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Showing posts with label how to play poker. Show all posts

What's A Poker Teleseminar?

Recently pokerteleseminars.com opened their online doors for business. This has left many people wondering what a poker teleseminar is. I thought seeing as though I was the next guest speaker I would put an explanation in my blog about what the benefits of poker teleseminars are as well as the main features of a poker teleseminar.


There are countless; thousands of teleseminars on the internet daily on various subjects and topics covering all walks of life. Seminars can be found on metaphysical subjects, fishing, camping, hunting, technology, internet and computer use, gardening, grief, you name it! You can find a teleseminar on any topic you like and this now includes poker!


A teleseminar is 100% LIVE training in the topic of choice. The seminars have guest speaker (trainers, teachers and educators) that are specialists in their areas of topic. For gardening you may find Don Burke a famous Aussie gardener talking about the art of keeping bugs out of your garden as an example. Pokerteleseminars.com have used the same concept but for poker.

Basically participants (in my words students) of the topic go to the seminar hosting site, enter their details and prepare for the live training which is held at a certain time and a certain day. They can participate as a student via the internet (web) or via telephone by ringing in. The trainer / guest speaker or teacher will be available at the organized time to cover curriculum and educate the participants on the chosen topic. In the case of my up and coming seminar, I will be discussing "The Art of Getting Sponsored" or gaining sponsorship in the many ways and forms it can be achieved by poker players.


Being 100% live training the students in the seminar have the ability to ask questions during question time. If they have participated in the seminar via telephone they simply push a button and it indicates to the host and co-coordinator they have placed their hand in the air to ask a question to the guest speaker / teacher. They then ask the question directly to the educator / trainer / teacher (whatever you would like to call them) and the question is answered for everyone to hear. There is also the option of submitting a question prior to the seminar on the topic via an "ask a question box" or during it; by typing the question in.

Seminars are held in halls and costs sometimes thousands of dollars to be trained in your particular field or topic of interest. Making an online seminar your choice of training gives you all the same benefits with the only difference being you are not face to face. There is no travel involved and no need to organize the pets, kids or motel room. What's more you can attend a seminar every week by various speakers on your subject of choice rather then once a year. This makes a teleseminar perfect for high level and quantity education purposes at a limited cost to you or me the students!

When I first looked at pokerteleseminars; to be honest i thought I could learn nothing from it. After attending seminars on other topics across the net and the pokerteleseminar held last week with guest speaker Tony Hachem on the "The Art of Consistency" I realized it is more then sure to work for everyone involved, particularly the students! My thoughts have indeed changed.


Anyway; this should explain a poker teleseminar I hope! It is something that even some pro's have added into their training schedule, after all - poker takes a life time to master even if it only takes a day to learn. With each and every pro in the world having awesome skills in very different areas; pokerteleseimnars will deliver more then any strategy book or video available anywhere. You have the best of the best teaching the best aspect of their game. From the smallest of Pro's through to our world champions! best of luck with your game and happy learning if you happen to participate in a poker teleseminar.

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Strategy To Make Your Poker Solid Or Use When You Have Lost Your Game

Of recent times due to lack of playing I seemed to have lost part of my poker game. I determined that it had a lot to do with my betting patterns, folding, checking and re-raising at the appropriate times. I compiled " Strategy To Make Your Poker Solid Or Use When You Have Lost Your Game" for myself and decided to share it on my blog to help others.

For many this list is a very basic list. To other poker players this list can help you implement new betting techniques or understand the reasoning behind making certain betting, checking or folding moves.

I hope it helps with your game regardless of what level of player you are, even the best can forget basic moves at times.

In the case that no other player has made a raise / bet - you perform the following actions for the following reasons:

CHECK

You Check if:

1) You have nothing
2) You have a marginal hand such as; an open ended straight or a flush draw and will call a raise by another player that is not too large.
3) You have a great hand and when someone bets you will raise. Using the check raise technique to extract chips and trick your opponent.
4) You have a weak hand and you intend to bluff by raising, being sure you can place your opponent on a hand so as not to trap yourself.

