Today Schedule
- Monday
METRO500 P40,000 Guaranteed
Buy-in: P500 (Freeze-out) + 1 DICC 2012 seats
First deal: 2:00pm
The Metro 60K
P60,000 Guaranteed
Buy-in: P500 (Freezeout) + 2 DICC 2012 seats
120 Max, First deal: 7:00pm
Metro Schedule
World Cup 2010
Most of the heavy favorites have already qualified for the World Cup due next summer in South Africa. Previous World Cup winners such as Brazil, Germany, England, Argentina and Italy (also current WC Winners) all booked their spot in South Africa following a long and arduous road.
Top 10 Celebrity Poker Players
1. Gabe Kaplan
Comedian, actor, TV-host and professional poker player. Gabe started playing poker professionally in the late seventies and has over $1.3 in tournament earnings. He is also the host of the popular TV-show “High-stakes poker”.
Beginners will never do this……….ever
Imagine the scenario. You’re playing Texas hold’em poker in a single table sit-and-go tournament. It’s getting towards the latter stages, five players are left and you can smell an in-the-money finish. But you need to get in to the top three and stay there – while your chip stack would be nice if it was bigger. The blinds are becoming significant and you know you’ll have to make your move soon.
Playing casino or card room poker
Playing casino poker is quite different from playing in a home game. There are certain procedures and protocols you will need to understand before you sit down to play. Here are ten tips to help you play like a pro.
Poker 101: Top 10 Poker Tournament Tips
Unfortunately, a complete poker tournament strategy cannot realistically be broken down into just ten steps, simply because so much information goes into a complete tournament strategy. However, that doesn’t mean that a top ten list can’t be useful – in fact, the reality is quite the opposite.
This top ten list can be digested in a few minutes, and will transform amateur tournament players into educated players who will have a much better shot at winning a big tournament score.
Poker 101: Slow and steady doesn’t always win
When choosing to slow play a very strong poker hand on the flop, there are always several issues to consider.
Poker 101: Sorry, sh*t happens
No matter who you are, or how skilled at poker you might be, bad beats are unavoidable.
Luck spares no player the crushing feeling of having got all your chips in as a huge favourite and lost to a highly unfortunate turn or river card. When it does decide to happen though, you should not let it define how the evenings poker went for you. If you walk out thinking ‘that was an awful nights poker‘ simply because you got terribly unlucky to bust out, you are missing the bigger picture.
Poker 101:Know thyself….and thy enemy
Player image can often be a deciding factor in how you choose to play out a situation in poker. This can apply in the sense of your own image at the poker table, your opponents, or more likely both. Previous actions and poker player tendancies are important in formulating these images of people, and can provide you with the solution of how best to proceed in a tricky situation.
