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Patience

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Patience is the key to poker. Seriously-be patient…I can’t stress it enough (apparently). When you play tournament hold ‘em online poker , the key is to wait for your proper cards. Don’t go in with any two poker online cards, you need to wait until you can make a good hand on the flop. One of the biggest mistakes that I see and occasionally commit is to get bored or impatient during a slow streak and start playing with subpar hands. I can think of countless times when I’d have a streak of crap cards and I’d make some ill-advised bluff with crap, only to keep betting after the flop missed me. It’s really a great way to cripple your chip stack. When you get impatient and start betting with mediocre cards, it won’t take very long for you to start wondering where your chip stack went. In a tournament situation, make sure that you have a lot of outs when you bet, because few things are more disheartening than making a big raise before the flop, only to see some overcards really hurt your prospects. Pay attention to the loose bettors the next time you play-they may see a lot of action and they may even start out with the large chip stack, but eventually their loose play will break them.

Quick Tips for Making Your Bingo a Happy Place

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Bingo supplies and bingos themeselves should be fun. We’re not selling office supplies like staples or paper cutters. We’re not accountants getting ready to do our clients’ taxes. We’re selling bingo game supplies

With this in mind, your bingo should be a source of fun and excitement for your bingo players. So, what can you do try to make it fun? Here are 5 quick tips to help you make your bingo fun and entertaining:

1. Treat every player (yes, even the crabby ones) as a valued guest. When your bingo players feel appreciated, they will return to your bingo again and again.

2. Express concern for player complaints. While you can’t make everyone happy, you should treat player problems as opportunities to create good will.

3. Encourage your workers to learn each bingo players name and use them. The more you and your workers know your bingo players, the more of a community environment you’ll create.

4. Choose bingo workers who truly enjoy being with people. One bad apple can spoil the perception of your bingo and turn bingo players away.

5. Help players celebrate their winnings and they will spread the good word about your bingo. When a player smiles, you and your workers should be happy. Celebrate your players jackpots and good luck!



Besting the Bad Beats

Monday, October 26th, 2009

In poker, bad beats happen. You are holding the best hand after the flop, like a set or two pairs, and everyone folds to your bet except one player. The turn brings a rag, you bet again, and get called. The river is a trouble card – third to a suit, or pairing the board. You bet, get called, and sure enough, your online poker opponent who was playing rags has hit the river to smash your hand.

Bad beats are part of the game. Even when you make the correct decisions and deploy the right strategies, you can’t always make a bad player do what you intend, which is to fold.

You have to be mentally prepared for these bad beats. Some players get so angry about these situations that they go on tilt, letting frustration cloud their thinking. This will only lead to worse losses.

When bad beats happen, you have to discipline yourself to recognize that you made the correct play, and remain confident in your ability when you play poker online.

To profit in poker, you have to make more good decisions than mistakes. A player who keeps calling and drawing is playing poorly. Though their misguided actions produce one good outcome, over the long run, these players lose more often than win. When you suffer a bad beat from them, be gracious, even praise their play in the hope that they will continue to make more mistakes that you can profit from later on in the game.

Almost Illegal in Italy

Friday, September 25th, 2009

If you are a poker player, I hope that you don’t live in Italy. Italy is one of the few countries left in the world that has not yet legalized poker or gambling. As a caveat, Italy only considers gambling in a physical location illegal. Technically, even the video poker machines scattered randomly throughout the country are not completely in line with the law. So if you are an online poker fan, Italy’s legislative position on poker and gambling won’t really affect you. The Italian population can access online casinos wherever there is a strong internet connection. As an added perk to online poker players, most European online casinos will accept Euros as their main currency. If you are an Italian poker player with a penchant for face to face games, or even a traveling tourist, do not worry. There are ways to get around the current ban on brick and mortar gambling. The most common method, as shown by the Italian Championship, is to travel over to Slovenia. It’s just a short trip, but Slovenia is much more open to gamblers of all types. Because of the difficulty in planning a national tournament out of the country, it is always a matter of debate whether the tournament will continue in the next year.

