Nines are Wild Poker Blog

Anything that is too much is bad for us, so the saying goes. This also applies for poker. You might know a ton about the game, played thousands of hands, but too much confidence can do some bad stuff in your game.

Check out the list below for signs that you might have a problem with your poker game.

*Playing substandard hands can be one of the most expensive mistakes that you can commit in poker. If you have the habit of playing low suited connectors and waiting for the flop, then you got a problem.
*Ace. So what. If you play every Ace that you get without thinking hard if it is coupled with another good card, then you have another leak to seal off.
*If you know that your opponent has a hand that can beat your cards and still you push ahead then you might just give away your chips and save some time.

*When you always want to be sure and end up as a calling station.
Backing down of a big pot when you have some doubt that your hand can be better than your opponents.

*Playing the same kind of game all the time regardless of the changes in the kind of play on the table. Remember that any changes should trigger the shift in your winning strategy.

*Playing in every form of poker you know. This isn’t so bad if you are winning but if you are losing a lot of money, you have to find your niche where you can excel. Look for the kind of game that suits your style.

*Pushing too hard to win. You have to take control if you always find yourself forcing issues with your good cards against an environment of straights and flushes. If it does not look good, you should let it go.

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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Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen playing Jimmy Fricke in the Aussie Millions. Jimmy Fricke IMO did not play this hand too well — he could have raised on the turn for example — now, he just lucked out by hitting that Ace of clubs on the river…

He’s well fat too!

I’m a big fan of The Bear Barry Greenstein, and I love the fact that he’s so in touch with the web. He’s got  a great personal site, he’s got  a lot of fans on the web, and the internet has voted his poker book “Ace on The River” amongst one of the best.

Here he goes spreading the 2+2-love saying “LOL DONKAMENTS” on High Stakes Poker.

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!

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.