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Poker-Themed Party

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:10:00 -0500

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.

Online Poker Legal in USA?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:26:00 -0500

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.

Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:52:00 -0500

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…

Poker Quotes

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:07:00 -0500

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

Yahoo! Poker Games

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:06:00 -0500

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.

The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:00 -0500

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, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, implied odds, the free card and semibluffing and how they affect the poker game.

Read more about The Theory of Poker here…

Highest Poker Hand

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:39:00 -0500

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.

Harrington on Hold'em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:06:00 -0500

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 hands, respond to a re-raise, play to win the most money possible, react when a bad card hits and more.

More about this book…

IFP Nations Cup Title Won by Germany

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:25:00 -0500

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

Poker Probability

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:56:00 -0500

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

Strip Poker Art Project Attracts a Crowd

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:53:00 -0500

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.

Bwin Poker

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:58:00 -0500

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.

Royal Flush

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:30:00 -0500

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.

Backdoors to Yahoo and Pogo Poker

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:21:00 -0400

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 useful in case you have been disconnected from a game (or tournament), and upon returning to the game room you’re playing in, have found that the room is full.

Or simply if you want to get into your favorite game room, but you can’t because the room is full.

Backdoors.to has direct Links to over 220 online games and around 170,000 play rooms in different game sites.

Backdoor to Yahoo Holdem Poker (Texas Hold’em):
www.backdoors.to/yahoo/holdempoker

Backdoor to Yahoo Poker Deuces Wild (Video Poker):
www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdeuceswild

Backdoor to Yahoo Poker Double Down (Video Poker):
www.backdoors.to/yahoo/pokerdoubledown

Backdoor to Yahoo Holdem Poker - International Poker Rooms:
www.backdoors.to/yahoo/holdempokerint

Bluff

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:14:00 -0400

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.

Yoopi Game Guide

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:47:00 -0400

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

Bicycle Guardians Playing Cards

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:33:00 -0400

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.

Wild Card

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:06:00 -0400

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.

Seven-card Stud

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:59:00 -0400

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 card (5th Street)
- 1 face up card (6th Street)
- 1 face-down card (7th Street)
- Showdown

Video Poker

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:42:00 -0400

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.