Wednesday 30 July 2008

Online Poker for Beginners

Poker has been played throughout the ages by many people. However, the game itself has often been regulated to only the “professional” gamblers. This is not the case any longer, as now poker can be played from the comfort of your own home online.

Online poker games are offered at many websites. Depending upon the website, these games have different policy. If you have the slightest skill to bluff someone you cannot see, because any one can play online, then it is quite easy to win at poker online.

Online Poker Rooms that offer the game also give directions on how to play, wagering, and even how to win. On many websites, the instructions on how to play are also all verbatim. There are few rules to online poker and they are very easy to learn.

The online poker rooms give examples of when to hold onto your cards or just throw them away. Anyone who learns to be a good bluffer could beat a professional. Many online sites give examples of when someone is bluffing, but that is not a surefire way to knowing.

Playing online poker can be tricky, as you cannot see your opponents. This inability to find “tells” in the other players poses a problem for some players. It is hard to guess whether a person is lying about what they have or if they really have a good hand. Winning at poker can come with difficulty. Whether your hand will hold strong enough throughout the entire hand often depends upon the luck of the draw. Occasionally having three aces, which is a very good hand, can be beaten because someone else has a hidden pair that gives them a full house.

The players need to focus on the betting styles of the other players rather than watching their body movements making online games more exciting. You are well on your way to winning the pot after you have figured out if someone is bluffing by raising too quickly or raising too late.

Online Poker related websites offer tutorials and poker startegy articles to help the beginners learn the basics of the game. To learn the finer points of the game, for those who do not learn by reading, the tutorials are a great asset. Because there are many different factors to a poker hand, tutorials can take some time.

Also watch a couple of hands at an online table to get the idea of how to play. Once you think you have the general idea of the game, take a seat and start to play online poker. You are not betting real money out of your pocket, so it is easy to get reckless in an online game. You might also want to get some sponsorship out of other online poker affiliate websites.

Every Poker Player can either join an online site that offers free games or paid memberships. Website points or fake money are used at free online poker sites. Paid memberships are usually using the players own money which makes the player more apt to be careful while playing. Online poker games are the best choice for a novice. They not only give full descriptions of the game but also offer exercise games for learning. Online poker gives the players time to learn the technique and begin to win real money.

Tuesday 29 July 2008

Party Poker review and 25$ no deposit bonus

Party Poker is one of the world’s largest online poker rooms with over 70,000 players. They cover almost 60% of the online poker market. Now what this means to you as a poker player is that with the large number of players and rooms you will never have to wait for a game, the player quality is relatively poor compared to rooms like Ultimate Bet and Poker Stars.
Start playing with play money and once you get hold of the game you may jump to the real money game. They have around 18,500 - 19,200 ring game players and 26,700 - 28,000 tournaments players live during peak hours.

Signup Bonuses. Party Poker has some great signup bonus offers, $25 extra, 20% extra up to $100 and free entry to the partypoker.com million qualifying tournaments ($34 value) with your first deposit. You have to play 5 times the raked hands of the bonus amount i.e. if the bonus value is $25 you need to play 125 raked hands. The time period to finish the raked hands is 30 days.

Poker Games: Party Poker offers standard game variety like Texas holdem, omaha hi and hi/lo and 7 card stud hi and hi/lo but does not offer 5 card draw poker and 1-on-1 tournaments. Limit Texas holdem game is the major traffic puller at party poker. Remember these are only real money player statistics.
They also have beginners live game tables reserved for new real money players only. New real money players can play on these tables for 45 days after they have set up a real money account.

Real Money Account: Log in to your account, go to the main lobby, click on the real money heading and then select beginners. Then choose a table and start playing. Following games and stakes are offered for beginners.
Party Poker also has a good round the clock customer service, including both text and voice based.

How to play online poker. Poker Startegy

Understanding the game of online poker is essential to playing it well. Many beginners assume that understanding the game means understanding the cards. Restraining your study of poker to card combinations and odds may make you a good player, but it won’t make you a great player, and it won’t save you from the players that have honed all of their skills. You won’t win many poker hands without careful consideration of your own cards, but you won’t win any poker hands without bearing in mind your opponents’ cards too.

