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Betfair Collaborates with Playtech
In an attempt to resuscitate its troubled poker revenues, the officials at Betfair are collaborating with the Playtech network. At present, Betfair has a partnership with Ongame; however, this collaboration has not earned the company any substantial profits. As a matter of fact, the company is facing a lot of financial crisis at present, as its poker revenues have stagnated at low levels.… Read the rest
Poker Platforms Offering More Variety to Players
Now that 2013 has finally arrived, what’s new with poker? PokerStars has launched the world’s fastest poker variation called Zoom Poker. On the other hand, PokerNews is making the new year more special by allowing poker players to sign up with Full Tilt Poker via their online poker platform. By doing this, players can reap the advantages of becoming a PokerNews member. To add on, PartyPoker has revealed its bonus code for January 2013. Below are the details of all … Read the rest
New Poker Apps Launched
Players at PartyPoker have more reasons to party this New Year! The poker site has completely modified its tournament calendar and has increased its monthly guaranteed promotions and bonuses to $15,000,000. Apart from this, the player traffic at PartyPoker has shot up as Bwin.com merged with PartyGaming to form Bwin.party. To add on to this, PartyPoker has introduced a new poker application supported by Android for players who use Android devices to access poker games.… Read the rest
Poker Strategy
Strategy is always the basic and most important part of any game play. In poker, strategy is exceptionally important as it decides the fate of the game. It gives the trail of actions that will confuse your opponent and help you win. A well-planned and sound strategy simplifies decision-making and makes winning that much easier. BigEdgePoker has put together some of the best strategy articles, written by some of the top poker players in the world.
How to Select the Best Poker Games in Tournaments for Beginners
A poker tournament is one of the most anticipated events as they allow players, both at land-based casinos and sites, to amass a more significant amount of money than at regular poker tables. In addition, it is a great opportunity to pit your skills against other players and improve your game in the process.… Read the rest
Advanced Strategies for Poker Tournaments
Poker tournaments are some of the best events to showcase your skills and earn significant amounts of money. They also serve as one of the ideal arenas to polish poker skills and technique. The players who participate in these tournaments usually have a basic understanding of tournament structures, such as multi-table tournaments, and required strategies.… Read the rest
Advanced Strategies for Heads Up Poker
Heads Up poker is one of the most profitable and enjoyable forms of the casino card game. Unlike normal poker games, Heads Up requires certain strategies that significantly differ from the ones used in regular Omaha or Texas Hold’em. This is because not all players can participate in these games or reach this level. Although there are basis strategies that will help get players through, it is important to remember that only by the use of advanced strategies can players … Read the rest
Casino Operators Get Ready for Internet Poker
Casino operators in Northern Nevada are working enthusiastically to usher internet gaming to Nevada in spite of working under regulatory environment, which is still describing how this whole process might function. AG Burnett, who was recently appointed as the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s commissioner said that almost all the popular Northern Nevada casino operators have asked for interactive operator licenses.… Read the rest
Strategies for Sit N Go Grinding
Sit N Go is highly popular with players who want a large payout through a small buy-in. It is the perfect game for grinders. The avenue of profit is huge when compared to cash games, where you might lose everything in the next hand. Sit N Go games require a slightly different strategy than is common to cash games. Sit N Go is also ideal for high value players who are interested in making regular profits through multi-tabling.… Read the rest
Top Tips for Badugi Players
Badugi is fast becoming one of the most popular poker variants’ that is being indulged in online. The objective of the game is extremely simple, which often misleads players to assume there is no real skill or strategy involved.… Read the rest
Best Tips for Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Games
Deuce to Seven Triple Draw has become increasingly popular in the past few years. In case you have never played the game before it is always better to prepare a strategy before taking the leap. Just like any other variation of poker, there are simple and complex plays. Some important tips for playing this poker variant are mentioned below.… Read the rest
Overcoming the Rake in Poker
If you play poker online or offline, you will see that the total amount that you won will not be given to you as winnings. A percentage will be deducted as a commission or fees by the operator. This is what is known as the rake and the percentage is not constant when you compare two or more poker rooms. Although this is something that most poker players accept and put up with, there is a marked effect that the … Read the rest
Stud Poker Strategy – Tips To Bluff the Board
While most poker players prefer Texas Hold‘em to Stud poker as stud poker is a lot more technical and a little more complicated than Hold’em. Just as in Texas Hold’em, bluffing is a very important part of your stud strategy. One of the most important parts of bluffing the board is reading the board. Reading the board is a technique in which you judge whether to go ahead with the bluff or not. This is a technique that you can … Read the rest
Playing Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Tournaments
Deuces to 7 Tripe Draw tournaments today are not rare like they used to be. You can now enjoy this exciting poker variant on a number of poker sites. Live online tournaments of this game are even featured in prestigious tournaments like the World Series of Poker.
Owing to the nature of this game, a large variety is seen in terms of playing style, this is primarily reliant on the frequency of playing choosing to use position to dominate the … Read the rest
Tight Poker
There are many ways of approaching a poker game and it depends on a number of factors, including how you play the game For example, a player who is good at reading bluffs and other players’ behavior can afford to be aggressive in case he/she is holding a good hand. However, online poker will not allow you that luxury and you will have to tweak your strategies in such a way that you will get the best out of it … Read the rest
Situations in Which You Must Ignore the Poker Calculator
One of the advantages that modern day poker players have is the availability of advanced tools like the poker calculator. Experts have studied the game so deeply that they have been able to come up with a way of predicting your odds at the game by looking at the cards you have and the cards that have been laid on the table. This has been the secret weapon behind the success of many amateur poker players. However, as it is … Read the rest
Tips for Playing Chinese Poker
Chinese poker is one of the most popular ways of killing time between tournaments for professional players. The game can be played with one or two friends and does not require a full ring of players.
Stay clear of being scooped
According to most scoring systems, bonus points are awarded to you opponent on winning all three hands. To ensure you do not dig a hole for yourself, take at least one of these three hands. If you have a … Read the rest
Omaha High’s Bad Starting Hands
The worst hands to start yourOmahahigh game are usually not the ones people usually imagine. Non-suited and unconnected low hands might seem like horrible cards to start with, but ironically these cards won really lose you several chips. The hands that you should worry about are those that will cost you a huge pot by the river, eventually when they don’t really make the cut at showdown.
In this form ofOmahapoker, the pot is won by the player who uses … Read the rest
Poker Strategy for Rebuy Tournaments
Rebuying and adding on whenever possible should always be a part of your poker strategy. This trick should be extended to tournaments as well. Tournaments can be of many types such as buy-in with unlimited re-buys during the first hour, freerolls with re-buys and buy-ins with limited re-buys within the first hour.
Freerolls with re-buys
A majority of players in freeroll re-buy tournament tend to not re-buy at all when you should be doing so in such tournaments. In the … Read the rest
