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Saturday, September 17th, 2011
8:31 am	Any Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen Internet poker Book Review Gus Hansen finally creates a poker book One of the noticably sporting and entertainment figures of this decade is definitely somewhat aloof to that poker market upswing while concurrently being the source in its epicenter. Gus never really frustrated with marketing himself or taking advantage of his popularity. He just loves so that you can play, and challenge himself, and yes... gamble. If you know nearly anything about Gus Hansen, it's that he loves to gamble. But in this unique book, you learn a lot more about how the numbers of Gus Hansen essentially explains away that wagering moniker and theorem. This book is delightfully insightful and forthright. Gus has really become available here and goes through every contentious hand he plays at the 2007 Aussie Millions, where he dominated one last table and kick-slapped an internet newcomer named Jimmy Fricke heads nearly seal the deal. In showing how he strategizes right the way through that tournament he creates sincere value which we amateur players may have never before been exposed to help you because players like Gus are simply so rare. If you've ever seen the various hands from this match on youtube, you will see that will Gus was actually using a personal recording device and whispering right mic throughout the Foreign Millions Tournament. You have to wonder if it absolutely was a self check method for Gus, or if he had actually planned to utilize the information for this book beforehand. Nonetheless he was definitely inside of a good position to analyze the hands for this purpose book as he may easily review the poker chips counts, stacks, position and all the additional important tournament factors. You get his detailed insight on the thought processes of the most effective tourney players in the entire world, while also learning within the different strategies of playing the complete table and playing short-handed, and how important aggression is a part of Gus Hansen's game. Hansen's book should be read after Harrington's books have two very different styles, but one could disagree that Hansen is more fortunate than Harrington. This is more some sort of less a personal slant about what style you can play effectively where one style 's no better than the various. Gus writes quite blatantly that most poker books are at the same time theoretical and assert play that summer time tight for tournaments. The practical style poker books may seem to carry more value as they simply are just that easier to read, think about, and then take to the table yourself, trying to recognize similar situations you might have just soaked in. Gus Hansen's book is focused on this, and it makes this easily worth every dollar seo. There were a many tournament structure and on-line poker strategy notes that Gus explained during this book too, as he made some habit of recapping any day's events, setting up for built ahead, analyzing blinds changes not to mention payout structures, and really analyzing his opponents quite frequently as the tournament adjusted. Surely an advanced poker it's, from one of the world's most gifted game enthusiasts. Current Mood: gloomy (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
7:24 pm	A brief history of WSOP (World Few Poker) 1970 : 1989. WSOP 2011 is only 10 days away and while looking forward and on the point of the new series we would like to remember the history of this magnificent event to and discover how it had become the most desirable and even iconic live poker contest. This year over 70, 000 players from every corner of your world will compete designed for $280, 000, 000 of the prize money in 58 different events. It is hard to trust that 1970, when the first World Selection of Poker began, the entire state of Nevada had only 70 poker tables and on 50 of them in the whole city of Las Vegas. Although Benny Binion is universally considered the founder of the Series the story began per annum earlier in 1969, when Vic Vickrey and Tom Moore arrange a "Texas Gamblers Reunion" in Reno. A few high profiled Texan players joined the combination of high rolling gaming as well as Benny Binion himself, Jimmy Snyder, Doyle Brunson, "Amarilo Slim" Preston, Johny Moss and Puggy Pearson. Although the original plan was to have this gathering an yearly event 1969 reunion became the earliest and the last in history. However is gave Binion an idea to arrange World Series of On line poker in his Horseshoe Casino in Sin city the following year. 1970 WSOP attracted only 6 players. The first champion Johny Moss wasnt even the tournament victor, as he was selected because the best player by mutual agreement of the other players. There was no attention or interest in the case from either press or perhaps public. What's more Horseshoe Casino did not even have a poker room along with the event to place within a little alcove about the size of a small hotel space. 1971 WSOP was set up as a freeze-out. The tournament fee was $5, 000 and again merely seven attendants. Johny Moss defended the title and won the highest prize. In those days the tournament was operate on "winner-takes-it-all" basis. Once again nobody outside and in reality most people in Vegas new anything of the content going on. 1972 WSOP became your turning point, although still with mainly twelve participants joining the table. When "Amarillo Slim" Preston won the presentation, he took this opportunity to turn his victory suitable huge publicity whirlpool together with became live poker's biggest ambassador, telling the nation regarding this amazing new opportunity. Preston's promotional efforts paid off and 1973 was initially in history when live poker tournament came out on CBS Sports ipoker search engine. It was also the initial year when other poker variations along the lines of Razz, Seven Card Stud and lower limits of On-line poker events were introduced. Puggy Pearson was the chief even winner that twelve months. Johny Moss made a brief history and won his lastly title in 1974 plus Doyle Brunson got any bracelet in three consecutive many years 1975, 1976, 1977. It was 1978 as soon as the tournament format was improved again to spilt any prize money