your opponents, you must realize that they are doing the same thing to you. Most poker strategies will tell you to pick a specific strategy and stick to it, keeping a strict course of situational actions. When playing against very experienced players, as are often found in mixed games like H.O.S.E. Poker, you should change up your strategy from time to time. Do not let yourself become predictable. Switch between a tight and loose game, be aggressive on occasion and keep your opponents guessing.

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How To Achieve Your Dreams With Poker

You can achieve all your dreams with poker, and this Texas Poker strategy is going to reveal exactly how, step by step. Don't miss out on it. Texas Poker Strategy Step #1 - Define Your Dreams What do you want to achieve from poker. How much cash do you want. You can choose to have a few hundred dollars a month, or a few hundred dollars a day. Or you can take it all the way and become a multi-multi-mega-millionaire all from poker. It's up to you Texas Poker Strategy Step #2 - Accept What You'll Need To Get There If you just want to make some extra cash on the side and have fun doing it you may be able to get there for practically nothing - or maybe just a $30 book and a few weekend of practice. On the other hand, if you want to win the World Poker Tour you'll probably have to spend maybe a couple of thousand on books and courses and spend one or two years really practicing. Texas Poker Strategy Step #3 - Make A Plan Fail to plan and you plan to fail. This plan doesn't have to be extravagant, just a bit of an outline of where you want to be. For example, it could be something like this. Week 1: buy a book, read the book. Weekend 1: find some online poker rooms to play on. Week 2: play at lower limits and test some strategies from the book. Weekend 2: choose one strategy and make some/any money from it. Week 3: practice and perfect that one strategy. Weekend 3: move up stakes one level and make some more money. Week 4: by end of week four I want to be able to make $50 in a couple of hours sitting. Week 8: after 2 months I want to increase that to be able to make $150 in a Saturday sitting. This is a very achievable plan and would only take maybe one or two hours a night and then four or six hours on each weekend. Texas Poker Strategy Step #4 - Do It! This is the most critical part, obviously. All you have to do is stick to the plan and actually do it. Each of us come up against our own roadblocks and you need to fight through them. For some, it may be the reading part. For others, it may be confusion with the betting. For others it may be finding the spare time - if so maybe you could extend the plan out to be longer or free up some prior commitments. In any event, you need to do it. And when you do it you will achieve whatever your dream is for poker. One more secret little thing. As you are reading this article I'm sure you are becoming aware that there may be some things that could get in the way of you achieving your dreams that you currently don't even know about, and you are realizing that the only real way to understand these is to find out about them, or learn them. For some of you, you are experiencing a keen feeling of curiosity and excitement because you aren't afraid of learning and becoming better - in poker or in life. And I truly want you to harness that feeling of curiosity, and the feeling of intent to really act on and go out and get the information because it is this essence of a person that turns them into a great poker player. Anyone can do it, all you need to do is find new information, get it, learn it, and repeat. Every time you see an opportunity right in front of you and you act on it you become a better poker player. And every time you do seek to acquire new information and learn something new about poker you will become a worse poker player.

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Online Poker Conspiracy Theories

Although playing casino games online is rising in popularity, plenty of interested players are still on the fence whether they should try it too or not. There are a variety of reasons for this and one of them is the fact that many online casino players are spreading the word that online games are rigged. The reality though is that casinos are built with the odds stacked against the players but some online players have concocted some conspiracy theories and although there could be some truth to them, there are also logical explanations. That said let us look at the most common conspiracy theories being thrown around the internet. It is believed by some that good players get bad beats. There are plenty of cases when a good player with a good hand is called by a bad player with a weak hand and sometimes, the bad player edges out the good one. The reasoning provided by conspiracy theorists is that casinos would make more money from bad players the longer they play so they tend to make them win early on. A logical explanation for this is that online games are usually played loose and in that nature of a game, good hands hold up less. Also, the fast-paced nature of online gaming doubles the chance of a good hand being beaten. It is very possible that a good hand can be beaten through sheer luck and it is even more pronounced in the online world where more games are being played by the hour. The cash-out course is another conspiracy theory that many people believe in. Basically, it involves someone cashing out some of their winnings and once they started playing again, they run into a string of bad lucks. The explanation by conspiracy theorist is that people cashing out are flagged by the casinos because they are taking out some of the money that could be made by the company. Thus, once they return to play, the money they have is distributed to other people who are more likely to lose it all. Strictly speaking, the cash out curse is real. With less money for cushion you could bust sooner than later. Poker, although a game of skills is also dependent on luck which means you could have a string of bad luck, then a string of good ones. With more money in the bank, you can weather that string of bad luck without busting. The cash-out curse is therefore a statistical law and not something that online casinos are switching on and off.

