How to get a psychological edge over your poker opponents
Mess with Their HeadsHow to get a psychological edge over your poker opponents...Poker is a game where the psychological edge can be a deciding factor. When you arrive at a table for a poker game with people that you don't know, a big bluff can be a good way to start when you're digging in for the long haul. If you're up against someone in the showdown and they're struggling to make up their mind and you succeed into bluffing the into a fold, let everyone at the table know it was a bluff when the game's over. This will mess with their heads and have them second guessing every time you go after the pot.Equally, if you happen to be the victim of an outrageous bluff, don't let the loss get to you emotionally. Professional poker players call that going on tilt or steaming. There's nothing other players like to see more than a player going on tilt. They'll gather like jackals at feeding time. Once you lose focus and your mind is snared by a previous mistake your game can become seriously unglued. If you can't find the discipline to let it go, take some time out until you can or you'll pay with your stack.Poker Tip of the Day: Table Selection
Why picking the right poker table can pay big time!
If you've decided to snatch a quick hour of online Texas Hold 'em during your lunch break, and you want to make it pay, table selection will be the key.
Take a swift look around the lobby area and check out at least three or four of the available tables. You can quickly work out which is the tightest of the tables by looking at the number of players per table, the average pot size, the number of hands being played per hour at any given table and the percentage of players from each group seeing the flop. You're looking for the most passive tables so that you can attack with aggressive play.
If it happens to have the most hands played per hour as well. you'll have more than the average number of pots to attack in the time you have available.
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Poker Variations: Omaha and Seven Card Stud
Poker Variations: Omaha and Seven Card StudTake a break from Online Texas Hold'em and play some other online poker games...POKER VARIATIONSMany of you new players will be getting familiar with Texas Hold’em by now and may be becoming curious about some of the other variations of poker available to you on dailystarpoker.com. Certainly the best alternative to Hold’em is Omaha Poker so here’s a brief rundown of the basic difference between the two games.OMAHA POKER BASICSAll players are dealt four hole cards face down instead of the two hole cards you would normally receive in Texas Hold’em. The five community cards are dealt in exactly the same way as Hold’em. Three cards are dealt at the flop, followed by the fourth at the “turn” and the fifth at the “river”. Players have to form their best available hand by using three of the community cards with any two of their four hole cards. There is no choice here. You MUST use two hole cards in the formation your hand.OMAHA POKER WARNINGBecause of the nature of Omaha you will find you will tend to land much more powerful hands than you are used to at Hold’em. Keep in mind that this is obviously happening to your opposing players as well. You haven’t been personally singled out by Lady Luck to suddenly get pocket rockets twice as often as normal.
CHOICE OF PROFESSIONALSOmaha is often the game of personal choice for professional poker players and when you get into it you’ll see why. Take one of the free Omaha tutorials at dailystarpoker.com before you launch yourself into this compelling game.
SEVEN CARD STUDAll players are dealt two cards face down and one face up. The face up card is known as the “door” card. If you have the lowest value door card beaming up at everyone at the table it’s you who has to start the betting. Every player is permitted one bet and three raises in each round of betting. Three further cards are dealt face up and these are known as “fourth”, “fifth” and “sixth” street. A round of betting is initiated in between each street by the player showing the highest value card. The seventh and last card (the “river”) is dealt face down. When the betting is completed and the last card is revealed, the player who has formed the best five card hand wins as in Hold’em and Omaha.
The 5 Steps From Poker Beginner to Pro Poker Winner
The 5 Steps From Poker Beginner to Pro Poker WinnerThe progression from online poker "play money" to "wa-hay" money!THE FIRST GAMEWhilst it is impossible to take a person who has just played their first “play money” game of Texas Hold’em and turn them into a professional in a few weeks, I maintain it isn’t difficult to suggest a progession of logical events which will assist the inevitably slow and sometimes painful experience of learning how to swim with sharks.THE BASICSFirst: The first thing to gain from “play money” poker is a basic understanding of the mechanics of the game. It won’t teach you much about the psychology of poker because that changes immediately actual cash becomes involved.
