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The First Two Cards
In Texas Hold’em you start off with two pocket cards. The first two cards is the only thing that you know for sure in the first betting round. Assessing the value of the two starting cards is crucial to your success at the poker tables. Are the... (
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Phil's Starting Hands
Poker is an extraordinarily complex game. There are so many decisions that you have to make each and every hand you play. Some of these decisions are marginal, but many prove to be very costly to get wrong. True, there are only five choices: check,... (
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Categorization of Starting Hands
The value of the first two cards in Texas Hold'em can be understood by examining their suits and ranks or if they are paired. The 169 unique starting hands belongs to one of five categories: pairs, suited connectors, suited gapped cards, connecting... (
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Basic Strategy
Poker strategy is a vast subject, maybe an infinite one. This is a good place to approach it from. It is better to know some than none. Plus it is fun! When any subjects needs to limited to a specific game type, that game type is Texas... (
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Ranking of Starting Hands for Seven-Card Stud
These are the different playable starting hands in Seven-Card Stud. The hands are ranked from the best hands to hands with some potential. A three-of-a-kind is by consensus considered the best starting hand. High three-flushes like (A[club])... (
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Reading the Flop, Pairs
The player with the best starting hand does not automatically win the pot. Choosing to play only good starting hands is extremely important, perhaps it the most important strategy concept but it is a preflop strategy. In order to become a successful... (
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Reading the Flop, High Cards
This article continues to relate starting hands to the flop. This time by looking how high cards in the hole fare with different texture of flops. This is article two out of three, the first looked at how pocket pairs behaved. The next and final... (
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Backdoor potential in O8B
Even the best starting hands need help from the flop. You can hold four promising cards preflop but it is the best five card hand that wins. After the flop is revealed, seven out of in total nine cards are known. That means that you should have a... (
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High Three-Flushes on Third Street
All suited cards are more powerful than straight possibilities on third street. A starting hand with three suited cards is generally a good holding. Not all three-flushes are the same. A flush draw with high cards fares a lot better than a draw... (
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Empire Poker is an adventurous poker room. First they were an up’n’coming room in the room in the Party Poker Network. Then in October 2005 Party Poker went solo and Empire poker became the largest player in the conglomerate of the disassociated old party Poker skins. Now Empire Poker is, as the... Read entire review
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Inter Poker might be too big already in order to be able to call them "up and coming". Their rapid growth and insolent, immoderate behavior warrants some kind of cheeky remark though.
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Royal Vegas Poker is an intriguing name for a poker room. Although there is no royalty in Las Vegas, perhaps the name can be viewed as the kind of eclectic kitsch only possible in Vegas. The online poker room it self is a mish mash of good and bad. There is no royal treatment in a noble flawless... Read entire review
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If you did not know anything about the online poker world, wouldn't you guess that Poker.com would be a good place to start? In fact, it is a good place to start. Poker.com combines the advantages of a new poker room with some of the most important benefits of a more established room. The software... Read entire review
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Perhaps Ladbrokes Poker always was destined for success as the first leading European sports book to enter the poker market. The card room does not take US players for legal reasons. Even without this huge market they have managed to become a big player. Big sponsor deals and other activities have... Read entire review
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Like most poker rooms in the Prima Poker Network, PokerTime is full of satisfying as well as frustrating qualities. Not with the best will in the world could the software be described as world class. Luckily neither could the players at the site. What we do like, however, is their "Big Stack... Read entire review
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Paradise Poker has been around. They have always been alive and well, now they have also started kicking again. Paradise was one of the revolutionaries and went online in 1999. They weren’t first but they were first to make it big. They remained the biggest site until Party Poker surpassed them... Read entire review
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Pacific Poker is one of a kind. What you get here can hardly be compared with any other poker room.
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It is Stingbet, not string bet. StingBet does not care for such. StingBet stands for good honest poker. The games, the software and the bonuses, everything stimulates good poker. The gaming variation is the best in the world – with three stud variations not found anywhere else. The software is hi... Read entire review
1. November 21st, 2005:
Bodog.com Launches New Poker Offering
COSTA RICA – Bodog.com has upped the ante with its latest online poker offering.
With its enhanced version of the online poker tournament, Bodog.com Poker is giving even more value to its players.... (
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2. August 1st, 2005:
Playing Pai Gow Poker at the Online Casino
Pai Gow poker is just one of the many forms of poker that can be played at the online casino. Online Casino Reports has included a guide to help players unfamiliar with Pai Gow. The general purpose... (
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6. November 1st, 2007:
Mutatum Solutions Unveils Poker Crusher™
Curacao, Netherland Antilles (PRWEB) October 29, 2007 -- How much of an advantage would you have in online poker if you knew your opponents backwards and forwards - all their strengths, all their... (
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8. May 24th, 2007:
PokerStars Deals 10 Billionth Hand
This past weekend, the online poker world hit another milestone as PokerStars dealt its 10 billionth hand. As the rest of the community had its eyes focused towards Full Tilt Poker’s Online Poker... (
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10. July 17th, 2005:
The Ultimate Online Video Poker Guide
(PRWEB) July 15, 2005 -- Today CasinoMan.net releases a brand new video poker guide aimed at giving online casino players a clear comparison of video poker across all the different casino software... (
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