No matter where you go – it could be a live game, online poker, a poker tournament, anywhere – you’re going to find that one player who wants to push everyone around. This player will usually be talkative and brash, thinking he’s the greatest player in the universe and that he can steamroll everyone that crosses his path. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t realize that humility and changing speeds are what success to the game is really about.
There are a few ways to handle bluffers, and the approach you take should be based on your personality or style of play – whatever you’re most comfortable with or what comes naturally. Don’t try to change styles when combating someone that’s frustrating you at the table. If you play poker that way, they have won.
The first approach to use is to go right back at him. This approach is more for the aggressive player. Most bluffers like to throw big bets out there, but have you ever noticed that when they hit really big they always check (see Tom Dwan)? That should tell you something. If they keep betting big, go over the top. Not only will you win the pot (unless you gave something away), but you will have established a ‘don’t mess with me’ image. Most people say this is a good image to have, because people won’t try to bluff you. Then again, some players make most of their money when others try to bluff them. You must figure out how you want to extract money from others and stick to it.
The second approach to dealing with a bluffer is to let him bluff over and over again. Let him take as many small pots as he wants. Make sure you don’t get frustrated and call with middle pair with a bad kicker just because you want to get lucky and beat him. That’s a bad idea. Just let him keep taking those small pots. What you must realize is that if you keep folding in small pots, it’s possible he’s hitting and you’re frustrating him. Keep your composure. Then, when you hit, play it the same way and let him lead out. Check-raise him on the river. It’s the most powerful play in the book. If you have a hand, you win big. If not, he’ll still respect the check-raise and would need close to the nuts to call.
Everyday new players want to make a living of gambling and start reading strategies about how to win. If anyone knew how to win, don’t you think he would have kept it for himself? What I’m trying to say is that there is no clear strategy about how to win big prizes. Luck can make you a rich man, but you can still win considering other aspects of the casino games.
For example when playing poker you should know that some experts consider winning impossible to predict, but there is one other thing you can do. Some gamblers like to live the moment and use to bet a lot on all of their hands. They will not win too much. Others like to wait for the perfect hand to come, and when they have a rather small hand they just drop. In fact, a good player knows when to drop and when to bet all the way. That is how some people keep winning no matter what their luck is.
This kind of advantages can decide your future as a gambler. Another example of smart things a player can do is choosing the right place to gamble. You can do it in the first place you encounter, or you can do it at a casino that offers big bonusses, free tournaments with real cash prizes, huge sign-up bonusses and more. An online casino is much easier to find, since all the promotions are few clicks away. The number of the players is not that important. A lot of players mean higher jackpots but harder to win, fewer people might mean lower prizes but easier to get to.
Playing a casino online can be frustrating for advaced players but at the same time it helps the newbies. The thing is you can’t see your opponent’s faces, and they can’t see your face. At a higher level the players study their rival’s reactions and when playing with a beginner this can make the difference between losing and winning. Playing online removes this advantage/disadvantage so the game is relaying more on luck.
Useful information…that’s what people usually look for. Indeed, it doesn’t take you too long to find information related to what you’re looking for in certain moments, but finding the right information for your needs might be a little more difficult.
What if I tell you there is a place where all the information and the resources are well organized and browsing has never been easier? Some of you won’t believe it, I know, but the only way you can verify my hint is by visiting the place I’m talking about. Go to Casino Reports and start with the directory section.
The submenus are: online casinos – for the top casinos of the moment, poker rooms – few poker rooms are chosen considering the software, the friendliness and the promotions of each one, sportsbetting reviewing a wide array of quality sportsbetting opportunities, bingo sites, backgammon sites, gin rummy and many other reviews.There is nothing you can think of that is not covered by the directory section. Except maybe if you’re looking for services related information.There is a whole section dedicated to that.
What can you find in the services section? We can start with the bonus hunter submenu, showing you the shortest way to the greatest bonuses at the moment, then we can visit the money train submenu wich will convince you to take the train in order to try to secure the biggest jackpot of the moment. I have to mention the red carpet submenu where information about the high stakes casinos is revealed. The cream of the crop submenu contains links to the top online casinos and to a lot of online casino games such as online slots and online blackjack. The poker has it’s own submenu named poker fever, check that one for the hottest news. Then there is the money for nothing section if you’re looking to get free credit. The bingo swing and the sport lines are also excellent submenus giving you ideas on how and where to place you bets.
Another special thing about this website is that they offer rich media-videos. They even release a weekly gambling news video, you should take that into consideration. That is very short presentation of what you can find in there, it would be best to visit the site and see for yourself if you can learn new tricks reading their reviews. Have fun!
Poker dealers earn quite good money, not as wages but as tips from the table players. Consider dealing 15-20 games every hour. Depending on the prestige of the casino where you’re hired you can get from $1 to over $5 every game, that means you can earn over $100 every hour, that is $400 for a part-time job. Not bad! Not to forget that floor managers have been promoted from all kind of lower jobs, therefore a good and loyal card dealer has it’s chance of becoming a manager someday.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that more and more youngsters are looking for poker dealer schools, and the number of dealer schools are also rising in order to meet the increasing number of students. Beside the good money, it is a flexible job, you don’t have to work many hours, and your customers are usually high class/rich people, it is quite a luxury atmosphere in there.
