January 19, 2008
First of all i want to say sorry for long absent, have some problems. But know i back, and will continue make interesting posts. And maybe one day, with your help, we will make interesting poker comunity, where everyone could share his experience and ask for advice. Also i gonna write a reviews of most popular online poker rooms. And about all freerols, where new player could receive the main experience at tournament poker. So, hope that 2008 year will very “fruitful” as for me, as for you. 
December 16, 2007
The history of Poker is thought to have evolved over more than ten centuries from various games, all involving the basic principals of ranked card or domino combinations and the use of ‘bluffing’ to deceive opponents.
One popular belief is that a game similar to poker was first invented by the Chinese sometime before 969 A.D, when The Emperor Mu-tsung is reported to have played “domino cards” with his wife on new years eve.
Egyptians in the 12th & 13th centuries are known to have used a form of playing cards, and in 16th century Persia “Ganjifa” or “Treasure Cards” were used for a variety of betting games. A Ganjifa deck consisted of 96 elaborate cards, often made of paper thin slices of ivory or precious wood. The Persians played “As Nas” which utilized 25 cards, rounds of betting and hierarchical hand rankings.
December 13, 2007
Omaha is highly situational. In hold’em, you can get pocket aces ten times in a row and it may usually hold up even if your hand doesn’t improve on the flop, turn or, river. In Omaha, you can get a strong double suited AKAK and never win a pot if the flop always comes six high.
Look at Omaha as shifting the action one street later. Pre-flop, you can play nearly any reasonable cards to see a flop, the flop is when you commit more to a hand, the turn defines your hand, and of course, the river finishes a hand (one way or another)
Because of this shift, you should play most of your good hands on good flops straight forward both to get maximum value and to protect your hand. In Omaha, like any poker game, if you think you have the best hand, your goal is to make your opponent make a mistake. Giving them incorrect odds to draw out on you is just that, and can be achieved by a pot-sized bet, especially if you follow that up with a pot-sized bet on the turn if a blank comes down. You’ll force them into a second opportunity to make a mistake, and if they draw out, you’ve done all you can. Read the rest of this entry »
December 01, 2007
1. The most crucial skill in willing a multi-table poker tournament is luck. If you join a poker tournament with 200 people you need to win more than your fair share of coin flips to win the entire tournament. Skill and experience can get you far, but luck is essential to win a tournament. A tournament player running bad can play an enormous amount of tournaments without cashing in. The variance in MTT’s is crazy and only a very limited number of players make their living playing tournament poker.
2. If you are already a successful ring game player you will need to adjust your strategy. In ring games you need to accumulate the maximum amount of chips. In tournament poker you need to collect all the chips under a certain timeframe and constantly increasing blinds. That means you must win chips a lot faster than in ring games and therefore play more hands.
3. Chips have relative value. In a standard poker game each dollar is always worth the same, while in tournament poker the chips have different relative value. If you start out with $1000 worth of chips these chips are worth a lot more than the next $1000 chips you are able to win. Since you are unable to buy you way back into the tourney, the last chips you have are always the most valuable.
4. Remember the Gap concept! David Sklansky introduced the Gap Concept with is priceless in tournament poker. The Gap Concept means, that you will need a better hand to play against someone who has opened the betting, than what you need to open with yourself. This basically means that you need a strong hand to call a bet, but only a semi-strong hand to make a bet. This is important to remember when stealing blinds an making moves.
5. Follow the blinds. Play tight in the beginning of a tournament. How tight you should play depends on the structure of the tournament you are playing. When the blinds are low you can sit tight and wait for other players to make mistakes, but when the blinds begin to rise it is time go get in there and gamble.
6. Position. Position is everything in no-limit Texas Holdem. Play tight from early position with a lot of people to act behind you. Play aggressive from late position and try to steal blinds with semi-strong hands.
7. Try to focus on the table you are sitting at. Don’t worry how many players are left at the other tables and how they have distributed the chips amongst them. Focus on your table and try to become the chip leader. You need to win all the chips anyway, so might as well start at your own table and worry about the rest of the opponents later on.
8. Try to read observe your opponents to get an idea of how they play and use this information when making decisions. A correct read on your opponents is a very powerful tool.
9. You need to survive. Remember you often only have one shot. If you move all-in there is no reload button and you will be eliminated from the tournament. One mistake can cost you the tournament.
