Brooklyn asked:


Poker is the most played card game and it has gained its popularity in the coming years and now it has been also available to play online. The most popular among the sites that offers the online facility to Play Poker is Pacific Poker School affiliated to 888.com. It is a very user friendly site that provides Poker Tournament facility to the players. It provides several other facilities like tutorials about how to play Poker to the beginners, Incredible bonus of $100 to start with always increasing comp points. Since 888.com is there for years in online gaming industry it has gained its expertise in online gaming industry. You can easily play Poker and other forms of poker here either from downloadable version or non downloadable version of software available. So go ahead and enjoy the 888.com’s Pacific Poker for fun and thrill.

Poker is the most played card game and it has gained its popularity in the coming years and now it has been also available to play online.

Poker is the most played card game and it has gained its popularity in the coming years and now it has been also available to play online. The most popular among the sites that offers the online facility to Play Poker is Pacific Poker School affiliated to 888.com. It is a very user friendly site that provides Poker Tournament facility to the players. It provides several other facilities like tutorials about how to play Poker to the beginners, Incredible bonus of $100 to start with always increasing comp points. Since 888.com is there for years in online gaming industry it has gained its expertise in online gaming industry. You can easily play Poker and other forms of poker here either from downloadable version or non downloadable version of software available. So go ahead and enjoy the 888.com’s Pacific Poker for fun and thrill.

Poker is the most played card game and it has gained its popularity in the coming years and now it has been also available to play online



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M.J. Morgan asked:


Direct access to poker games through television and the effective marketing strategy of today’s poker industry has greatly increased the popularity of poker, and more people are now hosting poker nights at home. What most of the poker amateurs don’t know is that not only are they risking their and everybody’s money to savvy cheating players, but also risking police raids, and in worst-case-yet-real-scenarios, losing their lives. If you enjoy playing and hosting poker nights, there are some basic things you need to know for the safety of everybody involved.

One of my previous series of articles dealing with poker tragedies featured 4 home game tragedies out of 9 that happened during the last century and the beginning of this one, and not every player that ended up killing their poker mates was an experienced criminal. Some of them were average people who wanted to have some fun but found themselves in a situation and reacted impulsively and regrettably. Therefore, home poker games can certainly be dangerous and prone to the unthinkable if people are not cautious. 

According to Richard Marcus, a now retired professional casino cheater, talks about the alarming increase of home-game cheating that can lead up to dangerous incidents.

“If cheating is blowing up sky-high on the Internet, it’s gone nuclear in home games. How do I know? You’d only have to read my e-mails. Eighty-five percent of them querying me about cheating in poker ask about incidents occurring in the senders’ home games.”

Thus, what signs or traits would a poker host look for when suspecting of the honesty of some player? Whether a poker host would like to get rid of their cheating buddy or learn everything about cheating before hosting his/her first poker party, there are 4 important facts to consider about poker cheats, according to poker player and author Marc Wortman.

Cheats will do anything rather than admit they cheated. If you think that confronting a poker cheat about their shady practices is going to embarrass them and make them admit and repent of their actions, then, you definitely don’t know much about poker cheats.

Even if you or others at the table catch a cheater red-handed, they will deny it with all their might. The only thing you can get out of confronting a cheater is a nasty argument, which may escalate into something more unpleasant, depending on the circumstances and the feelings of the other players.

Low stakes won’t discourage cheaters. Some cheaters are more driven by the challenge of tricking others than by profit. They can’t play without the thrill of changing the game’s course to their advantage and winning. Most home cheaters look for home games in which there is a balance between the profit stakes and the ability for the other players to catch the cheater. Therefore, keep in mind that even when playing for pennies, you might be hosting a cheater who just likes fooling everybody.

Cheaters will try to continue playing after being caught. Even after an embarrassing moment at your poker night, the cheater will continue trying to get invited to future games, especially because they will always deny their involvement, and expressing any kind of shame by not coming back would be like admitting the suspicion was accurate.

Cheaters won’t get scared when warned by a knowledgeable host. If you ever thought that warning a cheater that you know what they are up to could deter him/her, you will only be daring the cheater to improve. Therefore, don’t make the mistake of waking the cheating beast!

