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Welcome to www.TexasHoldemGame.com
Texas Holdem Game is a site
that explains how to play the game of texas holdem. To play
texas holdem online you need nerves of steal and a the patience
of a turtle. Texas Holdem Tournaments are fast paced and exciting,
however if you want to play in a texas holdem game where the
element of luck is eliminated you need to wait until the blinds
increase to a point where every play becomes important and
where every texas holdem player at your table understand the
consequences of getting involved in a hand against you. Playing
texas holdem online is an easy way to learn the game of texas
holdem without the financial risks nor the potential delays
to playing in a land based poker room. If you want to play Texas
Holdem for FREE try NLOP,
it will not cost you a dime and you will have a great time busting
folks out of tournaments who have no clue what they are doing. I
have tried the site and I have finished in the top 10% over fifty
percent of the time, so I suppose it is a site full of donkeys.
If you enjoy Texas Holdem Tournaments either on a single
table, a ring game, or a multi table format, you are sure
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There are plenty of tournaments that go off each night with 50 to
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like I said you cannot lose a penny. And don't worry if you miss a
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The key to playing the game
of texas hold em is betting. In order to play texas holdem
properly you need to be able to get the value out of your
hand by betting the right amount at the right time. For example
if the blinds were $10 - $20 and you were the first to act
and you had $2,000 in chips (most at your table) and you had
AA do you think anyone would call you if you bet $2,000 to
see the flop? I think not. So when you figure out how much
to bet for the hand you have and against the players at your
table and given your position in the hand you need to be ready
to bet and ready to fold at the same time. This is how people
can become great bluffers. They bet one way with a great hand
and then make an equivalent bet with nothing - are you going
to call them with J 9 suited? If you can get other texas holdem
players to call you with sub par hands means you are dictating
the betting. Sooner or later people get tired of calling with
second or bottom pair, or even Ace high. This is why the best
players are also the best bluffers and the best hand readers
and why betting, not calling, is such an essential part of
the game. And please don’t forget that betting and position
are such a big part of the texas holdem game that you might
say it is like what bread and beef is to a hamburger.
Simple examples of pretty obvious
bluffing can be found in many of the online Pot Limit and
No Limit tournaments. When flops such as 3h, Jh, Qs hit the
board with several players in the pot and a person from an
opening position leading out for a small percentage of the
pot, this is a sign of weakness and chances are that this
player is not very good and in this case he or she has nothing.
Let's say you noticed that five people limped into the pot
(called to see the flop) at $50 each and then the first person
to act bet $50 into the post flop pot, you know that this
person is out of the pot (unless they are trapping) and unless
someone else raises a significant percentage of the pot (minimum
70% of the pot) you will know the original bettor has no chance
of winning this hand and little chance of winning the pot.
In addition you know that they are a bad player and not someone
you should worry about.
In fact this kind of a terrible
play is not in any poker book because the facts are this player
is no competition for you. More often than not when $50 is
bet into a multi player pot where the opening blinds were
$50 per player if other players call this bet than either
one or more of them are trapping or they are all very poor
players. If the turn card looks to be of little help to the
players remaining in the hand (this is the case when the turn
card does not provide a flush or straight possibility or does
not match one of the cards on the flop, then in this case
if you are first to act you can check raise or simply raise
in position (the size of the pot) and odds are you will take
the hand right then and there. Even if you get called chances
are very good that the player calling is still drawing to
a made hand and the probability is true that they will not
hit their card or cards.
Watch how many times players
make small bets post flop like this in online texas holdem
tournaments. These bets are simply pointless for if you are
sitting with anything why give any indication? And if you
have anything and wish to protect it, you would obviously
bet the pot, and betting the pot in a position like this really
doesn't give much away. It's easy to be on a draw here, or
just as easy to have a set. The wrong tactical move to make
or stupid move to make here is to try to stone cold bluff
at the pot from an early position. This is a situation that
should not happen, however sometimes it does and you can thank
your lucky stars that online texas holdem players are so.
Many inexperienced texas holdem
players, when holding a pair, will attempt to slow down the
action and do their best to get a really cheap card; a maneuver
that is doomed to failure if anyone in the game can play at
all. This is one of the more obvious bluffs in smaller Limit
tournaments and games with which you need to become familiar.
A more skilled bluffer may sense weakness from a limper or
several limpers and raise a pot size bet, attempting to steal
the pot if he misses the flop. This type of a move is not
for everyone and few if any players who attempt such a move
will follow through to the river on a bigger bet. Many can
attempt a bluff but the real bluffers follow through. A common
scenario - a player will attempt to bluff and the others will
sense this (or at least think they sense it) and take away
the bluffer’s thunder by raising. Now a better bluffer/card
reader (someone with the nerve or confidence in his ability)
will realize what has occurred and follows through, raising
again or go all-in, with nothing but his gut feeling telling
him he is making the correct play. These are the bluffers.