and honour top five players with progressive amounts. Also the same year the 1st woman, Barbara Freer, joined the tables to compete against all guy clubs. Hal Fowler became the main unknown amateur player in order to win the bracelet in 1979 to shock the famous professional hard heart. His victory became a genuine aspiration for many brand new players, who had never contemplated it before, to go Las Vegas and test their competencies. Young New Yorker Stu "The Kid" Ungar was basically another surprise for good old school Texan dominated fraternity if he won in 1980 and then again the following time. His achievements where so exciting for the nation, that NBC Sports did the coverage from the whole event. In order to make WSOP participation very popular and achievable for most poker players from virtually all backgrounds Eric Drache, WSOP tournament director once, introduced an idea in satellite qualifications in 1983. This idea was the things was needed attract universal interest as well as move WSOP into a different league. From that point in the Series' popularity shot through the roof rakeback deal seo. The old Horseshoe Casino could not any longer host the event on your own and Binion even were required to buy next door Mint Casino to accommodate a few of the tournaments. Sadly Binion died through 1989 on Christmas Day time. If you have not secured your home in Las Vegas this year yet don't worry there is still time to qualify to reside in poker events WSOP 2011 on line with Unleashed Poker not to mention many other online poker-online promotions running now. Current Mood: bored (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
4:39 pm	Poker Could Be Easily Viewed As One Of The Greatest And Most Popular Card Games One of the most played games in the world is poker. The game is so popular because of the ongoing action of the game and the fact that is really entertaining. The rules of the game are simple but the problem appears when you wish to play the game at an very high level. There are numerous strategies and many other factors that you have to consider. Poker can be played in two ways: on the Internet or offline. At this moment online poker has reached a huge level of popularity. This is because an on-line poker tournament is a lot more easy to enter than a live tournament. There are many sites on which you can play poker. On the most popular websites every day are taking place a large number of poker tourneys and in such tournaments can enter almost anybody who has access at the World wide web. Many people after years of studying the game of poker have become professional online poker players and they manage to win each year massive amounts of money. Online pros like Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius are top professionals and they have periods when in just a few months can win literally millions of dollars. However this is not always the case. There are occasions when such a player can loose enormous amounts of cash. Such a player is Gus Hansen. In the first months of the year 2010 he lost millions of dollars. But not every one knows how to play the game like a pro. Many are playing online poker just to have some fun. Usually they are not investing big sums of money. The other version of poker, the live one, is not accessible to every one. When I am saying this I'm referring to the live poker tournaments. In such competitions are entering some of the best players in the world. But this depends very much on how big and how popular is that particular tournament. In this year's World Series of Poker took part top notch poker players including Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Phill Hellmuth. Such players managed in they poker career to win from live poker tournaments over 10 million of dollars. Such players managed to take the game to perfection. These players beside being very successful in live competitions are also managing to win big cash from online poker tournaments. Such player is Phil Ivey. This year at one point he was one of the most successful player at Full Tilt poker. There are plenty of live poker competitions however only a few of them draw each and every year some of the best poker players in the world. Some of the best and most popular are: the European Poker Tour(EPT), World Poker Tour(WPT), World Series of Poker(WSOP). ipoker google A tournament in which every poker player wishes to participate is the World Series of Poker. Each year this tournament attracts a huge number of players from all over the world. The prizes that are awarded to the winners are substantial. Last year's WSOP was won by Joe Cada. He managed to win more than 8 million dollars. Another poker tournament that is extremely popular and also attracts a massive number of people is the European Poker Tour. It is well known that this tournament it is organized by the world biggest poker website also know as Pokerstars. poker seo During a year they are hosting poker tournaments in the most popular locations in Europe such as: Germany, Austria, France, Italy and many other European countries. Current Mood: relaxed (Comment on this)
4:39 pm	Freerolls the American Dream Starting out your career playing poker Freerolls is a lot like being a gold digger. You come with nothing, you invest nothing and you will probably not make much BUT there is a chance you will. The nothing part is not entirely true because just like the gold digger needed some food, some tool and a place to sleep, you need a computer, an internet connection and some extra time on your hand. But the dream is the same to find the gold! When you are playing freerolls you will never find the big gold mine straight away you might win a few bucks here and there but what you might find eventually and which is the real gold you might find out how to play poker and that is a borderline revelation. I will not tell you a story about how easy it is to become a poker pro because it is probably only five to ten per cent of you freeroll players who will ever become real winning players. The rest of you will have given up as it is too hard to win, you dont want to spent hours playing for small money, the other always gets lucky and by the way they are also retards and so on. I know all the explanations heard them a million times and I understand them perfectly. But there