RAISE

You Raise if:

1) You have the best hand and want to make pot bigger
2) You have the best hand and want to eliminate competition that may be chasing better hands
3) You wish to bluff with a lousy hand
4) You wish to get respect from players on turn to continuation bet for reasons 2) and 3).

In the case that a player has made a raise / bet before it is your turn to act - you perform the following actions for the following reasons:

FOLD

You Fold If:

1) You do not have a good hand
2) You do not have the right pot odds and have a marginal hand (open ended straight as an example and the raise was too big)
3) If bluff will not work

CALL

You Call If:

1) You have a marginal hand and can make it a better hand if in the case the raise is reasonably small
2) You have a great hand and want the other players to call to build the pot

RE-RAISE

You re-raise if:

1) You have an awesome hand and consider it the nuts or thereabouts
2) You can bluff your opponent out of the hand as they appear weak

Again, this may not be suitable for all players - I do however hope it has somewhat helped you. Test it out!

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Adjusting to Pro Status as a Female on Online Sites


The week has been a tough one to say the least. It was like a complete transformation in my thought patterns which made adjusting to life as a FeltStars team pro very difficult. I look back at my poker game and sure; I haven’t won a championship or 1mil playing cash but I have held my own, usually cashing out at the end of the week when I have been fulltime playing and using the monies for the running of my household.


In one week my game has had a swing for the worst. Mostly I have copped bad beats thank goodness; some stupid moves I made cost me also though. The bad beats were unexpected ones at the start, after a few days I expected to see them come one after the other. I realised I needed some sort of adjustment to my game and to my life as being marked as a pro. Maybe going to a bad beat jackpot table where there is currently $354,000.00+ up for grabs may work! (jokes)


It wasn’t so long ago that I had a lot of issues with being women on a poker table. I had issues bluffing as the players would call me; why? Some men just do not take us seriously. I had a comment to that effect almost 2 years ago “When women start bluffing 20% more in their game THEN I will respect them!” I thought; “Right, bluff 20% more when I can’t bluff against the likes of you at the moment, that’s going to hurt the hip pocket to say the least! And hurt it 20% more!!”


Now; just when I thought I had overcome any issues that I had with being able to bluff and being called with crap I am faced with being marked as a pro. Nasty! This morning there were a minimum of 8 people watching my table; there are people who line up in wait lists to play on my cash tables. Worst of all these cash mongers call EVERYTHING!


I was looking at my beautiful pair of pocket Aces and threw in a nice raise of course! One wouldn’t believe it, call, call, call, call, call..... Then ALL-IN! I wasn’t folding, who would? I called!


Everyone else folded and I was dumbfounded as I see a guy turn over 69os and of course see him hit 69 on the damn flop!
My point; I am now dealing with 2 things; being called and bashed around for being female and also now for being marked as a pro. It’s enough to make you wanna rip your own hair out. Obviously in more serious tournaments such as the $50,000.00 GTD people play more seriously; cash on the other hand???? Look out me! The good news is I will smacked them around in the end. 69os are unlikely to win every hand against aces obviously!


I have toyed around with various hands, positions, playing tight, loose aggressive, tight aggressive and so on and so forth to see what works and I think finally as I write this I have it worked out. I played lower staked tables then I have in months and months; not just for this reason but also for getting a real feel for the poker software. I now know how I am going to deal with these crazy players and will be going back to the 10c/20c tables to get my $$$. Why? Principal! They owe it to me and I want it back lol.


In summary, being a female in poker can be tough, being a female marked pro is tougher, especially if you are not playing $5/$10 cash tables and above.

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Telling Your Opponent Your Poker Hand as a Poker Strategy

Poker players have always been known to be less then truthful at the table. We all at one stage or another have lied about the cards we are holding after a brilliant bluff. My last trip to Crown Casino taught me that being a player quite the opposite by telling the truth can help in NL Texas Holdem!

