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The Best Bluffs in the Recorded History of the World Pt. 1

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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Nick Laurrell asked:


Bluffing is ****. I was doing a bunch of interviews for an article about a month ago and almost 90% of the women who responded said that if anything was **** about poker (other than the money) it was bluffing.

And taking what isn’t yours is not just an attractive quality to females either - almost 75% of men said that a successful bluff is the best feeling a poker player can have at the table. As if you needed any further proof that humans love nothing more than a liar, I would point you to every leader of every government in history. The proof is in the pudding - people dig cheats.

So in honor of that most basic joy of human existence (and the rapidly approaching May 30 start to the World Series of Poker) let’s go over the top 5 bluffs in the history of poker.

5. Bobby Baldwin takes $92,000 from Crandall Addington in the 1978 WSOP Main Event

The 1978 WSOP Main Event pitted real-estate mogul Crandall Addington against pro Bobby Baldwin (who is now the President of the Bellagio in Las Vegas.) Keep in mind that this is 30 years ago, so there are no pocket cams or definitive chip counts. They are heads up, Crandall has about $275,000 to Baldwin’s $145,000 or so. Blinds are $3,000/$6,000 and Baldwin raises to $10,000 pre-flop. Crandall calls and the flop comes QD 4D 3C. Crandall checks and Baldwin bets out $30,000 - Crandall quickly calls. The turn brings the AD putting a possible flush and straight on the board. Crandall checks and Baldwin goes all in for another $95,000. Crandall Addington (what a great name for a poker player!) thinks for a second, decides to hold on to his cheap lead and folds. Baldwin, then widely considered to be the best NL Hold’em player in the world, chortled as he raked in his winnings and flipped over the 10 and 9 of Hearts - he had won on a stone cold bluff. That hand signaled the beginning of the end for Addington as Baldwin would storm back to take the championship.

4. Todd Brunson takes $56,600 from Daniel Negreanu on High Stakes Poker

God bless High Stakes Poker for giving poker fans more high quality cash game poker than any other show on TV. In this hand, Todd Brunson raises to $1600 pre-flop holding JC 8C and is called by Sammy Farha (KC 5D) and Daniel Negreanu (AS 9H) The flop comes 5C JS 5S giving Farha a set of fives, Brunson top pair and Negreanu nothing but a backdoor flush draw. But everyone checks, with Farha setting a trap and Brunson thinking that he is setting a trap. The turn comes the 9S leaving the board at 5C JS 5S 9S. Farha bets out $10,000 with his set, Negreanu calls with his nut flush draw and inexplicably, Brunson calls. In fairness to the laydown that Negreanu is about to make, Brunson has no business calling a bet from last position with nothing but top pair on a paired board with 3 Spades. Well, he has no business calling unless he has a full house or better. The river comes QS and Negreanu has the Ace High flush. Sammy checks, Daniel checks and Todd bets out $21,000 (remember that this is a real $21,000 not just tournament chips.) Sammy slaps his set, angry that the board has brought two more Spades, and throws it away. Daniel, meanwhile, is baffled. He has the Ace High flush but the board has paired and Todd Brunson merely called on the turn after two other people had called with 3 Spades on the board. Daniel thinks for just a little too long, gives Brunson credit for a full house and throws the Ace of Spades face up into the muck. Brunson smiles and turns over the 8 of Clubs. While Negreanu is less than pleased, the rest of the table is all smiles and laughs. After all, a multiple WSOP bracelet winner had just laid down an Ace High flush.

4. Jack Strauss

Rather than point to one hand, let’s just go through the legend of Jack Strauss. Jack was the guy who most epitomized the chip and a chair slogan as he won the 1982 WSOP Main Event while possessing, at one point in the tournament, nothing but a single chip. In terms of bluffing, he’s legendary. Here’s a great story:

So Jack’s opponent is about to bet out onto a board that reads 7H 3C 3D 2S. There has been some betting up to this point so Jack is thinking that he at least an overpair, if not a set. Jack is holding 7-2 to give him that most dreaded of hands, 3 pair. So he’s beat and he knows it. But before his opponent can bet out, Jack says, “I’ll tell you what, just gimme one of those $25 chips of yours and you can see either one of my cards - whichever one you choose.” The opponent thinks, then coughs up a chip to see what turned out to be Jack’s deuce. He studies Jack’s face for a minute, then concludes that he must have a full house and throws away his pocket Kings, face up. Jack shows nothing else.

