Playing poker in a poker room can be very expensive if you are not paying attention. Distractions are rampant in the poker room. The noise, smoke, and movement of people all can cloud your mind when you are trying to make a decision.

Playing poker at the local Indian casino can be a trial on self control. You most likely will have to put your name on a list and wait for a seat. This is where they can get you. istead of saving your poker stake for the game the temptation is to drop a few bills into a slot machine while you wait for your name to be called. If you have to wait for an hour or more to claim your seat you can loose quite a bit to the slots. They are the bread and butter of the casino.

This page will give you a good start with Texas Holdem. Keep in mind that it is easy to learn how to play Texas Holdem but to master the game can take a lifetime. You will find links on this page to play Texas Holdem for free or for real money. Read More

As I look back at the last few days of Texas Holdem I remember that I have gotten a lot of hands that are known as a Rainbow Flush on the flop. All it is, really, is three card flop with all the cards being of a different suit. Read More

There are people who seem to be lucky. The more I have thought about it the more I think that these people have just as much good luck as the rest of us but somehow they seem to recognize when they are in a lucky streak and play Holdem balls to the wall until the streak ends.

Playing Holdem poker is a very shallow learning curve. The more you play Texas Holdem the more you learn about the game and the more you learn about yourself. For beginning players download the poker software so you can play in real time with real people from all over the world. Play the free games for a while until you get used to the interface. It will seem to move very quickly at first. But the more you play poker the more used to it you will become. Playing any kind of poker is about money, of course, so when you do deposit money in the account be sure and take it slow and easy. If you begin to lose, it is almost axiomatic that you are playing too many hands. More on Texas Holdem Poker

Both you and the dealer are dealt five cards in Caribbean Poker. You see all five of your cards but you only see one of the five cards held by the Caribbean Poker dealer. More

How do you play pocket pairs? Very carefully. Pocket Aces are winners about sixty percent of the time. That means they will loose forty percent of the time. Raising before the flop with Pocket Aces can do two things. It can convince folks to drop out of the hand and it might buy you a free card after the flop. Pocket Pairs

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There are just some times that it is just too much trouble to drive up to the Casino. Instead of sitting around the house wishing that I lived in Las Vegas and was able to walk out my front door and have a choice of casino poker rooms within a few miles. I get up to my computer and log onto an Internet poker game. There are also times that I do no want to play for real money. So I click on the free poker link. That opens up hundreds of games for all different money levels that I can play for free. More

From every position in Texas Holdem you have to play a different game. The Small Blind is immediately to the left of the dealer. In this position, if you play at all, you usually have to be content to check a lot. It is the worst position to be in since you have to act first. .. Poker Position and The Button In Texas Holdem Poker

Playing Texas Holdem Poker can be a tough roe to hoe. Playing Texas Holdem Poker and playing King/Nine suited more than a couple of times a night can break you. King/Nine Suited might fit into your poker plan if you use it in the bluff mode. No one who has ever played Holdem will discount an occasional bluff...More

The best pair in Texas Holdem Poker is a pair of Aces. If you held this pair for every hand you would win about 60% of the time and could play in every hand. Since you are not going to hold the best pair every time in Holdem Poker you should be aware of the 40% of the time that you will loose with Pocket Aces... More

The most important thing that you can do is to make sure that you do not have any tells of your own. The shaking hands, nervous itch, or facial tick can all be eliminated by practice. Put a mirror next to your monitor when you play online and see what you are giving away. If your hands shake when you have a good hand there is nothing to do about it except pile on the experience at the table. Be comforted that while you cannot see any tells when playing in an online poker room. No one can see yours either. More

This is an interesting riff on Texas Holdem. Called Omaha Poker. You can play it with the further complication of Hi/Lo more Omaha

Texas Holdem is fun to play, but. How much can you afford? You need to give some serious thought to the size of your Texas Holdem bankroll. How big should it be? Unfortunately the question, "How much can I afford to lose playing Texas Holdem", requires that you be honest with yourself. Not an easy thing for most of us. More on your Texas Holdem Bankroll

Posted: Friday 18th of November 2005, 5:55 A.M.

It does not matter if you are playing poker for fun or profit. It is important that you keep good records. Unless you have good records you will not know if you are winning or losing. We all like to think that we are doing better than we really are. The records of your Texas Holdem wins, losses, and expenses will tell the truth. Don't forget that income from a poker game is INCOME so far as the IRS is concerned. You have to pay taxes on your poker winnings exactly the way that you would any other income. They are unforgiving if you don't report it. More On Texas Holdem Records

Do not underestimate the value of the kicker in Texas Holdem Poker. It may mean the difference between winning or losing. You will be suprised to find out how many times a Texas Holdem hand comes down to a tie with the kicker as the tie breaker. Read More About The Kicker

Posted: Sunday 14th of November 2005, 7:10 A.M.