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Life Lessons From Poker

"Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. " ~Anthony Holden Poker is a simple game. It is based around 3 actions; checking, raising or folding. Despite its simplicity it takes a lifetime to master. Poker has taught me many things about myself, others and life. Sometimes You Have To Fold. Everyone who has played poker knows the familiar feeling of being 90% sure that their hand is beat but not being able to let go. You may have already invested a lot of money into the hand with what might have been the best hand pre flop; pocket kings. But then an ace comes on the flop pairing your opponent's ace. Now only a miracle will save you. Sometimes we just have to let go of something that isn't working. There are going to be times where relationships and careers realistically aren't going to go anywhere. We must let go of these to free ourselves to move onto better things. Remember that you can't win them all. It's always a mistake to put your chips in when you're second best. You Will Lose Every single poker player has lost money at one time or another. It is how those losses are handled that separates the winners from the losers Sometimes we face a setback in life. It is how we react to this setback that decides our future. A poker player who has just lost a lot of money will often go on tilt and start to make bad decisions in order to try and win it all back. Other poker players on the table love to see this. When a person has lost their head they've already lost their money. Patience Is Key Often when we don't see any short term gains we give up on our endeavours but to have patience is key both in poker and life. In poker impatience costs inexperienced players a lot of money. These players want to make as much money as soon as possible but if the situation isn't right then this won't happen. In life, sometimes we are blinded by short term gains and gratification when the real gains and gratification can only occur in the long term. We have been brought up with the attitude "what's in it for me now" instead of taking the time to make calculated well informed decisions that lead to a higher probability of success. Be The Aggressor My last lessons were talking about how patience is key and how sometimes we have to let go, so when I say be the aggressor, you may think it sounds contradictory. However, winners in poker and life tend to have an aggressive mindset. Winners don't just react to the situation, they change it. Winners like to make sure that the opposition is the one who has to make the tough decisions. In life people who push through the fear and take risks get what they want far more often than people who just wait passively for good things to happen. How can you have a relationship with that man/women if you've never asked them out? How can you get that promotion if you've never asked for it? The truth is that you can't and won't unless you are the aggressor. Bad Beats Happen Sometimes no matter how correctly we do things, there are days where everything seems to go wrong. When your pocket aces are cracked by a player catching a 2 on the river to give them a set you feel annoyed. "I didn't deserve that, I was 95% favourite on the turn, what bad luck," you may cry. But bad luck is part of life. Without the bad luck there can't be any good luck. Bad luck and good luck will both occur but you have to learn to take them both in stride. It is how we react after, that determines the kind of person we are and our future successes or failures.

