Today Schedule
- Saturday
Day 1B
Neil Arce Dirty Ice Cream Cup
P3 Million Guaranteed
Buy-in: P5000 + P500 Buy-in Only
First deal: 3:00pm
Metro Schedule
Poker Joke of the day
Two couples were playing cards. John accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed that Bill’s wife wasn’t wearing any underwear! Shocked by this, John hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced.
Joke Time: The Crazy Bet
Two guys go into a poker club, and head for the back room with the two high limit tables. They whisper a little back and forth, point at some people, then split up and each sit at a table.
How to Play Small Pocket Pairs
How to play middle pocket pairs
It is significantly harder to play a middle pocket pair like eights or nines. In this case base all of your decisions on what’s currently happening on the table. If you are in an early position hope to get in cheap and attempt to set your pocket pair. Or put in a small feeler raise, just to see what kinds of hands come in. This information will help you in the long run, especially if there’s a showdown.
Top 10 tips to improve your poker skills
1. Don’t Play Every Hand / Do Fold More
Probably the number one mistake beginning poker players make is that they play far too many hands. When you’re just starting out playing poker, you want to play poker, and that means staying in hands that aren’t very good just to be part of the action. But playing more doesn’t mean winning more, it usually means losing more. Playing every hand won’t give you the image of a great poker player. If you find you’re staying in half or more the hands you’re dealt, you need to upgrade your starting hand standards. It might be putting a giant target on your head, that sharks will eat up. It’s ok to fold.
Starting from Zero
I’m almost a year into an experiment on Full Tilt Poker. I’m attempting to turn $0 into a $10,000 bankroll. With no money to start with, I had no choice but to start out playing Freerolls. Starting out, I’d often manage to win a dollar or two, but I’d quickly get busted and have to start over again. It took some time but, after awhile, I was eventually able to graduate to games that required an actual buy-in.
Even today, people don’t believe it’s really me when I sit down at Full Tilt’s small stakes games. They ask what I’m doing down here, and often tell me stories about how they turned $5 into $500 or $100 into $1,000. Usually, these stories end with the person telling me that they went broke. There’s no surprise there. These folks tried to quickly build a bankroll by gambling. They’d play in a game that was beyond their bankroll and, if they happened to win, they’d move up to a higher limit and risk it all one more time. Inevitably, they’d lose a few big hands and go broke.
History of Texas Hold’em
Texas hold ‘em or Texas holdem is the most popular of community card poker games and is the most prevalent poker variant that is played in casinos in the United States. Its no limit form is used in the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSP). It also happens to be the main game in the World Poker Tour (WPT) that hosts international poker tournaments around the globe. Here is a brief glimpse into the history of the game.
Universal Poker Myths
A few years ago, poker was only played by a small group of people. It was usually older guys that played with a group of friends or serious players who competed in casino events. Only recently poker has erupted into the mainstream by means of televised events. Even with its growing popularity, there are still quite a few myths about poker that don’t seem to die.
Top 5 Online Poker Myths
Online Poker Myth #1 – Aces Flop too Often
This is definitely the most common online poker myth. Players think that Aces are on every flop, and because of that they feel like KK is no good against AK or AQ. The reality here is that it’s simply not true. There have been various studies done on this topic, and every one has concluded that Aces flop a perfectly normal amount of time. Also, every online poker site is tested by a third party gambling commission to determine if the software is fair and correct; there’s no way a poker site would pass this test if they had an “artificial ace count”.
The Past 10 World Series of Poker Champions And Their Rankings
The WSOP Main Event is the biggest thing in the poker world.
Over the last decade we’ve seen poker explode and nowhere is that explosion more evident than in the amount of money and prestige now attached to the title of world champion.
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Incredible Poker Superstitions
It is simply unbelievable how many superstitions involving playing cards actually exist. It is very likely that these superstitions originated because of the cards’ association with fortune telling and gambling, two activities that involve a certain mystery factor. Indeed, playing cards have long been regarded as objects potentially dangerous to one’s spirit. Sometimes, they are even called ‘The Devil’s Picture Book.’ An ancient superstition highly popular among fishermen and miners prohibits them to carry a deck of cards while at work, unless they welcome shipwreck or mine collapse.