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Poker Tournaments for You This Week

Posted on May 16th, 2012

There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest

2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced

Posted on May 14th, 2012

PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest

The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled

Posted on May 9th, 2012

Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest

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Home » Poker Strategy » Taking a Bad Beat Smoothly

Losing gracefully is a lesson not learned from any book from the pro’s, but by experience. As you start to badly commentate and try to tell everyone how bad there play was, you start to lose more and more chips. Eventually, you will be out of the tournament thinking that you were playing with a bunch of drunk donkeys, mad that you didn’t make the money. Then, you will eventually think you are over that and go onto the next tournament or cash game, only to go off on the first pot you lose.

I’ve seen this happen time and time again both live and online. I have to admit, I have even done this once in a while. Poker etiquette is one of those things people don’t think about, but is a must when making a table image.

Lets take Mike ‘The Mouth’, and Phil Hellmuth for example. When you watch them, what do you think? Do you think that there the greatest poker players alive, that they are idols? I know I don’t. I think they are childish, ignorant, and are rude to both themselves and others. I am almost sure most people don’t want to play with them just because of there table image. And that is key to any poker game, how others perceive you.

When leaving a cash game, tournament with no money, or even play chip game online or live, you must always put on that there is nothing wrong with you. If you start to go on a rant about how bad everyone there played, start cursing out everyone, and making a scene, then no one there would want to play with you, you would look bad, and you will start to lose money easily. In order to stop this from happening, just walk away. Simple as that, walk away, go take a break, go for a walk, hit the gym, read a book, do something that will allow you to either let go of that stress, or release it. I have learned from experience that when doing some relaxing excercises (could be anything from finding your inner peace to going for a long run around the block), that you will save your table image, earn more money, and have people around you who want to be around you, not just to play poker with you.