Archive for May, 2009

Player Promotions at www.poker.com

Posted by admin @ 5:00 PM, Thursday May 21st, 2009

Personally, I feel that Poker.com is an excellent place to find information on poker. The variance of information on offer is impressive. Online poker room reviews, promotions and updates can all be found onsite, giving prospective players the chance to look at the best attributes of each site before choosing which is best for them.

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Player blogs and latest news updates from the poker world also make for interesting reading, as do player profiles on the most famous names in poker. Information on all poker games, including online casino forms, is available here too, if that happens to be your chosen game.

Poker forums can be found at Poker.com which means that if there is anything about poker that you cannot find onsite (which is highly unlikely) you can always ask fellow players on the forums.
Guides on various aspects of the game are listed onsite, the diversity of which is demonstrated by the fact that there is even a tutorial on building your own poker table.

The section on the history of poker makes particularly interesting reading, and I in fact found myself absorbed in reading some of the articles onsite whilst I was doing some research on the site.
Overall I feel Poker.com is a valuable site which has a lot to offer those searching for particular answers, or simply those with a passing interest.

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poker.com – poker opponents

Posted by admin @ 5:00 PM, Tuesday May 19th, 2009

poker.com – If you usually play a fairly tight poker game, you can often find that players try and raise you out of pots regularly, and the more often you fold to them, the more likely they are to continue this play. Ideally you will pick up a strong hand and ensure these players get their fingers burnt next time they try it, but then strong hands do not always turn up when you need them most.

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I would not advocate simply reraising aggressively next time you get raised heavily, as you might find you are up against a real hand, but if you get your timing right, you can save yourself chips in the following hands.  Generally speaking, you only need to make one well timed reraise with nothing, show it, and players usually start being more wary. If you consistently capitulate to aggressive play you will find yourself being bluffed regularly, but the other poker players see you play back at them with no hand, they’ll often start looking for someone else to pick on.

I know that this can be risky, but the value of such a well timed move is that firstly you will pick up a pot if successful, but secondly, you will be able to pick up some of those pots you would otherwise have been raised out of.
I like to play aggressively myself, and I can tell you from first hand experience that when a poker player called my big bet on the river to show King high and take down the pot two weeks ago, he didnt get bluffed by me again that night.
Knowing that a player has the confidence and skill to make such a call will usually prevent aggressive players bluffing them for a considerable amount of time.