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Multicurrency Functions in Online Poker

March 3rd, 2010

As the world of online poker becomes increasing digitalized, more and more of us are seeking our things in online poker gaming communities. While playing online has definite perks, the issue of currency tends to crop up far more often in virtual casinos than brick and mortar establishments. Let’s say for instance that your favorite online poker casino is based in Germany, and you are a resident of the United Kingdom. How could you bridge the currency gap to play your favorite game? Most casinos now a days will offer their players an online multicurrency feature that allows players to convert their home currency into the currency used by the casino. This is a good option to take advantage of if you are set on using a foreign based casino, but you may want to look into other options as well. The problem with casino multicurrency options is that they freeze the currency exchange rate at the current rate for the moment when you purchase chips. If you are in a particularly long game, or choose not to cash out for a couple of days, you may not be getting the best exchange rate. You will have to make a personal decision whether the convenience of built in multiplayer functions are worth the potential financial pitfalls.

Open-Ended Straight Draw

January 20th, 2010

Open-ended straight draws are poker hands that are full of possibilities. You are one card away from making a winning poker online hand, and there are two cards that can make that happen for you. Of course, there are risks involved in playing a draw online poker hand, since the card you need may not show up at all. If you’ve got a 9-8 in your hand and the flop comes out Ace-7-6, you’ve got eight cards (four 10’s and four 5’s) that can give you what is likely to be the winning hand. When you’ve got an open-ended straight draw, the first thing you should do is make sure that you can see the next few cards as cheaply as possible. You haven’t made your hand yet, so your main objective in this hand is to pay as little as possible to see the turn and the river. Merely checking the hand will invite your opponents to bet against you and put you in an uncomfortable position. Place a bet after the flop to freeze your opponents. When you bet, your opponents will have to consider that you’ve got a good hand and be discouraged from betting against you. If you bet, you will get to decide how much you want to pay to see the turn instead of letting your opponents tell you what to pay.

Creating Your Own Homemade Chocolate Candy

November 18th, 2009
Chocolates, which have huge amounts of fatty particles, will yield serotonins, hormones that control the functions of the intestines. The extra serotonins, when not used for intestinal activity, are diverted to the control of hunger, mood, and annoyance. This is why when a person consumes chocolates, one often experiences a rush of energy and positive vibes.
Scientific insight says addiction is not produced by chocolate but that it’s owed to a somatic response to stimulus coming from the chemicals, nutrients, and flavors in chocolates.
With the conveniences of our modern world, homemade chocolate candies are now easier to prepare. All you need do is hunt up ordinary materials from your own kitchen, besides the white or dark chocolates you’ll be using as base ingredient.
Gather the following equipment: a double boiler, a mixing bowl, candy molds or baking sheet, and a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.
In a double boiler, allow the chocolate to melt. Use a spatula to continue stirring. Once the chocolates are melted, move it out of the double boiler and transfer the molten chocolate onto a baking sheet. If you like fruit-filled chocolate candies, just add the fruit on the baking sheet and enrobe with the liquid chocolate. To eradicate air bubbles, knock the molding tray lightly on the counter surface. Air dry your homemade chocolate candy for a few minutes or let it rest in the refrigerator.
Take note that if the chocolate isn’t tempered right, it will leave a dull and blotched texture and will no longer be smooth. Chocolate tempering grants an even dispersion of chocolate crystals and requires keeping correct chocolate temperatures at all timesfrom melting to molding.
To experience a more comfortable process of chocolate tempering, you may want to acquire a chocolate tempering machine to do away with the manual labor of keeping chocolates at particular temperatures. This will help you make perfect chocolate candies all the time as well as appear to be an “expert” chocolatier in no time. You can even start off as a small, chocolate-selling business.

When It’s Best to Go for it

November 11th, 2009

Poker commentators at televised events sometimes say that a poker online player who pushes in all or most of their poker chips, is “getting the chips in with the best of it.” This means that the player has a strong hand pre-flop and is betting that the hand will win and rake in a good pot.

