Poker Game Skills For Online Novice

Have you observed that more and more new players are beginning to try their hand at online Texas Hold’em poker? Have you observed that many of these novice players will begin with their all-in rubbish, and when they reveal their hands at the end of the pot, they might reveal a three of clubs and seven of hearts?

With best online poker sites out on the market today, there truly isn’t any good reason, not to play game of poker every time you logon to your system. But, you will see some players come into the game with all of the serenity of a six year old. They will jump all-in until somebody gets bored, calls, and off they go to another table to repeat the series.

While the tips we have mentioned below won’t help you build up patience. But these will give you a large advantage over your challengers when you are new to the online poker.

Read on the following:

  1. NEVER play more than one poker game at a time. How do you think you can jump from one game to the next and still have the ability to study your opponents’ every move as a new player?
  2. ALWAYS play good beginning hands, such as the top 10 hands: AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, JJ, 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, 7-7
  3. LEARN how seat position can play a crucial role in how you bet and when.
  4. STUDY THE FLOP and make an informed choice before you bet. Ask yourself what the best likely hand is and think whether or not your challenger has it!
  5. SELDOM raise prior to the flop.
  6. ALWAYS try to put off your challengers from reading you. If you get into numerous habits, you will be an easy one to read by your challengers.

At last, make your time at the tables count. Learn from the good players and the bad ones and get better at your poker online games every time you play.

Happy gaming!

 

Glossary Of Terms For Poker – Part 1

Hello poker lovers! We are back again with another “glossary of terms” for poker game. We hope you have understood some of them from the first set of the terms. Here we go with the second instalment: 

Dead Blind: 

It is when a player has missed a blind, and has to repay it before being dealt in. 

Dead Button: 

This is a term of poker tournaments. When the player to be button next hand eliminates; the button moves to the empty seat and is dead. 

Dead Hand: 

A dead hand is any hand no longer eligible to win the pot. 

Dead Man’s Hand: 

It refers to two pair, aces and eights. 

Dead Money: 

It is the money which is part of the pot, but it is not the part of a player’s bet. 

Deal: 

It refers the distribution of cards to all the players at the table. 

Deal Twice: 

Numerous real money poker games will let all in players to deal the board twice, all board being worth half the pot. 

Dealer: 

The person dealing the cards is dealer. 

Dealer’s Choice: 

It is a form of poker in which the dealer selects the details and version of poker to be played that hand. 

Declare: 

In numerous high-low split games, players have to announce if they’re going for the high or the low. This is very rare. 

Deuce: 

It is a two. 

Dirty Stack: 

A stack of similar color chips with one chip of a diverse price in the mix. 

Discard: 

In draw online poker games, the players must abandon cards before getting their replacements. 

Dog: 

If a player is behind in the hand, he is a dog. 

Dominated Hand:

It is when a challenger holds a hand which is a vast statistical favourite over a player’s.  

Door Card:  

It is the first up-card dealt to each player in a stud game. 

Double Suited: 

In Omaha holding any hand where two pairs of suit cards held is double suited. 

Double Up: 

It is to win while all-in against a challenger with more chips than a player. This well doubles the size of a players stack. 

Downcard: 

When a card dealing face down, such as the last card dealt in a hand of Stud, it is downcard. 

Drawing hand: 

Any hand which requires hitting a specific rank or suit of card to finish is known as drawing hand. 

Drawing Dead: 

A hand which has no possible way of winning, regardless of any cards to come is called as drawing dead. 

Drawing Live: 

A hand which can hit specific cards to win the hand is termed to be drawing live. 

Drawing Thin: 

A hand which is drawing live, but with very few outs to win is said to be drawing thin. 

Drop: 

It is to fold or discard. 

Dry Ace: 

Any Texas Hold’em poker game or Omaha hand which contains an ace, with no other like suited or connected cards. 

Dry Pot: 

It is a side pot with no chips in it. 

Early Position: 

It is being first to act on all post flop streets. 

Eight or Better: 

It is a qualification for a low hand in a high-low split game. 

Exposed Card: 

It is a card intended to be dealt face down accidently flashed to one or all players at the table. 

