Aside from that question, there are so many inquiries that you, readers, might ask.  Apart from the reality that Texas Hold’em Poker is one of the easiest card games that can be learned, what are the other explanations of why you would crave to play Texas Hold’em poker?  What makes it different from other card games, and what would a player gain from it?  Why would I even consider playing Texas Hold’em, knowing that there is a wide range of games that I could choose from?

Before, Texas Hold’em Poker’s population was pretty small, and it attracted old men and old women, retires.  That was before. Currently, you will notice that almost everyone is taking part in online Texas Hold’em Poker tournaments, whether money is involved or not.  It can be seen everywhere, television, books, magazines, internet, talk of the town, and so on and so forth.

There are actually three major advantages of playing Texas Hold’em Poker:

1)  The greatest advantage of choosing Texas Hold’em, above the other games, is that you will get the chance to play and interact with more people, compared to others, simply because this is the most famous, or should I say most popular, kind of poker game on the planet.  What makes it so well-known?  Justification is pretty simple.  We are aware that Texas Hold’em poker now invades national television, and, of course, how this game has taken off over the World Wide Web contributes.  It is a very simple game, yet it is entertaining and fun,

2)  The second advantage that I would mention is still related to the first one that I discussed.  Since there are more rooms online that can be joined and more social networking sites that have been adding a Texas Hold’Em application, many beginners will start playing, and this will be a very great advantage to expert or experienced Texas Hold’Em players.  How it will be an advantage, you might think.  More players mean more opponents coming your way.  Yes, that’s partially correct, but these new players are still getting the hang of the game itself, meaning experienced players still have the advantage and have more strategies for winning.  What do I mean?  Compared to novices, experienced poker players can read starters’ emotions, thoughts, actions, and decisions.  With that, you know when to back off, and when to go for the huge win.  If you win, what does this mean?  Right, more money for you!

3)  Finally, in Texas Holder Poker you will only be provided with two cards and five cards in the river, so there are greater chances of having different variations, and guess what?  Yes, you’re right.  That would give you better chances of winning.  As long as you know how to properly deliver your emotions and how you manage your bets, everything will go well.

You would think the hard part of poker would be winning money against good players. That’s very hard obviously, but surprisingly it’s even harder to have poker deposit options if you are an United States citizen. At one point in time you could use a credit card, an ewallet like Neteller, your debit card, a check, a money order, and like a democracy should work you had the freedom of choice from every possible poker deposit option.

Well, the federal government has put a stop to most of that. Perhaps, the worst was when they cracked down on ewallets like Neteller and suddenly the most convenient of poker deposit options was no longer an option at all. At lot of players learned firsthand how painful this sudden change was when their money was frozen or disappeared. One famous player won a tournament in the Bahamas and opted to have the payment put into his ewallet. The next day the funds were frozen, as the U.S. decided to freeze all ewallets that accept gambling funds. Imagine the high of winning over a million dollars one day, and the next day discovering you may not being able to touch those funds for months or even worse perhaps never being able to access them at all.

Also, put yourself in that kid’s shoes, say you are youngster who just won a million dollars or more in the Bahamas, you might end up down a lot. You are suddenly rich, you are in the Bahamas, and all your friends are there. You might just throw a party for yourself. Why not buy everybody drinks, why not rent out a villa, why not max out your credit cards and checking account to pay for it because… you now have a million dollars waiting for you.

You deserve to throw a party for yourself, and why wouldn’t you listen to your friends who are looking for a free ride for a night from a newly minted millionaire. Why wouldn’t you gamble some of that newfound money in the casino. Who cares if you lose you can afford to, and then you wake up with a hangover, a hundred new friends, and no way to access your new wealth.

Some would say, that’s no problem most banks, would probably extend you a line of credit in anticipation of those funds. Don’t forget you are talking about a person who makes his living playing poker. Banks generally don’t like professional gamblers as borrowers because they consider them risks. Yes, it’s shocking they consider people that make risky bets for a living a risky bet but they do. On top of that, while that money was in limbo, there was some concern those funds would never be freed up and just confiscated. So, the bank doesn’t even know if those funds will ever be accessed by the player.

Tough spot for a kid, though the story did have a happy ending. He did get his funds, eventually. The rest of the world should be glad they don’t have these hassles when they are looking at poker deposit options. It’s ironic that only in the country that prides itself on freedom of choice is there no choice at all.