The cards are closely connected, because the value of your hand and your ability to win the pot depends on the value of their hand and how they will play it. It seems impossible to make a fair assessment of your opponents’ cards, but it becomes easier the more you play the game and especially the more you play the game with the same rivals. The observation will give clues as to whether their hand is strong or weak. With this knowledge, you are better prepared to play your own hand accordingly.

Some players still undervalue the importance of playing themselves against their opponents vs. playing their cards against their competitor’s cards. There are many advantages to this poker strategy, not least of which is protecting a good hand and playing a bad hand to a win. Alternately, the reverse is also true. After reading an opponent, you may choose to fold a hand that you would otherwise have played.

The point of real poker playing is to win more than you lose. Without doubt, you will occasionally lose but by having a good win to lose percentage you always come out ahead. When you alter your poker strategy to include the clues you get from other players, you lower your risk of losing big. This goes back to folding on a good hand. It may be hard to put your cards down but a good hand is only valuable when it wins ... if your assessment of another player leads you to believe they have a better hand. It’s better to fold than to pump someone else’s pot.

Eventually, a good poker strategy involves playing your cards, playing your opponents and betting accordingly. You can not master the game on cards alone.

Monday 28 July 2008

£25 New Player Bonus at Gala Casino

£25 New Player Bonus with Head2Head at GALA Casino!
Galacasinos.co.uk is proud to announce the launch of 'Head2Head' games. Compete against opponents, playing favourites like Backgammon, Blackjack and Gin Rummy. Play against just one other person or join great-value tournaments from as little as 1p. Play Instantly – no download required. Each game has an easy to follow guide so you can play Head2Head now!

Paddy Power - check the poker offers too

Starting tomorrow Paddy Power will be offering Guaranteed Prices on both Horseracing and Greyhound racing.
This applies to both early prices and board prices so you cannot lose out by taking the price:- Take 2/1 and if your selection wins at 6/4 you get 2/1!- Take 2/1 and if your selection wins at 4/1 you get paid at 4/1!You cannot lose - obviously unless your horse or dog loses!Never worry about whether or not to take a price again as we will ensure that you will always get the best value with Paddy Power, which, to use the words of renowned wordsmith and literary genius Sir Patrick Power, "is pretty snazzy."You cannot get this anywhere else, Paddy Power are the only bookmaker to guarantee all early and board prices on BOTH Horses and Dogs.On top of that, we'll have the usual mix of Money-Back Specials, Extra Place Specials and general niceness that you won't get with other bookies for this weekend and of course all of next week at Goodwood and Galway.

Friday 25 July 2008

Get all of that from Mansion with LTDPoker

With a minimum deposit of $20 USD you could start to build your bankroll easily.*

Just look at the results of the tournament that we ran on July 15 and ask yourself if you can afford not to to take part in this promotion.

1 Caygeonkid $400.00
2 Petoly $240.00
3 Majsha2 $160.00
4 warne83 $120.00
5 Bossman667 $80.00

The tournament will run July 31 @ 20:00 BST. It's regular 10 seater MTTs with 1500 starting chips, 10 minute blinds and limited to 1500 runners.

And don't forget...
With this one single deposit into MANSIONPOKER.COM you could also become eligible for a free entry to our monthly New Player $3000 Freeroll and our 100% deposit bonus up to $500.**

The tournament entry ticket for the $1000 ADDED Special Invite Only Tournament will be added to your account on the day of the tournament. You can locate the tournament in the specials section in the lobby. If you have qualified, there will be a north facing blue arrow beside the tournament and all you have to do is click to join.
Don't miss out; we hope to see you at the tables!

Kalooki 51$2500 Guaranteed Prize

Kalooki 51$2500 Guaranteed Prize
During July 2008 we have been holding special Super Sunday multi-tourneys and it's time to get ready for the Grand Finale! Join us this Sunday, July 27 2008 @ 15:00 ET for the biggest Super Sunday tourney - $2500 Guaranteed Cash Prize. Tourney Buy-in is only $7! The number of seats for this tourney is limited, so hurry up and reserve your seat now!

Ciaran 'Big C' O'Leary is in town and he wants to play Poker Million!

