7-30-11
July 30 – Greg Raymer Launches the new FairPlayUSA Push for Online Poker – CardPlayer
7-29-11
July 29 – New “Epic Poker League” Being Launched on CBS – WSJ
7-28-11
July 28 – Man Declared Dead for 25 Years Found Working At Casino – The Star
6-27-11
July 27 – Odds For The WSOP Champ – Las Vegas Review Journal
Poker Lawsuit
July 26 - Tobey Maiguire being sued to give back poker winnings – Toronto Sun
July 26 – New Zealand busting home poker games – NZherald
July 26 – TV Helps Drive Online Poker – Wall Street Journal
Cost To Host A Poker Game
Cost To Host A Poker Game Calculator
Welcome! This calculator is intended to help you estimate the cost to host a poker night. It will give you an idea of how much or how little you can expect to spend to host a poker game. This is not intended to estimate how much rake you should charge players to play at your poker game. In many jurisdictions it is illegal to charge a fee or a rake of any kind, even to cover your costs, so please check your local laws.
This Hosting Cost calculator uses the number of people you expect to have as well as the poker equipment you already own to estimate your cost of hosting a poker game. It assumes that more guests will cost more for more chips, tables, food etc.
Poker Rake Calculator
Welcome to the Poker Rake Calculator
This calculator is intended to help you estimate how much you pay in rake either through live poker play or from online poker. Rake is the fee that the poker room charges on each winning hand. The rake varies from room to room, but is often around 5% of the pot. This calculator is for informational purposes only and is not guaranteed to be accurate. Nor is this calculator an endorsement of online poker play, which is illegal in many areas, including the United States. You should check your local laws before playing online poker.
This poker rake calculator estimates the rake you paid depending on how much poker you play and what type of game you play. Generally higher limits result in bigger pots, so you pay more rake. Playing more hours or more tables will increase the rake you paid. Playing with more players at the table will decrease your rake because for any given number of hands the rake is spread among more people.
Poker Tip Calculator
Welcome to the Poker Tip Calculator
Use this form to estimate how much you have been spending on tips at the poker room over any given period of time. We are not using this to recommend that you stop tipping your poker dealer or your server at the poker table! By all means you should continue to tip people for good service. But if you are tipping for service, you should at least know how much you are spending. Use this calculator to help determine how much your tips add up to over time
This calculator needs you to input your average tip per hand that you WIN as that is the biggest variable between players. Some tip $1 per hand, others $3-$5 or more. Your playing hours, number of players at the table, and average hands per hour help determine how often you win a poker hand, and thus how often you tip the dealer
Poker Bankroll Calculators
If you are going to be serious about trying to make money playing poker then you have to put some thought into how you manage your poker bankroll. It is one thing to play a little poker on the side while you work at your regular job. If you do that, then as long as you don’t play too high of stakes, then your poker winnings are an added bonus, and if you lose you can buy in again with your regular income.
However, if you want to treat poker as a serious source of income, and use it to make money without to fund it from your job when you go broke, then you will need to manage your bankroll. Managing your poker bankroll means playing at stakes where you can afford a losing streak and still continue to play. Many people underestimate how long even a good poker player can go on a losing streak. So it is important to have a large bankroll relative to the stakes that you are playing.
Below is a collection of some of the better poker bankroll calculators available on the internet. Use them to get an idea of how much money you need for poker to stand a reasonable chance of surviving the occasional losing streak without going bankrupt. Some of the poker bankroll calculators are geared towards the traditional brick and mortar poker player, others are geared towards the online poker player. As always, EasyPokerChips.com does not endorse online poker playing by Americans, and encourages you to check the legality in your local area.
Poker Bankroll Calculators
- Poker Bank – This free poker bankroll calculator is an extremely easy to use tool. Simply input your current bankroll and it will recommend the highest stakes that you should play cash games at.
- Sit and Go Planet -This is a free bankroll calculator that gives a maximum tournament & sit and go buy in that you should play for your bankroll and skill level.
- Bankroll Requirements Calculator - This interactive calculator lets you input your win rate and acceptable “risk of ruin” to calculate how large your bankroll should be
- Bankroll Tools - This is 4 free poker bankroll calculators in 1. Including an income estimator, bankroll calculator, and a calculator for sit and gos and multi table tournaments
- U-Devils Calculator - This is a cool calculator that will plot up how large your bankroll should be considering your win rate and acceptable risk of ruin
If you know of any other poker bankroll calculators or have used any of the ones listed above, leave a comment and let us know what you liked or didn’t like
Best Poker Magazines
Best Poker Magazines
Poker magazines are a great way to stay informed on what is happening in the world of poker. The best poker magazines feature coverage for all the major poker tournaments, offer strategy tips from some of the top poker professionals, and are good entertaining reading. Many of the magazines are available in print or online, and some have their entire archives available for free. If you want to read the physical paper copy, but don’t want to subscribe, your local brick and mortar poker room will often stock copies of Bluff magazine or Card Player to entertain players who are killing time waiting for a seat to open up.
Here are some reviews of the better poker magazines available. All of these are worth the time to check out and see if you like them.
Best Poker Magazines
- Card Player – Is the top pick for poker magazines. It has an extension website as well as a Bi-weekly paper publication. In addition to poker tips and strategies they offer detailed coverage of the major poker tournaments as well as player rankings.
- Bluff Magazine – Established in 2004, this is published on a monthly basis. It features advice from top poker professionals as well as tournament reviews. They website has an active poker community where you can discuss strategy with other players.
- Poker Player Magazine – is the first magazine dedicated to poker in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2006 and is issued monthly. It publishes a print and online version.
- All In Magazine – This is an online magazine with some paper publications. It features strategies and tips from the pros as well as the latest poker news. It is published monthly
- Women Poker Player – This is an online only publication dedicated to female poker players. It has an extensive online community and is a great resource for any woman working to be successful at poker
If you know of any other poker magazines that you like, or don’t like any of the poker magazines listed above, please leave a comment and let us know what they were and what you thought about them.
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