Archive for June, 2008
This article is a part of the Poker Rules series.
Step 3: The Texas Hold'em No Limit Gameplay:
In my previous post in this series I described the different Texas Hold'em hands and how they rank against each other. We are now ready to move on to the actual Texas Hold'em game and how it's played. In Texas Hold'em two players - the Big Blind and the Small Blind - are required to place bets (known as blinds) in the pot (the amount of money to be won in any single completed hand) before any cards
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It's all business and hard work here in Malta these days with projects from early morning to late evening. The hours just go by in an instant one day after the other with our minds focused on WOSB and PokerBRB.
Don’t get me wrong – its not that we feel burdened spending all the hours on the projects; it's something we want to do because we find it very exiting. I think both of us have great visions about this Malta-project and we can’t really wait to get to where we are heading. But the
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This article is a part of the Poker Network series.
This article continues the series of Poker Network Reviews. We are now moving on to the Boss Media network. The company behind the network was listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange until it was acquired by GEMed the 18th of April 2008 and consequently delisted. GEMed, which is jointly owned by GTECH (87,5 percent) and Medströms (12,5 percent) payed EURO 149 million for the Boss Media network.
Boss Media Poker Network consists of more than 80
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Here's the good news first: I now have a net profit of 32,15$, a 78$ bankroll and I've played 35,15 session hours in total. The bad news is that I have still been having problems with my connection at Celeb Poker. My theory is that my Internet connection is incompatible with their software....makes no sense I know, but damn it it's all I've got. But come to think of it my Celeb Poker bad news is not bad news after all; today I got so sick of timing out that I cashed out from Celeb Poker (GASP!)
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This article is a part of the Poker Network series.
This article continues the series of Poker Network Reviews. We are now moving on to the iPoker network, which is owned by the stock exchange listed company Playtech. A full list of the listed e-gaming companies was given in the previous article "E-gaming Stocks".
iPoker consists of more than 60 skins sharing players, which gives a lot of traffic as many major sports betting companies have chosen to connect its players to this Network. These
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This article is a part of the Poker Bankroll Management series.
The personal skill – discipline – will be the first skill I will go into more depth with in the coming series of articles describing necessary skills required for good Bankroll Management. Before going into why discipline is important in bankroll management and how it is developed a clear definition of discipline is needed:
…..persistently act in the direction of a goal regardless of external adversity or internal state.
Many
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This article is a part of the Poker Rules series.
In this post I will give a more detailed description of each of the poker hands I listed in my previous post, but first a couple of introductory remarks. In Texas Hold'em and most other poker variants a hand consists of 5 cards. The player with the best 5 cards wins the pot. Here are some additional general rules:
· Individual cards are ranked A (high), K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8 , 7 , 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, A. Aces are only low when they appear in a 5 high straight
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So the official Powerboat P1 race has started in Malta which for us means a sound in our apartment much like a Harley driving through our living room at full throttle from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon…..not the perfect condition to work in if you add the noise of a loud speaker down the street playing Maltese music all day. The funny thing is that you get used to it as if it is the most normal thing in the world.
Regarding our projects WOSB.com and PokerBRB.com we get more and more involved
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This article is a part of the Poker Room series.
Do you feel like the house always wins or that the rake is too high? If so, you could actually be the house by investing in E-gaming / gambling stocks. I have put together a list of all the companies related to gambling and listed on stock exchanges around the world.
Company Name - Gambling Brands
Party Gaming: Party Poker, Empire Poker, Gamebookers and other brands.
Ladbrokes: Ladbrokes.
Bet-at-home: Bet-at-home.
32Red: 32Red Poker.
Webis
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My Personal Bankroll Building Project covers a series of 4 posts.
Other posts in this series:
Mark’s personal Bankroll building project
Mark’s personal bankroll building project; update 2
Mark’s personal bankroll building project; update 3
I'll give you the good news first. My bankroll is up to 43€ and I have a net profit of 18$ so far from my bankroll building project. The bad news is that I've only played 4,5 session hours since my last update. In total I have now played 25,5
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