Face Cards: 

They are the cards with the rank J, Q or K 

Family Pot: 

When everybody dealt into the hand observes the flop. 

Fast: 

Any player who plays awfully aggressive and loose is said to be fast. 

Feeder: 

When a “main game” is in effect, a feeder table will offer new players to the main game as players cash out. 

Felt: 

It is the actual felt playing surface of the poker table. 

Fifth Street: 

It is the fifth board card dealt.  

Fill: 

The re-stocking of a dealer’s tray is fill. 

Final Table:

In a tournament, when there is only one table of players left is said to be final table. 

First Position: 

The player to the left of the big blind, first to act pre-flop is the first position. 

Five of a Kind: 

In a game with wild cards it’s likely for a player to have five cards of the same rank. 

Fixed-Limit: 

A poker betting structure in which a player can only bet and raise in prearranged increments. 

Flash: 

It is when a player sees a card they were not supposed to see. 

Flat Call: 

It is when a player just calls in a situation where they could have raised. 

Float: 

It is making a play on the flop to take down the pot on the turn. Most commonly this is done by calling a suspected C-Bet on the flop, then betting out on the turn. 

Flop: 

It is the first three community cards dealt face up. 

Flush: 

It is having five cards of the same suit. 

Fold: 

It is throwing away a player’s hand to avoid having to call a bet. 

Fold Equity: 

The imagined amount of equity a player gains by betting with the chance of their challenger folding their hand. 

Forced Bet: 

It is a bet which a player is required to make, such as a blind, ante or bring. 

Forced-Move: 

In a game with a feeder table and a main game, players from the feeder tabled are necessary to move to the main game when demanded by the floor staff. 

Forward Motion: 

In some card rooms making any forward motion with players’ chips is assumed to be a bet or call. 

Fouled Hand: 

It is a fouled hand is any hand which has the wrong number of cards, or breaks any other real rule of the game. Fouled hands are dead and the pot forfeit, despite of any action in the hand. 

Four-Flush: 

It is having only four cards to a flush, in need of the final fifth. 

Four of a Kind: 

It is having four cards of the same rank. 

Four-Straight: 

It is having four cards to a straight, requiring the fifth to complete the hand. 

Fourth Street: 

It is also termed as the Turn in a community card game, Fourth Street is the fourth board card dealt. 

Free Card: 

It is when all players in the hand check, the players get a “free card”. 

Freeroll: 

It is a poker tournament free to enter awarding the finishers with genuine prizes. 

Freezeout: 

It is a tournament with no re-buys or add-ons. 

Full House: 

A full house is a five card poker hand with three cards of one rank, and two cards of another. 

Full Bet Rule: 

In order to re-open betting, a full raise must be made and it is termed as full bet rule. 

Full Ring: 

It refers to a poker table with nine or ten players. 

Gap Hand (gapper): 

It is a hand with a gap between two otherwise connects cards. 

Going South:

It is the illegal act of removing chips from a player’s stack, taking them off the table and out of play. 

Grinder: 

A poker player who sits for extended session “grinding” out a profit, before heavy playing looking for a big score. 

Guts: 

It is a sort poker online game which needs more guts than skill. 

Half Bet Rule: 

The Half Bet Rule comes into effect for players wishing to raise, who don’t put out enough chips, or don’t verbally proclaim raise. 

Hand: 

The cards a player is dealt. It is also everything that happens from one deal to the next. 

Hand-for-Hand: 

When tournament play gets down near the bubble often the tables will start hand for hand play, ensuring each table plays the exact similar number of hands awaiting the bubble is burst. 

Hand History: 

Online poker sites let a player to view the history of every hand a player played on their tables.  

Hanger: 

When cheating by dealing from the bottom of the deck, a hanger is the card second to the bottom sliding over, hanging over the side of the deck. This can only happen from base dealing. 

Heads Up: 

When there are only two players left in the hand they are said to be Head(s) Up. 

Heater: 

On a lucky “hot streak” of cards. 

High Hand: 

In a high-low split game there will always be a winner for the high hand. The high hand is estimated identically as it will be in a high only game. 