THE SELECTIONSecond: Select the kind of cash game you get involved with very carefully. Find a game that suits your bankroll. You can’t play well if you are financially intimidated. Remember a skilful player playing another skilful player is much less likely to make money than a reasonably good player taking on a bad player. Selection applies on lots of levels. Always try to select opposition you think you can beat even though your ego wants you to compete with the best you’re able. You get better at poker by winning more often than you lose. It keeps your confidence up.THE EMOTIONSThird: All action decisions you make in any game of poker must be arrived at based on the kind of opponents you are facing and the type of game you have chosen. NEVER make decisions based on your frame of mind. You’d be amazed at how many players use poker as a way of expressing their emotions. Costly mistake.THE POSITIONFourth: Become fully aware that the higher up the stakes scale you climb as your game improves, the more critical your position at the table becomes. Whilst it makes very little difference when only small stakes are involved “position” becomes the equivalent of holding a hilltop with your enemy below you in big stake battles.
THE REWARDSFifth: Realise that when you are as cool and experienced a player as you ever dreamt you could become you will tend to want to play for large sums of money. Those kinds of tables are populated by people who are as cool and as experienced as they ever dreamt they might become. So you’re back to square one but playing for fortunes. At that point the expression “Good Luck” may be appropriate for the first time in your poker development.
The biggest casino hotels in Las Vegas
"Sin City's" casinos for all budgets let you gamble Las Vegas-style!WYNN BIG!Steve Wynn is something of an icon in Las Vegas having created a brace of the biggest casino hotels in the world more or less single handed. His latest venture, the truly massive 2,700 room WYNN resort, is an interesting port of call for the thousands of poker fans descending on Sin City at this time of year to watch the final weeks of the World Series. Not everyone can be lucky enough to join the 8,800 fortunate buy-ins for WSOP itself but that’s no reason not to enjoy some exciting cash games while you’re in town and attempt to pay for the flights and hospitality bills. I mention the Wynn because as a relatively new addition to the neon skyline it has been able to design its poker rooms with some real consideration to players’ needs. For example the cardroom’s perfect posture seats would have Chandler and Joey from “Friends” bouncing their butts with joy at the pure scientific comfort sculptured into them. The main cardroom itself is extremely elegant by Vegas standards and if you happen to be a guest you have the facility to play online in your room while staying in touch with your position on the waiting list downstairs, courtesy of an exclusive in-house TV network beamed into your suite. Every poker player hates waiting for a live game and this facility gives you the chance to tune up ready for the action when it comes.SILK & LEATHER & SOUPIn the natural spirit of competition which pervades the Strip, the Venetian Casino offers poker players full dress butlers who will actually bring you burgers or soup to the table. A risky business given that the place is decorated throughout in silk and glove leather. But Vegas is of course all about risk.BARGAIN BASEMENT BETTINGIf you’re on a budget, fear not, the Mandalay Bay offers bargain basement tournaments and $2-$4 no limit Hold’em games with $200 buy-ins available daily. It’s the perfect place for novice players to experience live games for the first time and everything is about getting bang for your buck.CARD COUNTERS & CHEATSIt’s hard to know if the old tales from the 70’s of card counters and cheats being heard screaming late at night in a special side room at Binions are true. What is true is that both those art forms have decreased considerably in Vegas these days. Certainly such methods would have been more of a lasting deterent than A.S.B.O.S.The upshot is in ninety per cent of the poker rooms you’ll get a fair game by “live” standards, if not by the very high standards you’ve come to expect from the software at your online poker sites. Source: The Biggest Casino Hotels in Las Vegas
Turning Poker's Turn Card To Your Advantage
How to play the turn card so that you dominate your poker game...For the benefit of absolute beginners, the “turn” card is the fourth community card to be dealt face-up on the table following the three cards also dealt face-up as the “flop”. Let’s assume you are holding your two concealed hole cards and have had the benefit of studying the three card flop. You will now be in a position to pretty much assess your chances of forming a strong hand just as the turn card is due to be dealt. It’s this fact which makes the turn card so very important. Your actions following the flop fall into a few simple categories. Either you... Read more: Turning Poker's Turn Card To Your Advantage
