Poker Links

Dec 28

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.
• Decorate the place with red and black balloons, printed with hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds.
• Provide poker or casino themed costumes, or make your guests dress black and red, and provide fun jewelry for them to put on.
• Give each guest some poker chips to use for playing a free poker game during the party.
• Give prizes for the player with the most chips at the end of the night.
• Provide sets of non-gambling games for those who don’t wana play poker.
• Play some poker-themed music.
• Provide special food and drinks like those served in a casino.

Dec 23

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 federal law, and so may be games played interstate and even internationally.

Prof. I. Nelson Rose wrote more about this ruling on his blog: Gambling and the Law.

Dec 13

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 with a draw, playing when a pair flops, playing trash hands, desperation bets, playing in wild games, reading hands, psychology and more.

A very interesting book to read .. Get the Hold’em Poker for Advanced Players book here…

Dec 10

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 made our country so great. [Walter Matthau]

• Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom. [V.P. Pappy]

• Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

Read more quotes about Poker and other topics at Laph.com

Dec 08

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 website is very useful to get into your favorite Yahoo! game room when the room is full, or when you want to join the game room if you got disconnected.