High Card: 

If no players have as much as a pair, the winner is the player with the highest High Card. Suits does not matter, if two players both have equal ranked high cards the second highest card is used as the tiebreaker. 

High-Low: 

A split pot game where the high hand (best hand) wins half the pot and the best qualifying low hand wins the other half of the pot. If no low hand qualifies, the entire pot is awarded to the high hand. 

Hijack Seat: 

The player seated to the right of the cut-off. 

Hole Cards: 

The face down cards dealt to a player. 

Hole Cam: 

Special cameras used to snap a player’s hole cards for televising poker. 

Home Game: 

Any poker game run out of a player home, rather than a Card room or Casino. Home games are banned in many places. 

H.O (H.A): 

A mixed or flip game, where the player play half Hold’em and half Omaha. 

H.O.R.S.E (H.E.R.O.S): 

The most popular form of mixed game where the players rotate through the five games. 

Here we end this second instalment. See you again with another instalment for glossary of terms. Happy learning! 

Glossary Of Terms For Poker – Part 1

Have you just got intrigued by the grandeur of a poker match you have been to with your friends or an online poker game you have just played? 

Are you now eager to know and learn about all the terms used in poker online game? You are then in the apt place. Here we have collected an easy-to-understand glossary of terms for the poker game; you need to know to be completely comfortable at the tables. We will bring you these terms in instalments, so that you can learn about them properly and without hurry. 

Here we go with the first installment. 

Ace:

The ace is the highest ranked card. But ace can also play as low card for straights. 

Action: 

A poker player’s turn to act, to play. 

Action Card: 

A dealt community card that has the possibility of developing multiple players’ hand, resulting in a dramatic increase in action. 

Add-on: 

Purchasing more chips between hands in a cash game, adding them to players stack. 

Advertising: 

To make a clear, or odd play at the table with the intent of showing the other players what you just did. Typically advertising is done to give the opponents an impression a player is playing a different style, or is not as strong of a player. 

Aggressive, Aggression: 

The extent to which a player is dictating the action with raises and bets, or having a high level of aggression. 

Air: 

It is a hand of very low relative value. Having air is almost having nothing, or running a full bluff.  

All in: 

Moving full stack into the pot with a bet, raise or call.  

Angle: 

An action or move of dubious morality used to take advantage of another player or scenario. Any player who uses angling at the table is recognized as an “angle shooter”. 

Ante: 

A forced bet of a prearranged amount which must be paid by each player before getting their cards. 

Backdoor: 

Having to catch two or more consecutive cards to complete player’s hand. 

Bad Beat: 

Any loss in poker online or live which greatly defies the odds. 

Bankroll: 

The total collection of a player’s money devoted to playing poker. 

Base Dealing: 

A way of cheating by dealing cards off the bottom of the deck instead of the top. This lets the cheat to control the cards on the top of the deck, waiting to deal them at the right moment. 

Behind: 

A player who needs to catch cards to win the hand is termed as being behind. 

Bet:

It is the chips or money put into the pot in a betting round. Also, in a fixed limit game, it is the standard betting sum. And lastly, it also means the count of actions made in the hand. 

Betting on the Come:

It is the betting with a draw. 

Betting Structure:

It is the rules which controls the selections made by the players during raising and betting. 

Big Bet:

It is the larger of the two limits in a fixed limit game used for the turn and river betting rounds. 

Big:

It is the larger of the two blinds. 

Big Blind Special:

Any winning hand dealt to the player in the biog blind seat for that hand. 

Big Full:

It is the largest possible full house. 

Blank:

A card dealt which is assumed to have no bearing on the players’ hand. 

Bleed:

Any player continuously losing chips over the duration of session is termed as bleeding. 

Blind:

It is the type of Ante which only two players pay. 

Blinded Off:

Typically in a tournament, a player being blinded off has let the most of the stack to be used solely by paying the blinds. 

Blocker:

In a community card game, it refers to holding one of the cards a challenger needs to finish the hand. 

Blocking Bet:

A bet made by a player with the purpose of blocking an opponent from making a larger bet in a particular round. 

