Archive for June, 2008

www.celebpoker.com looks at the difference between Omaha and Hold em

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 12:00 AM, Wednesday Jun 25th, 2008

Omaha and Holdem are widely known to be the two most favoured games at site like www.celebpoker.com, and the amount of tournaments dedicated to each game in the World Series illustrates this.

There are obvious differences between the two games, but if you are competent at one game then picking up the rules of the other should be relatively simple. Actually going on to master Omaha or Holdem at celebpoker.com after learning it’s basics though, is somewhat more difficult.

Holdem begins with two hole cards where as Omaha requires four hole cards to begin with. This paves the way for much stronger hands being made as the board cards are dealt and can see larger pots being built as a result. In Holdem poker strong starting hands are considered to be two very high cards such as (A,K) or (A,Q) and pairs too.

Suited cards are a bonus at www.celebpoker.com, but they hold much more weight in Omaha especially if you have two cards of one suit and two of another.

This greatly increases the chances of a flush being made, and numerically connected cards improve the chances of a straight being made.

Often in Holdem hole cards will be folded preflop, but in Omaha I feel there is much more benefit in seeing a cheap flop if possible.

This can be used to great advantage at celebpoker.com if you are strong at knowing when to get away from half made hands, and when the odds are right to call. For the most part I feel these are the most important things to bear in mind, although just with any new variant of poker, playing as much as you can to expand your understanding, is always the best way forward.

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Www.pacificpoker.co.uk review

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 12:00 AM, Tuesday Jun 24th, 2008

888.com offers a good quality poker playing experience in its poker branch of betting, in a room more commonly known as www.pacificpoker.co.uk.

When looking solely at PacificPoker.co.uk there are a few good points from the outset. The first time deposit bonuses are of a reasonable amount although they do have larger bonuses in other betting sections onsite.

A first time deposit bonus of 25% cash is offered for a deposit up to $100 in contrast to 100% in the casino section does appear to show that the site is not largely a poker orientated one and concentrates more broadly on other areas.

This however doesn’t necessarily mean that playing poker on www.pacificpoker.co.uk holds any less enjoyment, and in relation to bonuses and offers, Pacific Poker doesn‘t look too bad. There are often gauranteed multi tournaments onsite which can be as large as $20,000 on weekdays, and there are usually larger gaurantee tourneys of up to $80,000 over the weekend too.

Players with a slightly smaller poker bankroll can win their seats in such events through satellite tournaments if they feel the buy in is a little above their means.

After making the first deposit at Pacificpoker.co.uk, a player is offered one beginners tournament per day for a week which contributes towards a better all round first time bonus package than it first appears. So although the first time starting bonus may not be the most competitive on the net, if you feel yourself to be amongst the stronger players around you should be able to bump up your bonus package in this weeks worth of tournaments.

The layout of the site looks quite good too, and there are ongoing ‘bad beat’ and Royal Flush jackpots in operation. All in all this adds up to a good poker playing experience at www.pacificpoker.co.uk

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Ladbrokespoker.com Experimentations With Odds

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Jun 19th, 2008

It is well known in ladbrokespoker.com that (2,7) off suit is the worst starting hand, the reason that lower cards such as (2,4) aren’t considered worse is that you have better straight possibilities with this type of hand.

 

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Despite this being the case Joe Hachem managed to win a World Series main event with (7,3) off suit and Doyle Brunson did the same thing on two separate occassions whilst holding (10,2). So do these type of seemingly weak hands really lose as often as you might think against a strong hand such as (A,K)? I decided to deal out one hundred boards with (7,2) off suit against (A,K) off suit, twice over, and averaged the two results to find out.