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So essentially you cannot overcome the house edge. However there is a huge difference between overcoming the house edge in the long term and doing so in the short term. If you go into any casino in the world for only one or two hours then your chances of coming away with more than what you went in with are extremely good. This is purely because there isn’t the necessary time available to the casino for the house edge to guarantee that they will get all your money or even part of it for that matter.

This principle is similar to poker tournaments where the biggest factor which decides on the outcome of any one event is luck over skill. In tournament poker as in cash game poker then skill really only makes a difference long term. You could take two players at the opposite ends of the skill spectrum with one player making $100k/year while the other breaks even but yet the break even player could totally dominate during any one session of play.

The exact same applies in tournament poker where the skilled players really only show themselves over a long period of time. This is why I simply do not buy into all of the hype surrounding many players who win big events. Unless they have a long proven history then there is nothing to prevent them from simply having overcome variance. Any half decent player with enough aggression has the game to win an event. But if you have limited experience of playing tournament poker in large field events then you could do worse than follow the piece of advice that I am about to give.

This is to play the event like a super expanded SNG where you are playing very tightly during the first few levels. This at least takes you away from the manic early levels and takes you into the middle stages of the event. However you then need to become very aggressive at this stage before you get short stacked. If you get lucky then you may have already amassed chips. But playing tightly during the early stages not only gets you deeper into the event but it also allows you more time to get dealt good hands that can double you up.

The concept of playing as many tables as possible is one that has great potential when you are playing for bonuses and for rakeback but playing Texas Hold em poker on a lot of tables is really a skill in itself. It took me a long time to realise this because I spent too long trying to play my normal game on ten tables at once and you simply get yourself into too much trouble because of your own style. Let us look at an example here to show you what I mean. It has been folded to the cut-off who opens to $3 in a NL100 game and you hold the A-J. Now you three bet to $9 and the blinds both fold and your opponent calls.

The flop comes 9c-8d-5s and with $19.50 in the pot your opponent bets $14. Now if you were single tabling and had a good sample size on this player then you may start delving into your PokerTracker stats and using your time bank to see if this player likes to donk bet into pre-flop three bettors. If you find a reliable pattern over a decent sample size then you can exploit that by either calling and then looking to take the pot away on the turn or to raise the flop straight away. But when you are playing so many tables at once then you simply do not have the time to do this. So you have to revert back to a default line and that is to simply fold the hand.

This line loses EV if you had spotted a more productive line that could have made you money. Once we start to look at the usual metric of ptbb/100 then it is clear that you are going to be making less bb/100 as a result of playing worse poker. However this should be offset or at least you should be trying to offset that by a large amount of volume. You simply have to try and get used to playing in an automatic style of you want to successfully multi-table.

Many people miss the boat here because they try to master playing one table first before they try two or more. There is nothing wrong in this but you really do need to explore other areas of poker. The ability to multi and even mass table and acquire rakeback and sign up bonuses has given birth to a whole new breed of professional poker players in the online environment and that is the “rakeback pro”.

You decide to sit down and see if variance can smack you firmly in the face and you can maybe spin up a few buy-ins. This is fine but you are suffering from one serious handicap when you have this mindset. Firstly this player has set himself a self imposed $10k limit for this level. So in effect he basically has a $10,000 bankroll to play NL5000. This means that the knock on effect from this is that he will more than likely play defensively. The regulars at this level will already know him as a $10-$20 player who has only just moved up from $5-$10.

They may even suspect that he hasn’t got the bankroll for this level and in this instance then they would be right. So the following hand comes up and it has been folded around to our hero in the cut-off and he makes the standard raise to $150 with A-J. The loose-aggressive regular on the button calls him with 8c-6c and we see a two way flop with $375 in the middle and both stacks are deep. The flop comes Qh-Jc-4c and our hero would ideally like to take the pot down now and he certainly doesn’t want any free cards and so he bets $275.