For the top 3 bluffs in recorded history, check out part 2 of The Best Bluffs in the Recorded History of the World.



Edward

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A Freer Game Part II

Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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Daphne Greene asked:


Stu Ungar

Most players consider Stu Ungar to be the best poker player in history. His legend is considerable: he was born to a loan shark and was playing gin rummy professionally in New York by the age of 12. The first time he played No Limit Texas Hold’em was in 1980 in the WSOP Main Event – he would win the event besting Doyle Brunson heads-up. He won the tournament again the next year. During the 1980s the world’s most prestigious poker tournament was Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl of Poker, which Ungar won 3 times. He is estimated to have bought into 30 $5,000 or higher buy-in tournaments in his life – he won 10 of them, and he is reportedly the reason why Las Vegas casinos no longer offer the same odds on single deck blackjack. When casino owner Bob Stupak watched Stu play blackjack he challenged the brash young card counter by betting him $100,000 that Stu could not count down (name every card before it comes) the last 3 decks of a 6 deck blackjack shoe – Stu won the bet. His lifetime tournament winnings are around $30,000,000. He tipped cab drivers and dealers alike upwards of $10,000 for ten minutes of work. By 1993, Stu Ungar had consumed so much cocaine that his nose had collapsed.

Stu had always had a problem with binge drinking and drugs, dating back to his early days in gin rummy. But most spectators either couldn’t see past the eternally boyish features he possessed or stood slack-jawed in awe of his preternatural ability with cards. Only a few of his closest friends ever tried to get “The Kid” into treatment. Mike Sexton who was as close with Stu as any one, tried on a number of occasions to get him into rehab. Stu always declined saying that rehab was only a way to get more drugs.

In 1990, Stu found himself once again as the chip leader going into day 3 of the WSOP Main Event. But a midnight cocaine overdose left him unconscious on his hotel floor and he would not show up to play the next day. However, Stu had possessed such a commanding chip lead that even though he never played and was eliminated through forced blinds and antes, he still finished in 9th place.

By 1997, Stu had lost everything. He was broke, he was separated from his daughter and then ex-wife and his collapsed nose had left him with a jack-o-lantern countenance. Ashamed, he would stay in hotels for months on end.

In the summer of 1997, friend and fellow poker pro, Billy Baxter found Ungar stalking the halls of Binion’s Horseshoe casino, campaigning for someone to stake him the $10,000 buy in for the Main Event. Bill would stake Stu with the $10,000 buy-in to the 1997 WSOP Main Event in exchange for half of whatever Stu won. He was the last person added to the tournament that year, buying in minutes before the tournament began.

It would be for his daughter Stefanie that Stu donned a pair of John Lennon sunglasses, wore them halfway down his face and entered the 1997 WSOP Main Event. He had not won a WSOP event in 14 years and it had been 16 since his last Main Event victory.

Halfway through the first day, Mike Sexton found Stu asleep at a table with the game passing him by. Sexton awoke his friend, and along with Baxter took him aside and gave him an impassioned tongue-lashing. While what was said in that famous castigation has never been revealed, but from that point on Stu would keep a picture of his daughter in his hand.

All of a sudden, it was as if no time had passed between the 1997 and 1981 Main Events. Stu came back to the table as his old self, confident and ferocious. He stormed the field and 3 days later, when the final deuce hit the river, Stu had done it – he had won the 1997 WSOP Main Event. He immediately took out his picture of Stefanie and showed it to the camera so the world could once again see his daughter.

Stu would skip the 1998 WSOP, explaining that he was too tired from the previous week’s binge. A few months later, Stu Ungar, the only man to win the WSOP Main Event outright three times, would be found dead in his hotel room, face down with $800 in his pocket. He was 45 years old.

Chris Young

Chris Young has never won a WSOP bracelet. He has never won a WPT title. He is not a millionaire and he has never made a $5,000 bet in his life. Chris Young has a day job.

