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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
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.
Stud Poker Strategy
Stud Poker Strategy
Stud poker isn’t as popular as it once was, but many people still enjoy playing stud poker. Good stud poker strategy requires a thorough understanding of starting hand values. It also requires the ability to count outs and read opponents. If you don’t possess these poker skills, you’ll lose a lot of money playing stud poker.
Stud poker comes in multiple variations, but razz and 7 card stud are the most commonly played. If you’re a Texas … Read the rest
Omaha Poker Strategies
Omaha Poker Strategies
Omaha used to be one of the most popular poker games in the world, but it faded out of the limelight as Texas holdem exploded. But today Omaha poker is undergoing a resurgence. Many Texas holdem players have become intrigued by Omaha.
Some poker skills translate well from game to game, but other skills are useless. For example, 3-bet bluffing pre flop will cost you a lot of money in Omaha, but it can be profitable in … Read the rest
Information and Poker
Poker Information
Chess skills don’t always translate well into poker skills. That’s because chess is a game of complete information. Poker is a game of incomplete information. The skill of making good decisions with incomplete information is crucial to poker success. Imagine a poker player who can’t read the difference between a bluff and a value bet. She’s going to lose money more often than not, right?
Poker players can get information on a given poker hand in many ways. … Read the rest
Free Poker Tournaments
Free Poker Tournaments
Want to practice your poker skills without risking any money? If you already understand the basic poker rules, then free poker tournaments are a great way to do so. And online poker makes finding free poker tournaments easy. Free poker events are held by poker sites and other organization, and they usually offer a real money prize pool. Even a small prize pool offers an overlay in a free tournament, so if you have no bankroll and … Read the rest
Free Poker Articles
Free Poker Articles
The Internet has no shortage of free poker articles. Poker players are always trying to improve their poker skills, and the Internet made it easier to do so.
Free poker articles are made available by webmasters who run poker sites. Players can find information on everything from poker strategy to the rules of any given poker game.
Why spend money buying poker books or joining poker training websites when you can find the information for free?
Some … Read the rest
Slowplaying in No Limit Texas Holdem
One of the most over used plays in no limit Texas Hold’em is slowplaying. Also known as sand-bagging or trapping, the slow play has the potential to win you bets that would not usually have entered the pot had you shown some aggression and bet yourself but in order for a slowplay to be successful a number of criteria need to be met otherwise you actually risk not only losing value from your hand but you could even finish up … Read the rest
Poker Tips, Strategy, and Theory
Seven Poker Strategy Tips to Win at Poker: For Beginners
If you’re a poker beginner, then this post about poker strategy and poker theory will be good to read. It might even be a good refresher for experienced poker players too. These are some poker tips that I’ve learned since starting to play poker almost ten years ago.
Poker Tip #1 – Learn the Poker Math
Poker math isn’t that hard. But the essence of winning poker is putting a … Read the rest
Texas Holdem Strategy Basics for Beginners
Beginner Strategy Tips for Texas Hold’em Beginners
These strategy tips are aimed at beginners to Texas hold’em. The basics of Texas holdem are like the basics of most other card games. They’re easy to learn, but hard to master. If poker weren’t a subtle game with lots of wrinkles, no one would be interested in playing it. If the basics were ALL you need, then Texas holdem would be boring.
But you do need to understand the basics before moving … Read the rest
Texas Holdem Starting Hand Charts
I don’t use Texas holdem starting hand charts. It’s not that I have some kind of moral objection to using such a chart. And I’m not too proud to need a little bit of help. I’m just not able to memorize information in a chart form. I need a different mnemonic structure to help me remember which starting hands are good and/or bad.
I’m better at remembering the relative strength of starting poker hands in Texas hold’em by putting them … Read the rest
ABC Poker Players
What Is an ABC Poker Player?
An ABC poker player is a poker player who plays good hands in the way you’d expect her to play them. In other words, she folds bad cards and bets and raises with good cards. ABC poker is unimaginative and workmanlike. ABC poker players are often grinders. In most lower limit online poker games, ABC poker is a winning style. But it’s not the only winning style of poker, and it doesn’t work nearly … Read the rest
How to Become a Better Poker Player
Here are some thoughts on how to become a better poker player. These might not all apply to you. Your needs for improvement as a poker player aren’t the same as mine. Most of the advice below applies to beginners.
1. Tighten up. Most poker players, especially new online poker players, play too many hands. If you’ve spent ANY time reading about poker strategy, you’ve read about the difference between tight poker players and loose poker players. If you haven’t, … Read the rest
How to Win a Double or Nothing SnG
Double or Nothing SnG Strategy Tips
When you’re planning your strategy for how to win a double or nothing SnG, keep the following in mind:
- You need big edges to justify risking your stack.
- On the bubble (with 6 players left), you should almost never get all-in unless you are a short-stack.
- It’s often correct to fold premium hands late in the game, even AA.
Some poker players are surprised that it can be correct to fold pocket Aces preflop, … Read the rest
Winning Microstakes Poker Games
How to Win at Micro Stakes Poker
You might see professional players in tough, high-stakes games playing weak starting hands like 73 suited or J5 offsuit on television, but playing weak starting hands is a bad strategy in micro stakes poker games. Professionals play these weak hands sometimes to make it harder to tell what they have, but this is unnecessary at micro stakes and will only cost you money.
In early position when many people are left to act, … Read the rest
Playing Kamikaze Poker: A Rules Tutorial
How to Play Kamikaze Poker
In World War II, a Kamikaze was a suicide attack by a Japanese fighter pilot.
After the war, poker players began using it as a label for loose aggressive poker players. These types of players were throwing their money away but disrupting the other players at the table.
This poker playing style became such an iconic concept in poker that it inspired a format all its own: Kamikaze poker.
What Is Kamikaze Poker?
The Kamikaze … Read the rest
What Is a Well-Timed Poker Bluff?
How to Time Poker Bluffs
A key component of poker is bluffing. Learning how to bluff opponents will give you an advantage in game play. Bluffing can also prevent players from learning your betting strategy.
Situations Where Bluffing is Good Strategy
Bluffing can be a critical part of your game if you know when to bluff. Before you bluff, you should know whether you can pull it off. Factors affecting that include:
- The type of players in the game
- The