10. Change gear. To be a successful tournament player you need to be able to know when to play aggressively and when to play tight. A great tournament player use position, reads on players, tournament structure, blind level, and many other factors to determine his actions. Use this information to determine when to play aggressively and when to play tight – if you want to win multi-player tournaments you will need to do both. Tight players do not win poker tournaments, the key to winning is a mix between tight play and loose aggressive play.
These are standard poker tournament tips. It doesn’t matter if you are playing in an online qualifier, satellite event, online tournament or live tournament. The tournament structure might differ but the goal is the same and every one of the above tips applies - even though the player’s skills might differ greatly.
We hope these poker tournament tips will help you in your next online poker tournament
from tournamentmonitor.com
November 26, 2007
Less than two months ago, the concept of a No Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament in the People’s Republic of
But having already achieved milestone after milestone in 2007 with the biggest poker tournament ever held in the Philippines and the first international event scheduled in South Korea, the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour team pulled up its sleeves and made something out of nothing to break down the metaphorical ‘Great Wall of Poker’.
As the biggest gaming market in the world, it was only fitting that the poker fever swept into Macau like a typhoon swirling in from the South China Sea.
Over the past week, 352 players arrived at the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino chasing a slice of poker history ever bit as momentous as Johnny Moss’s World Series of Poker victory in 1970 and Chris Moneymaker’s WSOP success in 2003, which spearheaded the online poker boom.
Dihn Le winner of the APPT Macau 2007
The man who will occupy that most important page of poker history is an unlikely hero. A shy and soft-spoken 27-year-old from south London, Dinh Le, swept to victory and a life-changing first prize of $US222,460.
Le’s hard exterior, which materialised in an often ultra-aggressive style over the three-day event, is tempered by his humble Vietnamese background. He even listed his occupation as a nail technician – not the hardware variety; his family actually run a beauty shop in south London. Read the rest of this entry »
November 21, 2007
In a recent letter to US Trade Representative Susan Schwab, two House of Representatives Committee Chairs and six other lawmakers criticized the agency’s handling of the current WTO issues relative to online gambling, stressing that the Bush administration now needed to pursue rolling back the UIGEA instead of paying costly compensation to WTO members, including the European Union.When the US withdrew access to its online gambling market from WTO trade commitments in May, it opened itself up to compensation claims from its trading partners, estimated to be upwards of $100 billion. The lawmakers, headed
by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, stressed that while the Office of the United States Trade Representative’s current position would be “expensive to the U.S. economy,” it had even more far-reaching consequences. The lawmakers said, “We are perhaps more concerned about what this withdrawal says about U.S. credibility as a trading partner,” and that the US policy would encourage other countries to withdraw trade commitments that were “inconvenient or politically difficult.”
The lawmakers’ letter went on to say, “We are writing to express our interest in considering possible legislative solutions that might restore U.S. compliance with the GATS agreement without renouncing any of our commitments under that agreement.”
That sentiment was echoed this week when European Trade Chief Peter Mandelson addressed the European Parliament on Tuesday. “The U.S. has so far opted for compensation to make right what is wrong. I don’t think compensation does that job. What we really need is for the legislation to be put right and for foreign operators to stop being excluded and discriminated against in the way the present U.S. legislation does,” Mandelson said. Read the rest of this entry »
November 14, 2007
In poker, image matters.
Throughout a tournament, your table image will help determine how much action you’ll get and, ultimately, how you can manipulate your opponents into making big calls or big laydowns at the wrong times.
While establishing a loose, aggressive image early on can help build your initial chip stack, I believe it’s important to develop a tight table image in the later stages of a tournament because it gives you the ability to maneuver at the times when the chips matter most.
When the action is folded around, some players will always raise from the cutoff and the button. The problem with this play is that’s its predictable and can be easily exploited. If you always raise from the button, the players in the blinds catch on sooner or later and will put in a big re-raise with any two cards. You will also find players just calling you with a much wider range of hands from the blinds before putting in a big check-raise on the flop. Read the rest of this entry »
November 12, 2007
For pity i havent reliable information about Open Poker Tournament at Egypt. But one i know for sure, i gonna be there
I gonna tell you all what i know about this event.
The event as i know, will be held at the hotel Domina Coral Bay, that situated in the bay Na`ama Bay. Registration will begin 2d of desember from 9 am till 11 of the evening. There will be three main event.
Tournment with Buy-In:
$300
$500
$1000
Also will be carried out many sit & go tournaments.
P.S. Sorry for my english and hope meeting there some of my friends and readers
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