Chris Young used to be an amateur online player based out of Indiana, USA. He is afflicted with a number of physical maladies not the least of which are spinal muscular dystrophy and dwarfism and is now confined to a wheelchair. Before you read the remainder of this article, please follow this youtube link to see what Chris has to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdUIGCkf66k

I **** internet poker. I know that it is often rigged even at the highest levels (Absolute Poker and 2007 WCOOP.) The game is way too fast and most importantly, it is robbed of that quintessential human element of sitting at a table with other people. It is at best non-alcoholic poker and at worst a scam. I am far from a fan of internet poker.

But online gaming must be legalized in the United States of America. There are few things in this world that are pure arenas of the human mind – poker is one of them. In a poker game, you are as free in your actions as your imagination will allow. If we do not first seek to extend the freedom inherent in our thought into the physical earth then we will have squandered that most sacred of all gifts – the human mind. Technology has birthed immaculate possibility through the internet, a place where people like Chris can find the same freedom that Hal found, that Dutch found and that for brief respites, Stu found. Poker was invented in America, it is our game. We cannot abide the disintegration of decent people’s chance at freedom.



Karl

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Poker and Surfing Part Ii: Tournament Play

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
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Daphne Greene asked:


While Poker has the WSOP, surfing has its own prestigious ongoing tournament called the ASP. Poker has dozens of seasoned pros that continue to dominate tournaments such as Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chang, David Pham and Juan Carlos Mortensen while surfing boasts its own slew of living legends that continue to dominate surf contests such as Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson and Mick Fanning. Getting to these tournaments for anybody is no easy feat and the competition for the contestants is always fierce. Part II will explore the similarities of these tournaments and the various strategies these gladiators must undertake in order to be true champions.

ASP

The Association of Surfing Professionals, most commonly referred to as the ASP, is widely regarded as the most prestigious surfing circuit in the world. Although many of the surf contests run by the ASP end up being battled out in sloppy three foot waves, they also score some of the most perfect and challenging waves in the world. When the conditions all come together spectators are given the treat of watching the absolute best surfers on the planet battle it out in some of the most incredible and dangerous waves the ocean has to offer.

The ASP began its road to creation in 1960s when structured competitions in surfing were just barely making their mark on the surfing world. During this decade surfers were competing purely because they were crazy about the sport and wanted to prove themselves to their peers. There were no sponsors and most definitely no surfing industry. In the early 1970s more and more structured competitions with monetary compensation began to emerge, and by the mid-1970s events started popping up all over the world. The loose agglomeration of tournaments was strung together in 1976 in what proved to be the embryonic stages of the ASP, and the rest is just history.

Just like the WSOP, there are dozens of roads to make it to the ASP. Almost all of the surfers that you see competing in the ASP circuit started off as young surfers battling it out when they were little grommets (surfer slang for a kid surfer) in tournaments at home as well as abroad for the more privileged. They keep earning their stripes until they are old enough (or good enough) to compete in the prestigious WQS (World Qualifying Series) circuit. The WQS is where the world’s best up and coming surfers froth at each other for a chance at earning a place in the ASP. Some of the best surfers in the world never make it out of the WQS and into the ASP, not because they aren’t great surfers but because they cannot perform under the added pressure of contest surfing.

For instance Dave Rastovich - considered by many to be one of the best and most stylish surfers in the world - opts to not even try to compete in tournaments. He earns a living simply as a freesurfer. Bruce Irons is an excellent example of a world class surfer that has trouble remaining in the ASP: Bruce, brother of Andy Irons, is an absolute animal in the water, known for pulling in deep into some of the most treacherous and shallow barrels in the business. Yet, for some unbelievable reason Bruce Irons consistently underperforms in nearly every single contest he enters.

The reason being is that it takes a very special type of surfer to win competitions that are basically at the highest level. There are less than 50 surfers that make it to the ASP world tour every year and to actually consistently win amongst the top surfers in the world is no easy feat. There is a degree of mental alacrity and competitiveness that such a surfer must have in order to maintain such consistent placements.