Big C is over in London to play in the Poker Million and given that he wants to give all Paddy Power Poker players a shot at sitting down and having a go at taking his scalp, we've organised a Bounty Tournament!

The Big C Bounty tournament took place Friday, July 25th @ 12.30pm and in line with our love of throwing away cash, we're adding $300 to the prize pool AND awarding $200 as bounty to the player that manages to make a name for themselves and knock out Big C! The man himself has said that he fully expects to win the tournament outright and save us $200

Tournament: The Big C Bounty NL freezeout
When: Friday, July 25th @ 12.30pm
Buy-in: $10 + $1
Money Added: $300 to the prizepool & $200 bounty on Big C

The November Nine are born - WSOP 2008

After 11 days of gruelling poker play which started on the 3rd July. It was at around 3:30 Tuesday morning when the 10th placed player Dean Hamrick was eliminated and then we have our November Nine when the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event resumes on the 9th November 2008.

The remaining nine players will now have to wait until November 9 to return to the Rio in Las Vegas to continue chasing down a share of the $32,000,000 prize money and the World Championship with a first place prize of $9.1 million.
The November Nine are a completely diverse group of players that include players from four countries - a Russian, a Dane, two Canadians and five Americans.
Here are the official chip counts and seating assignments for the 2008 November Nine:

Seat 1: Dennis Phillips - 26,295,000
Seat 2: Craig Marquis - 10,210,000
Seat 3: Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,000
Seat 4: Scott Montgomery - 19,690,000
Seat 5: Darus Suharto - 12,520,000
Seat 6: Chino Rheem - 10,230,000
Seat 7: Ivan Demidov - 24,400,000
Seat 8: Kelly Kim - 2,620,000
Seat 9: Peter Eastgate - 18,375,000

WSOP Main Event Day One is over

The World Series of Poker is well under way now. As with previous years the first day has been split over 4 days.

This year tournament has 6844 players competing for a first prize of $9,119,517. Already 3221 players have been and gone leaving 3663 players who will be playing on day 2A and day 2B over the next 2 days.

Friday 11 July 2008

LTD Poker Toolbar - ready to download

If you are LTD Poker Player already yo umight find useful our LTDPoker Toolbar. Any messages to your registered email address or links, which will redirect you straight to the page you've been searching for.

http://ltdpoker.ourtoolbar.com/?regular=true

LTDPoker directions

Before LTDPoker.com can process your bonus you must create a tracked poker account at one or all of the following poker rooms - Betfair Poker, Red Kings Poker, Paddy Power Poker, Mansion Poker, Pokerstars, Interpoker,Poker770, Littlewoods Poker, William Hill Poker and Party Poker.

Remember to add your Poker account details to your LTDProfile. Log in to your LTDprofile and select the Poker Accounts Tab, Select the Poker Site, enter the details the click the Add Poker Account button.

How to add your Poker Account Details
When you have downloaded the poker software to your computer and registered a new poker account, you need to login to your LTDPoker account – http://www.LTDPoker.com/Login.aspx.
Once logged into your LTDPoker Profile follow the steps below to add your new Poker account details to your profile.

Step 1 – Click on the Poker Accounts tab within your Player Profile
Step 2 – Select your Poker Site from the list of available Poker Rooms. (Once you have selected the correct poker room the on screen help will advise you which details we require to complete the tracking process.)
Step 3 – Enter the correct details from your Poker account, this could be any or all of the following details - Poker Screen name, Poker Alias, Poker Username and or Poker Account number).
Note: Each poker room uses different terminology so make sure you enter the exact details requested.

For assistance with tracking visit our Help Center http://www.LTDPoker.com/Help .
Tracking is the process of confirming the poker account details you provide in your LTDPoker Profile with the daily reports we receive from each poker room. When your account is listed in our poker room reports the status will be updated to “Tracked Account”.

Why isn’t my account tracked?
There are a number of reasons why an account isn't Tracked including –
- We are still waiting of the latest report from the poker room
- When you downloaded the poker software you didn't use the links on LTDPoker.com
- You didn't remove cookies and temporary Internet files before downloaded the poker software from LTDPoker.com.

Tracking can take up to 72h. If your poker account is "New account" longer than 72h, usually that means that your account isn't tracked to LTDPoker.com.

