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Online Poker Bankroll Building – 5 Tips For Building A Poker Bankroll Online

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There are many important success factors involved in building a poker bankroll. These factors go far beyond some of the obvious things such as bonuses and freerolls. This article looks at these success factors, listing 5 tips for players serious about building a poker bankroll online.

Poker Bankroll Building Tip #1 – Not All Bonuses Are Equal

The first place many players seeking to build a poker bankroll look is to the sign-up bonuses that almost all poker online sites offer. The key point here is that the biggest bonus is not always the best. For example some sites offering very large bonuses have extremely low clearance rates – meaning that choosing 2 smaller bonuses may have resulted in faster poker bankroll building.

Poker Bankroll Building Tip #2 – Look for Hidden Incentives

Features such as VIP Clubs, Freerolls and Cashback can contribute significantly to your online poker bankroll building. Make sure that any site you sign up for offers these incentives. Another incentive is regular reload bonuses, these are aimed at existing players and offer additional bankroll building cash bonuses which are often linked to your VIP club rank.

Poker Bankroll Building Tip #3 – Play Within Your Bankroll

The most common mistake made by beginning poker players is incorrect bankroll management. If you are serious about building an online poker bankroll you must take a disciplined approach to bankroll management. This means ensuring that no one poker session risks more than a small percentage of your total online bankroll. A good rule of thumb is to buy in to cash Aussie casino games for no more than 5% or to have a minimum of 50 buy-ins for the level of sit n go or multi player tournament in which you play.

Poker Bankroll Building Tip #4 – Practice Good Game Selection

If the 10th best poker player in the world played only with the 9 better players then she would quickly lose her bankroll. While this may sound like a cliche it applies to every online poker player too. Make sure you take the time to select tables with the weakest opposition possible. If your preferred game and level at your current site is full of good players then look around for an alternative site. Having an edge over the opposition is a vital component in building a poker bankroll online.

Poker Bankroll Building Tip #5 – Never Stop Learning

The single biggest contributor to your success in building an online poker bankroll is to ensure you are a better player than your opponents. This can only be achieved by studying the game, including your own strengths and weaknesses. Ensure that you dedicate some of your playing time to studying strategy articles and analysing hands or common situations. As your understanding improves you can move up levels which will boost your online poker bankroll building efforts even more.

GL with Poker Bankroll Building, Mark

Poker Pros Understand Fold Equity
A level of online poker aggression that rarely gets discussed, but yet is quite prevalent and a large part of Texas Holdem poker games is fold equity. Fold equity is an advantage that the poker pro creates for himself by betting and raising, rather than just calling, with the intent of making his opponents fold their hands.

Poker Professional Reality
With the huge increase of people playing poker online and in Best UK Casino Sites, the thought of becoming a poker professional always enters peoples minds. As appealing as becoming a poker professional might be to you, it is not easy to become a poker pro.

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Is there a trap?

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:02:57 +0000

Many a time to just get holds of a single bonus, you may need to play at least a hundred hands; this is universal for all Party Poker Bonus Code sites. If you look at it the poker rooms they are barely at a risk, the lure of bonus to the players is enough to make a player play many hands which eventually generates the amount of bonus or profit for the room. In Certain cases, associates pay money to poker rooms, to check whether the site has been created or not. This is a good situation to be in for the poker sites.

Raked Hands

It is difficult to play a poker game with $50 in hand, particularly when your luck has not been shining and you have not been getting good cards.

PokerNews Op-Ed: The November Nine – Who’s the Best for Poker?

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Poker News Op-Ed: The November Nine – Who’s the Best for Poker?
With less than a week to go before the “November Nine” return to Las Vegas for a shot a poker immortality, sports books are setting lines, office pools are coming together, and many of us in the poker media are busy speculating what effect our next…

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The Nightly Turbo: New WSOP Bracelets, Champion Leads UKIPT Dublin, and More

