I am having a poker birthday party for my husband. We are inviting couples, and I want to make the party fun for everyone. What can I do with the ladies who do not want to play poker? Any fun/interesting ideas?
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Anybody who hasn’t heard of the poker game? Anybody who hasn’t played a round of poker game?i think not. Even celebrities nowadays participate in celebrity poker games. But who knows how poker came about? In truth, there is a dilemma as to who can lay claim for the birth of this card game. The French have it ‘poque’ which descended from the Germans’ ‘pochen’ which means “to knock”. However, it can be contested that it could have originated from the Persian game of ‘as nas’ that could have been taught to the French settlers by Persian sailors in New Orleans. However poker came about, everybody is playing it and loving the challenge. Poker rules therefore are extremely important since you might be betting your car keys already, for all you know. The poker rules guides the green horn on how to lose graciously the first few deals. Thus learning to play a good game of poker is expensive.
We need to know the basics on how to play poker, the poker rules according to the poker variant, poker etiquette and poker hands to be able to passably play. Winning is everything in poker since this is a mind game more than anything else.
First off, we need to clarify the different poker game variants to know which poker rules need to be in play. There are many variants to the poker game but the more universal poker game variants are: draw poker, stud poker, widow poker game, and miscellaneous poker games (which include Stud Horse poker, Oxford stud, Billabong (and Shanghai), Guts, and Blind Man’s Bluff). However, the most commonly played poker games for the first three variants are the five-card draw, seven-card stud, and the Texas hold ‘em.
Since this is the most played poker game variant, poker rules for the five-card draw are generally easy to remember. It is assumed that you basically know the general poker game play, the hand values and the betting system. Poker rules differ from the home-style games to the more formal games as played in the casinos. For formal games blinds are commonly used while for home games, it is more typical use an ante. Ante is where the first betting round starts from the player to the dealer’s left, then the second round betting begins with the player who opened or made the first non-zero betting in the preceding round.
A common house rule in playing five card draw in home or social games is that a player can not replace more than three cards, unless he holds an ace or a wile card so that the deck stub will not be easily depleted. Another common house rule is that the last card in the deck stub is not dealt anymore to ensure that anybody who might have seen it will not use that information.
In the seven card stud, poker rules are a bit more complex than the five card draw since two to eight players can play. The only poker rule to remember, (better make it your mantra) is two down, four up, one down. This is the lay of the cards and not meant to mean something else.
The third most commonly played poker game is the Texas hold ‘em. The poker rules here are the same with the first two but what makes this different is the introduction of lipstick cameras where spectators were able to view each player’s cards.
Definitely, we’ve seen that poker rules changes a bit depending on the game of poker being played. Now that we’ve learned the different poker rules, playing it like the pros would be as easy as pie.
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A little look at budget management - now trust me this will improve your game providing you stick to rules…
The good thing about poker these days is there is always a game to be found online regardless of your budget, but not every player stays in their budget range. The problem for a lot of players is that a large majority of people still look at poker as 30 minutes of gambling - but these sorts of player will tend to deposit a certain amount and put the whole lot at risk in a mater of minutes.
So what should we do?
Well, different people deal with this principle in different ways - personally, if I know I have a certain budget to play with, then I like to stick to a few (in my opinion) helpful rules. Say I have a certain amount as my bankroll for one day, in my first game I will look to put between 20 to 25% at risk. So lets say I’m risking 25% in my first sit down, and assume things went badly, so I’ve lost the 25% of my initial budget.
Ok, so I’m down but I’m not out, at least I’m managing my funds, and giving myself the best chance to get back in the game. So now we must go out to play again with 75% of your initial budget remaining - so in order to ensure I last a few more games, I’m going to set myself 25% of what I have left to play with, so even if the worst were still to happen in this game, I’ll still have over half (56.25%) of what I started with, rather than nothing.
However, obviously saying that you’ll lose (at worst) 43.75% of your budget in two games is a worst case scenario - we’re hoping that, with our help, you aren’t losing at all and you’re on your way to becoming a poker shark!
So on this second stage of play, let’s say I’ve had a good win and increased my bankroll - now, rather than go and risk all my winnings, I’ll apply the same rules to what I can risk in the next game. This will mean that regardless of the result in the next game, you’ve still got a good portion of your winnings.
Trust me when I say that small profits are much better than big losses.
