When you look at the Tournament List in all of the popular poker rooms, you’ll see many different poker tournaments advertised including some which are termed “Satellite Poker Tournaments.” A brief explanation of these Satellite Poker Tournaments follows for those new to the online poker scene. The poker rooms want …
Read More »Outs and Pot Odds – Calculating Pot Odds
When you play poker, knowing how many outs you have to a better hand is a fairly simple concept. Unfortunately, many less experienced players either don’t realize the benefits of going one step farther in calculating pot odds, or they find the process to be too mentally straining to even …
Read More »Poker Tells – How to Work a Tell to Your Advantage
Why does that player keep looking at his pocket cards? He just wiped his mouth. Was he trying to conceal a smile? Why is he staring holes in that ace? Poker tells can let us know a lot about the hand our opponents have. One of the key skills that …
Read More »Poker Player Psychology – Reading Your Opponents
Unlike many games, poker is not one that is based purely on odds although this does, of course, have a large part to play but to win consistently you have to understand poker player psychology. To be a top poker player you’re also required to understand the psychological aspects of …
Read More »Have you Got the Nuts?
You might think that you’ve got the Nuts for playing poker and you sure need to hold em tight but in case you’ve heard poker players referring to “The Nuts” and you aren’t quite sure if you’ve got them, then here is a quick explanation. Quite simply, The Nuts is …
Read More »Texas Holdem Top Ten Poker Hands
The list below contains the Texas Holdem Top Ten poker hands, pre-flop, poker hands that you can be dealt when playing Texas Hold Em Poker. There are 169 differing starting hands – your two hole (or hidden) cards. With the exception of when you post the blinds, these are the …
Read More »Trash Talking to Poker Opponents – Does It Really Work?
The “good ol’ days” when poker games were mostly quiet and played by people with the proverbial “poker faces”seems to be gone, with the influx of “trash talking” both in online and in live poker games. The question being asked by many players is whether trash talking works or not. …
Read More »World Series of Poker – A Very Brief History Overview
Anyone who is interested in poker has at least heard of the World Series of Poker, if not seen it on their TV or Youtube. This poker tournament is one of the most popular and well known poker tournaments out there. It has become known as the big daddy of …
Read More »WSOP Main Event Winners
We thought it would be nice to take a look at the (World Series of Poker) WSOP Main Event Winners from the past, the year they won and the amount of prize money they collected from winning the WSOP Main Event. As you can see from the table below, in …
Read More »Opening Game Strategy with Texas Holdem Poker
The end of the poker game is the most important thing. No matter what happens before the end, it only matters who has the chips (and the check) at the end of the tournament. However, a solid strategy in the early stages of the game is essentially to entering the …
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