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Best Poker Books
24 January 2010These recommended poker books found below are good for both the beginning poker player, or the more experienced player looking to take his game to the next level.
7 Poker Dealing Tips
8 November 2009If you want your home poker game to go smoothly, good poker dealing is a must. If there are a lot of poker dealing errors, or even just slow and sloppy dealing, the game can quickly go from being a fun time, to a shouting match. Here are some tips for dealing poker that you should use the next time you decide to host a poker game or poker tournament.
Free Poker Blind Timer Software
4 October 2009A poker blind counter is a piece of software that keeps track of what level you are at in your poker tournament and how large the small and big blinds should be. Some of these free poker blind clocks will also help you seat the poker players at the start of the tournament, and move poker players as people bust out. There are actually quite a few free poker blinds programs on the internet. Some of them just have the basic countdown feature, while others have useful additions like poker chip distribution calculators, or the ability to track your poker league statistics.
Poker Hand Win Rates Against Tight Opponents
4 October 2009If you are playing Texas Holdem Poker, it is important to understand the difference between good starting hands that you should play, and the junk hands that you should fold. One of the biggest differences between winning and losing poker players is their starting hand discipline. How should you pick which starting hands to play? A lot of that depends on your playing style, position, chip stack, etc. but it is all based on how often any given poker hand wins. This link shows the poker hand win rates against any random hand, i.e. a blind vs. blind or a heads up situation. The tables on this page show the poker hand win rates against fairly tight opponents, ones that are being at least somewhat picky about their starting hand selection.
Poker MisDeal Dealing Before Action Completed
3 October 2009When you play a home poker game, especially if you pass the deal around, you are going to have dealing errors. Some errors might be accidentally exposing an extra card, others might be that the dealer deals the flop, turn, or river before betting action on the current round is completed. This mistake happens all the time at home poker games if the dealer is not in the hand and isn’t paying attention.
Exposing A Card When Dealing The Flop or Turn
3 October 2009It is inevitable that there will be dealer errors at your home poker game. Chances are you don’t have a professional poker dealer, and also that you are drinking.
Chopping Blinds In A Home Poker Game
3 October 2009One poker rule that will be familiar to anyone who has played live poker in a casino, but is new to people who have only played online poker, or poker home games, is chopping the blinds. Chopping the blinds occurs when the entire table folds around to the small blind. In a casino, when this occurs, usually both the large and small blind take their blind back without playing the hand. If you are playing poker in a casino and you don’t chop the blinds when it gets folded around to you, other players will often get angry.
When Is An Absent Poker Player Folded
2 October 2009If you host a home poker game there will inevitably be people wandering off to use the restroom, or get some food, or to answer their phone. Which leads the the question, should you wait for the absent player before starting the next hand? Should you deal them out of the next poker hand? Should you deal them a hand and fold it if they are absent?
Poker Table With Built In Chip Racks
2 October 2009A poker table with built in chip racks looks classy when you first see it. However, as you begin to play poker at the table you will notice some disadvantages
Too Many Poker Players For My House
2 October 2009When you first start a poker night the most common problem you are likely to have is how to find poker players. However, since a good poker game often draws a crowd, you could soon run into the opposite problem and have more people who want to play poker than you have seats. So what do you do if you have 12 Poker players on your list but your poker table can only seat 9 players? Here are some options on how to organize your home poker game.