These are the true players of the game. It doesn't take much
of a player to attempt a bluff, but step the play up one notch
and you have a player that will make a read he suspects the
other player is bluffing. Now tell me you haven't seen this
when playing online or in a land based poker room. Many players
like to show they raise you with nothing. How many times have
you wished you had raised them again, after you bet and they
raised?
Have you ever laid down a set
on the flop playing Hold’em without a flush or straight
possibility? Have you ever laid down KK before the flop? If
you ever laid a hand like this down against a world class
player be aware that they will own you. Players think they
are being so smart showing hands like this, but this is a
real mistake. The hand is too strong. Obviously occasions
will occur when a player will be so obvious this lay down
can be made, but if this player can be made to lay down hands
like this, and show it also, he cannot win in the long run.
Have any of you given much thought
on how you would proceed when a sizable bet is made pre-flop
and you hold AA? Is it really correct to go all in at this
time? If you are guaranteed a call, this is always acceptable.
If you aren't, why raise? Allow the KK to have the lead and
bluff the money off, thinking he is betting the best hand.
Players are always far more eager to bet their chips off than
to call.
The main mistake made by players
who bluff in Pot Limit and No Limit games is the amount they
bet. Use this as a normal guideline for bluffing if the blinds
are $25-$50 and you opened for $150 and received a call. If
you miss and intend to bluff, follow through with a bet about
equal to the pot. Also use this as a guide for betting when
you flop a big hand. Your main focus for betting and bluffing
should be putting yourself in the shoes of the player who's
facing you. If he bets, what you would do with what type of
hand and how to adjust to the play.
I am a firm believer in not
making big lay downs. One reason is I sense a possibility
far earlier in a hand that the player may have something.
So I slow the action down to adjust for this. (There are many
ways to skin a cat.) Realize not everyone holding AA can break
a person holding KK. Then accept that if you can't break a
person when he has KK and you have AA, you need some adjustment
to your play! The numero uno best way to break KK is to have
him bet the chips off while you call.
This is how to play the game
of texas holdem.
Bill to legalize Internet gambling: No dice
The House financial committee will mark up a bill Tuesday to legalize Internet gambling. Even many in the US industry oppose it. It is largely foreign gaming websites that are behind this attempt to overturn the 2006 ban.
Editor: John Yemma, Managing Editor: Marshall Ingwerson, Senior Editor and Washington Bureau Chief: David Cook, all from The Christian Science Monitor, a ultra right view of the legalization of online gambling, July 23rd, 2010.
Fresh from fixing Wall Street’s casinolike ways in high finance, Congress begins work Tuesday on a bill to overturn a 2006 law banning Internet gambling in the US. The measure is being rushed through the House Financial Services Committee on a promise that it would create 30,000 jobs and billions in tax revenue.
President Obama hinted at his support for online gambling last year by delaying regulations under the 2006 law in order to give Congress time to change it. The regulations force American credit firms to block payments to offshore gambling operators.
What’s exactly behind this drive to expand gambling in the US, especially a type done privately in the home rather than in a casino? Obviously there is the lure of money for both the government and the campaign coffers of politicians supporting this bill. (The same lure drives efforts to legalize marijuana.)
But as former federal prosecutor Michael Fagan told the House panel marking up the bill: “Any parent who’s puzzled or despaired over their child’s trancelike playing of video games during the past 20 years can readily see why Internet gambling operators are drooling over the chance to legally expand their market base into the United States.”
This foreign lobby and its domestic supporters want Congress to gloss over the negative effects of allowing gambling on every smart phone and laptop, where even a 10-year-old with a parent’s credit card might be able to wage bets at any time of day.
“It’s ‘click the mouse, lose your house,’ ” states business professor John Kindt of the University of Illinois.
Weeding out gambling addicts on the Internet can also be very difficult. As Mr. Fagan points out: “At least responsible brick-and-mortar casino operators can look a gambler in the eye and make the human assessment of whether he is too drunk, mentally unhinged, despondent and desperate, or otherwise at a point where it is simply unfair to take advantage of him any longer.”
The proposed law would also likely prove weak in preventing gambling on sports. The pressure on athletes from gaming interests to throw a game would only increase under national Internet gambling.
The estimates of up to $42 billion a year in tax revenue from Internet gambling have been seriously challenged by the bill’s opponents. But beyond the advantage to the US Treasury, Spencer Bachus, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, asks: “How does raking in cash from gambling addicts differ from taking a cut from the heroin sold to drug addicts?”
Other problems may hopefully keep this bill from passage:
It sets down a federal right to gamble and undercuts the ability of states and Indian tribes to regulate gambling. It doesn’t require operators of such sites to reside in the US where they can be properly regulated – and prevented from using computers to manipulate online players. And while states would be able to opt out of this law, the bill calls on only the governor to make that decision, and within 90 days of the bill’s passage.
If foreign online gambling interests can easily influence passage of this bill, imagine what it might do to eventually water down regulations over their industry.
The House Financial Services chairman, Rep. Barney Frank, needs to drop this bill and find other ways to raise revenue and create jobs than open the door to redistributing wealth from mainly poor Americans to mainly foreign gambling interests.
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