What's A Poker Teleseminar?

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.

The official home of pokerteleseminars can be found by clicking this: POKERTELESEMINARS 100% LIVE TRAINING

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

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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The Poker Mask Poker Psychology

The Poker Mask Poker Psychology

Many people in both the world of poker and also in life itself hide, hide behind a mask. While some people in real life have mental illness and a psychological reason for not showing their real self to the world around them, other people have no real excuse for not showing their true colours. Funnily enough, the people who hide behind a mask in the game of life make great actors and actresses and also great poker tournament players. Or do they?

To determine if a person who hides behind a mask is indeed a great player we need to work out why they are hiding. Obviously if psychological illness is involved it is unlikely that the mask is going to help them at a poker table. For the record, I don’t mean those people with mental illnesses such as depression. I mean those people hiding behind a mask due to childhood trauma or the like causing them to snap in the brain, I mean really snap too!

If a person hides behind a mask due to fear of what people think, again they are not going to make the greatest of poker players. Indeed these people who hide behind masks can be over run and slaughtered at a poker table easily. It may be possible though they would go ok playing online poker.

If a person hides behind a mask as they don’t want to know you, if they hide behind the mask to avoid you knowing them as a real person – this is when the good poker player steps in! These people have skill. I have seen it my whole life. They have complete control over which people they show their true colours too. These people can be brilliant poker players; their mask is the greatest of poker strategy. Unfortunately, there are a ton of these people who are far from humanly nice, but hey! Being nice doesn’t come into place while on the felt!

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Adjusting to Pro Status as a Female on Online Sites

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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Rakeback Does Pay In Online Poker

Rakeback Does Pay In Online Poker

Each day that comes and goes most people reading this article will have some game of online poker. Maybe it will be a 10c+1c Sit N Go, possibly it will be playing on a 25c/50c cash table. If you are playing bigger stakes such as $10+$1 or even $200 buy-in tourneys or of course higher stakes cash then rakeback is of most importance.

Regardless of your play level rakeback is money in your pocket. For those who don't know what rakeback is; let me explain!

Rake is taken from every tournament buy-in and from certain hands during cash table play (in short). The rake is how the casino makes their money. As an example a $10+$1 tournament pays the online poker room $1.

Many people have rakeback on every room they play. For those who don't think of the benefits! Let's say you play for 5 hours on a cash table. You are likely to get around 30% rakeback; some give 40% rakeback and depending on the stakes you play that can really add up! Some people receive hundreds of dollars in rakeback on a daily level (obviously they are high stakes players). Getting $1, $2, $3 or even $10 back in your pocket each day really pays off if you are a low limit player.

Many players signed up with the online giants without rakeback. This is a real problem as they are losing out on money they could otherwise be making without effort. I suggest to join up to another poker room in addition to the one you are playing on if you are lacking rakeback. If you play on a network and like the tournaments and games, you can always join up with one of the other sites on the network and you still get to play where you want (in a round abouts way).

If sticking with the online giant you are with is your thing then nothing really hurt except your pocket and not too badly. In my opinion though, as with everything "Every Cent Counts!"

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Play Psychic Poker, Using Your Instinct and Tells Explained!

Play Psychic Poker, Using Your Instinct and Tells Explained!

Have you ever walked into a room and gazed into another person’s eyes and got a "feeling"? A feeling so intense you had to look away. Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? Have you ever felt uncomfortable around a person and thought "this person is BAD" or “good”? On another note do you think you can pick caring humans and honest humans, from the sneaky and sly, nasty ones? These feeling as more then helpful at a poker table, let me explain!

At a poker table you rely a lot on these feelings. Some of us just don’t listen to these feelings. Our mind has the tendency to trick us out of listening. If you can pick up on these "feelings" when socializing, you can train your brain to do it whilst playing poker.

There are mainly mind facets in a game of poker. A classic example would be Doyle Brunson having the favourite hand of 10, 2 off suit. In theory this hand is a “trash hand” – to be folded as quickly as we see it, but not for a master reader of “feelings” such as Doyle. It is possible that Mr. Brunson would have made a poker psychic! I can't quite remember why that's his favourite hand right now, but my point is, he plays it!

Gus Hansen recently was branded a fish amongst the sharks. I giggled as I sat back and watched him smash heads playing online poker and wipe the table of sharks clean the next day, including the person who made this accusation. Knowing your opponent is important, but knowing yourself and gathering "feelings" is more so.

I use Doyle and Gus as examples for what I refer to as psychic poker. Sure their poker skills are great. But reading feelings, tells and the like is their master trade. The masters watch for not only tells such as heart beats, and other obvious ones that are stated all over the internet and in poker strategy books, but go with their gut, analyse people and overcome any fear they have inside. They KILL the tendency of the brain to trick them out of what they feel, the initial gut feelings they get.

The next time you see a person and get an immediate “feeling” that they are angry with you, that they are sad, overwhelmed or intensely happy - remember, you were right, there is no doubt you were right! The same applies to playing “psychic poker” you will also be right if you are in the next poker hand and your mind tries to trick you into folding when your initial "feeling", your "instincts", told you the person has a much "weaker" hand or "is bluffing". Psychic poker, using all of our natural abilities to see tells works, try it!

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Learn to Play Poker Online

Learn to Play Poker Online

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.

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