WSOP

Anybody with a television set these days has heard about the World Series of Poker - one can barely turn on the TV without seeing at least a couple of poker tournaments being fought out and more often than not the competitors are frothing over each other for a chance at winning a WSOP bracelet. It is not a single tournament, but rather a series of tournaments that are played annually in Las Vegas, lasting just over a month. A bracelet is awarded to the winner of each of the fifty-plus events which include all of the major varieties of poker. The series culminates of the $10,000 no-limit hold’em “Main Event”, which in recent years has attracted thousands of entrants who want a chance at the multi-million dollar prize. Winning this event is the pinnacle of any card player’s career.

Just like the ASP, the WSOP’s origins start way back towards the end of the 1960s. The original WSOP started in 1968 by Tom Moore of San Antonio Texas, and it was an invitational event held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno, Nevada. This first inaugural event was won by Crandell Addington, who went on to place in the top ten of the WSOP Main Event an impressive eight times. His record stands to this day.

The series of tournaments that gradually came to be known as the WSOP began to evolve under the brainchild of Las Vegas, Benny Binion. Binion, a casino owner and poker player, helped to nurture the WSOP as well as the game of poker itself by changing the status quo: prior to the 1970s poker wasn’t found at many casinos because they could not keep cheaters out, but Binion changed the security systems at casinos and now poker is one of the most popular games in the world let alone in casinos.

Just like with surfing, there are two different kinds of poker players. There are players who almost exclusively play cash games or online and tend to stay away from the big live tournaments because, frankly, they just aren’t good at them. In surfing, those who tend to stray from the big competitions are called “soul surfers”. I’m not sure if there are “soul poker players” but there might be. Regardless, just like surfing has many ASP legends so does poker. Some of the best known competitors at the WSOP include Phil Hellmuth who, with 11 bracelets, has won more WSOP events than any other poker player in history. Not far behind are runners-up Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan with ten bracelets each.

Although there may not be “soul poker players”, there are definitely those who are able to maintain a formidable reputation solely playing online and hardly bother to show up for the WSOP events. Some of these players include Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista, and Sorel “imper1um” Mizzi, Luke “resteal” Abolins and Eric “Rizen” Lynch.

The main difference between the WSOP and ASP is that you don’t have to qualify to play in the WSOP: anybody with an extra $10,000 lying around can have a go at a gold bracelet if they so please. The reality is that the vast majority of players that compete in the WSOP have been playing cards a long time and are using their winnings from previous tournaments and online play in order to afford the buy-in. On the other hand, just like the ASP has the WQS instated so that it can filter in hot up and coming rookies into the ASP, there are countless satellite tournaments available all over the internet that can and often to help players make it to the WSOP. A simple tournament on Full Tilt Poker can start a player on a path that could lead them all the way to Las Vegas. There are accounts of several players that have made it all the way to the final table of a WSOP tournament and they merely started out by playing small satellite tournaments online to get there.

Strategy

It’s no coincidence that surfing and poker see the same faces placing in the top ten every single year. More for poker than for surfing, this is proof that the best in the business are not there because of some kind of fluke: they have found a way to master a game and can consistently beat the top 0.1% of competitors. Yet, what does it take to actually win an ASP world title or the WSOP Main Event?

First and foremost, anybody that wins such prestigious events has been endowed with exceptional natural abilities from God, Brahman, the Universe, Allah, Buddha or whatever entity you choose to worship. Secondly, these competitors have all spent hours upon hours honing their already unnatural skills.

The final ingredient is a fierce competitive nature. Although many of us would certainly like to paddle out in a deadly 10 foot pipeline, the truth is that most people are just simply not willing to put their bodies in that kind of danger to prove to the world that they’re a good surfer. The same can be said of poker. It may not be as life threatening, but some of the best poker players have had to sacrifice a great deal in their lives and risk huge sums of money to get to where they are. It may not be physical danger, but financial danger that poker players risk.

When surfers are locked in a heated world title race, the competition can get unbelievably intense. Surfers begin paddling over each other trying to get their rival to miss a wave, they yell at each other and get surprisingly physical for a non-contact sport. In poker, players must have the ability to stare their opponent down in a heads up battle for hours on end, and some are known for making their opponents go on tilt through chatter or rudeness.

