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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Win the Small Battles and You’ll Win the War
Bill Parcells once said “Your record is what your record says you are”.
You may think you’re better, you may think you deserve better but in the end it doesn’t matter. It’s not about luck or variance, it’s about how much you’ve won and lost at the poker tables.
Parcells also said that “Winning is a matter of doing the small things better than the other guy”.
This works in poker as well as in football.
Winning the small battles will win you the war. In football they fight for every inch, every yard. Add up those inches and yards and you get the difference between winning and losing. Make one costly mistake and it can cost your team the ballgame.
Poker is similar in that regard, most of the pots you’re going to win in your poker life is going to be small pots. Sure everybody wants to play for the huge pots but the reality of it is that most of the pots you’re going to be involved are the small. You play those small pots better than the next guy and you’ll have a good win rate in poker. Add up all those small pots and you get one big win. Sprinkle a few big pot wins and you’re crushing the game.
Those are the edges that many books talk about.
I have a friend who tries for the big pots all the time. He hates small pot poker. He’s a gambler and likes the thrill of winning big. The problem is that he’s not winning. Sure he has his days and on these days it re-confirms his belief of big pot poker but these winning sessions are far and few between. He’s a losing player. Your record is what your record says you are. I don’t feel sorry for the guy, he knows what he’s doing. He likes to gamble and who am I to say that’s he’s doing the wrong thing. He gets his kicks in and that’s fine by him.
It’s like those spread offenses I see in football. Sure it’s exciting and there’s a lot of action and scoring but in the long run those teams do not usually win championships. The teams that can control the clock, grind it out in the last two minutes, play solid defense and run the ball consistently are the teams that usually do better in the long run.
The same applies to poker. You win the small pots. You grind it out until you find a good situation to go for big play. You win enough of them, then you can go for the homerun. It’s like when you run the ball down a teams throat and then you throw a bomb.
Anybody can win big pots if they gamble a lot but it’s the player that consistently wins those small pots that will separate the winners from the losers in the long run.
Remember that “Winning is a matter of doing the small things better than the other guy”.
Never have words rang so true in poker.