Meanwhile the pro calls on the button with the flush draw and suddenly the pot swells to $925. The turn card is the 2h and now our hero is in something of a quandary. If he bets and gets called then the pot is becoming quite large and he still only has second pair. If he checks and his opponent makes a fair sized bet then he will have another difficult decision. He has already invested $425 in the pot already and he knows that players at these levels often float and so he decides to fire another barrel with what is probably the best hand and he makes it $550. Instead of calling or folding, the pro raises to $1600 really putting the question to our hero! With over $3k in the pot then he is essentially asking him if he wants to play for stacks.

Our hero folds and loses almost a thousand dollars in the hand and he had the best hand all along. His own fear cost him the pot and his opponent smelt that fear. But his small relative bankroll also cost him the pot and being under bankrolled costs you in poker in so many different ways.

The flop is unlikely to have hit an opponent or is less likely if they have high cards. This combined with your equity makes raising the flop the best play here if your opponent bets. If your opponent has AK,AQ,AJ,KQ or hands like 77 then they are going to fold their hand and you will not have to see the turn or river. This mixed the flop texture with your own hand and also the probable likeliness of your opponent’s hand.

Let us look at another situation and here you open raise with 8c-8d and the button and blinds call and the flop comes Js-10c-6d and the blinds check to you. Here the flop texture and the weakness of your hand combined with the number of opponents makes a check pretty automatic here and you are hoping that the button also checks and gives you a free card to hit a set.

Once again we will look at another example and here you open raise from the cut-off with A-J and the big blind calls you so there are only two players in the pot. The flop comes 6-4-3 rainbow and the action is on you. Here the low cards on the flop indicate a flop that has hit callers rather than raisers and so I would be looking to make a continuation bet here because I do not think that the flop has hit them either. But let us say that the flop bet gets called then we have somewhat of a problem. Pocket pairs would call that flop as would draws and so these hands may hang around on the turn depending on what arrived.

So let us say that the turn card is the Kd then that would be a perfect card for me as that is going to look scary to pocket pairs. But if another low card came then I may check the turn and maybe give up if my opponent bets. I wouldn’t try to take my opponent down in that situation. So you can often feel in Holdem poker what your opponent is doing and what type of range he has given the flop texture and the betting lines taken. This allows you to make continuation bets at the right time and to back off at the right time as well. So remember that the flop texture combined with the number of opponents and the likely hands given the action dictate your actions post flop.

Brian Roberts was born in Texas on March 7th 1931 and was always surrounded with gambling from a young age. He used to hustle the rich kids playing Golf and shooting craps with the other Caddies when he was as young as 12. He joined the Navy when he was older during the Korean War and that is where he gained the nickname “Sailor” which stuck with him throughout his life, much like his love of the gamble. During his life, as well as being a top level professional poker player he also enjoyed much success at his other game of choice, contract bridge.

Because the 1950’s poker circuit was so rough with robbings and even killings not uncommon on the road he travelled with Amarillo Slim and Doyle Brunson so they could watch each others back and support one another. These three players used a joint bankroll, celebrating their wins and lamenting their losses together and became friends for life. It was quite the colourful lifestyle, in one particular cash game there was armed security on the roof in case local criminals tried to come and raid the game. The three players disbanded once they went to Las Vegas and went broke but all three went on to enjoy lots of success at the top of the game. Roberts was jailed in the 1960’s for one year in a minimum security jail for illegal bookmaking. The bookmaking venture was actually a pursuit that Roberts, Brunson and Slim did together on the side but the latter two gave it up after it became illegal to pass sports information across state lines. Roberts continued and subsequently got into trouble for it.

During the 1970’s he was thrust into the mainstream poker scene when the game became legal. He won his first bracelet in Deuce to 7 Draw for $35,850 in the 1974 World Series and followed up that win becoming the main event champion one year later in 1975. He also managed an 8th place finish in the 1982 main event. Sailor remained active in the game until he died in 1995 from Schlerosis caused by Hepatitis. According to Amarillo Slim Roberts got rich and went broke over ten times. He was very generous with his money often loaning it to other players when they were down on their luck and sometimes partnering with other players to help them stay in the action. A quote from Amarillo Slim regarding Roberts says “Money came and went; it really never seemed to bother Sailor”.

His running mates in the 1950’s Doyle Brunson and Amarillo Slim continue to be actively involved in poker to this day and always speaking fondly of Sailor Roberts when giving interviews about their past lives and history of the game. Despite his stature in the game, Sailor was never inducted into the Hall of Fame.