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The Nightly Turbo: New WSOP Bracelets, Champion Leads UKIPT Dublin, and More
May 18 2012, Brett Collson Related Articles The Weekly Turbo: Dwan, Laak and Cates Added to Premier League, WSOPE Schedule, and More The Nightly Turbo: WSOP $1 Million Buy-in Attracts Whales, UKIPT Nottingham, and More The Nightly Turbo: WSOP Europe Schedule, SuperStar Showdown Betting Odds, and More Related Tournaments Share It Tags UKIPT, WSOP, PokerStars, bwin, Partygaming, Party Poker Print The market has officially closed, so it’s time to take your eyes away from your Facebook stock and catch up on the latest poker news. In this edition of the Nightly Turbo, we’re bringing you the new-look World Series of Poker bracelets, updates from the UKIPT Dublin Main Event, and more. In Case You Missed It Dan “djk123″ Kelly was among the winners in the PokerStars SCOOP on Thursday. Martin Harris and Mickey Doft have all the details in the Day 12 SCOOP recap. How was the high-stakes action at the PokerStars tables this week? Read the Online Railbird Report to find out the week’s biggest winners and losers. @AsianSpa was back with his latest blog on Friday. This week he talks about the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, mending fences with Jon Friedberg, and more. Several first-timers will be heading to the World Series of Poker this summer. Which ones should you be watching? We tell in you in the latest edition of the 2012 WSOP Rookie Roundup. Are you drafting a fantasy poker team for the WSOP this summer? Rich Ryan has some tips about how to put together the most productive group of players. Did you miss anything from the past week? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Kristy Arnett and Sarah Grant break down all the big stories in the PokerNews Weekly. New WSOP Bling The World Series of Poker has unveiled the new gold bracelets that will be awarded to each winner at this year’s WSOP and WSOP Europe. Celebrity jeweler Jason Arasheben, also known as Jason of Beverly Hills,” was selected to design this year’s gold bracelets. Each piece features a collection of round cut diamonds, while the four card suits will feature rubies and black diamonds. The bracelet features over 160 grams of 14 karat gold and over 35 carats of flawless diamonds. Arasheben has designed championship rings for the Los Angeles Lakers, plus custom jewelry for celebs like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Matt Kemp. Blinger is Better, said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart. Jason grasped the heritage of WSOP bracelets, but was only interested if he could take it up several notches. This is a trophy that truly embodies the promise of todays WSOP seemingly unthinkable dreams are dealt each year. I challenge anyone to keep a poker face when they see this bracelet in person. Photo courtesy of Jason of Beverly Hills Do you like the new bracelet? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Playing Like a Champion Day 1a of the 770 UKIPT Dublin Main Event saw 199 players take to the felts at the CityWest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. At the end of the day only 91 were left standing, and amateur player named Champion was on top of the leaderboard. William Champion, a data storage engineer from the U.K., bagged the most chips after the first day of play. Champion finished with 129,700, many of which came from Barny Boatman when Champion turned top set and got value on all three streets. Boatman, meanwhile failed to survive the day. Among the notables that advanced to Day 2 were Sam Razavi (20,800), Max Silver (21,100) and Dara O’Kearney (20,700). Team PokerStars Pro Jude Ainsworth, Surinder Sunar, Simon Trumper, Ross Boatman, and two-time UKIPT winner Nick Abou Risk busted on Day 1a and will not be joining the aforementioned players when the Day 1 flights combine on Saturday. Here’s a look at the top 10 stacks from Day 1a: Place Player Chips 1 William Champion 129,700 2 Paul McCaffrey 112,000 3 Marc McDonnell 10,600 4 Michael Farrelly 90,400 5 Graeme Crozier 86,900 6 Pat Rooney 73,700 7 Bruce Jones 73,500 8 Shyam Markus 66,300 9 Szymon Gajda 61,300 10 Darren Kearney 60,300 We’ll be providing results of the UKIPT Dublin Main Event in the Nightly Turbo next week. For live updates from the Main Event, visit the PokerStars Blog. Bwin.Party Gets Social Social media is becoming the way of the Internet, and bwin.party isn’t far away from getting in on the action. The company says it is close to launching a social gaming platform that will see the worlds of real money gaming and social gaming converge. Our strategy to enter the social gaming market is almost complete and we plan to host an analyst briefing to present our strategy later this month when we will provide further details on how we will enter this exciting new business segment,” the company said in a statement this week. “We believe that by leveraging our core assets, we can make a meaningful inroad into this fast growing and profitable market with relatively low levels of incremental investment.” Bwin.party co-CEO Jim Ryan sees significant potential in the social gaming market. He told PokerNews earlier this year that the company’s main objective for growth is bringing more of a social appeal to the consumer base, which in turn would provide maximum entertainment value for customers. “This represents a major opportunity for bwin.party and we have a number of initiatives already underway in this area that we expect to drive value for shareholders in the medium to long-term,” the company said. Read more at bwinparty.com. Live Poker in North Carolina? North Carolina lawmakers have begun deliberating whether to allow live-dealer card games at the state’s only brick-and-mortar casino. State legislators this week approved a bill that would sanction the Harrah’s Cherokee Casino to offer Las Vegas-style card games like poker and blackjack. The bill passed by a vote of 33-14 and will now be passed along to the House. Per North Carolina law, live-dealer games are illegal everywhere in the state. Harrah’s Cherokee currently only offers video machines, but the new legislation could bring up to 400 additional jobs to the Harrahs Cherokee Casino and Hotel. A percentage of the revenues from the casino would be sent to the North Carolina education department. Read more at goerie.com. Follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Follow Brett Collson on Recent Articles 2012 World Series of Poker Rookie Roundup: Harrison Gimbel The Online Railbird Report: Brian “$tinger 88″ Hastings Returns with $379,000 Win PokerNews Weekly: May 18, 2012 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 12: Dan “djk123″ Kelly Earns SCOOP Victory $50 free at Poker770 – Return on Monday for More Exclusive Offers from Poker770 Most Popular This Week 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 7: Six-Figure Scores For Mercier and Galfond; Deeb Wins 2nd Event The Nightly Turbo: Phil Galfond’s College Years, Zoom Poker’s Official Launch, and More Andy Moseley on Learning to Play Poker, High-Stakes Games in Macau, and More The Weekly Turbo: Big Changes for the WSOP, Lock Poker Leaving Merge Network, and More 2012 PokerStars SCOOP Day 6: Barbero, Deeb, ElkY Each Make Final Tables Comments Judging only by the appearance of the bracelet, it wouldn’t surprise me to see a big box of them on display in the Rio gift store, priced a maybe… $6 each.

