Winner Takes All – Real Money Poker

FullTilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson says: “If your hand is strong enough for a call, it should be good enough for a raise too”. And there are several good reasons that makes raising a better idea than just limping in.

Basically the aim of making a bet is to increase the size of the pot and the amount of money won win at the showdown. It works normally when you have strong hands such as pocket Kings or Aces. But normally your odds to getting rockets is only 1 to 220 and you should player your weaker hands to get involved the game and make some money.

The hands range that you play will depends on several factors, mostly the playing style of your opponents at the table and your position. In early position you will play less hands and late position will play more. So when you decided to put money into the pot, you could do it not for increasing it’s size but getting useful information about the opponents hands, narrow the playing field and take the leading position at the table.

Getting information
Information is one of the most valuable thing at poker and you have to pay for it, but information is a capital that makes profit four you. Just calling the big blind you loose the opportunity to get useful information about the other players hand. If they called your raise than you would know they have strong cards in their hands and that can effect your future actions.

Narrow the playing field
The more players are in the pot, the more chance to have someone better hands than yours. If you need to play against only one or two players your odds are quite better than in case of playing against the full table. In a heads-up a pair is usually enough to win but rarely good enough comparing to 6 or more hands. If you make a raise then most of the players holding speculative hands such as connecting or suited cards will fold and you’ll probably avoid beating by a flush or straight.

Get a better position at the flop
If you’re the last one who made bet at the table pre-flop, then you’ll be the one who need to take an action last time after the flop came down to the table. You will have the better position to make decision. If someone made an aggressive bet and you hand didn’t get better with the flop, you should fold, or the better case, if the flop brought the cards you need, continue betting and make the big win.

FullTilt Poker pro Chris Ferguson says: “If your hand is strong enough for a call, it should be good enough for a raise too”. And there are several good reasons that makes raising a better idea than just limping in.
Basically the aim of making a bet is to increase the size of the pot [...]

Probably the most important rule in te World Series of Poker this year is the so-called „ten-level rule”. It means that in the WSOP 2011 all event will be ended after a maximum of ten levels of playing on a given day. Almost everyone is satisfied with the idea – except the players themselves. When the idea aroused at the very first time, it was obvious that it has a potential of extending some events to an extra day, but it wasn’t expected that many of the players wouldn’t be happy with about it.

The special rule was applied first time in strange circumstances at Event #4 – $5000 No Limit Holdem won by Allen Bari. The 3rd day of the event started with 42 players and however the final table were set soon, the players were informed that they needed to play until the winner left or the ten levels of the days were completed.. Although all players wanted to finish the day and leave the final table to the next one, the tournament staff forced them to continue playing. The tournament went on and the day finished around 3:30 am with four player returning the following day to wrown the bracelet winner.

This wasn’t the only final table that were affected by the ten-level rule. At Event #8 – $1000 No Limit Holden only 3 players needed to return to the final day. Sean Getzwiller, Sadan Turker and Jon Turner didn’t really see any sense of the need to play a few extra hours instead of stopping at the final table and take a rest before that important moment of their life. At Event #11 – $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship George Lind III, Viacheslav Zhukov and Steve Billirakis were forced to finish their session and return to the following day.

Hearing the reflections of the players it’s obvious that they are not really happy with the new rule but WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel seems to be adamant to make even a small adjustment of the rules and said: “those players doesn’t know what’s right for them”. His statement already exposed some more changes of the future WSOP tournaments structure to add an extra to all events as usual on the other poker tournaments of the world such as EPT, APPT or WPT.

Probably the most important rule in te World Series of Poker this year is the so-called „ten-level rule”. It means that in the WSOP 2011 all event will be ended after a maximum of ten levels of playing on a given day. Almost everyone is satisfied with the idea – except the players themselves. When [...]

At 31st May the worlds most important poker event launched. Now it’s a tradition, World Series of Poker 2011 started with the Casino Employees $500 No Limit Holdem Tournament and won by Sean Drake, a part time poker dealer from California. WSOP is the most prestigious poker tournament this year includes 58 poker events with about $180 million of total prize pool. The tournament is being held in Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas and will be finished on 19th July when the final table participants left.

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At 31st May the worlds most important poker event launched. Now it’s a tradition, World Series of Poker 2011 started with the Casino Employees $500 No Limit Holdem Tournament and won by Sean Drake, a part time poker dealer from California. WSOP is the most prestigious poker tournament this year includes 58 poker events with [...]