Typically, a poker player goes for the best of it when the chip stack is small and the player needs to double up or will not survive much longer. It makes sense to push in your chips “with the best of it” as a way to keep your tournament alive. When you are short-stacked in a tournament, you are forced to make an aggressive play to win more chips or else leave the table. The logical thing to do is shove when you are getting the best of it. An Ace, face cards and even suited connectors may the last best shot you have at winning a pot. It makes no sense in the situation to just wait for the blind to hit you and decimate your stack.

The flop of course changes everything. A player who gets the chips in with the best it while holding a high pocket pair or Big Slick may completely miss the flop, which holds cards that connect with another player to make a better hand. Getting your chips in when you have the best of it is the only recourse for a short stack to stay alive in a tournament.

Exercise Pot Control

October 16th, 2009

I had a large chip stack and was in the BB with 4/6 off suit. It was a multiway limped pot and I checked my option. The flop came out: 2-5-6 with 2 spades.

With a gut-shot and top pair I decided to lead out and see where the table was at. I figured I didn’t need to bet too much to get information, so I just min bet for 40. A guy then reraised me to 140, everyone else folded, and I flat-called to get heads up. This was something like an out-of-position float. It was designed to slow down my poker opponent.

The turn came a 3-flush card, I think the Js. I again led for a min bet, but this time he flat called. This is interesting. I now know he is scared of the flush and a bit uneasy about his hand. I can probably win this hand at the river with a decent bet.

The river is magical. It’s the 4s. Not only does it put 4 spades on the board, but it gives me two-pair. I’m pretty sure I have the best hand now, and I’m positive my online poker opponent does not like all the spades. I lead for I think 220, like 1/3 of the pot, and he mucks.

He could have had nothing and was just posturing on the flop, and then I made such a small bet on the turn he felt like seeing the river for the heck of it. But if he did have a hand, I feel like I used the min-bet as a great indicator of the strength of his hand.

Firstly, I got him to re-raise me on the flop. If I check call his bet, which might have been smaller, I don’t put any suspicion into his mind that I have a hand. The min bet is very suspect. Then when I call his raise and lead again with the min-bet, I absolutely confuse him. When he fails to raise me on the turn, I know he is uncomfortable and I have taken control of the pot, in both size and power.

Sometimes, with the right board texture, all you need to do is create a situation where you’re opponent gets lost in the action, and the min bet can be a cheap way to accomplish this in a casino.

Randomizing Chameleon

August 31st, 2009

A common problem for a lot of online poker players who play against the same players regularly is that once the players get a read on you, they begin to exploit your playing style just as you’ve exploited theirs. So in this article we’re going to talk about 4 easy adjustments you can make ingame to help throw off your trial and get your opponents thinking differently about you again. Think of randomizing your play preflop and postflop. Say you usually slowplay pocket Aces, and big bet a medium pair in middle position. Next time you get pocket aces in middle position, big bet them as you would your middle pair. Now, let’s talk about the pro’s methods at the casino. Harrington’s second hand method. Using a wristwatch, you decide what to do based on the second hand. Since you have three decisions, call, raise, or fold, or reraise, you use your watch divided into quarters, to help you decide what to do. This method of randomization requires you look at your watch every hand though so as not to give a tell by trying to elimiate one. Next is Skalansky’s Poker Hot Card Method. He suggests using certain preselected cards to randomly trigger your bluffing. So you set up a range of cards before the game that you plan on bluffing with regardless of flop texture. So say a red ace is your bluff card, any red ace, and you’re betting. This method is harder to work, but it does help get people off of your hand range if you’re constantly changing your autobluff card. Listening to the Flop. Sound odd, but think about it. Let’s say you have KQd and the flop comes A 10 7 two diamonds. You’re know to semibluff your big draws. So start looking to sometimes just call instead of reraise, or check instead of betting as you usually would. This will confuse players who get a read on you on the flop. Finally, Cards can Talk, though they don’t have a voice when playing online poker. You’re dealt a pocket pair. You’re up against a player who you don’t know. About 50% of the time you call, 25% you raise, and 25% you fold. You can use the cards to help you make the decision for you. Set up a formula. Say two black cards you fold, two red cards you raise, and a mixed set you just call. This will randomize what you do with your pocket pairs. Hope it helped.

