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Basic Rules of Poker

Posted in Poker Rules
Post date: January 17, 2011

Although all variations of poker have a separate set of rules each, there are some general rules of poker apply to any poker game. Learn here the basics of poker to get a real understanding of the poker rules in general. A standard poker game played with a 52-card deck, although some games use several decks and can sometimes include Joker. The Joker is sometimes used as a wildcard, and other leaves (such as Deuces Wild), which can replace the numerical value and color of any package needed to win a lot.

Card Sort

The classification of leaves starts from the largest to the smallest value and is an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and the 10-2. Although the Ace card is usually a great value, can also be used as a retail package, especially in games Hi / Lo, such as Omaha Hi / Lo and Stud Hi / Lo. The four strings, sticks, clubs, diamonds and hearts ranked equally. In terms of general rules of poker, dealing is all lots containing five cards and what wins the game with the best five cards. Alternatively, in some poker games winning five smaller leaves the lot, as in Hi / Lo poker.

Stake

General Limit Holdem rules stipulate that the bet can start with a bet ante, and / or a mandatory bet or a bring in bet blind. The Ante is not paid in the cassette, such as blinds and bring ins. The regulations for the blinds and bring in were made to stimulate The bet on a game. Blinds and antes, in general, create a stake in the cassette. If the players do not bet on tape, they simply fold up just to achieve a good batch. When players have put money on the tape is most fortunate to go with a not-so-good deal, or even blofarontas, just to protect their stakes blind.

The general Texas Holdem rules also briefly describe a round of betting that gives players three options. To accept a bet in the pot, increase the bet on tape and increase the stake. Fold and withdraw from the tour, stopping any involvement in the cassette. Players who have already made a bet on the tape form a large blind, for example, can check whether the tape was increased. When a player in the big blind has already made the maximum amount in the cartridge if it has grown, it can be seen next film, almost free, no need to bet more, even if you plan to fold.

Cancel Round

Generally, under the terms of the bet on poker, players reveal their hands effectively, unless they spoil the ride. Relaxation of the round is to pay an amount to tape without having shown the cards. This is a closure in which the best hand wins the entire tape. If two cards are equal in value, the cartridge is divided equally between two players. In Hi / Lo Poker the cartridge can be divided into four.

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Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Basic Beginnings

Posted in Stud Hi-Lo
Post date: January 17, 2011

Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Rules

A popular hi-lo split game, seven-card stud hi-lo offers simple rules for the player who plays stud poker. Players who have never played a hi-lo split game can still follow along without any problem because the rules are pretty easy to understand. The object of the game is to win with the lowest hand or the highest hand and if you are feeling lucky, then you may even qualify with both the strongest and the weakest hand and rake in the entire pot!

Below, basic rules and tips are offered to help players begin playing Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo:

o The card game offers two ways to win but in order to qualify for the low hand, an eight or lower is required for a hand to constitute a low winning hand. If there are no low hands on the table, then the strongest hand played wins. Some exceptions may apply to this rule and they are always posted at the start of a game.

o The “A” (ace) is used in Seven-Card Hi-Lo as the high card or low card.

o When determining a low hand, the flush or straight carry no significance in the low hand. For example, a straight 2,3,4,5,6 may take the high hand based on the fact it is a straight but it will take the low hand unless someone has an A,2,3,4,5 because 2,3,4,5,6 is a low hand and the straight is not understood in the low hand.

o The game follows the regular game of 7-card stud in that the player is dealt two “down” cards called ‘hole’ cards (also called pocket cards) and one card up which is called the ‘door’ card. As the rounds of betting begin and end, the dealer will then deal three more “up” cards and one more card “face-down”.

o Highest and lowest hands always split the pot and one player can easily hold both the highest and the lowest hand.

The game begins with an ante from each player. Stakes are set before the game starts and player who has the lowest card showing must post what is called the “bring-in” which is similar to posting blinds. If several players tie for placing the “bring-in” then the suits are used to rank and decide the weakest hand. Suits rank Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and then Clubs in descending order with Spades being the highest ranked.

Players will call the bring-in bet, raise it or fold to it. Betting starts left of the bring-in and proceeds clockwise. After the initial cards are dealt, another card will be dealt face up and referred to as third-street. Then, another card will be dealt and called fourth-street. The final cards dealt to the player are called fifth-street and the river with the river card being the seventh and final card dealt and it is dealt face down.