Hollywood Casino GM Blames Weather For Revenue Decrease

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Hollywood Casino GM Blames Weather For Revenue Decrease
The Hollywood Casino in Maine was supposed to be a savior for the economy when it opened as the first casino in the state. The early revenue figures backed up what many gaming analysts had predicted, that the casino would bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the state budget.This past week, the University of Dartmouth Massachusetts issued their annual report on gaming in the Northeast, and Hollywood Casino was one of the establishments that saw revenue decrease in 2011, compared to their 2010 numbers. The drop in revenue, according to General Manager John Osbourne, was due to the weather that the state received during the year.”We literally had over eight feet of snow in about three months,” said Osbourne, “with the cold weather the snow stayed here. So it impeded people’s ability to get to Hollywood Casino.”Osbourne expects that the revenue figures will rebound in 2012, and will show an increase over last year. he also predicted that the casino could continue to increase their revenue after table games were installed back in March.”We actually saw an increase much higher than that (five percent), close to eight percent just on the slot machine side with the opening of the table games on March 16th. So we’re seeing that same trend continue through April.”Table games have made a difference not only in Maine, but also in other Northeastern states. Pennsylvania installed table games last summer at their casinos, and this year Pennsylvania has surpassed New Jersey as the second largest casino gambling destination in the US.Maine lawmakers are considering expanding their gaming industry to include additional casinos, and Massachusetts legislators finally worked out the details on a law that will bring casinos to Massachusetts for the first time in the coming years. Massachusetts hopes to have casinos open in 2013.Hollywood Casino has been packed with customers since it opened, with gamblers no longer having to travel from Maine to New Jersey or Connecticut to enjoy casino gambling. The slots and poker tables have been so busy on weekends that there has been waiting lists for players.”The blackjack, roulette-type games are doing about 50% better that we had forecast and poker is nearly the demand than what we had estimated based on the population in the area,” said Osbourne. April 14, 2012Posted By Terry GoodwinStaff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.comSubmit News!

Bernard Tapie Bio

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Bernard Tapie Bio
Poker April 9th, 2012 Bernard Tapie Biography Bernard Tapie is a French Businessman and former politician who specializes in purchasing distresses companies. Bernard Tapie is quite the character and has been know to host TV Shows and is accomplished singer. Bernard Tapie is in charge (with his son) of Bernard Tapie Group and is in negotiations to purchase Full Tilt Poker or Pocket KingsBernard Tapie Photo Read More here: Bernard Tapie Bio Play Online Poker Poker Blog Copyright 2008 – 2012 Pokerbloggs.comSubscribe to PokerBloggs.com