Point being that have a run at a world title or a bracelet is immensely challenging, but to actual take home the grand prize a competitor must want it with all of their heart and have the mental strength to not break their concentration.



Robert

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Does World Series of Poker 2008 PC have online gameplay? If so, do a lot of people play it?

Monday, August 11th, 2008
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Pete asked:


I do play on pokerstars and those sites but too many ppl play like idiots so im looking into this game…

June

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24 Poker Trivia Questions

Sunday, August 10th, 2008
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Nick Laurrell asked:


Think you know everything there is to know about poker history? Test your knowledge with the following 25 questions.

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1. How many events were in the 2007 WSOP in total?

2. Who is the only person to have won Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl of Poker more than once?

3. How much did Jamie Gold tip the dealers after his 2006 WSOP Main Event victory?

4. What are the following players’ nicknames: Mike Caro, Paul Magriel, Howard Lederer and Robert Williamson?

5. Who is the last player to make back-to-back appearances at the WSOP Main Event final table?

6. Why doesn’t Scotty Nguyen wear his 1998 WSOP Main Event bracelet?

7. How fast can Chris “Jesus” Ferguson throw a playing card?

8. How many WPT titles do Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson have between them?

9. Name 3 Hollywood actors who have won major tournaments.

10. How much money did Phil Ivey win from billionaire Andy Beal over the course of a three day $25,000/$50,000 heads up game?

11. What are the blinds in the famous “Big Game” held at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas?

12. How old is inaugural WSOP Europe Main Event champion, Annette Obrestad?

13. How much money did Stu Ungar win in major poker tournament play alone during his career?

14. How much money did Stu Ungar have to his name when he was found dead in 1998?

15. Under what president did the US Government declare online poker illegal?

16. Who is the oldest person to win a WSOP bracelet?

17. How tall is WPT champion Phil Gordon?

18. Who has won the Card Player’s Player of the Year award the most times?

19. Who are the original 3 members of the WPT Walk of Fame?

20. Which four players have captured multiple WSOP bracelets and multiple WPT titles?

21. Who is Guy Laliberte?

22. Why is Antonio Esfandiari called “the Magician”?

23. What was the buy-in for first Poker Super Stars Invitational Tournament?

24. What is the record for most cashes in a single WSOP?

ANSWERS

1. 55

2. Stu Ungar who won it three times. He is also the only player to have won the WSOP Main Event outright three times.

3. $1,000,000. He was the only player at the Final Table to tip the dealers.

4. Mike Caro is “the Mad Genius”, Paul Magriel is “X-22″, Howard Lederer is “the Professor” and Robert Williamson is “Mr. Omaha”.

5. Dan Harrington in 2003 (839 other players) and 2004 (2,576 other players).

6. The day after he won, his brother was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. Scotty says that the bracelet reminds him too much of his brother’s untimely death.

7. Chris has been clocked at 71 mph and has cut through everything from bananas to melons with a card.

8. 1, which belongs to Doyle Brunson. On the other hand, they collectively have 31 WSOP bracelets.

9. Gabe Kaplan won a Super Bowl of Poker, Jennifer Tilly won a WSOP bracelet in the 2005 NL Hold’em Ladies Event, Ben Affleck won the 2004 California State Poker Championship for $356,000, and although he’s never won a tournament, Phil Hellmuth estimates that Tobey Maguire has won more than $10,000,000 playing poker.

10. $16,000,000.

11. $4,000/$8,000.

12. She is 19, she was 18 when she won the championship.

13. An estimated $30,000,000, largely before there was such a thing as a $1,000,000 tournament.

14. $800 in cash and personal debts to multiple players.

15. Under the Wire Act of 1961.

16. Paul “Cigar” McKinney was 80 years old when he won a bracelet in 2005.

17. Phil is 6′9″.

18. Men “the Master” Nguyen has won the award four times, David Pham and TJ Cloutier have each won twice.

19. Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen and actor Phil Garner.

20. Howard Lederer (2 of each), Daniel Negreanu (3 WSOP, 2 WPT),Carlos Mortensen (2 of each) and Barry Greenstein (2 of each).

