Nines are Wild Poker Blog

The conventional poker wisdom says that there is not such thing as online poker tells. It is hard to argue when you think about it since you do not see your opponent, do not hear their voices, or see their hands trembling when betting. You just cannot.

Those who play a lot of poker online though will tell you that there are reliable tells online. Here are some of them:

Timing Tell

Hesitations give away people when playing poker. Watch out for the timing of the players in the online poker room. Look for the players who has oscillating pace which somehow covers up the real nature of their cards. You should never oscillate and always spend the same time on acting on your cards when it is your turn.

False Stalling

When someone tries to stall, they want you to think that he or she is thinking hard and having a tough decision to make. You will encounter a lot of online poker players like this but as a general rule treat the other players as kosher until you have proven hat they are tricky.

Chat

You will encounter yammerheads in online poker rooms. How they chat is their way of venting out the experiences they are going thru. You will get a lot from what people are saying in chat. The chat box is your way to their state of mind and the state of their skills against you.

Pattern

Things go fast during a poker online game. It is easier to notice patterns in the style of play of someone. Look at the button which will rotate quick in a few minutes. See if they will be raising from the button a lot of times so you will know that he does not have strong hands so you can re-raise and you will see that most likely he will fold.

Playing the daunting game of poker in a casino has its own charm. The solid poker table, the poker faces of opponents, the colorful deck of cards, the bohemian poker chips add to the glory of the most celebrated card game in the world-poker.

If you are visiting a casino for the first time you would be excited and nervous. It is an easy mix of anticipation, a sense of adventure, and fun. Gambling is a very majestic and glamorous profession. Casinos are public card rooms and you should know how to play poker in casinos.

To begin with you should be decently dressed and should carry adequate money for gambling. You must know your betting limits and you should decide which poker game would be played by you in the casino to avoid confusions. Staff members at the casino are there to assist you with your needs so you should not shy away from them. Rather you must question them which would help you in clearing your doubts.

Once you reach a casino you must find a card room of your choice. The dealer should be aware that it is your first time at the casino so that he makes you feel comfortable in the new environment. You will be surprised at the courteous and impeccable service at the casinos. If you as a player are trusting them with your hard earned money they are doing their best to make you feel relaxed and accepted at the casino.

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To make a game attractive the players should take it in its traditional and original spirits. This is the key factor to make the game too attractive and competitive. If the game is not in its traditional spirits then the spectators will feel that they have been fooling. So in order to make the game a grand success the participants should consider the game with full game spirit.

Here we want to talk about Texas Hold’em Poker game. This is a very popular game highly prevalent in North America and Europe. In this game players use certain special type of cards called Holdem and each player can use 5 varieties of cards. Among them there are two hole cards which are considered as the important cards of the game. There are some secret tips to win this game in a tournament. But as far as beginners are concerned it is better to keep with out loosing than winning the game. The very first thing to learn is to avoid committing mistakes and errors. If a player can employ these matters in the game, then he can minimize loosing money to a greater extend.

In a Texas Hold’em Poker game each player will have a tendency to play too many hands. This is the main problem of the game. To overcome this difficulty the best thing is to tighten the game as far as possible. In other words the player must be selective as far as the hands are concerned.

When there are draws such as straight or flush it is better to avoid calling huge bets. The capacity of the bet is determined according to the size of the pot entering in the game. If the size of the pot is small, then the player can accept the straight and flush draws with out any fear. Calling large bets regularly will increase the chance of loosing money in the game.

A very suited hand will improve the possibility to win the same. The players have a tendency to overvalue the cards using. The cards suited more are not only attractive but also have high potential to face the flush draws in the game. Playing with suited cards is the common habit found among the new players of the Texas Holdem Poker game.

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Probably the most talked-about NON-monster vs. monster hand ever on High Stakes Poker, this clash between the Poker Professor Howard Lederer and Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Poker at its ultimate best – incredible.

Can’t blame Howard for not betting the flop imo. He had to have expected Dwan to bet there, and he was probably letting go if he did so…

It was not until the late 1800’s that the poker chips actually came into existence in America. Before the advent of poker chips, people used to play without chips making use of all the precious things like gold pellets, mined gemstones, expensive ores, minerals, and exotic food items.

As the game grew in stature, a need for standardized currency arose, which led to the invention of poker chips. People avoided carrying large amount of cash and poker chips provided them with a substitute to same value of cash. Today, you can have a mountain of chips in front of you — and isn’t that so much cooler than having cash money?

Soon the poker chips were being used everywhere, bars and gambling houses being the major players who collected a fee in return for safekeeping the cash and surrogating it with poker chips. The first chips made use of wood, bones etc but in late 1800’s clay poker chips replaced them.

Coming with the technological progression, new materials came into play like plastic and acrylic which provided a cheap and useful proxy to clay chips. Metals and ivory were also being used by some major gambling houses.

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Funneeeeeaaayy! Gavin Smith is drunk as a ******** and still manages to spank Phil Ivey for the $120k winner-take-all on NBC’s Poker After Dark. I love you, Gavin Poker God!

What a flop for Dag Martin Mikkelsen, flopping the Royal Flush Draw against Chris Lovelace’s 88. Any diamond, any queen, any ace, any king and any ten were good for Mikkelsen. The turn made Dag Martin Mikkelsen’s flush, the river the Royal.

What a miracle hand.

Johnny Chan against Mr. Phil Hellmuth Jr. in 1989.

It’s a strange thing – the no-hole-cam stuff, but it’s fun.

What a horrible call by Johnny Chan, by the way.