Keep this up and you will be making a tidy profit in no time, and even if you fail to win - and with the help on this site in our video lessons section or the information in our blogs, you shouldn’t - then the amount of game-play you will get for your cash, and level of experience will no doubt increase.
How long could, say £100 last on a 25% scale? Let’s work it out…see the handy table on our site. Click here!
So, sticking to this rule we’d get 11 games out of our money - however, this is a real worst case scenario, but does show that for this money you’re getting a lot of gaming experience. Obviously, if you’ve been working through the advice we’ve been giving out, for free, in our videos, blogs or help-sheets, then you really shouldn’t be losing 11 games in a row anyway.
If you have any queries or anything you’d like to ask us - please get in touch through our homepage at www.bethepokershark.com. Alternatively, if you feel you need a little more help with your poker, please remember that all our videos, blogs and help-sheets are available on the site too at no cost.
Thanks for reading, check out more of our blogs here!
Aiden
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Poker is a card game that is played with money; it is not a game of pots that is played with money. A player needs to have some skills; there are no ‘chances’. The players who win in this skill game clearly understand the concept of ‘basic strategy poker’ and this is applied by them when they play poker.
Win money ¬ pots – In Poker, it does not mean that if a player can win pots, he can also win good money always. The pots are incidental. If you incidentally want to win the pots, it is easy, you can. You have to play every hand and then call every single bet till the end, and you will see that you have won every pot one possibly can in poker. But at the same time, it is also true that you will lose a big money in the process. In poker, the best players engage with few hands, but they are mostly aggressive - they actually increase the money they can win when the odds are in favor of them.
On the other side, if your main objective is winning money, then do not look at the hands or you will find yourself into playing with too many hands later. In poker, the money you save is just equally valuable as the money won by you. So, to know when to release a hand is as important as to know when to bet. Just, remind yourself about this particular basic strategy poker every single time you play poker.
When it comes to poker, only players who lose hope for the good. In poker, hope does not work, but skills always work. So, dedicate all your concentration on your game and not on your hopes &prayers.
Selection &Aggression – These are the important elements of basic strategy poker that set apart the winning players from the consistent losers. You will not find even a single poker winner who does not believe in this principle. In the game of poker, the odds shift just like the cards are dealt across the table. Actually, the poker winners know when they have the best of it and they get more money when it is favorable. And at the same time they also know when not to put their chips at the stake when the odds are not in their favor.
In poker, the selectiveness and aggressiveness do not come hand in hand, one need to learn about the perfect time when to blaze guns and when to stay cool. Playing the right trick at the wrong time can worsen the situation like if a player is too aggressive, especially if the cards do not allow that, the opponents will recognize the trick eventually. And then possibly the opponents will wait till they get better hands. This results in the player betting for them when they have the best of it. And on the other side, if a player is too passive, he will not make good money even with the good hands as they make up for the loss of the blinds and the rake.
Another basic strategy poker is that a player should start the game with the best hands. If someone is playing correctly, he surely will release all the weak hands. A player can minimize the losses with weak hands and can also increase the wins with strong hands.
While playing online poker, use the cloak of anonymity on the internet for studying the opponents as part of the basic strategy poker.
In poker, smart players scout the playing styles of their opponents very diligently. One can take the advantage of anonymity of online poker. It is better to observe the game before playing. The other players even do not know about your presence and you can really note their best moves. So, this also works as an important basic strategy poker.
By now you must have learned some important tips for poker. So what are you waiting for?
Go ahead, jump into the poker game and use this great knowledge in your favor.
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Some of the main hubs of poker are also the most sexualized cities in the United States, name New Orleans and then later Las Vegas. These cities are absolutely oozing with sex, and although this paper is not trying to make a moralistic argument decrying these wild cities’ lifestyles, much of these images have stuck to the game of poker itself. Perhaps this phenomenon would not be so bad if it played out evenly between the two sexes, but all one sees is the portrayal of partially disrobed women advertising for poker sites. One only needs to log onto the internet and search for “Women and Poker” to have a dozen women in bikinis immediately pop up on the screen.