Interview with Mike Matusow

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Interview with Mike Matusow
by Steve Marzolf Mike Matusow, a card-carrying member of team Full Tilt, has been around the pro poker circuit long enough to earn his nickname as “The Mouth” a few times over. Most recently, he took third in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event, pulling in just under $370k…and talking some serious smack in the process. But when we caught up with him, he had an ironic message for players out there: “Calm down.” You almost took it all at Bay 101 – what was that like? I’ve only played three WPTs in two years – one last year and two this year. I went down there and played really hard. I went down there hungry and wanting to win, and I played really well. But I wish I would have caught some cards against the lunatics, the ones who were raising and re-raising every hand. Tell us about that three-bet that took you out. I mean, he was just raising at every button, and I thought I had a pretty good read on him. I’d been re-raising and shoving on him left and right. I shoved on him with 2-9. He didn’t have to call me with K-Q. It was still 25 percent of his stack, even if he’s ahead. Most of the time, I’m going to have a pair or an ace there. I didn’t really mind the call, cause once it got down to three-handed, they were playing really carefully against me. They knew that if they opened too much, I’d just keep shipping on them. So they started folding a little bit and limping, and it looked like there was going to be no way I could get chips – especially as card-dead as I was. So I didn’t mind just shipping on him every time he opened the button. I was looking at his face and how he reacted to his cards. I shipped on him six times before, and he insta-folded all six. So I thought I had a tell on him. Maybe that time I just rushed it. You’ve consistently had good showings at WPT games. Yeah. I don’t play many. I don’t chase the tournament circuit anymore. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a losing proposition. It’s $750,000 a year to play on the tournament circuit, and you’ve gotta finish at least second in one tournament to make any money. You’ve been in the game a long time – what are the biggest changes you’ve seen? I mean, these kids play pretty good, but when it’s a deep-stack tournament, they’ve gotta know when to slow down. We were playing 100 big blinds deep, and they’re going raise, re-raise, re-raise, trying to outplay each other, playing four-handed. I was just hoping to pick up 8-8 or anything, but I didn’t even see a playable hand. I think the best hand I saw was K-10 offsuit. If I’d picked up any hand behind them, I’d have gotten all the chips. It was the greatest spot in the world – I was like in heaven – but then I was looking at 2-7 offsuit for like eight hours. What spurs that aggressive play? They’re all used to playing online where you have to 3-bet and 4-bet all the time to stay alive when the blinds get up there. When you’re playing deep-stacked, you’re supposed to just play solid and pick your spots. But these guys were ridiculous. They were so hyper-aggressive it was a joke. It fit perfect into my style. I had two playable hands in 154 hands, and I finished 3rd. If I’d won the hand I went out on, then I’d have 30 percent of the chips and who knows what happens? Where do you think the game is going long-term? I don’t know – there’s just so many good players. I think if they just want to keep running $100,000 buy-in tournaments, they’ll have everybody broke within a year. I’m not a big fan of those tournaments. Then, I was saying the same thing four years ago about the $10,000 buy-in tournaments. Everybody would have gone broke on those too, if they hadn’t been satelliting so many people in. You’ve been at this a long time – what are the biggest lessons you’ve learned? Everybody glorifies these people who play heads-up and win millions of dollars, but they’re going to lose it, too. Ain’t nobody who’s better than anybody else playing heads-up poker. Poker’s about playing and beating bad players. There’s definitely less bad players now – and there’s a lot of good players. It’s tough to win now; it’s a lot harder to make a living. Lucky for me, I don’t have to depend on it anymore. I wouldn’t be happy if I had to grind and make a living online or even live nowadays. It sure wouldn’t be easy. Have cash games in Vegas gotten tougher, too? The mixed games are still good, but the no-limit games are all dried up, unless you get invited to a house game. Poker has become a showdown contest. That’s all it is. It’s just because everybody tries to outplay each other. When I came up, it wasn’t like that. It was about making correct decisions, playing solid, attacking blinds and weakness…just playing good and solid. Now it’s all about three-betting, four-betting, five…Come on man. Tell me about your nickname – how often do you hit your opponents with the trash talk? Not much anymore. Though I did it down in Bay 101. Because I just got hot and started making hands. When people play bad against me, I talk a lot of shit. I catch some cards, I’ll rub it in their face. At the WPT, I had a hand where the guy raises under the gun, and three people call so I call in the big blind with Qd-4d. Flop comes 2-4-Q. I lead out the pot, and the guy who raised under the gun calls. The two who came in behind fold. The turn card is 7d, and I have queens and fours on the flush draw. I bet $4800, he makes it $11,000 so I move all in. He calls and shows me three sevens. And I said, “You gotta be kidding me.” Then it’s a 3d on the river, and I start screaming: “That’ll teach you to play bad against me, motherfucker. You get what you deserve. You’re an idiot.” Then I start berating him something fierce. I lead out into four people with a Q-4-2 rainbow. What do you think I’m leading out with, complete air? Like two sevens are any good there. What have you been playing lately? I don’t play. I went to Australia and won about a quarter million. Then I went to L.A. and played the cash games there for a couple weeks and won another $250,000 there. Then I went down to Bay 101 and cashed $370k there. So it’s been a good year.