Don't hesitate to download the Texas Holdem Poker game. If you don't like it you can remove it from you computer with ease. Play the free Texas Holdem game before your try the real money game just to get used to the software. If you are new to Texas Holdem play the play money games a lot. If you are on a dial up connection write down the number of the game that you are playing in case you get bumped off the net and have to reconnect. The software knows if you have been disconnected and will save your place.  Holdem Download

Posted: Sunday 13th of November 2005, 7:21 A.M.

You may win a Holdem game or two when you first begin to play. Sometimes it can be put down to beginners luck, but even these early wins should take into account the long term. More On Texas Holdem

You are going to find times when the cards run hot and the cards run cold. It all evens out over the long term. That is why strategy is so important when playing Texas Holdem. The best Holdem strategy is going to take the money. Nothing is feared more than the unknown. If you can develop a strategy that is able to shift gears during a game and become so unpredictable that you opponents don't know what you are going to do. Then you will have an edge. Vary the hands that you are willing to play. Once in awhile see the flop with Jack/3 off suit. Or some other equally bad hand. Do it as cheaply as you can. Remember that playing for the long run means that the cards will equal out over time. Time and hours of play will knock off the high spots and level out the bad runs. If you think that you on the verge of tilting. Get out of the game fast. Do something else for a couple of hours. Play Craps or Black Jack and come back to the game when you have calmed down.

No Limit Texas Hold Em poker is the most exciting and frustrating game that you will ever play. The risk in no limit hold em are enormous. You can double your stack or get busted on the turn on one card in no limit poker. More On No Limit Holdem

This page will give you a good start with money poker. Keep in mind that it is easy to learn how to play Texas Holdem but to master the game can take a lifetime. You will find links on this page to play Texas Holdem for free or for real money. It is not an urban legend that there are people who play Holdem online and qualify to be in the big money tournaments. Playing money poker for free is lots of fun and will help sharpen your game in the real world. Do not be shy about signing up with more than one online poker room. Sometimes they can get very crowded and it is handy to have more than one option. Depending on your connection and the speed of your computer you can have more than one game going at a time.

Posted: Sunday 6th of November 2005, 5:44 A.M.

Poker Players vary in type. It has nothing to do with the color of their skins or the religion that they like. It has to do with the personalities that they bring to the poker table. More Poker Players

Posted: Thursday 3rd November 2005, 6:09 A.M.

Takes a some what different skill set than playing straight up Texas Holdem for money. In a regular money game you can always buy in for another stack of chips. In a tournament when they are gone. You are out of the tournament. More About Texas Holdem Poker Tournaments

Posted: Wednesday 2nd November 2005, 1:43 P.M.

The reason is obvious. You do not meet the other players face to face. You spend no time looking for tells because you are faced with an immobile avatar that cannot give anything away. Playing poker face to face in a brick and mortar card room is a lot different. You can substitute some of your technical know how with your read of the opposition. More

Posted: Tuesday 1st November 2005, 5:19 AM

The art of poker has been called the art of raising. If you play, as I do, only a few hands an hour then it is essential to get as much money into the pot as possible when you have a winning hand. There are people who will call any raise even if they could not make a poker hand out of the next ten cards. These people are known as LOSERS. If you do not have a hand after the flop or the possibility of the best hand then you need to drop and try again the next hand...More

 Posted: Monday 12th September 2005, 4:08 AM

The deal will change every time a new hand is played so you need not pay attention to who is dealing the cards. Pay attention to the guy who has the deal though. Position on the table can dictate how you bet. The dealer is in the best position to steal the blinds with a raise.

It is said that, "You live or die on the river". I played Holdem at the IP in Vegas with a guy who was good enough to get some folks to bankroll him the ten large that he need to enter one of the big tournaments. He was half disgusted by the fact that he was knocked out early by, " Some dot commer who caught a straight on the river. She did not have the poker sense to drop before the flop." Which just shows to for ya that not everybody has read the book. LOL

Sometimes it just pays to go with the gut. Unless you have the nut flush or the nut straight you can still get beat on the river.
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There is always one. Try to get this guy on your right. You can count on him to raise and even re-raise. He finds it almost impossible to just call a hand. He has to have the flash and the excitement of raising to have any fun. Always thinks that he is lucky because he never remembers the hands that he lost, only the hands that he won on the River. He should have, "Check/Raise Me" stamped on his forehead.

Thanks for the plug! Chaz is my name and poker is my game, so if you'd like to get in the money and start winning yourself, read this little primer and get busy.....playing poker!

