Poker

Unwritten Poker Table Rules You Should Know

Poker requires a level of socialization and interactions. Good poker players have mastered the table etiquettes that make them good at reading people and fun to play with.

There are unwritten Poker rules that every player should know. These rules ensure professionalism, sportsmanship, and mutual respect amongst players.

Pay Attention

While at the table, it’s important that you stay focused and concentrate on the game. It’s not cool to be the player that needs to be constantly reminded that it’s your turn to act.

While there’s no rule saying you should pay one hundred percent attention to the game, an obvious lack of interest can be frustrating and quite disrespectful to your opponents.

Sometimes, the game can get exhausting especially when things aren’t going your way. However, you should try to make an effort. [Read more…] about Unwritten Poker Table Rules You Should Know

How to Get “Into“Online Poker the Right Way

By Martin

We realise, for people who just turned legal age or considering entering the world of poker, it’s challenging. You may not know where to start, what site to play on, what books to read or advice to listen to. Fortunately, we are going to offer some advice from personal experience to help break you into the online poker world. By the end of this post, you will be ready to tackle the low stakes cash games and tournaments.

Learn Basic Strategy

There is not need to learn advanced concepts when you’re starting out. That would be a waste of time and will go over your head. The expression “walk before you run” is true for most hobbies and online poker is the same. We recommend visiting poker orientated sites that are catered for beginners. You can easily access important information like pre-flop Texas Hold’em strategy. This will give you a good idea on what hands to enter the pot with and what hands to discard. [Read more…] about How to Get “Into“Online Poker the Right Way

Protecting the blinds in MTTs

By Martin

If a player wants to be successful in multi-table tournaments in Texas Hold’em, a number of factors came have to come together. First of all, you have to stick with the right strategy. Secondly, you need to get lucky. Of course, this component doesn’t allow you to improve your odds (aside from wearing a lucky charm or two), but the game of strategy and tactics is entirely up to you. The optimal strategy consists of dozens or even hundreds of small things. Protecting the blinds has a special value.

Get ready for war!

If you decide to defend the blinds in Texas Hold’em, then you have to be ready for combat. Basically, it’s a necessary business – but it’s dangerous nonetheless. You can be sure that almost every opponent will try to snatch a piece of your stack. Virtually any multi-table tournament will make you witness how the player who is in the big blind made the call and subsequently found himself between the rock and hard place. Many poker players do not want to give up their blinds, so they are ready to take unnecessary risks in order not to lose them. During such times, they completely forget about following the strategy and simply battle for blinds. It turns out that most of the poker players are ready to risk losing the war to win a battle, which is fundamentally wrong. The excessive defense of the blinds is a mistake.

Passive blind protection method

The main problem and the danger of blind defense is that the player continues the take action out of position. It’s like the importance of playing in the position no longer standing applied. Being in such an unenviable spot, the big blind must act aggressively. Mike Caro said, a well-known poker author once said: “Money is moving in a circle at the poker table. But it is very hard for me to win when I’m in the big blind. This is a very bad place to be at the poker table. ”

In such a situation, do not rush when it comes to making important decisions.It is better to play passively (check-call) from the big blind. Let the opponents control the hand and simply follow the situation. Depending on the actions of your opponents, you might be able to understand their intentions, so try to read them. It is not necessary to force things and make it your hand, as you could be walking straight into the jaws of a tiger. When playing a passive game, you may just as well protect their blinds. With the help of this trick you control the size of the pot and you don’t have to inflate it. The best situation would be a small pot and small bets coming from your opponent. [Read more…] about Protecting the blinds in MTTs

The Poker Position guide You needed to see Yesterday (Read It Now)

By Martin

Listen, seasoned players: this isn’t your guide. Maybe if you don’t know anything about poker position it might be useful to you, but we’re not talking to you today. Later, we’ll talk about other things that might be of value to you. But for right now, we’re talking to new players that are trying to get that horrible fish smell off of them. You know that smell, right? It’s the smell of desperation, of helplessness, of ignorance. Mind you, ignorance is used here in its most polite form — you didn’t know what you don’t know, and it’s not because you’re stupid. You’re just uninformed of real strategy at this time.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about poker position. If you’re going to play out of position, you’re in for a rough time. If you’re in position, you’re the last person to act on a round. This is the best place to be in a poker game, because it means that you get the most information. Contrast that with early position, where you’re the first person to make a move. If you raise, then you have to realize that other people are going to fold or even go in stronger because you put blood in the water.

Playing tight out of position is the key to making sure that you can stay in more hands. But if you’re playing aggressively out of position, you’re missing out on key information that’s going to make your poker play a lot smoother. [Read more…] about The Poker Position guide You needed to see Yesterday (Read It Now)

Get Your Inner Warrior To Come Out In Poker

By Martin

Now that we’ve talked about enemies, let me stop and talk about one of the most important elements of poker around: you! You have to make sure that you’re completely and totally into the game. Until you really master your concentration, I don’t recommend playing where you’re going to be flipping through tabs. Trust me, I know all about the tab game — I can easily have 30 tabs going at once, and that’s not really something that leads to good poker. When Facebook is flashing and you’re constantly wondering what’s going on… yeah, that’s not really a good time to think about what’s happening in the world.

If anything, the takeaway here is this: unleash your inner warrior. It’s funny how many people will read that last line, nod, but continue to play nervously in poker.

Let me repeat myself, then: unleash, embrace, and empower your inner warrior. There’s something powerful about being able to lose yourself in poker. This is not a team sport. Those people are not going to be your friends or take it easy on you. They are coming to pummel you. They are coming to make sure that you know they are going to take your chips from you. And if you aren’t playing aggressively at least part of the time, you’re going to find that you’re in for some bad times ahead. The best thing that you can possibly do is make sure that you are always looking at the bright side of things. You don’t want to find that you just can’t get things together. You have to make sure that you’re really focused on victory. That’s what the point of poker really is. You’re either winning, or you’re not. Losing money isn’t a good option, is it? You have to resign yourself to the fact that even if you sharpen your poker theory and knowledge, there are just going to be times where you catch a bad beat. [Read more…] about Get Your Inner Warrior To Come Out In Poker

Pay For Your Meal – With Poker!

By Martin

This isn’t a joke: at one specific restaurant, you can pay for your meal by winning big in poker. PokerStars launched a Pay-By-Poker restaurant that works like this: your meal’s price is completely based on how well you do at the table.

For two days, The All-In Kitchen will let poker-hounds play to earn their meals. The event is to highlight the start of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour, a big event with plenty of money to be made.

The All-In Kitchen normally charges over 50 GBP for the average meal, but the Pay-By-Poker diners are in luck! Instead of having to shell out cash, they will play three hands of poker. The chips earned from those hands will pay for the meal. If you really rise to the top of the rankings with over 10,000 chips earned, you get your dinner completely free.

Are the meals worth it? Sample menu ideas include a fantastic crab thermidor and a delicious pear tarte.

The fancy line up and quirky twists are just part of the fun. There will be plenty of people coming in for this event, which tells us some interesting things when we study the topic. You see, plenty of people have said that poker is dead and everyone should move on. Between many big casinos closing their doors to certain countries and even going out of business in other cases, poker players have definitely been feeling a lack of love as of late.

But the future of casino gaming is still bright, as more markets open up every day. The thirst for online gambling has never been higher, but the opponents have also never been louder. Plenty of people are questioning how comfortable we should be with gambling as a whole.

We think that gambling is a fun activity whether you do it online or offline. We hope that the All-In Kitchen will have a packed house with poker players that get to play hard for a free dinner. The thrill of winning is great, but the common interest we all share is what makes playing poker so exciting.