What should do a person that intends to start a career in casino business as a dealer? First you should look after a job at a lower class casino, to build up you resumee and earn experience. You could start by contacting the nearest casino and ask the manager if you require a certain poker dealer school in order to get hired at that casino. If there is required a special school, contact that certain school and ask about the cost of the course and the number of training hour included in a standard training course.
As soon as you get into the business, you’ll know what you have to do in order to get to the highest level.The poker dealer schools have all tempting offers, just visit their websites and you will find all the detailed information.
Some of the most popular dealer schools are:
http://www.casinodealercollege.com/
http://www.dealer-training.com/
http://www.suncoastdealerschool.com/
http://www.pcidealerschool.com/
Poker hold em (part 1 – how much money should I bet?)
Poker hold em odds calculator tools and explanations were considered in the previous post. Now we have decided to make a guide in order to help all those players that want to learn or want to make clear certain aspects regarding poker hold em rules, strategies and other issues.
We will start with the money involved in poker. There are two types of players: those who play for fun and can bet money in whatever amount makes them happy, then we have those who try to obtain a profit out of this game. In this case you should use a strategy about setting the bets. You must first ask yourself if you can afford to lose the money you plan to bet. If you need those money for other things then back off, unfortunately there have been many others that have lost everything they had because they didn’t know or didn’t follow this basic rule.
How does this happen? You bet money that you need for other things: food, loan taxes or other things like that and when it happens to lose that money you bring more money into the game with the purpose to earn back the money lost in the first place. And so on until you have nothing left to bet and only then you realize what happened. Too late, you’re broke! In order to prevent that from happening you should set a limit of your playable money before the game starts. Never pass that limit!
After you decided how much you can afford to lose you should decide what stakes you want to use. That depends on how much time you plan to spend playing.Usually the stake goes from 1/50 to 1/500 of the total amount planned for playing. For example, if you have $100 you should use stakes from $0.20 up to $2. All these can vary depending on your playing style. Just keep in mind that higher stakes bring higher risk of loosing the money together with higher chances of building up a quick bankroll.
In a future post we will talk about strategies used by famous poker players.
Free Poker Odds Calculator
The poker game is considered to be a game of luck. And so it is, in theory, because no player can predict what will reveal the card next to come. Then how come some people keep winning, we see them all the time winning tournaments or at least they make it to the final table. The answer is those players are master of strategies. They have years of experience in playing this game and they seem to know your moves even before you think of making them. So its easy for them to play the game, when they sit at the table they feel like a fish in the water. What about those who don’t have that much experience? Can they win, can they be one of the quite few people that live their lives making money with the help of casino games? Sure they can. They don’t have to learn hundreds of strategies and they don’t have to be mathematics experts to calculate their chances of winning a certain hand. They can use software applications. Some call them tools, some call them hints and tips and some even call them cheats. We call them poker odds calculators. Whether online or offline, you can find different versions of the same basic application. Below we will provide you with some free poker odds calculator software.
First we will talk about Turnament Indicator. This free software can be downloaded to your PC and can be used offline, which means you can use it not only for online poker games but also when you play real cards poker, at home or anywhere else you like. 
Sure, the application is made to work on a certain online poker table, so once you start it you will see a message saying “finding table…”. That is if you want to use automated input of the dealt cards. You can also do it manually, just double click on a card and a new window containing all the cards that are not already dealt at that moment. Just click on any card to select it. After you choose the two starting cards the tool will already start to show you odds and not only. You can also see what could be the opponent’s best hand. You can also select the total number of payers sitting on that table.
The next odds calculator tool provider is Poker Edge. It takes a little longer to download and install the application since your email address is required in order to start the download. Then the installation is completing online so it might take few more minutes until you can enjoy this odds calculator. And that’s not all, the worst thing is that it is a trial software, so you will need to pay if you want to keep using it (unless you use some hacks, method that we do not recommend). Though a trial, you can use the expert mode of this tool, but its only designed for experienced players. Why I’m posting a review about a not quite free software is that I consider it a complete application, a real pro if you ask me. If you install this tool you will see what I mean. An advice for beginners: stick to the first application I reviewed or look up to the online odds calculator that I’m about to review next.
The site that offers poker players a totally free online poker odds calculator is www.neverwinpoker.com were you will have displayed a poker table and the whole deck of cards. As the games moves on and you choose the dealt cards you will notice the remaining cards will gain a different color. Some will change to green, some to red. The more visible the green color, the better that card is for your hand. The more visible the red color the worse that card is for you and your winning chances will drop dramatically. You will have your winning chances displayed all the time, and the odds will keep changing as you make the cards selection from the right hand side deck. As the game goes on you can select the folded players as “folded” which also has an impact on your winning chances as calculated by the odds calculator. Just remember at all times that even if you have 99.99% chances of winning you still can lose. Only when the odds calculator says 100% you can go all-in without any risk.
I hope these poker odds calculators are just what you have been looking for and I hope these applications will increase your poker earnings with at least 20-30 % of what you had so far. And good luck to all you players out there! You always need it!