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Posted: Wednesday 7th September 2005, 11:54 AM

The moment that defines your hand is the flop. If you do not have the best hand, a draw to the best hand, or most likely the best hand after the flop then fold. Chasing a double inside straight or hoping for a set on the river will just cost you money in the long run. Get the hell out of the game and watch the other players. just because you have mucked your cards does not mean you r job is done. This is a great time to try and spot a tell. See how certain people have played their position, or watch for a bluff....The Flop

This a a new blog No Limit Online Poker It is written by a guy who plays the poker Clubs in California. He really really likes no limit poker and Holdem is his game. It is not up and running quite yet but will be soon

This is a brand new blog. I know this guy he plays in the
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But be sure and take them if they are available. When you play in a real world casino be sure and give the dealer your players card so that they can track your play. They are free to get and unless you are a real high roller it is the only way the casino has a checking your comp level. You can get food and rooms for free and this all adds into your bottom line. It is not all what you get from them in the, "Right Now" but the offers that you will get in the mail throughout the course of the year that make it valuable. A free room for a couple of nights can put an extra couple of hundred dollars in your pocket. But if you set at the table an extra fifteen minutes to get your full hour in for the comp then you are a long term loser. Never ever let the thought of the comp govern your play. Trying to get free stuff almost always costs you money. Suppose you want a drink and you know if you sit down at a slot machine there will be a pretty girl along to get you a drink for free. Go to the bar. Pay the six bucks to twelve bucks or whatever it costs. The "free" drink at the slot is going to cost you a lot more in the long run.

I find that I can play Texas Holdem poker online for hours. But there are time that I'm too antsy for it - playing Holdem properly requires patience, and sometimes you're sitting for long periods of time playing very few hands. If I start to go crazy, I'm more likely to play hands that I shouldn't.
Instead, I try taking a break, playing other online poker games with a little faster action, like Hi/Lo Stud or Omaha. There are some great online sites with other types of poker - find out more about the best sites for online poker games here.

I have heard the statistic that every American lives within three hundred miles of a casino. I myself live within fifty miles of a casino. That may seem very close but it takes an hour to drive there and an hour to drive back. Keep track of your expenses. When figuring your earnings on poker you have to take into consideration the cost of gasoline, food and drink. The last person that you want to bluff is yourself. You should know almost to the penny how much it costs you to play and how much you have won. If the two balance out pretty even, at the very least you have had fun and there is a possibility that playing poker can be an income boost for you.
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Your hand strength should be set right after the flop. If you do not have the best hand or lots of outs to draw the best hand by the time the dealer rolls the flop then get out of the game. The best tip for a multiplayer tournament is to remember that it is all about chips. if you are out of chips you are out of the game. In a regular game it is about money...MORE

Playing on line can sort of distort the picture for you. For one thing it makes position on the table to seem to be more of a minor thing than it really is. The play moves way to fast at times and they give you buttons to click so that you can automatically call or raise a bet. It is of course to their advantage to move the game along as fast as they can. They make their money on the pot rake. Notice when you play on line that the dealer has a slot next to his right hand. The money that accumulates there is the pot rake. Of course, in a play money game it does not cost you anything to play. In a game played for real money it is a factor and should be taken into account. The fewer hands that you play. The less you pay...More

I usually start out in a Holdem game playing very tight. It is only after I have had a chance to take the measure of a few of the players that I will loosen my game. Remember you are not the one that sets the tone of the game. It is all the poker players that have gotten there before you. You have to adapt to their style of play and blend into the crowd. Play
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The Big Blind and the Small Blind are put on the table. These bets are mandatory and they revolve around the table so that everybody gets a turn to pay...More

When you are just starting out playing Texas Holdem play only what I call the Black Jack hands. Those are the cards that add up to 20 or 21. Aces are eleven and face cards are ten. Playing this tight is not going to make you a lot of money. The other players are taking your measure just as you are taking theirs. While it will not make you a fortune it will reduce your losses while you learn to play the game. Poker is a game almost magic in it's subtly. You have tons of stuff to learn and do not want to pay a high price for the lessons.

Pay particular attention to the two people to your left. Once you have passed the button on to them you may be able to buy it back with a raise. Raising in late position will confuse the enemy. He will not be entirely sure of the reason for the raise. Are you running a bluff? Are you looking for information? Or are you just trying to get folks out of the game because you do not have a real strong hand like AK? If you have AA or KK you should be raising anyway. You are sitting with the best pre-flop hand with Ace,Ace. It is time to try and drive as many out of the game as possible. Make them take a long hard look at what they can gain(The size of the pot) compared what they have to risk to get it. You do not want someone holding suited hole cards to be able to see the flop on the cheap. Even if you hold Ace, King and draw the not straight he can beat you with a flush. Make him pay to see the flop.

