Wildcats Baseball Team to Benefit from a Poker Tournament

Are you a fan of the Wildcats baseball team?  If you are, then you better mark October 15 on your calendars as this is your time to help your favorite team.  You only have to have two things with you — money and your poker skills.

Date and Time

October 15, 2009, Thursday, is going to be the date of the annual poker tournament that benefits the Wildcats baseball team.  The said poker tournament will be held at the Peppermill Hotel Casino in Reno, Las Vegas.  Registration starts at 6 o'clock in the evening in conjunction with a complementary cocktail hour.  The tourney will start at exactly 7 o'clock in the evening until 11 o'clock of the same day. [Read][more...]

Simple Strategies to Win at Texas Hold’Em Sit and Go Tournaments

For an avid poker player, sit and go tournaments are very important since this is a great way to build your bankroll and earn some extra cash.  Aside from this, sit and go tournaments are also the best way to get a seat into one of the major poker tournaments, especially if you are strapped for cash and cannot afford to pay for the huge buy-in fees.  Although playing your best at sit and go tournaments is a must, it cannot be denied that you will need some simple strategies to stay in the game and ultimately achieve what you are aiming for.

Play Premium Hands

Once you have a good hand, you should never let it go because it could spell success or disaster for you during the sit and go tournament.  [Read][more...]

Poker Tournaments Worth Noting

It seems like there are a lot of poker tournaments going on right now, and PokerStars appears to be leading the pack, what with its very busy poker week.  But not to be outdone though, Full Tilt has a few surprises up its sleeves for its players and those who are seeking the thrill and excitement that tournaments offer.

PokerStars Noteworthy Tournaments

PokerStars' European Poker Tour Barcelona has just finished, and Carter Phillips took home the prize of more than $1.2M.  On the other hand, the World Championship of Online Poker, also from PokerStars, is still continuing to receive buy-in fees from online poker players from all over the world. [Read][more...]

Satellite Tournaments Poker Strategy

Now that the 2009 Aruba Poker Classic is fast approaching and UltimateBet hosting numerous satellite tournaments where you could win a seat in APC, it is time to brush up on your satellite poker skills and strategies to make sure that you do get into the major event.  Not only will it save you some money, but you also get the chance to take home a big share of the guaranteed prize pools.

Here are some strategies worth bringing into your satellite tourneys if a seat in the APC is at stake. [Read][more...]

World Series of Poker and ESPN, Partners for Seven More Years

Avid fans of poker from all over the world will surely be glad to know that the World Series of Poker and the ESPN has signed a new deal, and that is to be partners for seven more years in broadcasting and bringing to the rest of the world the biggest poker tournament.  The announcement to broadcast the WSOP tournaments through its 2017 world series will formally be given this Tuesday.

Assuring Poker Players and Fans

It was in 2003 that ESPN started airing the major poker tournament of WSOP, and because of its complete success, it became the home of the WSOP tournament yearly.  Right now, the cable network is going to finish its current contract, with the new contract beginning this 2011.  ESPN promises the same coverage is going to be given to WSOP during the seven-year contract, so avid fans of the series can expect 32 hours of nothing but aspiring and professional poker players battling it out at the felt table to try to win one of the poker world's biggest prizes. [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...]

Connectors Suited or Otherwise

Talk about a starting hand that has believers and non-believers.  Watch any tournament and you will soon see who is willing to play this hand and who folds it immediately.  The point is this: some very good players are willing to play this hand all the time out of the gate.  Others would never do it at any time.  Being of the playing school, these are the reasons for it not being that bad of a starting hand.

It can be discarded after the flop if it is totally missed and it can be a great trapping hand if the flop falls friendly toward the two cards.  An opponent with a big pair will think they have a lock on the hand.  Slow play a set or two pair and this hand can score big time.  A straight or a flush is even better although not as well hidden.  Some very big name players play this hand all the time from the start.  Farha and Negreanu do it all the time in tournaments and cash games.

Big pairs and Ace King get beat all the time in poker games.  As often as not it is a small set or two pairs that cuts the head off.  The very best players use this starting hand a great deal early in tournaments when the anties are small and less painful when lost.  [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...]

How Some Player Get Entry Help to Some Tournaments.

If a player is looking for entry help in a tournament, there are two ways to get this help.  The player can enter a small entry fee satellite and win it, thereby getting the entry in the tournament.  The other way is to pay the full entry fee straight up and guarantee that you will get to play.   This is the problem if the player cannot come up with the full fee.  Many players can go to their friends and sell percentages of themselves for the tournament.  But what if that does not work out.

The answer could be a website called ChipMeUp and offer to sell a percentage to people who want to invest in a good player for a big tournament.   This is an interesting way to get the fee for a big tournament and not bother your friends.

Many name players have used this fee service to get money for a specific tournament.

If the player does well in the tournament, the investors get their money back with a very decent return.  [Read][more...]

Sunday Night is the First High Stakes Poker Game of the 2009 Series

This 2009 season first that will appear on Sunday Night is a long awaited event by many avid poker players who enjoy the skill and daring players exhibit on this show.  Rumors are about that the stakes to sit down are going to be higher and this means that there will be some outrageously major size pots.  With more money in the game the temptation on solid hands will be to wager a good deal more to get as much profit out of the hand as is possible.  Two big hands that come together in the same pot will cause fireworks and the winner will smile and the loser will have to suck it up and play on.  Since this is the players' money the hurt will be real in terms of losing their own money and also doing poorly on the show.  Every player at this game has an ego to prove in real money that they are as good or better than any other player at the table.  The money score will tell the tale that is for sure.  Some of these players can easily afford the loss they may endure, but some are not as well off as the others.  [Read][more...]