December 2011
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Poker-Themed Party
If you are looking to host a party at your place for your friends during the holidays, why not try a poker-themed party. Everybody loves poker and all play poker during the holidays.
You can easily prepare special decorations and favors, costumes or dress attire, games and activities, music, food and drink, etc.
Here are some poker party ideas:
Print invitations using large deck cards.
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Online Poker Legal in USA?
Online poker may become legal soon in the USA as a recent ruling by The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) appears to clear the way for online lotteries and poker, by reinterpreting the Wire Act of 1961.
President Barack Obama’s administration has declared two days before Christmas, perhaps unintentionally, that almost every form of intra-state Internet gambling is legal under...
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Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players
Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players, by David Sklansky
Another great book by David Sklansky that discusses several Texas Hold’em poker startegies and ideas for the advanced poker players.
The book includes extensive sections on loose games and short-handed games. It also includes ideas to play on the first 2 cards drawn, such as: semi-bluffing, the free card, inducing bluffs, staying...
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Poker Quotes
Poker also has its share of quotes and sayings. Read these fun quotations about Poker:
The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius. [Julius “Big Julie” Weintraub]
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. [Steven Wright]
Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have...
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Yahoo! Poker Games
Yahoo! games include several online free poker games if you wanna practice your poker skills or have some fun. Backdoors.To is a nice website that includes backdoor links to Yahoo! poker games: Texas Hold’em Poker http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/holdempoker Poker Deuces Wild http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdeuceswild Poker Double Down http://www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdoubledown This...
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The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches You How To Think Like One - by David Sklansky
This is one of the best books ever written on poker, first published in December 1994. David Sklansky discusses several theories and concepts that apply to most poker game variations.
It explores the Fundamental Theorem of Poker and its implications. It also explores the value of deception,...
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Highest Poker Hand
What is the highest ranking hand in a poker game?
The Royal Flush, an ace-high straight flush (such as: A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit, any suit), is the highest ranking poker hand.
All the suits have the same rank, but in case of an even hand then the highest suit is most often the Spades, followed by the Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds.
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Harrington on Hold'em Expert Strategy for No Limit...
A great book about Texas Hold’em poker game by Dan Harrington, a professional poker player who has won several major no-limit hold’em poker tournaments wolrdwide.
In this book, Harrington highlights provides sophisticated and time-tested winning strategies and tactics that help the player get to the final table.
Learn how to vary your style, optimize your betting patterns, analyze...
November 2011
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IFP Nations Cup Title Won by Germany
Germany won over 12 participating countries in the IFP Nations Cup hosted by the International Federation of Poker in London.
The duplicate poker competition is designed to show the world that poker is a stimulating and challenging “mind sport” as opposed to a “game of chance”.
Read the article at Poker News Report
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Poker Probability
The probability of a certian type of poker hands is calculated by computing the proportion of a certain hand type to all other hand types in a poker game. The frequency and derivation of frequencies of 5-card poker hands and 7-card poker hands are explained in further details at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_probability
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Strip Poker Art Project Attracts a Crowd
On Saturday morning, Art in General, an art space in Tribeca, opened a new exhibition called “I’ll Raise You One” in which a group of people sit in the gallery’s storefront window space and play strip poker for all to see.
Read the article at Village Voice.
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Bwin Poker
A popular and great web site to play poker online is Bwin [ www.bwin.com ]. You can play on Bwin either for free or for money.
There are thousands of worldwide professional players already playing on Bwin. The web site has different language versions, french, german etc…
Bwin gained big exposure in the last few years by sponsoring major events such as the Fifa football world cup.
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Royal Flush
Royal Flush is a Straight Flush (5 cards in a sequence) of the top five cards (Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10) of any suit.
It is considered the highest ranking hand in a poker game.
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Backdoors to Yahoo and Pogo Poker
Here’s a nice web site that includes backdoor links to Yahoo! games and Pogo games: www.backdoors.to
In case you’re not familiar with backdoors in the gaming community, backdoors are direct links to game rooms on web sites such as Yahoo! Games or Pogo. They allow you to get in to any game room at all times, even if they show on the playsite as “Full”. This can be very...
