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Archive for the 'Texas Holdem Poker' Category

Texas Holdem Poker Tips

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Texas Holdem poker is a fun game to play.  There are some handy tips and tricks that you can use when you play Texas Holdem poker to increase your chances of winning.  The hardest part of Texas Holdem poker is to know when to lay down your hand.  Sure, the more hands you play the [...]

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Which Event Should I Play at the WSOP

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

So you have decided to play at the World Series of Poker this year.  Great!  Good luck to you.  Now the next decision you make will be equally as important.  What event will you play?  Each year, people decide to travel out to Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker and get a [...]

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Getting on a Poker Reality TV Show

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Are you an avid Poker player?  Do you watch the poker reality TV shows?  Well, there are many new poker reality television shows cropping up all over.  Now is your chance to be involved in these shows. There are different requirements to submit an application and try to get on the show.
The first step of [...]

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Betting with an Ace in Texas Holdem Poker

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

One of the biggest errors that new online Texas Holdem Poker players make is calling a bet or even placing a bet because they have an Ace in their hand.  Many times, new players will be heavily pre-flop if they have any Ace in their hand.  This can be extremely dangerous.  Remember, if you are [...]

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How to Tell if Online Table Players Are Bluffing

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

There are many factors that need to be considered when you want to figure out if someone’s bluffing when you are playing online gambling games.  There are some methods that you can use to determine if someone is bluffing in the poker tournament.

Most online poker tournaments I play in have nine people at one table. [...]

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Party Poker: Players Club tourney advice

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

One of the things I like best about Party Poker is that you rack up Party Points with every hand you play — a lot like the comp dollars you earn in actual casinos.
I’m able to enter two or three Players Club tournaments weekly with my points, and in a good week I’ll actually [...]

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Nancy’s Top 9 Hold ‘em Starting Hands

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

Every poker player has his/her own system when it comes to which cards they’ll play and which they won’t during Texas Hold ‘em tournaments. That said, here are the nine starting hands I love the most:
AA
KK
QQ
These three are nearly invincible. I like to slow-play them, then go all-in and knock out other players. What [...]

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Encouraging the youth of today

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Poker has become so popular that there are actually tournaments offering college scholarships to those who play. There is actually a College Poker Championship.
I really don’t think people under 21 need any more encouragement to play than the heavily edited displays of people winning millions of dollars in highstakes poker on TV.
What I find [...]

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Cost of Poker Entertainment

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

I think the one thing that keeps a lot of people from really sitting down at a poker table in a casino - those that are close enough to do it, of course - is the assumption that you’ll need a sizeable amount of money to come in and be willing to lose. That’s [...]

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But what does that mean?

Friday, April 29th, 2005

Back in the old days, the days when I was an instructor in philosophy at an engineering university, I built a reputation for making hard things seem simple. And I was also one of th efirst people to use the internet to publish things like FAQs (Frequently asked questions) and those kinds of things. [...]

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