JJ UTG in Cash Game

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

$0.50/$1 NL Texas Holdem. Pocket Jacks are a difficult poker hand to play from any position at thecasino; here is an interesting situation a friend of mine got into in a ring poker game. In first position, under the gun, he looked down at pocket jacks and raised the bet to $6. One player in middle position called and the player in the cut off (one before the button) re-raised to $15. The button and blinds folded and my friend flat called (starting the hand with about $100) and the middle player folded. The flop came out 6, 6, 7 rainbow. The UTG player checked in first position and then the late position player bet $25, to which my friend folded. Basically he was giving the late position re-raiser credit for a huge pocket pair, Aces, Kings, or Queens. The flop, though not bad for him, and probably not great for the other player, was pretty irrelevant. But, what he resigned to do upon getting re-raised, was play the hand for set-value and fold in almost any other outcome. The problem with this is that he turned pocket jacks into pocket deuces. In a tournament, I’m sure he would have jammed that flop and crossed his fingers, but in a ring game, he played it passively. He may have been dead right. A re-raise in a low limit online ring game is likely a big pair like he thought. Sometimes the players in a ring game are tighter than in a tournament for a couple of reasons. Since the blinds never increase, there is less waiting around for spots to take advantage of. If someone raises, and you have a big pair, you’re likely going to re-raise and play the hand straightforward with a large continue bet on any flop. You only have one pair, you are unlikely to improve, and your hand can be vulnerable in a multiway pot. If the player did indeed have a bi pocket pair, he was lucky to have gotten it in late position so that he could put in a re-raise and try to isolate against one player. If he were the initial raiser, he’s likely to get called by a lesser hand, but that call would open up the floodgate for all suited connectors to try and take a flop.

Look at Your Pictures More Often

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

It seems that just about everyone has a photo collection. Some of us have these photos up to look at on a regular basis, others of us hide them in a box under the bed or in the closet. If you have a box of pictures from your past and are not looking at them on a regular basis, you might want to start.

It is healthy to look at the pictures from your past on a regular basis, it will help you appreciate your life and all of the many fun things that you have been able to do. This is recommended because about ninety percent of your pictures are of times that were fun. You will usually have a big old smile on your face and the people around you will too. Seeing this will help you become in a better mood. We all want to feel better, exercise and acceletrim can help with your mood, and looking at these pictures from your past help too. If you are in your forties now it would be real cool to get out the photos from your teen years and early twenties. Each time you look at them you will think of fun and excitement. Focus in on the beach pictures and the pictures where you are doing a lot of physically fun activities. Just by looking at these pictures you can instantly feel better and experience a feeling of more energy.

A Living Legend: Doyle Brunson

Friday, January 30th, 2009

As far as any one player can be said to represent the iconic American poker player, Doyle Brunson encapsulates the idea. He has been playing professional poker for fifty years, and during his long career has seen many things change in the poker world. In fact, he originally started playing when it was still illegal to do so. He eventually moved his game to Las Vegas where he mastered poker in a more profitable, and more legal, environment.

Partially due to the fact that he has had such a long career, Brunson has amassed a sizable collection of tournament wins. He is second only to Phil Hellmuth in his number of World Series of Poker bracelets, coming in at ten. While his success at the table is unmistakable, his true success came from the publishing world. Brunson has been able to channel his years of experience into handy reference guides for beginners. His books help poker players learn the finer points of the game, particularly knowing how to play individual hands.

The idea of Doyle Brunson as a poker legend is deeply engrained. In fact, he is one of the few live poker players that have the honor of having a poker hand named after them. The Doyle Brunson hand is a ten and two, because this was the hand he was holding when he won the World Series of Poker two years in a row.

Hit and Run Poker

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

There is a tendency out there in poker where you see a guy double up and immediately cash out from the table, running off with his money immediately at the first sign that he is up. A lot of people consider this bad online pokeretiquette, which I agree with: if you kept doing this across the rest of your career you might end up getting known as the ‘hit and run’ guy, who nobody wants to play with. But more than that, this kind of move is a serious roadblock, I think, from allowing yourself to get up into making serious money.

If you were to continue doing the ‘double up and jump ship’ method of poker for the rest of your life, sure, your might make decent money, but by never playing ‘big stack poker’ you are leaving out an opportunity to put your weight to the max. Players are often much more timid when playing against other big stacks, and if you are always on the lower end, you are cutting yourself out of a whole field of extra weight to your image.

Not to mention, that doubling up with a doubled stack turns into a lot more money that just always doubling up with that single buy in. If you are going to keep playing solid poker, it seems like you would be able to sit and go with the flow and really put your money to work for you.

Drinking: Can it Distract You from a Big Poker Win?

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Playing in a online casino and drinking can go hand in hand. Several types of drinks are offered in a casino at free or discounted rates. Can drinking distract you from playing certain games?

If you are at a casino for a long time, you may wish to have a drink while you play. Drinking certain beverages will have a higher kick to you than others. In drinking these types of drinks, you may feel woozy, or a bit out of it. Your focus on the game may suddenly be gone for a moment.

While playing, you may also not notice a thing and playing your game is not altered. Only you know which drinks may distract you from paying attention in a casino. It all depends on what you do in ordering these drinks and how much of them you have.

Everyone who wants to go into a casino wants to have fun while being there. Some may wish to have a drink, while others may not. Drinks can be served after, during, or before game play. Any drinks you have are dependent on what you want, what you can afford and whether or not a distraction from the game is present. It becomes a personal choice if you drink or not while in a casino.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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