Keeping it Going with the Best Intentions

July 3rd, 2009

No matter if you are having the best time in your life or not you can really keep something going if you have really positive intentions. Someone once said that if you play life for the long term outcome then you will end up doing well. That has to be true because if you think about what you do and how it will affect things for the long term than you will do things that are beneficial. It is best to keep your best intentions going each day and don’t waver from them. Just do the best to others and make sure that you give it your all each day. It can be tempting to snap back when others do stuff to you but when you take the high road and keep on with your great intentions you can win in the long run. It might be tough in that spot where you want to even things out, but if you can understand that whoever is doing it must be going through a rough time or something like that then you can just move on and eventually the long term strategy will get you the most positive results. Things do get better and everything can be overcome just as long as you keep your heart in the right place and treat others well.

Grace under Pressure

March 23rd, 2009

So you get dealt pocket aces playing poker online and get it all in before the flop against a particularly wid player with pocket threes, finally getting revenge on a player who has been pushing you all night at the casino, preparing to take all of his money in a huge pot that you’ve been sitting patiently to see happen for hours on end. Then the opponent rivers a third three and becomes the one scooping up all your money. We’ve all been there, in a variety of ways, and sometimes, in the worst ones, where the most money is involved, it can be tempting to want to go bonkers and abandon your tight aggressive style to try to make up the difference.

In reality, though, these kind of plays are the kinds of daily eruption that a player who expects to make it over the long haul has to be willing to roll with. They happen to everyone, no matter how skilled or luck you consider yourselfthe variation of results is, in fact, why many get into the game.

The true test of an online poker player is whether or not he has the mettle to withstand these kind of flux over time and keep on top of the A game that brought them to where they are. The second you find yourself too far from where you started among the flurry of bad swings, the second you will find yourself a losing player.

Planning the Perfect Poker Night: Seating

October 8th, 2008

Poker night is always a great night, but some are better than others. As easy as it is to put on a poker event, it’s also easy to ruin a poker event. Having the proper seating arrangement is an easy way to make sure that your guests won’t be grumbling about you the next day. Hopefully they’ll be grumbling about the money they lost to you.

Seating might seem a bit minor, but think about it-have you ever been to a poker party where it was obvious that seating was an afterthought? Table chairs, folding chairs, piano benches, stools, all things of varying and questionable comfort levels. Few things are worse than being distracted by a lousy chair. At one game I was actually on a bar stool that had me sitting about a foot above the table; I just about fell off every time I wanted to bet. Not fun.

If you’re going to plan a poker night, make sure you’ve got the right chairs. It’s fairly easy to build a network of poker buddies who have chairs that they can bring, or heck, a couple of plastic lawn chairs will run you about five bucks apiece at Lowe’s. It’s a small investment with some big comfort returns.

Poker Card Probabilities

August 22nd, 2008

At face value it would seem an easy matter to estimate the chances of receiving any certain card in a game of poker. In fact may people who play poker have systems they have developed that rely on the odds they have figured out. However, the simple fact of the matter is that there is actually so much variability to the game of poker that it is almost impossible to know what the next card you have coming is, and even more difficult to manipulate the game of poker so as to make sure the card you need is the card you get. The reason for this is quite simple. The way poker is played and the cards are dealt is simply to chaotic to actually have a good chance at predicting any outcome. If some parts of the poker game were changed such as being able to see what the other players had to work with in their hands than this could be different. However the truth is that unless significant changes are made to the game of poker guessing which card is coming is simply that, a guess.

Yet this does not mean that there are not such things as safe bets and solid hands, quite the contrary in fact. In a game as random as poker the more solid facts you have to work on the better. For this reason it is important to know how your hand stacks up against the infinite possibilities at your table. If for instance you are holding a full house, you know that it is a pretty strong hand. In fact you are one card away from four of a kind. So playing with that hand is a safe bet. However the possibility of a better hand still exists, though this possibility is much less than if you held a single pair. In the end poker is about managing what you know, not hoping to control what you don’t know.