October 2011
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Bluff
A Bluff (or Bluffing) in a poker game, is a bet or a raise made by a player who has an inferior hand to cause others players with better hands to fold thinking that the bluffer has a better hand.
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Yoopi Game Guide
A nice gaming web guide can be found at: www.yoopi.com
The Yoopi poker section is at: www.yoopi.com/dir/poker
All about the poker game, rules, tips and more are at: www.yoopi.com/dir/about-poker
Tools and tips to learn the game: www.yoopi.com/dir/learn-poker
Play poker online and offline: www.yoopi.com/dir/play-poker
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Bicycle Guardians Playing Cards
Bicycle Guardians is a classic deck of cards, known for its flexibility, durability and strength. Suitable for any card game, also good for magic tricks.
Enjoy a great poker game at home with friends and family using a Bicycle Guardians Playing Cards.
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Wild Card
A Wild Card (or Bug in poker) is one or both jokers that are often added to the deck of cards played during a poker game. The Wild Card is usually considered to be an Ace, or used as the highest card to complete a straight or a flush, or a specific card rank agreed on before the cards are dealt.
September 2011
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Seven-card Stud
Seven-card Stud Poker is a variant of Stud Poker. It is one of the most popular poker games played in homes and and in casinos. The number of players in a seven-stud poker game ranges from 2 to 8 players. Betting is clockwise, the player with the lowest card showing starts. The cards are dealt as follows: - 2 face-down cards - 1 face up card (3rd Street) - 1 face up card (4th Street) - 1 face up...
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Video Poker
Video poker is single-player game played on a computer machine that looks a little like a slot machine. The most common poker game played on video poker machines is the Draw Poker game. Rules of the game are: The player places a bet, the computer deals a hand, the player discards or replaces cards, the player wins/loses depending on hand and initial bet.
August 2011
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Omaha hold'em
Omaha Hold ‘em Poker (or Omaha Poker) is variation of the community card family of poker, almost similar to Texas Hold ‘em Poker. The dealer deals 4 cards face down to each player, then places 5 community cards face-up in the center. The player makes the best hand using 2 cards from his hand and 3 cards from the community cards.
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Texas Hold 'em Poker
Texas Hold ‘em Poker (or Holdem Poker) is a variation of the community card family of poker. The dealer deals 2 cards face down to each player, then places 5 community cards face-up in the center. At first, the dealer opens 3 community cards (the flop), then 1 single card (the turn or fourth street), followed by another single card (the river or fifth street). Players have the...
July 2011
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Poker Hands
Poker hand is a combination of 5 cards constructed by a player according to a set of predetermined rules. The winning hand is the highest hand as compared to a standard hand ranking system adoptd in all variants of the poker game. Here are the common poker hand categories listed in descending order:
Straight Flush, a poker hand that contains 5 cards in sequence, all of the same suit.
Four of a...
June 2011
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Poker Variants
There are many variations for the poker game, but all follow similar patterns of play and use the same hand ranking.
Main variants include:
Straight Poker: Each player is dealt a complete hand, and players bet in one round. Raising and re-raising is allowed.
Stud Poker: Cards are dealt in a prearranged combination of face-down and face-up rounds. Betting follows each round of cards dealing.
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May 2011
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Glossary of poker terms
If you’re looking for a useful list of poker terms, you can find it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms
This list supplements the glossary of terms for other card games. There are probably hundreds of common and uncommon poker slang terms. The list is not complete and is not a formal dictionary.
Some examples from the glossaryt:
Back in: To enter a pot by checking...
January 2010
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Popularity of Poker
Poker is a very popular game. It has gained its popularity since the beginning of the 20th Century, where it has evolved from a recreational fun activity to a widely popular spectator activity with worldwide audience and multi-million dollar tourney prizes.
Try a simple search on Google on the word “Poker”, and you will see that there are over 450 millions results.
The main reason is...
November 2009
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About Poker Game
Poker is one of the popular card games played worldwide.
There are various poker games that differ in how the cards are dealt, how the hands are formed, limits on bet sizes, and also the number of betting rounds.