Bluff:

Betting with the worst hand to win by making a better hand fold is known as bluffing. 

Board:

The community cards on the table are the board cards. 

Boat:

Refer to the “Full House.” 

Both Ways:

In a high-low split pot game, a player having it “both ways” has the best hand to win both the high and the low. 

Bottom End:

It is holding the lowest possible straight. 

Bottom Pair:

The lowest possible pair in a community card game is termed as bottom pair. 

Bounty:

Mostly used in several poker tournaments, in which one player get rewards for eliminating another player from the game. 

Box:

It is tray in front of a dealer used to hold chips, cards and lammers. 

Boxed Card:

When a card is shuffled upside down in the deck, it is termed as boxed card. 

Brick and Mortar: 

Term used to describe a physical poker room or casino, as opposed to online. 

Bring in:

In stud games, the player with the worst door card dealt must begin action with a forced bet known as bring in. 

Broadway:

The highest possible straight in poker: 10-J-Q-K-A. 

Bubble:

When a tournament needs only one more player to bust before the remaining players make it into the money, the tournament is said to be on the bubble. 

Bully:

Any player playing aggressively, pushing around the other players with bets is being a bully. 

Burn (Burn Card):

The card dealt face down on the table before dealing any community cards face up. 

Bust:

To lose all chips in play is termed as bust.  

Button:

Any player acting as the dealer is said to be “on the button.” 

Buy-in:

The initial amount of money needed to exchange into chips and begin playing. 

Buy the Button:

A player sitting down between the small blind and the button has the option to “buy the button.” 

Buy the Pot:

A bet, which earns the bettor an uncontested pot is said to have “bought the pot”. 

Call:

Matching the bet made by another player. 

Call the Clock:

Forcing the player who is action it’s on to make up their mind in a set amount of time.  

Calling Station:

A player unwilling to fold or bet, but call every hand on every street is called as calling station. 

Cap:

In a Fixed-Limit game the players are permitted one bet and a set number of raises before the betting are “capped” for the round.  

Cap Game:

Numerous No-Limit and Pot-Limit games have a betting cap. Once the bet has reached the sum of the cap, no more betting is permitted for the period of the hand. 

Case (card):

A player hitting the last of any card in the deck just hit the case card. 

Cash Game:

It is a game in which players might buy-in and Cash-out as they need. 

Cash Plays:

Numerous cash games let cash to “play” meaning cash on the table will be included in the total value of the players stack.  

Cash-Out:

Leaving the game, exchanging the chips players have earned during game for cash. 

Catch:

Completing a draw, especially a lucky one, is a good catch, or catching your card. 

Catch Up:

A player who catches a card to take the lead in a hand has caught up. 

Chase:

A player trying to finish a draw is chasing. 

Check:

If a player selects to not bet with no-action prior to them, they can check. 

Check Out:

Folding in a situation where a player can have checked. 

Check Raise:

Checking just to raise on the next action after any player bets. 

Chip:

A gaming token used to symbolize real money at a live or online poker game. 

Chip Dumping:

Cheating with another player. One player will knowingly lose chips to their collusion partner to give them a benefit. 

Chip Leader:

The player with the most chips in a tournament. 

Chip Race:

When small valued chips become obsolete in a tournament, they are removed from the table.  

Chip Trick:

Any sort of chip manipulation, typically done to keep idle hands busy. Players will use intricate chip tricks to state their poker skill to the table. 

Chip Up:

It is to exchange low denomination chips for their value in larger chips. 

Chop:

When two players have the same hand they chop (split) the pot. 

Coffee Housing:

It is a form of angling using excessive chatter to invoke an action from the opponent at a game session. 

Cold Call:

A player with no money invested in the pot who calls after a bet and a raise is termed as cold calling. 

Cold Deck:

Derived from being cheated with a set-up deck, a cold deck is a hand in which a player had no choice but to lose a large pot with a strong hand to a player with a stronger one. 

Collusion:

It is a form of cheating, two players acting together at the table to one end goal. 

Color Up, Color Change:

In a cash game, changing a bunch of low denomination chips for fewer high denomination chips. 

