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Omaha Hi/Lo Hand – Multiway with Allins

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I went back to look at this poker online hand summary and tried to figure out how I could have lost my hand with such a juicy flop. Then I realized that I actually won. This is a success story. In an Omaha Hi/Lo hand I was dealt: 5h-5s-Ad-9d. This online poker hand has a decent lo, A-5, a suited ace, and a pair. I called a raise preflop and a short stack shoved to which two of us called. The flop gave me bottom set of fives with the nut flush draw. In the side pot, my poker opponent bet and I shoved. He called with a gut-shot straight draw. The short stack picked up a straight draw on the turn, but was in hoping for a lo to surface with A-2. The board actually bricked and I scooped the pot with a set of fives for hi.I couldn’t believe this as I haven’t played poker in years and its been a while since I was able to scoop up a big pot. The thought of it made me excited and brought out the inner poker instinct that I always knew I had hid away in the back of my mind.

The Best Poker Games

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The goal for any serious poker online poker player is to make as much online poker money as possible. Experienced players look for games with amateurs and weak players who don’t understand the nuances of aggression and bluffing. How do you find this type of cash poker games? In live poker rooms, it’s difficult because you seldom have a choice about where you sit since the floor manager will assign you an available seat. Until you have played a few rounds at the table, you will have no idea what about the other players’ skill level, style and tactics. However, online sites do offer far more choices and information about the table before you actually join the action. The tables that are apt to produce the biggest pots and most profits are those with passive loose callers. The way to determine if a table has these types of players is to read the statistics about the table. Look for games where there are lots of pre-flop limpers but little pre-flop raising. This generally indicates plenty of passive callers at the table. With players of this type, you can wait until you get what you know is the winning hand, then simply value bet it from any position. The goal is to keep as many players possible calling your small bets which add up to a big pot. Games with pre-flop raising indicate aggressive players who are not so easily fooled as the loose passive types.

Poker Variations

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Everybody’s heard of Texas Hold ‘Em. Here’s a look at one other popular variation of poker.

Seven-Card Stud

Seven card stud is an immensely popular variation of online poker.

Two down cards and one up card are dealt to each player. Then four more cards are dealt, three up and the last one down, with a betting turn after each card. Each player makes the best five-card hand out of the seven that they’re dealt.

Seven-Card Stud is a fun version for several reasons, not the least of which is the amount of rounds of betting. The five rounds of betting add another layer of strategy to the more common four rounds. Also, the additional round adds a bit more intrigue to the pot as well.

Strategy changes as well, since each player’s up cards gives you an insight into what each player may or may not be holding. An ability to quickly scan each player’s up cards and deduce his hole cards is a huge asset in this version of poker. Players who are used to Texas Hold ‘Em may find the lack of common cards to be disorienting, as they have to evaluate different up cards for each player, rather than the same five for each one. With a bit of practice, you should be able to pick up on the changes and adjust your play accordingly. Here are a few tips for playing poker online:

Be Patient-stud poker is all about waiting for the right hand. With the enlarged pots in Seven-Card Stud, it’s much more important to save your chips for when your hand comes. Your first three cards are essential, so don’t enter a pot unless they look like they can work together to make a hand.

Be Aggressive-Once you get a hand that looks playable, it’s time to crack down. Assert your dominance with a raise and keep the other players worried about your hand.

Be Observant-practice watching your opponents up cards. Since you don’t community cards, you need to be able to observe each player’s up cards and ascertain their hand as well as you can.

Four Reasons Online Poker Is Better than a Live Casino

Friday, September 4th, 2009

In the dark ages, before the world of online poker became as blisteringly hot and action full as they are now, unless you had a great game going in town, you had to plan a trip to the casino to get any regular action. Casinos are fun for their own reasons, but perhaps many people take for granted the fact that the poker community is so blessed these days, even with the attempts at government regulation of gambling. Here’s a list of reasons why online poker is so superior to the old guard manners. And perhaps the most valuable one: you don’t have to go anywhere! You can be sitting in your underwear, it can be 3 AM half awake in bed, bleary-eyed, and you get a hankering to sit at a card table. There’s no 6 hour drive from Atlanta to Tunica, or desperate phone calls to friends to get a game together. With online poker you have a game going 24/7 and they’ll let you even come to the game naked if you so choose. No messing with chips and buy ins: Everything is automated, you don’t have to deal with cashiers and walking around and waiting in line for a seat, etc. The days of waiting for a table while sitting in the smoking section of the casino are over. No buffets: Yeah, I love a good buffet as much as the next game, but, well, it starts to pack on the pounds after a while, and usually they are upcharging those beasts and who knows what family’s little kid has come along and stuck their fingers in the mashed potatoes? I’ll take my own food any day. Donkeys! Yeah, there are always donkeys in the brick and mortars too, but with poker so easy to find nowadays, it seems the net is just overflowing with folks just bleeding to get their money into your bankroll. It’s a heyday. Make the most of it.