Who would believe you when you tell them EXACTLY what you are holding? I would not have, until my recent discovery – some players use telling the truth as a magnificent poker strategy.

I was sitting playing a cash game with a few pros, nothing serious to most of us but for some more then serious. I was sitting in the big blind with a J and 2 of Spades. There were 2 limpers and i checked. Down came the flop 5, 7, and 9 of spades. I felt immediate joy when seeing this, but then immediately was distracted. Mr Texas Hold’em Poker Pro (will leave name anonymous) burst into laughter and hysterically started telling the table how he had flopped a straight flush.

Wow, what to do? Time to be a truth sleuth! Was he lying as we all normally do? Would he call with 6 and 8 of spades from first position? Was this just trash talk?

The hysterical laughter continued as did talk amongst the table. Mr Poker Pro had been calling EVERYTHING with a stack massive compared to most. Indeed it was possible he would have called with 6, 8 of spades! No risk taking – he looked too delighted – I was FOLDING!

The young man next to me had different ideas though. He was very serious. There was a big raise from Mr Poker pro and immediately he says “I call”. Mr Poker Pro was almost crying with laughter now. He said to the young man “What the hell are you doing man? I just told you; I have flopped a straight flush!” The young man replies “I am not listening to your table talk trash!” Poker Pro says “Well; I will raise you all in then if you are stupid enough to call”.

The turn saw Mr Poker Pro raise The Young Man ALL-IN! Instantly the young man says “I call, I have the nuts, Ace high flush!”

Mr Poker Pro fell off his seat laughing, crying and acting like he had just seen the funniest thing EVER. He couldn’t even sit up to show his cards as he rolled around floor of the poker room. Was he telling the truth? Did my sleuthing, my analysis and determination that someone would tell the truth pay off for me (although would have been beaten by the young man’s Ace high flush anyway).

When Mr Poker Pro got to his feet with tears rolling out of his eyes and flipped those cards, the Young Man went CRAZY! Indeed Mr Poker Pro had told the truth. Abuse now came from the young man’s mouth. Mr Pros reply was “quieten down, I was trying to save you money, there is no law against telling you my hand!”

Indeed – telling the truth can be a good poker strategy, also; being a truth sleuth can save you a lot of money if you detect correctly! It can also save you a lot of heartache. Just look at the movie "Mett the Parents" as an example of winning with the truth!

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How to Never Lose Playing Poker! Cha Ching $$$$$$$

Wow! What an exciting week and a half for me on the electronic felt! Really I didn’t think I would have such a happy week / month even! As the saying goes: “When things are too good to be true, they usually are” but I found in my latest analysis that some things just don’t fit into this saying.


I usually play small buy in tourneys with very little prize money. It’s no surprise to anyone that I don’t have much of a bankroll - I don’t have time to build it back up. Small buy ins equate to small prize money $1 doesn’t get you far. The hours are stupid too. Play for 10 hours for $100 yep, great plan! (Sarcasm)

I was told weeks ago I didn’t have to spend big to win big and thought “Whatever!!!!!!!!!” Now I have to humbly eat my words and for once I am happy doing it! Yipppeee

This week I have won entry into 2 x $30,000.00 tournaments and 2 x $5,000.00 tournaments. I have also played in a $2,500.00 tournament and another for $1,500.00 and it cost me nothing to enter the satellites or the tourneys. Every week I have the opportunity to win this big cash now and of course I had to share my secret LOL.

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Learn to Play Poker Online

2 So; I have just written about my fun time playing online and thought I may as well write an immediate follow up article. Learn to play poker online! My prior blog about playing poker online for fun prompted me to think of almost a decade back – ok almost 7 years (wow I feel old) to when I first started learning. I played online for fun and boy did I learn a load!

Play Money! What better way to learn! No risk, no worry no fear is what learning is all about. Playing on a play money site can teach you a load accompanied with some strategy information from a site such as funandpoker.com or a forum such as the funandpoker forum where you CAN ask questions and people such as me or poker pro and veteran Robert Border will answer.