Combo-Draw:

It is having more than one possible draw, such as having a straight and a flush draw. 

Community Card:

Any card dealt face up on the table to be used by all players in the hand. 

Completion:

A number of poker situations will see an incomplete bet made.  

Connectors:

Cards next to each other in rank are connectors.  

Continuation Bet:

Any player who raises pre-flop, then bets out on the flop is making a continuation bet, or C-Bet. 

Cooler:

A player who’s presence kills all action in the game. 

Counterfeit:

It is when the board comes in a manner to render your hand completely useless. 

Cripple:

Leaving a player with not adequate chips to reasonably have a chance at lasting much longer is termed as cripple. 

Crossbook:

Crossbook is a bet between two players in the same event.  

Crying Call:

Calling knowing a player is beat, hoping to get lucky in some way. 

Cut:

After shuffling the cards, the dealer splits the deck in half, moving the bottom half on top of the top half, this is known as “cutting the deck”. 

Cut Card:

An opaque plastic card put on the bottom of the deck during the cut to prevent any players from seeing the bottom card. 

Cut-off:

The player to the right of the button is in the cut-off seat. 

Poker lovers, so this is the end of first instalment. We will come back again with another instalment for glossary of terms. Until then, happy learning! 

 

Mischievous Poker Game Tricks And Tactics

In the game of poker, numerous players cover up for lack of skill with grimy poker tricks. Projected to break the focus of other players during decisive parts of the game. The stress is on when you are confronting with other players to do well. Or lose your hard earned money and walk off from the table empty handed.  

When you include the tricks used by lots of these crude players, the strain can frequently be tough to tolerate. By knowing about the tricks we have for you, expectantly you will be better able to handle them when confronted at the online poker table. 

Many ways to help odds of winning

There are many ways to help your odds of winning. Playing the appropriate cards, learning pot odds, and betting are all very significant skills. Unluckily, many players opt not to master these skills. Instead concentrating on mind manipulation of other players to win their games. 

We will discuss three of these mind tricks which are frequently used in poker games and of which you should be aware of. They all take time to master, but once mastered can be very effective. Players who are able to master all of these tricks can be very difficult at the poker tables, without really having plenty of skill at the online poker game itself. 

‘Pause’ one of the riskiest tactics to utilize

But when used at the accurate time can bring down even the most skilled players. Players who make use of this are the ones who appear to take a really long time to make any selections. Many players use this too frequently or at the inappropriate time and it becomes clear what they are doing.  

If you just sit there staring at your cards or other players, it will be a definite cue that you are just blowing time. Most players get by with this trick by counting their chips, checking hole cards, etc. It is vital to come out confused, asking the dealer problems will help with this delusion. It will make you seem to be thinking, instead of merely blowing time to throw other players off their games. This trick is designed to keep everybody guessing as to what you are doing. You wish them to spend their energy trying to decipher what cards you are holding or something else. 

Stare

Another of these tricks used quite often is called the ‘stare’. It is usually known that when something arrests a player’s attention, or excites them, their pupils widen. So a lot of players will stare at other players to seek this effect. Thus enabling them to know if they are bluffing or what sort of cards they have in their hand. Many experienced players will wear shades when they play to put off this from being used on them.  

The single bad side of this trick for the player is that it would be very tough to use this on more than one player at once. For this trick to work to its full potential, it has to be used from the moment the cards are dealt until the player either folds or the game ends. If this trick doesn’t afford you any other help, at the very least it will make the other player very rough, which will affect their choices and how to play poker effectively. 

Disruption is another trick

Many players are masters at disruption. The point of this is to make other players bumpy, which in turn will affect their focus and performance. You try to sidetrack them during major points in the game, when the need for focus is at its highest. This sometimes is carried out by asking questions or making noises at vital times to take a players mind off what they are doing or setting up to do.  

A number of players will ask what time it is, laugh, cough, burp, or just try to chat in general. Talking to other players will frequently be the best source of interruption, as even if it is directed at another player, many players will still pay attention to what is being said. This is the least clear way to do this trick as it is human nature to take note to conversations that go on around them.  