U.S. House to Hold Online Poker Hearing

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U.S. House to Hold Online Poker Hearing
Submitted on Tue, 2010-05-18 00:00 The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee will meet on May 19, 2010 at 9:30 am in the Longworth House Office Building. The focus of the hearing is to consider the fate of online poker in the U.S. in connection with “The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act” (UIGEA) that is scheduled to go into effect on June 1, 2010. Invited Testimony The U.S. House committee press release has said that the point is to “hear witnesses, oral testimony at this hearing will be from invited witnesses only.” The release also notes, “However, any individual or organization not scheduled for an oral appearance may submit a written statement for consideration by the Committee and for inclusion in the printed record of the hearing.” What is the UIGEA? This law prohibits anyone from accepting payments from someone if they know those payments are connected to illegal Internet gambling. However numerous Representative and Senators have been involved in excluding poker, which is considered to be a game of skill, from the law. Importance of this Meeting The meeting could be the start of the a movement in the U.S. House and Senate that would legalize online poker. There are numerous bills on tap that are designed to protect online poker in the U.S.

First Timer’s Guide to Playing Live

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:54:15 +0000

First Timer’s Guide to Playing Live
1. 888Poker Download Read Review 2. PartyPoker Download Read Review Heinz wins 2011 WSOP Pius Heinz wins the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event over Martin Staszko. Blue Monday The second wave of U.S. indictments against online poker rooms fires out from Maryland. Player Migration Begins PartyPoker’s attempts to woo poker players away from US-facing rivals. Feds Indict Online Poker Operators News about the April 15, 2011 federal online poker indictments. Three Poker Book Gift Ideas Three Poker Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays See all Poker Articles >>

Strategy with Kristy: Ryan D’Angelo Discusses Tourney Concepts

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:36:06 +0000

Strategy with Kristy: Ryan D’Angelo Discusses Tourney Concepts
January 19 2012, PokerNews Staff Related Articles Strategy with Kristy: Jared Tendler on the Mental Game of Poker Pt 1 Strategy with Kristy Podcast: Jared Bleznick Strategy with Kristy: Mike Watson Discusses Playing Big Stacks Share It Tags PokerNews Podcast, South Point, Poker Strategy Print Ryan D’Angelo, better known as “g0lfa” to the online poker community, has accumulated nearly $2 million in winnings. His biggest cash to date came when he finished fifth in the 2010 PokerStars.net Caribbean Adventure Main Event for $700,000. For this edition of the Strategy with Kristy podcast, brought to you by South Point, D’Angelo talks about the concepts “way ahead or way behind” and “slightly ahead or way behind.” Here is a snippet from the interview: Let’s talk about the “slightly ahead or way behind” concept. Can you explain what it is? Its big for no-limit holdem tournaments, I think. There are lots of times when youre trying to decide whether or not to call an all-in or when youre faced with a big raise on the flop and you put them on either a flush draw or two pair and you have an over pair. Thats a situation where if they have a flush draw or a pair and a flush draw, youre flipping. If they have two pair or a set, then youre way behind. I see a lot of people who just put their opponents on the hand that theyre flipping with, instead of really evaluating the other persons range. You should realize youre not doing too well against this range. Youre flipping or youre behind. So in spots like that, you want to make a little bit tighter folds. Its really tough to do when you have a really strong hand deeper in a tournament. But, sometimes you want to take the low road, and let your hand go if you dont think you ever have your opponent dominated. Like on a nine-nine-six board with two clubs and you have two red jacks. Sure they might have some bluffs in their range when they check-raise you or when you raise a bet in a three-way pot and the third guy goes all-in for three times your bet, but you have to think about your equity against their range of hands. If the guy has seven-eight, obviously youre doing great, but if he has a nine, then youre dead. You need to factor in, and correctly weigh those different situations where people could have you drawing dead. That will kill you long term. You have to make a bit tighter folds if you think that person has trips enough of the time or your equity is that low enough of the time. Podcast Powered By Podbean Tune in every week for new episodes of Strategy with Kristy, brought to you by South Point. Feel free to send in questions, ideas or suggestions for the podcast to kristy@pokernews.com. Also remember to follow PokerNews on Twitter for up-to-the-minute news. Comments Such a fundamental concept that many “good” players seem to neglect! Good article.