According to Richard Marcus, the cheating technique that wins the #1 prize in home games is marking cards.

Marcus claims that nowadays, the marking trend for home cheaters involves a Mission Impossible style move: buying several new decks, taking the cards out without damaging the plastic packages or the sealing blue sticker on the box openings, marking the cards, putting everything back, and ironing the plastic cellophane wrappings to seal the decks back. Then, the cheats take the decks to a store near the game’s location, especially a store that stays open until late, and when the vendor is distracted, the cheaters replace the new decks with the marked ones. Then, at the game, the cheater goes on “tilt” and tears the cards in their bad hands out of apparent frustration. When all the decks available at the host’s house are ruined, someone will try to go and buy a deck at the nearest store, the one that is open until late and is now selling the marked decks. And to everybody’s surprise, there is no more deck tearing by the cheater for the rest of the game, only the tearing through everybody’s stacks.

Therefore, it is important for game hosts to know how far cheating players are willing to expend time and energy for the thrill of fooling everyone, even close friends. Hopefully your own cheater’s secrets have been exposed in this article, and you will be able to expel them from your home poker fun.

Next: Home-Game Cheating Awareness, Part IV: 8 Home-Protection Rules



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Graham Bond asked:


Poker tournaments require constant adjustments in strategy. Unlike cash games (and re-buys), when you lose your chips in a poker tournament, you’re done. Here are some tips to help you handle decisive moments in online poker tournaments.

Never Be Afraid to Fold

If you think someone has you beat, why pay to find out? In a tournament, you can always afford to fold a good hand. If you’re pot committed, it’ll make your decision a whole lot harder, but you have to realize that tournaments require patience. If you don’t like the situation you’re in, fold and wait for a better set of circumstances. Don’t be afraid to stand your ground, but don’t hesitate to throw your cards away if you think it’s the right decision.

Consider Pot Odds

Using pot odds is an effective way to improve your decision making skills. To figure out pot odds, you compare the amount it will cost you to make a call to the amount of chips that are in the pot. If the pot is $100 and the bet you have to call is $10, then your pot odds are a favorable 10 to 1.

Bubble Play

Playing on the bubble means that you’re right near the cutoff point for winning a piece of the prize pool. When you’re playing on the bubble, you don’t want to just pack it in. Don’t sacrifice blinds and tighten up so much that you refuse to compete. If you’re stack is on par with the remaining players in the tournament, keep playing your game. Don’t feel like you have to fold every hand until you make it in the money, just don’t make an overly stupid play for all your chips. Take advantage of all those short stacked players that have gone super tight in an effort to make it to the money. Be aggressive against players that don’t want to compete. Just make sure that you don’t beat yourself before you get paid.

Playing With a Short Stack

When you’re a frequent tournament player in Texas Holdem, you will find yourself in plenty of short stack situations. Don’t give up. Coming from behind isn’t the ideal situation, but it isn’t the end of the world either. When your stack is about one-fourth of what the average chip stack is for the remaining players in the tourney, you’re going to have to adopt a push or fold mentality. Fold all the marginal hands you get. This isn’t the spot to play low suited cards or connectors. If you get dealt an ace or pocket pair, push all-in. You may find yourself in a coin-flip situation, but that’s okay. You can’t afford to wait for good hands. Eventually you’ll get blinded out, so when you get dealt semi-decent cards, be prepared to go all-in. If you win, you’ll double up and stay competitive.

Don’t be afraid to fold a big hand if it means that you’ll stay in the tourney. Use pot odds to help you decide whether or not you should make a call. Play tight when you’re on the bubble but use aggression to steal the blinds away from super-tight short stacks. If you find yourself in a short stack situation, be prepared to go all-in with semi-decent hands. Whenever you face a critical moment of decision, stop and think it through. Consider your options. Play the hand out in your head. What sort of reaction is your move going to illicit from the players who still have to act? What will happen if you re-raise an opponent who never folds? Use your table observations to choose the best possible poker strategy in any situation.



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