After the betting rounds and all seven cards have been dealt in proper sequence, the best five card hand will be used to determine the low hand and the best high hand. Winners split the pot.

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Learn Omaha Hi/Lo Poker Starting Hand Rankings

Posted in Omaha Hi-Lo
Post date: January 17, 2011

In order to make money playing Omaha High-Low or Omaha-8 Poker, you need to apply a strong and consistent strategy. Many beginning Omaha Hi/Lo players will make the mistake of playing far too many hands because nearly every hand looks playable. This article will cover starting hands in Omaha Hi Lo Poker, as well as strategies to effectively play these hands pre-flop.

Nearly every hand you will have a pair, two suited cards or better. Unfortunately, these hands are substandard in Omaha HiLo and they are what I call cash trap hands. They’re hands that trap you into calling further bets once you call pre-flop. This is because with 4 hole cards and 3 community cards, it is very likely you will hit the flop in some way. The problem is, often times you will be drawing to a second-best flush draw, low end of a straight or worse full house.

This is why in Omaha Hi/Lo poker patience is key – careful and conservative starting hand selection will always reward the patient player. Omaha is perhaps the easiest game to consistently win money at (in limit cash games) as long as you are patient and selective.

In Omaha Hi Lo, understanding starting hands can be a little bit more complex than in Texas Hold ‘Em. A hands value goes up significantly if it has a chance to win both the low and the high (as opposed to just the high). It also goes up if it is coordinated (like 10, J, Q, A) or “double suited” (KsAsAc2c). Also when I talk about ‘Low Cards’ I am referring to 2-6.

That being said, the following is how I generally rank starting hands in Omaha-8.

Premium Hands

These are the few hands that I will almost certainly raise or re-raise with in the Omaha High-Low games that I play.

Any A23x - This has a good chance to win the low and also a chance at taking the high. You hope to draw to a wheel with this type of hand. Bonus if the ace is suited.

Any Double Suited Aces - With a hand like this I have a good chance of getting a flush draw, or of course there is also the possibility of hitting a set and boating up. Bonus if the hand is coordinated.

Any A2xx With A Suited Ace - I don’t generally raise on only an A2 in limit cash games. Most of the time you will only be drawing to a low with a hand like that anyway, so it is not usually profitable to raise it pre-flop. I have found however that it can be quite profitable to raise pre-flop when you have an A2 with the ace also suited. You can flop the powerful ‘nut low/nut flush’ draw and keep pushing the pot until the river. I have scooped $300 pots in $2/$4 limit Omaha H/L games by doing this.

Those are pretty much all you should be auto-raising with in Omaha High/Low cash games. Tournaments are another story entirely, but I’ll get to that another day. I see so many people consistently lose at Omaha by raising pre-flop every time they look down at a marginal hand. I watch them lose their money and cringe, and I can’t encourage you enough to please play your hands conservatively and selectively if you want to consistently win at Omaha Hi/Lo. If you’re patient enough, the game will pay you off bigtime.

Quality Hands

These are hands like KsKcJs10c or As3sJc4d. It is not generally profitable to raise with these hands pre-flop, but it is okay once in a while when you are in good position or have a good read on the table. You will generally call almost any bet however and see the flop with these hands.

Pretty much all A2, A3, big pairs in coordinated hands and double suited big cards (queen or higher) fall into this category. Also random hands with low straight possibilities fall into this group, like 2346.

Any A2xx or A3xx - You play these for the low, hoping that you also end up with a high as well. If you don’t flop two pair, a set, a low draw or nut flush draw you should probably fold on the flop.

Big Pairs (Coordinated) - Big pairs are great as long as the hand is coordinated. This includes ‘double pairs’, like KsJsKcJh. Big pairs are jacks and above. Big pairs are so much better than smaller pairs because the ideal with a big pair in Omaha is to make the best full house possible when the board pairs (having flopped a set). With a strongly coordinated hand, you are also left the possibility of flopping nut straight draws or strong flush draws.

Coordinated Low Cards With a Deuce - This includes coordinated low pairs like 3c4s2c2h and unpaired hands like 2s3s4c5d. It notably does not include hands without a deuce, as it becomes much more difficult to fight for both the low and the high without one. The ideal here is to flop a set, two pair, straight, straight draw or low draw and end up hitting both hands.