The Ladbrokes Poker odds calculators in these circumstances will tell you that (7,2) should win around 32.2% of the time, (A,K) should win 67.3% of the time, and the other 0.5% resulting in a tie. My results read as folows: (2,7) wins 35% of the time, (A,K) wins 64% of the time and 1% results in a tie. Although these results don’t conclusively prove or disprove anything, they do show a slightly higher trend of (2,7) winning and (A,K) losing, than you might expect, but this isn’t enough of a difference in percentages to warrant closer inspection I don’t think, we can safely say that the expected odds do work out the way they should, when it comes to real ladbrokespoker hands being played out. Ladbrokespoker.com

The key point to remember as a poker player is that (2,7) does have a chance against most hands if you have two live cards, but it certainly isn’t a hand you want to be involved in an all in showdown with if you can help it. The more you stick to the stronger hands the higher the percentage of the time that you will be victorious over your opponent.

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pkr.com Player Profile on Hoyt Corkins

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Jun 12th, 2008

Hoyt Corkins was born in 1960 in Alabama, he has always worn his cowboy type outfits at the tables and his nickname has become "cowboy" as a result.

He started learning poker at a fairly early age from his father and went on to begin competing in the World Series some years later, gaining his first bracelet at the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event in 1992. A really good place to practice poker is at pkr.com.

Afterwards Hoyt underwent some personal turmoil with divorce proceedings and retreated from the spotlight of the poker circuit for over a decade.

He reappeared in 2003, immediately winning over a million dollars at the World Poker Tour, this was followed by a second place finish in 2004 which earnt him almost $300,000 in prize money too.

2005 saw Hoyt take second place in the WSOP "Tournament of Champions Freeroll" and another $325,000 and 2006 saw some good tournament results also, but it was last year at the World Series that Hoyt matched his achievement from all those years ago and picked up his second bracelet and over half a million dollars.

Already Hoyt has begun the year well in 2008, finishing second in the WPT world poker open to take his live tournament earnings in total to around the $3.7 million mark. www.pkr.com

Hoyt is a man of a very quiet demeanour but has a very strong style of play and likes to go into pots raising, as you can tell by his results since his return to the circuit, he is a formidable opponent in any tournament he chooses to play in.

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PKR.com Deal or No Deal Video!

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 9:54 AM, Monday Jun 2nd, 2008

PKR.com is the leader in 3d online poker and has just released one of the most popular side games seen in poker today, deal or no deal!

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The PKR.com deal or no deal game is based on the hit UK tv show, even featuring the host! The game is fully interactive and is so real, you are going to think that you are really there in the studio picking out the lucky boxes. This is a great addition to the PKR.com software which already featured a mini blackjack game to keep poker players entertained between hands.

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Fulltiltpoker.com - Waiting for Hands in Seven Card Stud

Posted by Royal Flush Poker @ 2:52 PM, Sunday Jun 1st, 2008

Fulltiltpoker.com brings you this great poker strategy guide. When it comes to Seven Card Stud there is always a temptation there for the less experienced player to chase half made hands, the whole nature of the game is that each players hand gradually reveals itself with each card dealt, and so the over optimistic player will always be lured into calling one more bet.

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On the whole this is a bad idea, even if you do happen to catch the right cards to beat strong open cards that your opponent has, it still isnt logical to chase these hands in the long run, unless the price is right to do so.

Having said this, in some circumstances, it can be the right thing to do, if you need one card for a flush and you still have two cards yet to be dealt, then it is worth staying in the hand to see at least one more card to try and make the flush. www.fulltiltpoker.com

You have to take into account of course that you are very likely to win the hand if you hit the flush, where as if you are chasing a set or a big two pair, then you can fold these hands for a lot smaller bet because you often won’t win the pot even if you make your fulltilt poker.com hand. As long as an opponents cards don’t give serious concern about a bigger flush or full house causing you problems, then you can invest a little money in drawing to these type of stronger hands.

As a general rule though, if your hand isn’t strong and someone raises, there may well be a few cards in the deck that can help you to win the pot, but most of the time it isn’t worth calling raises in the hope of hitting those cards. If you are getting all your fulltilt poker.com money or chips into a pot, try and make sure you are doing it when your hand is in front.

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