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December 2, 2009 at 10:16 am · Filed under Internet Games, Lucky Gambling, The Funny Farm
So you’ve been playing for a long while now online and possibly in live games, doing pretty well for yourself in cash events and regularly in online poker tournaments, etc. You’ve clearly demonstrated that you know how to play the game, and that in an average crowd you are often within the top 10% or 5%, when cards don’t go against you. You’re thinking it might be time to take your chances and fly out to Vegas for the next iteration of the World Series of Poker, the big dance.
Obviously it is every online poker player’s dream to eventually make it out to this level, and if you are playing tournaments of the $2500 and up buy in stakes anyway, and can afford the trip, it seems a natural progression into the poker spotlight.
For those that have less of a bankroll, and are more wanting to get into the event just to say they’ve been there, taking your time and building a bankroll that allows ease of access to the higher buy in events makes more sense than just throwing it out there to do so.
Odds are that if you feel comfortable enough with the idea that you could play at that level, and it won’t break your back if you take a bad beat and lose, stepping out of the online poker land and into the world of televised live poker is a decision that pretty much makes itself.
June 24, 2009 at 11:13 am · Filed under Internet Games, Lucky Gambling, The Funny Farm
In your average poker hand, no one is going to make much of their hole cards. Though poker online on TV would have you believe that every deal is a display of fireworks, more commonly what you’re dealing with is players making nothing on the flop, or making mediocre holdings that then become a battle of who bets first and who bets when. Climactic clashes of one monster against another are certainly not the norm: and so therefore, often, it is the player who attacks first that becomes the victor.
By this length, many times a pot can be won simply by betting when no one else will. More pots are won by those who bet than those who call down, and so putting your chips to work for you, rather than trying to wiggle down into the end of the hand hoping your holdings stay on top,
By this manner then, in the face of weakness, the general approach is to attack in poker online. Though you do not want to do so blindly, and should be ready to abandon ship when needed, the game of poker is about aggression, though the wiser poker player will know that even aggression must be aimed. Firing from position and in the right spots, and once in a while letting your cards do the talking when they need to, is a formula many players such as Sam Farha and Gus Hansen have employed to great riches. Though we can’t all be those guys, we can put momentum on our side by taking the reins.
January 29, 2009 at 11:08 am · Filed under Internet Games, Lucky Gambling, The Funny Farm
For the average poker player, the only contact that they may have with high stakes poker is through the televised. Through televised coverage, high stakes poker games appear to be high tension and high speed. This can give new players unrealistic explanations about what poker playing should be. Oftentimes, players will sign up for tournaments without any grasp about the actual nuts and bolts of multi day tournament play. Before you get carried away, however, remember that these programs are highly edited. The audience at home only gets to see the small sections of the tournament that are deemed exciting.
A lot of things get cut out of televised poker tournaments, so the viewer at home is not getting an accurate idea of what the world of high stakes poker is really like. Real poker tournaments take days, not hours. A lot of what is cut off from televised poker tournaments are the slow hands, where most people fold or play rather cautiously. However, you have to remember as a poker player, that most of your time will be spent playing slow hands. High tension show downs are rare in real life, as are all in bets. Not everything on television is entirely accurate; after all, it’s supposed to be entertainment.
September 21, 2008 at 7:06 pm · Filed under Internet Games, Shopping Stuff, The Funny Farm
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Cyber sweepstakes and actions are proscribed from demanding a buy to enter. Sweepstakes are in the main much softer and faster to enter than fun websites.
July 31, 2008 at 1:30 pm · Filed under Internet Games, Lucky Gambling, The Funny Farm
When you and your friends are about to sit down for a quick game of poker or online poker some evening, do you play some tunes in the background to get the mood right? If you do, what kinds are the best kinds of music? Is there a definitive “poker music?” If so, what does it sound like?
If the game is being played in a German pokern room, the music could be something staccato but heavy, like an old school Ramstein record. Those big angry beats would get any poker player’s blood boiling enough to play really aggressively, and would ensure big pots.
But maybe heavy metal is too much for your virgin ears to handle. If that’s the case, maybe you’re in an online poker room, and you want to keep things modern and cool. Maybe some top 40 songs, just to serve as something familiar to keep your personality in check should the anonymity of online rooms get you a little ahead of yourself.
Or maybe you’d like some French hip hop, which is huge in the poker en ligne rooms of Paris and Versailles across the pond in France. There’s an immense amount of crossover taking place in the Frnech hip hop and online poker room worlds, and it would not be surprising to anyone to hear those beats. Some of them are even worth listening to away from the poker table!