Playable Hands

These are hands that are merely playable. I will usually call a small raise, but generally will not call a raise-capped pot with one of these hands. I generally see the flop with these if it hasn’t been raised. I never raise with these hands pre-flop.

Any Big Pair - AA, KK, QQ or JJ. Doesn’t matter which or if anything is suited or coordinated, I generally see the flop with these. I will often times throw the hand away if I don’t hit a set on the flop.

Any Suited Ace - I like to see hands with suited aces. I will usually fold after the flop unless I flop a nut flush draw, two pair or trips.

Any 23xx - You like to see the flop with a hand like this because you will draw to the nut low if an ace hits the board. You also still have a chance at the high, because remember low hands can play high but high hands can’t play low. I usually fold these post-flop if I don’t get a nut low draw, straight draw or 2 pair.

Any 4 Low Cards Without a Deuce - Paired or unpaired (5543 or 6543). I like to see flops with these, hoping to make a straight/set and back door a low or vice-versa.

Any Connected or One-Gapped 2 Pair - Ex. 7766 and 9977. It doesn’t matter if they are suited. This allows you a chance at flopping a set and a straight draw and other similar possibilities.

With all of those hands that I play, I am probably considered on the loose end of many Omaha High-Low poker players. Scotty Nyugen is known to have said that no hand is playable in Omaha-8 without an ace.

Now I have two more hand categories left to go. These are the hands that you shouldn’t play.

Cash Trap Hands

These are the hands that trick you into thinking that they might be playable. You should almost never play hands like this. If you consistently put money into the pot when you have hands like this, you will lose money in the long run.

Middle Connected Hands - Hands like 6789 and 5679 are not playable. The best possible hand that you are usually drawing to is the high end of a straight that gives someone a low. Then again, your other option is to draw at the bottom end of a straight. Either way, you lose. When your best possibilities with a hand both aren’t that great, you should probably just fold it before the flop.

Disconnected 2-Pair - Hands like 9933 or 4488. These hands simply aren’t worth playing when you work out the probabilities involved as your only hope is to flop a set – due to the 2 in your hand, 3 on the board rule you have no straight possibilities and any flush possibilities will be substandard.

Double Suited Junk - People look down at double suited hands like 6sJs9c2c and limp into the pot all the time. Your probability of scooping the pot with a hand like this is very low so you might as well not even try.

3 Connected Cards & Junk - Hands like KJ92. You want your hands to either give you a chance at both a high and a low or to all be coordinated. You can’t take a little from column A and a little from column B.

One Suited Big Card - A single suited queen or king in your hand won’t make your rags any better.

Any Middle/Low Pair & Junk - Hands like 2279 or 8894. These hands are pretty much useless due to probability, again.

Junk Hands

These are hands that are simply awful and fairly evidently unplayable. This includes all junk hands, like 469K and three of a kinds like JJJ4 (the only playable 3 of a kind hands in Omaha High/Low include an A2, A3 or suited ace). These are always folded pre-flop unless you’re in a blind and can see it for free. Don’t even be tempted to call a raise out of the big blind – it isn’t worth it.

That’s all for my Omaha HiLo Poker hand ranking system. Keep checking in for more Omaha-8 strategy, tips and tricks right here at Omaha High-Low Strategy.

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Tips for Omaha 8 or Better

Posted in Omaha
Post date: January 17, 2011

You learned the basic principles of how to play the game as well as the terms and tons of situations where you can see yourself into. In addition to your Omaha 8 or Better poker knowledge, this article tends to give you the tips for better play at this exciting game.

Large portions of your payroll will disappear quicker that you expect it if you play speculative hands in any poker game you are into.

First, let us discuss about the ace. The ace is the only card that can be played both ways so it is considered as the most powerful card in the deck in Omaha 8 or Better. Not only does it need to make nuts low, obviously it in need to make nut straight and flushes as well. Most of the time, you will loose if you are not holding or drawing to the nuts in almost all cases.

Hands that have A-2 and two coordinating cards are the strongest in Omaha 8 or better. Wanting an A-2 with a card above 9 or another wheel is also ideal. To have at least two cards suited preferably with the aces works to as well ass A3 are strong cards. These are the kinds of hands are generally for raising prefops. Although A4 and two coordinating cards can be played, it is better if you played cautiously while learning the game at the same time. There is a possibility that you can play A5 and two and never use A6 and two coordinating cards from blinds to no raise in Poker Games. A7 and A8 are not advisable to be played because they can make worst lows and will be time consuming.