Many newbie poker players make fatal mistakes when they learn to play poker online for the first time! They play with real money having no clue on how the game works, how the poker software works or what to expect. They purchase poker strategy books which teach them to play the way ONE person plays rather than learning their own game and well; they fail. This failure costs them a lot of money which could have been used for a bankroll to fund their online poker account to learn to play poker online. Let me give you a classic example of a loser! -> ME

My first year of playing poker I hit the play money tables but thought I would also hit the real money ones and purchase a library of books! BIG MISTAKE! I should have played on play money cash tables, gone in freeroll tournaments, been involved in a forum and read non biased and straight shot poker strategy online. This mistake cost me $1200USD in my first months of poker! I, alike others learnt the hard way. Hopefully I am prompting you to do it easy!

Learn to play online poker the right way:

Find a great poker site with various play money games and freerolls and stick with it! This will ensure when you switch to real money you have a grasp of the software operations and can concentrate on your game.

Become a great community member on a forum, don’t pretend you know it all, be prepared to ask what may even sound to YOU as a stupid question. One of my questions was why am I not getting cards? ;)

Read free online strategy, start with the rules and work your way up. There are beginners to advanced strategy across a wide range of sites. You don’t have to pay for books, at a beginner’s level that’s insane!

Play poker! Play, play and play. Relax, kick back, chat, enjoy and play. Again, risk free!

Jot down any big issues you have with the game of poker that you are playing (Holdem, Omaha, Razz etc) and ASK, RESEARCH and RE-TRY.

Learning to play poker online can be very different than playing live so even if you are switching to online play, take some of my advice. Even the software functionality and features can give you an edge if you use them properly. I have attached a play money lobby screenshot so you can view the multitude of games and tournaments available, there’s no missing out on a friendly learning game anymore.

play money lobby

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Easy Instructions on How to Play Poker

I thought seeing as though I was on the track of where I play, what I do and how to play poker online I would cover the topic. Easy Instructions on how to play poker and also follow this topic with Poker Rules! (I don’t mean rules as in rocks and is awesome even if it is for the record, I mean: THE POKER RULES!).

how to play pokerSo how to play poker! That’s what I am writing; let me get back to it. Playing poker at a beginner’s level is fun and easy going on the mind. Learning to play is as easy as soaking water into a sponge BUT the game takes a lifetime to master.

I will cover Texas Hold’em, the game that has taken the world to a poker high!

1. Texas Hold’em has 2 to 10 players per table.

2. You are dealt 2 hole cards (only you can see them), so is everyone else of course

3. Any how to play poker tutorial will first talk about bets. So here goes . There are compulsory bets in a poker game called blinds – Big Blind and Small Blind. The blinds are determined at the start of a game by the highest dealt card. Whoever gets the high card is classed as the dealer, following him is the small blind then the big blind. These blinds are forced at the start of each hand.

4. Each person looks at their cards and depending on how good they are they choose their option: fold, call (the same amount of money as the big blind) raise, (make a bet bigger than the big blind) or re-raise if someone has bet before them. The big blind has the option to check if no player before them (Big Blind is last to take their turn) has risen.

5. The dealer then deals 3 cards onto the poker table for all to see. These are called community cards. The community cards are used by everyone! You don’t take them off the table ;-) you use them to make the best poker hand you can combined with the two cards you have.

6. Another round of check, fold, raise and re-raise occurs as players determine whether they have the best hand or can make the best hand. This is followed by another community card (the fourth called the turn) another round of betting, folding and checking followed by the last community card (the 5th, called the river).

7. Final bets, checks and folds are made and the remaining players turn over their cards. The best hand wins! It’s as simple as that. (This is how to play poker in very basic terms)

So, what is the best hand? Here are the Poker Hand Rankings!Poker Hand Rankings

· Royal Flush - A, K, Q, J, 10 - all of the same suit

· Straight Flush - Any five card sequence in the same suit - 5, 6, 7, 8,9 of diamonds an example

· Four of a Kind (also called quads) – All 4 cards of the same denomination – AAAA as an example

· Full House (also called boat) - Three of a kind combined with a pair – K, K, K, Q, Q as an example

· Flush - Any five cards of the same suit – 5 diamonds as an example but not in a straight form.