In fact, yours truly actually did run a search specifically for “Women and Poker”, and here are some of the surprising results. In no particular order we present 10 of the most tasteful poker sites on the web:
-Pokerium Online Poker Room and Casino: The front page of this website is a model of good taste and restraint. Many of the searches yielded interesting results, but this website was head and shoulders ahead. Upon opening the home page one finds an illustration of a scantily clad brown-haired vixen with a flower in her hair(no real women were harmed during the production of this design). The interesting part of this drawing is that she is placed inside of a huge Ace of Clubs. In the middle of the card, where the woman is located, lies a very large club, and the stem of said club just happens to terminate in the center of the woman’s crotch. Although there is a possibility that this not-so-subtle innuendo was unintentional, we would not bet on it.
-Next on our list is the deliciously tasteful advertisement on hollywoodpoker.com for their “Babes & Bounties” tournament. To begin with, the title itself should be enough to ruffle the feathers of most women poker players. Then, the image used on the page is of a woman in a bikini top with money in the background behind her. And finally, for those players who aren’t sold by the picture in the middle, the site claims that “12 of the sexiest poker hostesses in the game” will be present at the table. It’s a good thing too, because most serious poker players refuse to play in tournaments with any less than 8 sexy poker hostesses. Finally, jus tto make sure that one can notice all the different features on the side, there is a picture of a woman on the left-hand side of the screen dressed in her rather unsupportive underwear lying down in front of a laptop with poker chips lying around her body. She is happily wearing a pair of flattering white high heeled shoes so that she can model at any moment during her poker game. A truly classy website.
-PokerWorld.com, an up and coming online card room, is another tastefully crafted website, with nothing to offend save for their new “Topless Bonus”. The “Topless Bonus: The Shape of Things to Come” seems a stretch: with this promotion they will “top up” your account with a free 20% bonus. The stingy bonus does not only fall way short of the 200% bonuses floating around on various sites, it also offends the eye. They advertise it with a small silhouette of a woman, hardly exposing anything whatsoever. Why they chose to try and correlate a 20% with topless women is a mystery, but they surely went for it.
-Not to be outdone, Jungle Poker has its own female spokeswoman: none other than the lovely Cheynelle Fraser, a bartender/model who is now the official face of Jungle Poker. Why a poker site would need a sizzling hot model as a spokeswoman is a grand mystery. We suspect it is because the photos of Cheynelle – which include several excellent cleavage shots – surely have everything to do with poker and nothing with selling sexuality. Although the site may be using the good looks of beautiful Cheynelle to help promote their site, they are not just about T & A on their site: on the front page of the site they have an advertisement for their heads up Sit & Go tournaments, featuring two headshots of a man and a woman, both fully dressed, challenging each other to a card game. Hurray for equality!
-Europeans are no exception when it comes to using alluring images of the female form to help them sell their products. In a recent article published on poker.gamble.co.uk, the author writes about the upcoming Great British Poker Tour, and the centerpiece image of this article is a nude woman relaxing in a bathtub full of poker chips. It’s a good thing that they posted this picture, because nothing says Great British Poker Tour better than a woman bathing nude in poker chips.
-The most morbid result found during the search came from best-poker-rakeback.net on their rakeback advertisement, which features a frightening illustration of zombie woman in a corset, fishnet stockings, heels, and a short skirt using a rake to gather up some playing cards that must have fallen off a tree. Although the idea of having somebody literally raking poker cards is cute, we’re not sure about the need for a sexy undead woman.
-Gambling blog Oddjack paid homage to the women of poker in an article titled “Top 10 Sexiest Women of Poker”. This enlightening four part series takes the readers through their list of what they view as the sexiest women in the poker world. Just to give a small taste of their depictions of these women, we will go over the first three women they talk about. Each woman has a picture with a caption beneath it. At number ten on their list is Courtney Friel, a television hostess for the world poker tour. The picture they have of her is in a lacy tank top: fair enough. She’s obviously OK with the picture considering she modeled for it. Underneath the picure is a caption that says “Stop teasing us Courtney, tear those laces off!”
The next featured profile is that of Evelyn Ng. Underneath her picture they put a quote that says, “Evelyn sure is one sweet ride…” Sadly, they did not even try to be creative with this comment, the only possible connotation for this remark is a sexual one. They also remarked in her profile that she won the WPT Ladies Night event and that, “Yup, she kicked ass. Asses that belong to Annie Duke and Kathy Liebert. Asses I don’t wanna see anytime soon. No matter how much they pay me to.” This hilarious joke about the physical assets of two of poker’s greatest female players was insulting to say the least.
