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Greetings everyone! My name is Inna and from this very moment it will be me to keep you posted on the most current online gaming events and the updates within Viaden Media. Hopefully, I will be able not to make you disappointed.

To begin with, I’ve decided to share some secrets of how not to get lost among the buttons and options of online poker websites. Online poker strategy does exist! Moreover, it is destinkt from the habbitual poker strategy. Playing poker in a virtual world has too many hidden agendas to be simple. (more…)

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YES!!!
Basic info:
Poker is an enormously popular card game played around the world. Texas Holdem is one of the most popular poker types around the world. Lately, many poker rooms offer fun money Texas Holdem Poker games and tournaments which are aimed to introduce to the beginner player the benefits and fun in playing this poker game, to enable him to join the real money table games in futer. There are explanations on rules, strategies, tips on how to knowledge in starting the games. This option of fun money Texas Holdem Poker is great for those who want to play this game only for fun or to improve their skills. (more…)

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Here ia what I found when browsing poker net. I think it is quite usefull for beginners!

Advice from dgillis :

The college I attended was both a blessing and a curse. I call it a curse because, well, I’m still paying for it and probably will be until I die. However, I firmly believe that my time there played an enormous role in who I am and how I think. The person who most influenced the way I think was a history professor in his early 40’s. Let’s call him Dr. M. The good doctor was one of those people who are just noticeably smarter than you could reasonably expect anyone to be. He possessed a great wit and since of humor that allowed me to easily understand and relate to his teachings. (more…)

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The poker book section of your local Barnes and Noble has, to this point, been dominated by your more mainstream, recognizable authors – Brunson, Hellmuth, Negreanu, and the like. But just as the younger generation of players has been steadily making inroads at the table, so too are they starting to elbow their way on to the shelves. One of the strongest entries from the new generation of pros is a collaborative effort authored by three top players who cut their teeth primarily online: Eric ‘Rizen’ Lynch, Jon ‘Pearljammer’ Turner and Jon ‘Apestyles’ Van Fleet.

Overview
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WPTOH is a book focused exclusively on tournament play. Volume One covers early stage play through bubble play. The book focuses exclusively on hand analysis, drawing on a couple hundred hands from actual tournament play, and doesn’t provide anything in the way of fundamental theory or generalized strategy. (more…)

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Most new poker players think that the easiest/fastest way to increase the size of your bankroll is to move up in buy-in size. Well, that is a possible avenue, but as a player you need to realize that theoretically, the larger the buy-in the better the skill of the average player at that level. I’m not saying that there aren’t fish at all levels of poker, but what I’m saying is that why move up if it means you become one of those fish?

I’d like to take just a few minutes to talk through all of the different ways that you can increase you online bankroll and have fun doing it too.

Increase your ROI
The first step for most players is to work on your game/skills to get a better ROI in the level of game that you are playing. Read books, read strategy articles, play more games, and learn the game better. I had been playing poker live for about 14 years when I started playing online. The first thing I noticed was that the games were different. I had to learn how to play online games. There was a learning curve. After the first 100 SNG’s or so, I realized that I had a positive ROI. Great, I’m making money now. My ROI was something like 2%. So, the first step for me was to work on getting my ROI to be something more than 2%. (more…)

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How many SNG’s is too many to play at one time? First, let’s squash the notion that playing 1 SNG at a time is even feasible. If you’ve never played more than one table at a time, you might be worried about what happens to your abilities when adding additional tables. Well, first, start by adding just one more table. Playing 2 tables at a time should really have minimal or no negative impact to your play, and by playing 2 at once, you are basically doubling your $/hr even if you don’t get any better over time as a player.

