PokerStars Offers a Porsche

A high roller drives the right car, and there is no better way to show everybody that you are, indeed, a high roller than by driving your very own Porsche.

Today, PokerStars is offering a Porsche to all its players who are located in North America, and it is so easy to get into the tournament and grab your opportunity to bring home the Porsche.

Here are the details for their Win a Porsche promotion.

The Car at Stake

The Porsche Cayman S is said to be one of the most elegant and luxurious cars among its Porsche range.  It boasts of six cylinders, and this special car can take you from zero to sixty in only seconds. [Read][more...]

Poker Sites and Poker Software

One of the problems that not only poker sites face but its players as well is the use of banned poker softwares which increases the advantage of dishonest players against honest players, but it cannot be denied that poker sites cannot truly monitor the players using them and kick them out of their sites, and it is also a fact that many players use these kind of softwares and get away with it.  For now, the only thing that they can do is to say that these poker softwares are not to be used while playing at their site. [Read][more...]

Tips to Improve Your Play in Poker Tournaments

Nowadays, playing poker is not only considered a hobby, but it is also considered a source of income.  Many professional poker players live off of their winnings, and, in a study done by a prominent online gambling portal, there now a lot of college students who are also playing online poker who make use of their winnings to pay for their education and daily allowance.

Knowing the fact that online poker winnings can augment the needs of many people, the importance of practicing and honing your skills before a poker tournament is being emphasized by many professionals in the poker industry.

Importance of Practicing

It cannot be denied that our brains need the challenge.  Without stimulations and challenges, a poker player's power to concentrate can drop, and he will usually see this drop in his concentration level when he starts to notice that he is getting a significant number of bad beats against his win rates.  [Read][more...]

“Inside Deal” to be seen in ESPN.com

«Inside Deal» one of the much watched poker show in the web will be making its appearance in ESPN.com this coming Tuesday, with Bernard Lee spearheading the show. At the premier of «Inside Deal» the show will focus on Chris Moneymaker who won the main event in the 2003 World Series of Poker.

The Poker Editor of ESPN.com, Andrew Feldman is excited with the debut of the Inside Deal at ESPN.com. According to him the Inside Deal is one of a kind and is just what the industry needs at the moment. By collaborating with the major network of ESPN.com, Inside Deal shall be the standard of all poker shows in the coming years. The show will be seen every Tuesday for three months and will end at the final stage of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker this November.

People can submit their inquiries to the host of «Inside Deal» through different internet sites such as Twitter, Facebook and e-mail. Another bonus given to loyal viewers is the chance to join the sweepstakes. [Read][more...]

The final stage of any Holdem Tournament

Almost without exception the final stage of a Holdem tournament comes down to two players with a ton of chips playing Heads Up.  This is far different than at the beginning of the tournament when each player had the starting stake.  Heads up is different in play and starting hand value.  Players try to take away the power of the other player's hand by betting aggressively.  The starting hands are not even noted in poker books in many hands, as they are so low in quality.  The play at times seems to be a card version of the game of chicken and who is the best bluffer.

If a player gets a quality stating hand, they can only hope that their opponent has one too, only of lower value.  At this stage of the game, the players are ready to end it as quickly as is possible.  A lowly pair may generate a rather large bet after the flop and the other player never knows for sure whether the better is bluffing or they have a hand.  To make it worse, give the caller a small pair that is just a bit higher than the better.  This is the way the final part of tournaments usually goes. [Read][more...]

Meet Mike Sexton

Mike Sexton will be 62 In September of this year as he was born in September 1947.  His birth state makes him a Hoosier although he and his brother went to the University of Ohio on a gymnast full scholarship.  He has been playing card games since he was a youth and his skill at the games was evident early in his adult life.  He played in college and even more when he finished a two-year hitch in the Army as Fort Bragg.  His after service job was as a Dance Instructor and working with a friend in a company the friend started.  The company sold articles to bases in North and South Carolina.  Along with his work he spent many hours playing variations of poker in the local card rooms.  His marriage ended and he lost the job, so he stepped up his poker playing for a few years and then he headed for Vegas to try his hand as a professional poker player.  One of the players that was his good friend growing up, and a player he learned from, later became a world-class seven-card stud player.  His friend from his youth was Danny Robinson. [Read][more...]

Poker Stories Bad Beats Calls of Courage

Poker playing and the history of poker go hand-in-hand.  Poker stories are generated every day somewhere in the world.  The story could come from a major tournament or from a weekly home game.  Many stories are about a bad beat or a miracle draw that a player pulled off or was the hapless victim of the luck of the deal. Poker stories are part and parcel of playing the game. The variables that can happen in any given hand can give such unlikely results that players can have the toes curled with the deal of a card.  Later when discussing the events of the game the players involved, in such a hand, will tell stories that are amazing in their dissimilarity.  Unless you were a witness to the hand in question you would not realize that they were discussing the same hand.  It comes down to a mater of perspective from the winner or the loser of the hand.

Bad Beats are constant grist for the mill as they are a remembered hurt.  The winner may well forget the incident.  The loser may remember the hand the rest of their life. [Read][more...]

Is Poker Addictive Like Other Forms of Gambling

The answer is it can be for some people who are compulsive and have little will power or just crave the action.  Gamblers Anonymous has a twenty-question form that will help a person realize that they are addicted or becoming addicted.  Some of the key questions are items like have you missed work or school due to gambling?  Have you borrowed money to play? The second part of this question is and the only way you could pay it back was by winning.  Has your gambling or playing caused family problems or caused you to lie?  Many of the questions are so general that many people will answer yes to some of them, but they are not really addicted.  Gambling and drinking have one thing in common to the non-addicted person.  They can really take it or leave it alone at their will and do not have or feel the need to gamble.

One of the addictive traits of a person with this compulsion is that they do not feel alive unless they are in action.  If this becomes an overpowering feeling then the person needs help from people who understand the problem and have found ways to beat the desire to play. [Read][more...]

The Danger of Ace King

Players that know Holdem well are on intimate terms with the math of Holdem and the starting hand rating list.   Ace King is high on the list just after the pair of rockets, also known as aces and the lovely pair of Kings.  The problem with Ace King is it is just a good drawing hand that gets over bet way to often in Holdem games.  On TV you see a lowly pair of fours beat Ace King for all the money a non-paired player has bet.  The hand is a good drawing hand, but that is all it is, just a good drawing hand.   Way to many players over bet this hand before the flop.  Watch a cash game or a tournament at any level, this scenario will be played out over and over with the Ace King winning some times, but losing a lot of the times.

This makes these two cards very dangerous to the stack of player holding them.   They look so good before the flop, but after the fop they can be just a drawing hand.   The Ace Queen can be even worse, but that is another drawing hand story.  This starting hand can easily lose any pot or hand.  [Read][more...]

How to get out of a losing session

The only way to get out of losing poker session is to start winning.  This is a simple answer to a serious problem that every poker player faces.  When you are coming in second best in every big pot, this situation can become very disturbing and with some players make them go on tilt.  A player on tilt loses perspective and tries to hard to recover the losses.  This causes a player to make riskier plays and therefore end up losing more money.

An experienced player will set back, even take a short break and clear his mind to continue to play with even more severe calculations of the chances of winning .the pot.  He will let the cards speak to him when the losing streak has ended.  When the cards turn after a bad run, they sometimes go on an unbelievable rush.

If this happens push the devil out of it as the losing hands are behind you and the winners are flying to you from the dealer.  When you are even or a slight winner, think about whet you accomplished by staying calm and not on tilt.  This is one of the hardest parts of poker for a player to come to grips with. [Read][more...]

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