Poker 104: Starting Hands
There is not a unique mode to play poker; you can play better or worse. So you can easily win money if you play better than your opponent. A card deck has 52 cards. Possible distinct starting hands are 52*51 / 2 = 1326. Wow, would be really difficult to learn what to do (call, check, raise or fold) with all of them. Luckily, most of them have identical value before the flop (the 3 first community cards). For example, A♥ J♥ and A♠ J♠ are identical, because both have an Ace and Jack of the same suit. There are 169 starting hands...
read morePoker 103: Poker combinations
In total you have 7 cards (your 2 cards of the hand + 5 community cards). You can combine whichever cards you want in order to achieve one of the following combinations (from best to worst). When hand cards are shown face-up, the player who gets the higher combinations gets all the pot money. In conclusion and making it short, here are the...
read morePoker 102: Basic rules
First of all I want you to know: playing and watching others play is the best way to learn. Anyway, here are the basics of No Limit Texas Hold’em: There usually are about 10 people per game. There can be from 2 to millions of players. Two face down random cards are given to each player. These are called starting hands. In each table there is a: Dealer: can be a player, different in each game, or another person Small Blind: placed on the left of the dealer. This player has a forced minimum bet. Big Blind: to the second left of the...
read morePlay Poker in Las Vegas
Are you planning trip to Sin City? Missing the poker part, that would be a real sin. You can play poker wherever in Vegas. I remember seeing people playing poker while I was having lunch in a restaurant. But not everywhere in Vegas is as cool as the places I’m going to explain you. The best poker experience can be found at… Poker at MGM MGM Grand Hotel is the second biggest hotel in the world. Only with this information, I think you can imagine how gorgeous it is to play poker with high chips in there. You can feel like a...
read moreBwin
You can double the money in Bwin! For example, if you put $50 on you account, they are doubling it up to $100. This only works for your first deposit and you have to accomplish several terms and conditions, including: This must be your first deposit The maximum they will give to you is $50 Get $50...
read morePoker 101: Poker variants
There are a lot of poker variants, basically divided into three types: Draw poker: games in which players are dealt a complete hand, hidden, and then improve it by replacing cards. Most common are Five-card draw and Badugi. Stud poker: games in which each player receives a combination of face-up cards and face-down cards in multiple betting rounds. Most common are Seven-card stud and Five-card stud. Community card poker: games in which each player’s incomplete hidden hand is combined with shared face-up cards. Most common are Texas hold...
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