At number 8 on their list is none other than Lily Elviro. This strong poker player who, besides being a strong poker player, is physically well endowed as well. The picture which they used for her was taken during a poker tournament she played in and shows her at the table holding a pair of cards. She is leaning forward a little showing a fair portion of her not so small breasts. Unable to resist, the comment beneath the photo says, “It’s hard for Lily to always carry a heavy set of puppies like that.” If it wasn’t for such brilliant writing most of us would completely miss out on such hard to miss features.
-Next on our list is an article written by Toby Bochan on her poker blog. This photo-article, featured on about.com, is titled “The hottest women of poker”, and it is essentially an amateur photo gallery of professional femal poker players. The women featured in this article are Evelyn Ng, Shannon Elizabeth, Clonie Gowen, Jennifer Tilly, Liz Lieu, Vanessa Rousso, Isabelle Mercier, Cyndy Violette, Jennifer Harman, Annie Duke, Kristy Gazes, Chantel McNutty, and Jennefer “Jennicide” Leigh. Perhaps the most disturbing part about this gallery is not that these women have their pictures posted, but that none of the pictures were studio pictures. They all seem like photos that were taken in a clandestine manner on a digital camera. Does this strike anybody as creepy?
-Coming last on our list is none other than Full Tilt Poker, who recently issued a challenge between Paris Hilton and Clonie Gowen. Their hearts were definitely in the right place: they were to host a heads-up challenge between the two women and the winner would take the $100,000 prize and donate it to the charity of her choice. This sounds good, so why does this make our trash list? Well, if you go to the website, the page they created for this challenge has these two women stacked up next to each other. The title for their statistics is called their “Sexy Stats”, and just to make sure that the best poker player wins, they even added a “Who is sexier?” poll at the bottom of the page.
Thus concludes our trashy website list (NEED TO THINK OF A WAY TO PITCH THIS ARTICLE). Part IV will conclude “Women and Poker” by addressing what the future of women and poker may hold.
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Poker in an online casino doesn’t have to be an intimidating, awkward, or uncomfortable experience. In fact, they are often less intimidating than playing in a Vegas land casino. There is no pressure of the people sitting at the poker table. There is however, a little bit of pressure having to play against a computer clock. There are ways to make online casinos more enjoyable, relaxing, and pleasant than playing in a land casino, not to mention more profitable.
One thing people get afraid of in online poker is looking like they do not know what they are doing. However, it’s OK to look like a beginning online poker player, especially since there are no faces staring as the poker player makes a move. And chances are that other people in the poker room do not know what they are doing just as much. For the ones that do, it should be obvious, and the beginner should not be at that poker table. This is, by far, the most important rule. No one should worry how others view them. In the end, it doesn’t matter. In fact, if someone’s goal is to win money and have fun, then it would be great if they could fake the image of a new player even if they are an experienced pro. It is sneaky, but almost guaranteed. Experienced players tend to play more softly, less aggressively, and less competitively against a new online poker player.
The poker player should always act in turn. This is easy to do. The online poker player needs to simply pay attention to where the action is and make sure to bet when it is their turn to do so. Most online poker players can’t stand someone who takes forever because they’re distracted; or even worse, someone who bets too soon. It is suggested that a couple of seconds are taken before someone acts just to make sure that they are, in fact, acting in turn. Also, a pause before they act will get a beginning online poker player in the habit of thinking about what they’re going to and why they are doing it.
One of the most important things to do before playing poker online is to find out as much as possible about the poker room before sitting down. There is no rule that says someone has to sit down in a poker game as soon as they arrive in a poker room. Yet that’s exactly what new online poker players routinely do. There is no question that someone will be eager to play online poker for the first time. But it is not something that a person would want to follow their instincts on. The poker player should take a while to look around when they arrive in a poker room. It might even benefit the poker player to spend the first visit to a poker room not even playing poker. It is just more beneficial to have a better knowledge of the types of online casinos and poker rooms so that the playing time can be more comfortable.
For the first couple of poker games, the player should think about playing in a poker game and take many breaks. The tempo of online poker tends to be much faster. Players make their decisions more quickly and there’s a lot less conversation, eating, or general time-wasting than in other casino games. But the benefits of online poker allow someone to come and go as they please, should they have a couple of bad poker hands.
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