are a few who is able to hang in there, having discipline, keep trying to learn the game, developing the skills, hunting the luck and unlike the gold diggers they will get there. Did you notice that I so far not mention the word talent For the gold digger having success it requires the god given requisite that He had put gold in the earth or rocks where the gold digger was digging to hit the riches. The same you could say about the poker player that he needed some kind of God given talent to be a winning poker player. Talent might have some influence on your poker career. ipoker seo But talent probably does like one percent of your poker skills, but that one percent is what differs Stu Ungar, Tom Dwan and a couple of the other big guys from the rest of us. Becoming a good poker player from playing freerolls is 99% hard work. Hard work but fun work. I still remember my biggest poker victory ever and this might sound fun as I have made hundreds of thousands dollars when I back then reached a bankroll of 1 dollar from playing small sng freerolls after a month of playing online when I had the time for I went out in front of my mirror at my 8 square meter dormitory room and said to myself You can do it! and after that I was progressing crushing basically all stakes within half a year on the site I played on back then. But I stayed on healthy track never risking more than I could afford to lose I didnt have the money to invest if I went broke and I had no intention of beginning from scratch again so I played disciplined and used a strict - what I later found out was called bankroll management. Playing poker freerolls can be the kick start for you to become a poker pro. But only if you allow it! Winning in freerolls take a lot of time and you shouldnt expect just to win the first and the best freeroll often poker freerolls have thousands of players the ones at Poker-Freeroller.com typically have between six-seven players to 1.500 players depending on which one you choose. There some freeroll players who are today very famous and below we have a list of some of those: Some freeroll pros are more authentic than others but they all have an interesting story. Here are the stories of Anette Obrestad and Chris Jesus Ferguson Anette Obrestad is a young girl from Norway who started playing poker in an early age earlier than when you are allowed to play. So she couldnt deposit any money as she was younger than 18 years old so she made an account with a different age and started playing freerolls. She never stopped playing tournament poker and she is now one of the best online and live tournament players in the world. Without comparison the best female poker player in the world. In the professional poker environment she is famous for making an instructional poker video on an online multitable poker table tournament without seeing her cards. And only play according to position, betsizes and reads. Probably the reason for her being famous for the video is she took down the tournament. She was only allowed to look at her cards if her opponents pushed all in.In 2007 World Series of Poker hit Europe for the first time to be more exact London. This meant a debut for Anette_15 in the real live poker tournaments. She had been unable to join the WSOPs in USA because of the age limit of 21. This didnt count in London where you just need to be 18 years old to play. So what happened was that the girl who started her career playing freerolls took down the first European WSOP. Today Anette Obrestad has made more than 3 million dollars in live winnings and most likely a lot more online which is her primary sphere. Anette Obrestad is a real gold digger she came with nothing and took everything. And today in an age of 22 she is a millionaire. The story of Chris Ferguson playing freerolls is very unlike Anette_15s story. The story of Chris is a story of a player who rose to extreme heights won everything and then started losing. Chris Ferguson was already playing poker by the age of 10. And in 2000 he won the main event of the World Series of Poker. And made several major cashes after that. In 2010 he had won live tournament prizes for over eight million dollars. But online things were turning bad. Chris Ferguson started losing money online. He moved from the highest stakes around down to lower stakes and he decided to stay at Nl1000 when he reached his bottom. Didnt work well for him and he busted his online roll. But instead of going into some kind of ludomaniac frenzy. He decided that this was a good turning point. Chris made a plan. Step one was to go from a bankroll of 0 dollars to 10.000. He made it but lets have a look on how he described the process:Starting out Id often manage to a dollar or two (editor: in the freerolls), but Id quickly get busted and have to start over again. It took some time, after awhile, I was eventually able to graduate to games that required an actual buy-in. Even today, people dont believe its really me when I sit down at Full Tilts small stakes games. They ask what Im doing down here, and often tell me stories about how they turned $5 into $500 or $100 into $1,000. Usually, these stories end with the person telling me that they went broke. Theres no surprise there. These folks tried to quickly to build a bankroll by gambling. Theyd play in a game that was beyond their bankroll and, if they happened to win, theyd move up to a higher limit and risk it all one more time. Inevitable, theyd lose a few big hands and go broke.For me, this experiment isnt about the money. Its about showing how, with a proper bankroll management , you can start from nothing and move up to the point where you are playing in some pretty big games. Today Chris Fergusons bankroll exceeds 100.000 dollars and that without taking in count what he has made live. He gives three very specific advices to players who starts from the scratch and start making money from Freerolls: 1.Never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of your total bankroll (exception: you are always allowed to buy-in in the minimum games if that what you made it to with your freerolls) 3.If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represent more than 10 percent of my total bankroll I must leave the game when the blinds reach to me. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)