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Heads Up Poker Strategy

To be a successful winning tournament player you have to have a solid heads up strategy. Thankfully you can train your skills playing heads up SNG's that most populair pokerrooms offer. Also, you can specialise in heads up poker and make profit playing heads up only. Here is a solid heads up poker strategy. The absolute beginner falls quickly in the gamblers mentality; they think that when he gets garbage his opponent will get garbage too and it's a coinflip who is going the win the heads up game. Strategy is no longer on their mind, while this is a huge aspect of heads-up play. The Button Every poker player knows position is important in poker and that's also true in heads up poker. When you are on the button you can act first preflop and act last post-flop. Heads up this is a huge advantage on your opponent. For example: You get Kc 5h on the button. Every King or Ace is worth a raise so you raise 3 or 4 times the big blind. With that preflop raise you take initiative of the hand and your opponent has to be careful and he may be worried with your raise. Also, when he calls you act last on every street postflop. So when he misses he is forced to check (or it's a LAG player) and you can take the pot easily with a continuation-bet. So, having no position is a bad situation for you. The best strategy is to pick good hands to play out of position. I suggest you only call raises preflop with suited connectors, any A, any K and pocket pairs. Fold most hands when your opponent raises from the button. You should make big raises when the button just limps and you wake up with a hand. It's better to pick up the pot preflop out of position so you don't have to play on postflop out of position. Hands you can play heads up A common mistake in heads up poker is that you have to play every hand. It's true your opponent has rags the most of the time, but it's important to play good hands in big pots. Let's take some examples. Everyone who has played heads up knows that you get bad hands like; 93offsuit. Everyone knows 93o is a bad hand but most players call the bb with that hand. What flop would you like? 993 ? 935 ? The statistics shows how bad these kinda hands are. 82o against KQs = 30% chance to win. 82o against 9To = 29% chance to win. 82o again 34o = 48% chance to win (against 34o!) 82o against JJ = 11% chance to win. Lets see what the % are against suited connectors like 67s 67s against KQs = 40% chance to win. 67s against 9To = 38% chance to win. 67s again 34o = 58% chance to win (against 34o!) 67s against JJ = 21% chance to win. You gain 10% with playing suited connectors. The best strategy is to just fold when your opponent raises from the button with hands like; 84 / 73 / J2 / 94 / Q4 etc. Phases of heads up poker You both start with a equal stack, probably 1500 chips. You have won some small pots and now the chip count is 1800 for you, 1200 for your opponent. In this phase you don't want to play big pots since at this stage one hand can turn around everything. In heads up it's all about taking the lead and to keep the lead. The next phase is when you have 2000 chips and your opponent 1000. Your opponent needs to get some chips soon, one mistake of him is almost his end of the game. This is the time where you can steal pots by raising big and preflop aggression. But don't raise too big, you don't want to double up your opponent and give him the lead. The last phase is when you have 2500 chips or more and you opponent has 500 or less. Now the game is in your control. Your opponent has to go all-in with almost any hand. Alot of people have no patience and double up their opponent and move back a phase. The strategy for this is; Fold, fold fold and call with any Ace or a pocket pair. When you think your opponent is pushing with rags you can call with hands like KQ/KJ/KT. Have patience and soon you'll win the heads up match. Folding A player misses a flop 2 out of 3 times. So when you have a hand like 75s and the flop is Q85, min raise you opponent because his bet is 2 out of 3 times a continuation bet. When he's fighting back you should fold your bottom pair. In heads up poker it's very common that bottom pair is the best hand so don't fold them too often. Also, when you play with aggression you can have him fold the best hand. Every hand is a fight for chips, bet and raise for information, don't fold too often with a pair, but don't play big pots with bottom pair. Good luck at the heads up poker tables!

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Online Poker Strategy - Donk Betting

There is a term in poker called the 'Donk' bet. This refers to when a person out of position calls your pre-flop raise and then leads into you with a bet on the flop. The normal routine in all poker games is the flop is checked around to the pre-flop raiser as he has shown strength and the players usually wait for him to act to then decide to continue or not. So a donk bet while not uncommon is a play less used. However different player types use donk betting in different ways. For a weaker player, i.e. a fish, they tend to lead out on the flop for the minimum amount to see where they are in the hand. You can usually raise these players the size of the pot and 8 times out of 10 they will fold. If the weaker player leads out on the flop and calls your re-raise, you should beware as this is often a trapping move by the weaker player If the weaker player donk bets the minimum amount and then re-raises your raise on the flop, I would advise to throw away all hands bar monsters as he always has two pair or better here and wants to play for stacks. For an experienced player, the donk bet should be used in a balanced un-exploitative way. If you only lead the flop with draws, your thinking opponents will quickly pick up on this. You should alternate your play and donk lead with not just draws/weak made hands and air, but also with sets, top pair and overcards. You should have a donk bet percentage of between 15-25% and should now form part of your online poker strategy. So how can we exploit a experienced regular player? Easy, if a regular player raises your cbets a lot, then this inversely affects his donk betting patterns. This means he is more often value raising hands on the flop than leading on the flop for value, so when he donk bets you know it is at the bottom of his value range/air, so you can safely raise his bet and he will fold. And vice versa, if he rarely raises your continuation bets and he now leads on the flop, it is safe to say that his donk betting range is stronger. You may call the donk bet but if he double barrel leads out on the flop and turn the turn, then his range has now narrowed even further to the top of his value betting range and is now in your best interest to fold even top pair hands. As you can see, once you understand the concept of donk betting and how it affects players ranges, it is easier to formulate a plan to combat it. This can be said about any play in online poker. If you spot an opponent is doing too much of a particular play, then it obviously makes sense to exploit this by counteracting it to your benefit. The easiest way to pick up on opponents tendencies is to play 4 tables for a while as this gives you enough time to analyse all the big pots even when you are not in them. Go through the bet sizing and note any weird non ordinary actions a player may take and after time you will see your own hand reading skills improve to a standard where you will crush the games you play.

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