Posted: Thursday 25th August 2005, 4:51 AM

Cut Through The Fog

It has happened to me more than once. I will let hand after hand go by and not be able to play for an hour. When I begin to get bored with not playing I am making a big mistake. You are there and should be paying attention to ALL the hands weather you have money invested or not. Use the time to begin cataloging all the players. I watch the guy on the button. Will he play any cards dealt no matter how poor they are because he likes the position? If no one has raised the blind will he raise to try and steal the blinds? Texas Holdem is a lot like war. If you can cut through the fog of war with information you will make money.
Posted: Wednesday 24th August 2005, 2:53 AM

The Best Holdem Strategy

Let's talk about Big Slick for a minute. AK is a terrific hand BEFORE the flop. After the flop you might want to discard Big Slick like it was 6, 9 off suit. Before the flop you will want to raise. You raise to get people out of the pot who might be able to beat you. Let's face it, if the flop gives him a pair of deuces he has you beat so you want to pull in your horns if the flop did not significantly improve your hand. It is a good idea for the beginner whose patience is being tested, by seeing bad hand after bad hand to watch out for the trap of over enthusiasm. Look Here for The Best Strategy
Posted: Tuesday 23rd August 2005, 5:16 PM

Holdem Tell

While playing in Vegas I sat across from a guy who had a tell that was not to be believed. He would get a great big smile on his face every time he had a good hand. I did not think that a tell this, well telling was possible. But it was. I am sure that he believed that he had a poker face and no tell whatsoever. One of the bad things about Texas Holdem is that just because you have spotted a tell does not mean that you will make any money off it. by beating the player with the nut hand. Lots of times all you do is save money by not calling.
Posted: Monday 22nd August 2005, 6:14 AM

Wining At Holdem

There is no better Texas Holdem game to play in than one where a couple of the players think that if they bet big they can bluff everybody out every time. I just sit back and watch them build the pots for me.

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Posted: Sunday 21st August 2005, 5:00 AM

It Just Makes Sense

There is no reason not to sign up for an online poker game. It just makes sense to play for free when you can. You will get lots of practice playing at little or no cost. This is perhaps the most famous of the online poker games. I play there every day. They have a tutorial on How To Play Poker if you are just starting out.

Posted: Sunday 21st August 2005, 4:31 AM

Raising In Texas Holdem

Take a look at Raising In Holdem Poker It begins with, "The art of poker has been called the art of raising. If you play, as I do, only a few hands an hour then it is essential to get as much money into the pot as possible when you have a winning hand. There are people who will call any raise even if they could not make a poker hand out of the next ten cards. These people are known as LOSERS. If you do not have a hand after the flop or the possibility of the best hand then you need to drop and try again the next hand." and continues. You might want to
read it more than once.

Posted: Sunday 21st August 2005, 4:11 AM

Las Vegas Poker Rooms

Well, that is not entirely true. I do ride around in limousines from time to time. But it sure is not a regular thing. When I land at the airport in Las Vegas I always take a limousine to the hotel If you are ever going to be rich I think that you have to pretend that you are rich first. Besides, riding in limousines with girls is fun.

This last trip we stayed at the Golden Nugget.
They say on their website
"High stakes. Big takes. The Poker Room is back! No bluff. The Poker Room is back and ready for action. Hands down - the Golden Nugget offers the hottest Poker in town! Try your luck in our house and focus on your game..."
They are a class act all the way. The Poker room only has eight tables but it is in a nice spot near the edge of the casino floor. They have tournaments twice daily and you can win up to $3000.00. I did not get to play as much as I wanted to. A friend of mine has gotten the craps bug and we played more of that than Poker. The games I did play did not end in any spectacular wins but it was a lot of fun. It did a lot for me to dispel the fear of playing with the big guys. There was a hand or two when I was one of them. You could tell by the cards that I held.

Posted: Saturday 20th August 2005, 4:09 AM

Poker Blog

Welcome to the Poker blog. Here we will talk about tips and tricks to use when playing Texas Holdem. You might keep in mind that neither I, nor any of my friends ride around in limousines. just because we write about our Texas Holdem experiences does not mean that you will get the same mileage and certainly is not a map to Poker riches. We are just ordinary guys who like to play Texas Holdem.

Posted: Saturday 20th August 2005, 4:03 AM

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To be fair this is a picture of the back door of the casino in Brimley. It is a very small casino, one large room actually...More With Pictures
Posted: Sunday 25th September 2005, 6:32 AM

Cheating In Internet Casinos

The one fear that, at first glance, you might think is justified is the ability of some one or some group of individuals to cheat while playing poker in an Internet casino. The first way that comes to mind is a couple of people playing together to bilk the unwary.
Playing partners is what we used to call it in the brick and mortar card rooms of California. Read The Entire Article Here