Verification Process instructions:
Send your Photo ID (passport or driving licence) jpeg file to support@ltdpoker.com for verification and push validate email button from your Bonus Checklist (located in your LTDProfile)
When you see all Green in your Bonus checklist contact Live support or email to support@ltdpoker.com to request your Bonus.

Top Rated Poker Rooms

Top Rated Poker Rooms

http://www.ltdpoker.com/Poker-Directory/Top-Rated-Poker-Rooms.aspx

Your Instant Bankroll will be added to your LTDWallet with the 1st Bonus of $25 Released once any of your new accounts are tracked. Each additional $25 will be released when you have earned 25 LTDPoints or equivalent poker points from your rake or tournament fees as listed above at the respective poker room.

Create 3 accounts and if you don't get the bonus cleared in the first month you can receive the 2nd bonus next month and the 3rd in month 3.

* No Deposit is required to receive the $250 Instant Bankroll

A Masssive $250 Bonus for Poker Players

There is a new promotion since June at LTDPoker.com. If you are a poker player you have to check this out.

New $250 Instant Bankroll (new and existing players)

All new Players will now receive an $250 Instant Bankroll when they sign up to at least 3 poker rooms from our Top 10 VIP Level 1 Poker Partners.

The Bankroll will be released in $25 increments upto the full $250.
$250 Free Bankroll can be used to play at one room or any combination of our Platinum Poker rooms*

We have compiled a list of our Top Rated Poker Rooms VIP Level 1 rooms and are pleased to offer a MASSIVE $250 Instant Bankroll simply for downloading and creating a tracked account to at least three of the following poker rooms:

1 Betfair Poker
2 RedKings Poker
3 PokerStars
4 Poker770
5 Party Poker
6 William Hill Poker
7 Mansion Poker
8 PaddyPower Poker
9 InterPoker (Neteller only)
10 Littlewoods Poker (Neteller only)

Monday 7 July 2008

$30 to Gala Poker and 100% matched bonus

To make LTDPoker's offer even more attractive we bring good news every month to our Players.

In July LTD would like to introduce newly added poker room, which is Gala Poker.
Gala Poker are offering some amazing signup bonuses and some of the best tournaments too. You can choose the bonus that suits you - either a fantastic sign-up bonus and then a regular monthly $25 Reload bonus.The signup bonus ranges from $50, $100, $250 upto a massive $600. Because we know that every poker player is different, we have 4 great Sign-up Bonuses for you to choose from - simply take your pick!

$30 to Gala Poker and 100% matched bonus

All new Players registering through our link to Gala Poker can count on:

30$ no deposit bonus for a good start
100% sign up bonus up to 600$
monthly $25 Reload bonus
download or play instantly
play hold'em, omaha, 7 card stud and 5 card draw
games and tournaments to suit everyone
24/7 multi-lingual customer support
If you are new online poker player simply visit our website, register and signup to Gala Poker. Contact LiveSupport for further information.

Wednesday 2 July 2008

$30 no deposit to GalaPoker

Shortly there is going to be a totally new promotion launched, which you won't find anywhere else on the Internet.
30$ no deposit bonus + 100% Matched Bonus up to 600$.

Here are just some of the extras you will get by joining Gala Poker. Remember to get all that you would have to use bonus code: LTDPoker

Current Tournament Promotions





Celebrate the Wimbledon Championships with a week of ace poker tournaments, with guaranteed (Pat) cash prizes. No need to qualify and no wildcards – everyone can play!




The Scottish Poker Championships 2008 is once again hosted by the Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh from 25th to 30th August 2008. An estimated £100,090+ in prizes, and you can qualify free online!




Enjoy a fabulous summer of poker, with qualification for two fantastic events – the GCBPT Liverpool, and the Gibraltar Poker Festival. Win a $1600 package and choose your destination! Four satellites per day including two freerolls.



The Grand Tournament runs over 3 days on the last weekend of every month with a $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. It's the largest shorthanded tournament on the internet. Direct buy in for $1000+40 or qualify from as little as $1+0.20



Get your name on the "Guest List" our new monthly $10,000 freeroll, and with so many ways to qualify it couldn't be easier but remember – “If your name's not on the list you’re not coming in!”



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