· Straight - Five cards in sequence, but not in the same suit - 7,8,9,10,J, of varied suits

· Three of a Kind (also known as trips or a set) – Three cards of the same denomination - 999

· Two Pair – Two Separate Pairs – 88 99 as an example

· One Pair - 77 as an example

· High Card – The highest card wins the hand as no player has even made a pair.

So, out of the hand rankings the great poker hand of them all is A Royal Flush! Have fun learning how to play poker by playing away on a play money table and trying to get one .Be sure to push the PrtSc (Print Screen) button on your keyboard if you get 1. The button is located between F12 and Pause Break. You can simply push this button and open paint from your accessories and paste the image of your royal flush to keep for a life time. If you get one live, be sure to get a photo taken, they don’t come too often!

That all for now about how to play poker . Promise to write more on this topics soon :-)

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Senior Citizens in Poker

Senior Citizens in Poker I have previously covered the topic of underage poker players. This blog I thought it to be necessary to give a mention to the other end of the age scale; The Senior Citizens in Poker. The senior citizens have a lot going for them at the poker table. Most are experienced players and have been around the block quite a few times. They are sometimes very much wiser when it comes to life also; they have been alive longer and this is expected. Life skills are definitely something we use in our little world of poker also.

Senior Citizens in poker are usually very good bankroll managers and have a load more cash than the young guns to invest into their hobby, career or lifestyle; whichever you may call poker. Remember senior citizens have had a life time of learning, saving and building their bankroll. As poker players say; “Poker takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master”. Senior citizens are well on their way to being masters of the game.

It can be very hard for the senior citizens though; many of us just don’t realize! There are players that are almost 90 years of age. I know from my personal experiences with close relatives that at this age we humans like to have what I call “nanny naps” in the middle of the day; senior citizens do tire a lot easier. Tiring can make tournament play very difficult in particular. Some tournaments such as the Aussie Millions Poker Championship you are playing 13 to 16 hours a day to make the final table. The thought is enough to tire me without adding on another 40 years to my life. I feel tired playing 7 and 8 hours of tournaments and I ‘think’ I am at peak age for sports.

Senior citizens in pokerOn a very bright note the senior citizens in poker are keeping an active brain. Active minds equate to wonderful outcomes for our health and well being. As we age we tend to slow down our thinking processes. We retire and lay back a little. Sure we may read some books and do jigsaw puzzles but is that really keeping an active mind? By active I mean ACTIVE! I mean thinking as hard as you can to sum up a situation, to count, read, act, watch and be alert nonstop. All of this is in the game of poker.

Many senior citizens I know enjoy walks in the park, bingo, gardening, home bridge games, lawn bowels – I may be biased but I will be a poker player at age 80. It takes more cunning, whit and skill on a mental note than anything else I can think of I would participate in as a hobby after retirement from my day job. It also takes extreme physical effort when you consider the statement above about playing 13-16 hour tournaments. Stewart Scott as an example lost 6 kilograms when he took down the Aussie Millions in 2008 and he is not a big man! It is no easy feat to play these games and any poker player will know it. At the end of each day you have the life drawn out of you. Our Senior Citizens in Poker are indeed TOUGH!

Many of the friends I have that play poker are almost if not over retirement age. To all of you reading this you all rock! Senior Citizens in Poker such as these friends have a load of knowledge to give; to pass down. As the years roll on we all will be passing down our knowledge. I am passing mine to my 12 year old son during home games already. In fact; my 5 year old daughter knows the hand rankings in poker also and at an early age! My point is that senior citizens in poker have wisdom and knowledge that just shouldn’t be over looked. Next time a senior citizen is talking poker to you; don’t laugh or giggle as I have seen some younger poker players do -> LISTEN. You may just learn a trick or two. They are indeed very good on picking up on game and play faults.

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