Paying attention to the board should be done when playing Poker hands with 2-3 because thy can also become trap hands. Make sure an ace hits the board to be able to play most hands starting with 2-3. Your hands will be next to nothing when a low draw drops at the table without a single ace.

Most of the cases can lad to winning only half of the pot because high hands in Omaha Hi/Lo are tricky to play when the board comes low or is drawing low when playing high cards in 8 or better comes when the board comes low or is drawing low is indeed a problem. You should probably play high cards in one or two scenarios. You may either be in the blinds to raise where you can see the flop with high cards or if you are into a tight game and multiple players are seeing the flop. The probabilities are low because your poker tournaments opponents have a lot of low cards. It is time to fold if the flop comes low or middling.

Hands that include the 7, 8, and 9 are some of the biggest trap hands. Not only does it costs you a lot of money, in most cases straights including the 7-8-9 will not be the nut straight and will just cost you money.

When playing hands that are unsuited, be cautious. Hand with as A-2-3-K unsuited may look great, but it will leave you drawing to just lows and straights. Flush is a common high hand, you still cannot play it. Even when strong, a hand that is unsuited will usually end up a one hand.

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Texas Hold Em Poker

Posted in Texas Hold’em
Post date: January 17, 2011

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Poker Room Review

Posted in Poker Room
Post date: January 17, 2011

Recently Annie Duke, professional poker player and self-described mom, girlfriend, health nut, humanitarian and all around good decision maker, ended a lengthy affiliation with the online poker site UB.com.

Commenting on her website, she had this to offer regarding the split, “It’s bittersweet, but I’ve decided to leave UB. I have nothing but positive things to say about UB and my experiences with the brand, management team, and dedicated employees who work hard every day to deliver a terrific online poker experience for players like you. I’ve sincerely enjoyed wearing the UB patch, but it’s time.”

Duke, who left UB at the same time as Phil Hellmuth, said she would not be seeking sponsorship at another poker site, although it is very likelyHellmuth will do so.

Annie Duke has always been independent, growing up in Concord, New Hampshire, part of a family that readily embraced cards and competition. Her parents were highly educated academics and she grew up on the grounds of St. Paul’s prep school, in what she has called “ a sea of conservatism and privilege.” Her brother, poker player and one of the founders of Full Tilt Poker, Howard Lederer, was her ally and chief competitor.

She attended Columbia University, picking up double degrees in English and Psychology, then moved on to graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania with the intention of following in her parent’s footsteps in a career as a teacher. Instead, she proposed to Ben Duke, a longtime friend, and the two headed west, ending up inn Billings, MT, where Duke began playing poker to pay the bills.

Her brother initially helped finance her poker playing, acting as a coach and mentor. In 1994, he suggested she check out the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Vegas. She entered the Main Event and ended up in finishing in 13thplace in what was her first WSOP experience, and even managed to knock out brother Howard, holding A-A versus his A-K. Excited about her poker career prospects, she moved to Vegas full time and prospered, becoming the well-known poker tutor to Ben Affleck.

Duke steadily progressed as a player, and eventually became a record holder for the most cashes at the WSOP by a woman player, with 38. She also won a bracelet n 2004, outlasting 234 players in the WSOP $2000 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split. That same summer, she won $2 million in the No-Limit Texas Hold’em winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. That had been the most money ever won in a single event by a woman, and that feat held until outdone by Annette Obrestad in the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

In 2005, she wrote an autobiography entitled, Annie Duke: How I raised, folded, bluffed, flirted, cursed and won millions at the World Series of Poker. She has also made a series of DVD’s called Annie Duke’s Advanced Texas Hold’em Secrets, How to Beat the Big Boys, Annie Duke’s Beginner’s Guide To Texas Hold ‘em, and Annie Duke’s Girl’s Guide To Texas Hold ‘em.

She also is known for her appearance on the TV show Celebrity Apprentice where she went head to head with Joan Rivers.

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Playing Poker at Online Poker Rooms

Posted in Poker Room
Post date: January 17, 2011

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Online Poker Rooms

Posted in Poker Room
Post date: January 17, 2011

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Online Poker

Posted in Poker Room
Post date: January 17, 2011

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