If the other players seem to get annoyed at this trick, it means it is effective. The angrier they turn into, the more off their game will be, thus increasing your odds at winning much more. The experts of this skill are frequently able to make a whole table of players lose their focus and impact their poker online games. 

All of these are very effective but mischievous tricks. The tough part is learning when to use them and on what players. If you use them and it becomes clear, most of the effect will be lost. Players will warn other players of your tactics and they will be ready for you. For a few players, mastering these tricks has helped them to win quite a few games they or else would not have won depending on their skill alone. 

Happy playing!

Online Poker And The Rules To Play The Game

At PokerLion you will find all the exciting and thrilling major games of poker such as Omaha, Hold’em, Blaze poker, Fish Party and many more.

If you have never played the online poker game before, we are here to help you with the basics. And the rest of the game will depend on your aptitude for the game. Here is a quick overview of the basics. Give a glance and try to play your first game according to it.

The beginning

The game of poker characteristically features a forced bet. For example, big blind and small blind in Omaha and Hold’em or antes and bring-in in stud. These forced bets include the beginning pot in any given hand of poker, which is the first reason players have to win the hand. Action arising from the following rounds of playing further boosts the size of the pot.

Cards Deal and Betting Rounds

Following the initial dealing of the cards to the players, they are called upon to act in turn as they move clockwise around the table.

Each of the players can normally take one of the following steps, when their turn to act comes:

Check – When a player checks, he declines his turn to initiate the betting. Players can check when there is no bet at the ongoing round and “checking” is passed on to the next player at the table sitting clockwise. If everyone checks, the round is regarded as complete.

Bet – It is the amount a player is willing to stake at the round. Players might bet if no other players have bet during the ongoing round. After the bet has been made, the other players must “call” by matching the bet to stay in the hand.

Fold – Players who fold surrender their cards and cannot win or act again during the ongoing hand.

Call – When a player “calls”, he selects to place a bet matching to the previous bet.

Raise – Players might raise if other players have bet in the current round; this needs the raising player to match the highest bet made, and then make a greater one. All players are needed to call the raise or raise again to remain in the hand.

Different rounds of different poker versions

Different versions of online poker have different rounds, for instance, most Stud games have five rounds, while 5-card draw normally has two. Hold’em and Omaha are the two most popular poker games in the world and have same structures, with four rounds of betting termed as pre-flop, flop, turn and river.

The pre-flop round starts as soon as all players have got their hole cards, before any cards have been dealt; betting on flop happens after the first three cards are dealt; on turn after the fourth card; and on river after the fifth and final card.

On each of the betting round, it continues until every player has either matched the bets made or folded. If no bets are made, the round gets ended when every player has checked. When the betting round is concluded, the next dealing/betting round starts, or the hand has ended.

Showdown

Once the last bet or raise has been called during the final betting, a showdown happens; the lasting active players must reveal their hands, and whoever has the best ranking hand wins the pot.

Players often divulge their hands sequentially, rather than everyone at the same time. Multiple players can share a single pot, with the pot divided in various approaches depending on the game rules and how each player’s hand ranks against their challengers.

Betting Limits

Betting limits look up the amount players might open and raise. Usually, poker online games are of the following styles; fixed limit, no limit or pot limit.

Fixed Limit – Each player can opt to call, bet or raise, but merely by a fixed amount. The fixed amount for any given betting round is set in advance.

No Limit – Each player can bet or raise by any amount up to and counting their full stack in any betting round, when it is their turn to act.

Pot Limit – Each player can bet or raise by any amount up to and counting the size of the whole pot at that time.

Table Stakes and All-in

You might have come across a poker scene in a movie or TV series where a player is faced with a bet for more chips than he has at the table, and is forced to stake a car, a watch or some other thing to stay in the hand. This might make for decent melodrama, but it is not usually the way poker online is played in actual!

A player who does not have sufficient chips to call a bet is declared All-In. The player is entitled for the part of the pot up to the point of his final bet. All further action linking other players takes place in a ‘side pot’, which the All-In player is not entitled to win. If more than one player goes All-In in a hand, there can be more than one side pot.

You know the rules now? Don’t stop! Just play poker!