Are Poker Players Superstitious?

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

This is not an in-depth treatise on whether there is more luck than skill in poker online, or any other time consuming question that bogs down the discussion of the real poker online issues. I am talking about the actual actions that poker players take in the belief that they will somehow benefit their game. We have all seem someone asked to have the deck changed, or wear lucky socks, or cross themselves at the table. What you may have not known is that these kinds of activities reveal that poker online players are a superstitious lot.

As much as we think that skill plays a big role in our winnings, we are still not willing to abandon our lucky shirt. This says a lot about how we perceive poker. It means that we still consider that there is something in the game that we cannot control. There is something intangible, almost magical, about the game in the end. I don’t know about you, but I like the superstitious element. It keeps me from getting too cocky at the table when there is a nagging thought in the back of my head that I can’t control everything. More poker players could profit from this kind of perspective.

Staying Alive

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

In Texas Hold ‘Em, tournaments, the goal is to eliminate other online poker players while maintaining and building your own chip stack. Playing solid poker can get your there, generally an aggressive tight style works best for most of the tournament. Once the field narrows to a final casino table, the situation changes. Everyone wants to make it the money, if they haven’t already. The way to get there is by winning pots, obviously, but there is another survival tactic too, and that is fold, fold, fold. Any time another player is eliminated, you automatically advance one step up higher for the money. In this situation, pot odds are less dependable as a guideline for influencing your action. By now, you should have been playing with at least some of your opponents for awhile, and have some sense of their hand ranges. Take a little time to consider your opponent’s previous betting behavior before engaging in any action.

When one poker online player attempts to isolate another to make a kill, step aside. Most likely, you’ll get bumped up if the isolation tactic goes as planned without you having to risk any of your chips. Going all-in at the final table is always dangerous unless you have the absolute nuts or a chip stack far larger than anyone else’s. Going all-in against anyone with smaller or near equal chip stacks can entice a call from a player ready to do or die – and your chips are put at risk, making it harder to advance higher in the money.

Poker: Home Tournaments versus Cash Games

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Traditionally, all home games were cash games, where the players would risk actual money on every turn of the cards. After a long bout of losing, a player could go home penniless, or walk home on cloud nine if they played well at the game. Undoubtedly, it was the aura of uncertainty that drew most home poker players to the cash game; after all, it offers the largest chance of walking away a big winner.

As poker is becoming increasingly popular, however, many people are deciding that the cash game is not right for them. Sure, it offers a chance of winning big, but a player could also lose big. In addition, using cash tends to make players feel like they are taking each other’s money. This could result in lots of guilt if your dear friend had a bad run at the table.

A viable alternative to the traditional cash game is to host a home poker tournament. In a tournament, everyone starts off with the same amount of money, so your losses are limited. If you decide to host a home tournament, just set the buy-in the normal amount that you and your friends would spend on a night out. That way you won’t lose any more money than you would have spent anyways.

Finding work when your a stay at home mom

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

I love the idea that a stay at home mom could actually trump the husband who gets up every day and goes to a thankless job! It’s true! Jobs for stay at home moms are really getting pretty cool!

Finding them is the only real hard part but this is changing fast with the rash of new mommy money websites that are showing mom’s how to take advantage of that nap time and all those times the baby is asleep.

You can even work next to the crib on your laptop if you want to. It’s becoming a really cool thing this internet!

This day and age is one of the greatest things to happen to those stay at home mommy blues. You may want to find work for stay home moms but aren’t sure where to look.

If you want to contribute to the family income but feel trapped as you can’t afford day care which means you have no choice but to stay home and watch the kids, even if just for the summer.

Your in luck however because anyone with an internet connection can find work on the internet if you just learn where to look. Luckily their are sites that are very clearly labeled that can help show you the way! One such site is “Mommy Money”.