21. Guy is the billionaire owner and creator of Cirque du Soleil. He is a famous high stakes poker player who partook in GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” $500,000 buy in table where he lost a nearly $900,000 pot to Doyle Brunson.

22. He was a professional magician before he was a poker player.

23. $400,000.

24. 8, a record shared by Michael Binger, Chad Brown, Humberto Brenes and Phil Hellmuth.



Sue

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what is the best technique to win at this years wsop?

Friday, August 8th, 2008
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POCKET KINGS asked:


TIGHT, AGRESSIVE, A COMBONATION ETC.

Chris

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Rules of Texas Holdem Poker

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
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Sarha Brown asked:


From all the poker card games the Texas holdem is another popular game. This is specially played in the casinos in the western United States. The game is so popular that it is also played in the World Series Poker tournaments. When you are playing this game you should have the aim for getting pleasure and fun rather than gambling heavily.

If you don’t know much about the game then you can learn about it by watching it from various television channels where this is played live. But it would be better to know about the game and its rules through other ways. Here are some tips about the game that will help you know the game more. This is not a new game instead it is another version of the poker that is played in the casinos.

There are many rules that are associated with theTexas holdem poker and you should know them first in order to get better sight of the game. The common and important terms that are associated with this game is the Shuffle, the deal and the blinds. The player should first know about these terms. Under the rules of the Texas holdem poker the dealer shuffles the standard 52 card deck. This game actually started from the players who are to the left of the dealer and they have to place a predetermine amount of money in to the pot before any card is dealt with. This is important in this game and as per the rule this has to be done every time the game is about to start as this ensures that there is something to play for each hand.

The placing of money in this way is also known as posting the blinds in the Texas Holdem poker. Again as per this rule the player who is to the left of the dealer or the first blind has to put minimum bet where as the second blind has to put full minimum bet. Again as per the rules of the Texas holdem poker, each player has to deal with two cards that are facedown and these cards are known as hole cards. When the gambling starts and betting takes place starting from the player sitting to the immediate left of the dealer all the players can call, raise or fold whenever they get their turns. After the first round the dealer cancels the top cards of the deck which is known as burning the cards. This is important to ensure to stop cheating. There are also other rules that ensure the player with best hands can win.



Lester

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Learn How to Become a Successful Texas Holdem Poker Player?

Friday, August 1st, 2008
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Ophelia Samith asked:


Turn your poker table and let’s have a close look at your previous defeats. Put it out of your mind and ascertain a new passion to play and win. Are you using Texas holdem strategy in your game? If not, surely it is being applied against you by your opponents.

The fame of Texas Holdem poker has taken the people by storm. According to figures about 100 million people are playing Texas holdem worldwide. Many recent trends like online gaming and TV shows publicity like World Series of poker and world poker tour have provided this popularity some extra boom. Analysts sketch this fame as gold rush which has made it trendy like strip poker.

Obviously, the most important decision about playing Texas holdem poker is to decide which starting hand to play and which one to skip. For this many important factors like starting hand groups, your table position, number of players and chip positions counts very much. Remember as late you start, the more number of starting hands you should play. As the number of players drop down to 6 or 7, forget about chasing flush and also the straight draws which results waste chips and bring you at risk. When the number of players drops down to 4, you should open up carefully and prefer to play for more hands. At this stage you should prefer to protect your blinds and steel occasionally. Let the smaller stacks be knocked out or blinded to double up.

As the game is down to 3 players, keep head up and avoid engaging yourself in big stacks. You should also avoid confrontation unless you are holding a pair, king or ace. Now tighten up your game and hang on to see if you can gain 2nd place. Once you’re heads up, become pushy and play more aggressively. Surely it is the time of game to raise a lot. It is important to keep the track of your chip stack size against blinds and other people’s stack. If you are short on poker chips, try to play tighter and wait for good hand. When you acquire a chance of good hand, extract all possible chips that you can get. If you are a big stack you should be careful as people will try to use you for doubling. At this stage avoid unnecessary confrontation; push around everyone with your big stack and try to steel blinds without taking risk of too many chips in the process.

Well, according to poker rules this is a quick overview of improved starting hands strategy to adjust you in a better place throughout the tournament. Finally, best wishes for you at Texas holdem poker tables!



Wendy

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