Women Prefer Online Poker Increasingly

As poker continues to gain more and more mainstream acceptance, women are becoming more and more interested in taking up the game. Until the recent poker boom, poker was mostly a male dominated game. Less than 10% of the players at a typical poker live game were women.

In fact, playing poker live is something many women are still shy to do. The old prejudiced male attitudes and visions of smoke-filled rooms may account for much of this caution. For whatever reason, ladies have yet to completely embrace the real world poker games in big numbers.

Online poker is one more story. Researches show that over one third of online poker players are female. Women are the fastest growing segment of the online poker game. Playing poker online offers them with a convenient and less threatening way to learn and become more capable at the game. Also, women tend to favour the lower stakes accessible online.

While men may play for the “action” or to finish, women tend to play poker as a means of break out. Normally, men play to succeed and women, while spirited, play for more community reasons. Other reasons women mention for preferring poker game include being able to play poker from a safe home setting, not having to get dressed up to play live, being able to play poker in an atmosphere where gender is not a topic.

Women playing poker at home

Playing poker online from her home is not merely safer, it is also more suitable. The female player can play poker at a time that fits into her hectic timetable. The notion of getting dressed up, driving for miles, tipping dealers, waiting for a table, and driving back home is something hardly few women find tempting.

Many women who play online have to deal with the rude attitudes of several male players. They just don’t want to be bothered with all these troubles. Online poker offers a perfect solution to the women poker players. She can opt a screen name that doesn’t disclose her gender if she so wishes.

So, girls, if you’re hunting for a safe, convenient place to polish your poker skills, online poker is ideal for you. Poker is not just for the boys anymore.

Happy gaming!

Tips To Make Your Poker Game Profitable

When it comes to play poker online, there are many tips and tricks you can utilize to better your odds at crushing your challenger, taking your money, and leaving him or her pondering what exactly just occurred. Whether you’re playing ‘friendly’ games or to make a profit of money, here are some tips that if you can bear them in mind will develop your game.

First thing to know

The very first thing you require to understand is how to value the pot, this generally happens when the cards are just dealt. By value the pot, we mean playing with a relative amount to test your challenger’s hand, see if the poker online players have something of value between their fingers. If you’re valiant, you can do this at any point – but the best time would be if you have hole cards such as pocket aces. It’s significant not to get over excited and bet too high, you might scare the challenger away – instead, try to milk them, slowly growing your play.

Second thing to know

The second thing to keep in mind is you want to save your money, and yet offer your cards a chance. This is best exemplified when you have suited connectors or medium pocket pairs, at this point you want to see the flop for as little as you can risk. If you’re a champ at bluffing, go for it – but at this point it might be better to play your cards safer and save your money for better chances at winning.

Another time to work through to the flop for possible glory is on low pocket airs, and middle suited gaps. They aren’t connected but if you can use the weaknesses of challengers and get through to the flop without dishing out too much cash, it might pay off. Keep in mind, these are trivial hands so be careful and weary of the body language of your challengers when trying to bluff your way through.

Here’s a tip that most people are ignorant of but gives you a huge benefit when playing poker; the person to the left of you has the better table position and is extremely hard to beat. Consider this for a second, as you know, when you are in a place to see what has been done by the challengers and then make your choice, you have the upper hand. Given this, the person to your left has the benefit over you. When you get to a table, if you are conscious that there is someone who will be hard to beat, sit to the direct left of them so that you may have the gain.

Before you play poker, read, try to hunt down tips and practice them.

Happy poker!

Knowing When To Fold And When To Hold

Hello poker lovers! One of the most common errors in Texas Hold’em poker, much more than other poker games, is to cling to hands that look decent long after they turn bad.

For instance, one of the clearest signs of a weaker player is the incapability to fold some pocket pairs after the flop.

Weaker players will frequently fold a King, Jack on an Ace, Jack, Eight flop but will bet all their money with a pair of Queens on an Ace, Ten, Nine flop.

When facing a bet, the difference in value between those two hands at that point is miniscule, but the somehow the ‘prettier’ pair of Queens’s forces players to act.