Also, what you’ll find is that if you’re playing more than 1 table, you will actually concentrate more on your play than if you’re playing just one. What I find is that when I’m playing only one table, I am also watching TV, talking to my wife, chatting on some instant messenger software, and probably chatting it up on my favorite poker related forum. When I run 4 or 5 tables at a time, I actually spend much less time on those other things, and I find myself spending more quality time on the SNG’s themselves. (more…)

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How many times do we find ourselves staring at our computer screen after devoting hour upon hour to a tournament, only to bust out because of a.) a bad beat or b.) a misread or a bad play on our parts. How frustrating is it to realize that all that time has gone down the drain, and several of your hard-earned dollars has been donated to a donkey who will only lose it days from now in a high-limit game that the biggest ballers on the Internet don’t even have the bankroll for?

For me, this has been a common occurance, and from reading many articles and threads on the forums, I know without a doubt that I am not the only one. I am not a big game player; I am not a highly skilled player that could go out and dominate the World Series. All I am is a player who has done decently over his time playing poker, and that is all I intend to be. (more…)

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Reading your opposition should be a key factor in any good poker strategy. Learning to read your opponents is not difficult, but can take some time to master. The first step is to learn the most common poker tells.

A ‘Poker Tell’ is a characteristic behavioral pattern shared by most poker players, especially those with less experience. The most skilled poker players will keep a straight face at all times, even going so far as to wear sunglasses or in as in the case of one pro poker player, a hoody sweatshirt to avoid being read by their opponents. Needless to say, this is the strategy you should be using.

Common Poker Tells
1. Eyes: The eyes are the key to the soul, as they say, and this is very true in a home or college poker game, in casinos, anywhere but online; the eyes never lie. When a player spends a longer than usual amount of time looking at their hole cards, this usually means they have a great hand, such as a pocket pair. If a player in late position is stealing glances at the players before him who have not yet bet, he is likely watching them to see if he should bluff/raise to steal the blinds. (more…)

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Successful bluffs, particulary in a high-stakes game, have great drama. Furthermore, people who do play much poker often thing that bluffing is the central element of the game.

It’s true, bluffing is an important aspect of poker, but it is only one part of the game, certainly no more important than playing your legitimate hands correctly. Though a player who never bluffs cannot expect to win as much money as someone who bluffs the proper freguency, most average players tend too bluff too much, particulary in limit games. When it cost an opponent only one more bet to see your hand, it is difficult to get away with a bluff, for with any kind of hand our opponent is usually getting suffucient pot odds to call your bet-especially if he has seen you trying to bluff several times already. Recollect the Fundamental Theorem of Poker and you will understand that an opponent who knows you never bluffs is much less likely to play his hand incorrectly. Any time you bet, he will know you are betting for value. He will play only when he figures he has a better hand than yours or when he is getting sufficient pot odds to call with more cards to come. Bluffing, then, or the possibility that you might be bluffing, is another way of keeping your opponent guessing. Your occasional bluffs disguise not just the hands with which you are in fact bluffing but also your legitimate hands, with which your opponents know you might be bluffing. (more…)

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Texas Hold’em is a game of decision making based on partial information. Since we can’t know for certain what cards our opponents are holding, or the cards that are coming on the flop, turn, or river, we have to gather as much information as possible and then try to make the optimal decision based on our conclusions. Successful players go through a deep thought process to gather as much information as possible, to narrow down hand ranges and determine what his or her opponent is thinking. However, too often poker players think the wrong things during a hand. Amateur poker players think about trivial things such as “I have Kings, please no Ace on the flop!” or “Club! Club! Club!” I would like to use this article to give some insight into what I believe a poker player should think about during a hand, and the thought process that can make someone a successful poker player.

Surprisingly, the thought process for a hand begins before the cards are even dealt (The more you play the more you’ll realize that your own cards are almost irrelevant but instead, the focal point should remain on your opponents’ cards and their tendencies). Amateur players think, “Gosh, I hope I get a good hand” while strong players begin to analyze their current situation in the tournament. The first thing that you should consider is the tournament that you are playing in. Is it the $25k WPT championship or is it the $10 rebuy? The answer to that question will drastically affect how you will proceed with the hand. So many people use hand histories that don’t even include the site/tourney/buy-in at the top, when it’s the first thing you should consider before making a decision. Are you playing a table full of professionals or does everyone pretty much suck? (more…)

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