It’s just so ‘good looking’ but sadly, you don’t get any money for having ‘pretty’ hands in poker online.

Beat weaker players

What you do get is a chance to force assured situations in each round and better players will often beat weaker players for a lot of chips even though the better player is holding worse cards than the weaker player.

Okay, in a way, this is the idea of most of the game but what makes one player better than another, in essence, is the ability to transform what should be negative situations into positive ones.

The factors at work are the better player’s skills and the weaker player’s idea of a good hand.

Another way to put it is – giving a weak player a good starting hand is sometimes the best thing for a more experienced player. Just because something starts out fine doesn’t mean it will end that way. Starting hands are merely that, a start.

Clinging to good starting hands for too long, specifically putting in a bet on the bigger betting round on the turn is a huge hole in most players’ game and players who rely on the simplest starting hands, mostly pocket pairs, will suffer most.

Remember, just as it looks ‘good’ doesn’t mean it is. Online poker is a learning experience, so if you make a mistake make sure you learn from it.

Happy playing!

Play Poker Games And Enjoy It To The Point

Playing games is something that will let you feel the delight and comfort. Obviously, you cannot find people who simply say no to play games. Playing games is something that everyone right from children to elders loves to be a part of. This is the cause why various games are emerging daily. There are numerous games to play on. A few games will let you feel the ease of playing and winning. And there are games that will insist you to finish up the challenges to win the games. And people would love to play games that lingers fun, interesting and let you bring in more money. If that is the case with you, you can play online poker game.

What truly poker offers?

A poker online game is nothing but a family of card games that joins skill, gambling and tactic. All you have to do is to bet on the blend of the cards. If you get that combo, you will be declared as a winner of the game. Betting on the pair of combos might sound easy. But always, you will not be permitted to bet on the same combo. Rather, the betting pair will fluctuate according to the rules and winning combos of the game.

So, you have to play the game exactly and you should make clever moves. The poker games offer different games to opt from. You can either play for money or just you can play for fun that is utterly your choice. All you have to do is to select one of the best online poker sites to play the poker games.

Why should you play online poker games?

Most people will emerge with this question when they are asked to play the online poker games. As you all make out that, the poker game is coupled with tricky rules and regulations. At the start, the players will find it hard to understand and pursue those things. At the same time, if you select to play the game on the online sites, you can prefer a game among the diversity of poker games available. Also, you can discover tutorials for learning the ins and outs of the games. Hence, you can learn and play the game with ultimate comfort.

Choosing the Poker Site

There is endless poker gaming sites to choose from. Among that, you have to prefer the site that gets hold of a choice of poker games to offer. And make sure to select the site that gets hold of best online poker rooms for the players. The site you pick to play should be secured and dependable. Most significantly, the site should make the payouts on time at expected intervals. Bear in mind that, you have to be the member of any poker site to play the games according to your comfort and wish.

Happy gaming!

Play A Decent Poker Game By Observing Your Challengers

In the modern times, it is said online poker can be played with smart thinking and bluffing. But there is another thing you can do, and that is analyze your challengers. And picking up on styles of play that can make all the difference when the game really gets going?

Firstly, observing how other players are betting, even when you are not involved in the pot, is a must.

The most widespread errors, in particular amongst inexpert low-limit players, is that they will see the ‘flop’ in Hold’em, for instance, with hands they should have folded, they will call when they should fold and they play their hands long after it’s clear they’re beat. In short, they play poker too loose.

You will hardly ever see a novice low-limit Hold’em player play too conventionally or too tight. If they have the alternative of either calling or folding they will roughly always decide to call. They came to play and it’s no fun for them to fold without calling one last final bet to see what you have.

The key difference between inexpert low-limit players and medium/high-limit players is that the latter do a lot more raising pre-flop. If you ever find yourself in a game where there is an undue amount of raising going on even the flimsiest of cards, that’s a positive sign you are up against a talented player and it’s worth thinking about getting out!

Second last tip; always presume your challenger is better than you until you have clear proof to the contrary. Over buoyancy is a sin in this game!

And the last tip for you is to exchange new information with players, and read poker online related literature – it really helps!

Good Luck and happy gaming!