Comments on Clonie Gowen
November 1, 2009
Clonie Gowen is one of the female professional poker players out there. She is a beautiful lady. In fact, she won Miss Oklahoma when she was fifteen years old. She used to own a travel agency but is simply playing poker for a living nowadays. She goes around the world and scuba dives on her spare time. She has two children.
There are a lot of things that you can learn and observe from this natural beauty at the poker table. One of the things that Clonie Gowen knows how to use at the poker table is her beauty. She knows if men are trying to get a date with her. She knows if there are men that are being nice to her. She knows it when there are men who are simply out there to compete and try to knock her out of the contest. Anyway, one of the more remarkable things that Clonie does is her ability to charm and distract her opponents. Men with weak control over their urges for women can easily fall into Clonie’s traps. If you are a guy and you do not watch out for this charming lady then you are going to end up at the losers lounge in no time.
What can you learn from Clonie’s style of play? The answer is simple. If you are a guy and you are playing poker with girls that are pretty, you have to assume that these women will not go out with you at all. No matter how charming they can get, you have to assume that they think that you are a disgusting person with no money and nothing to offer. You have to assume that these girls think that you are trash. You have to assume that these girls will try to destroy you at any instant. If your mindset is like this then you will be able to veer away from the distractions that pretty women pose at the poker table.
On the other hand, if you are a girl and you are pretty then you have to learn a lot of tricks from Clonie Gowen. You have to learn how to charm men into doing silly things at the poker table. You have to be able to make a man ask for your number without even saying a word. You have to learn how to put a man off his game so that you can take away his money. You have to be smart and cunning. You have to assume that all the men out there need to be charmed a bit so that they will give up their life savings for you. You have to assume that all the men out there are attracted to you and will do anything to get your attention. It is all up to you on how you can use your beauty to your advantage. If you are a girl and you are pretty then you have a lot going on for you. You should watch Clonie Gowen make her moves at the poker table so that you can learn how to play with men. Be smart and charming. Win with beauty.
Cook something for your poker night
October 25, 2009
There are a lot of things to do before a poker night. If you are a host of a poker night then you have to make sure that you are able to feed your guests. One of the house rules that you can implement is a ten percent deduction from the buy in so that the money can be used for food and drinks. If there is a one hundred dollar buy in, then ten dollars is given to the host for food and for drinks. Here are some of the things that you can cook for your guests so that they feel that house fee was all worth it.
Chicken strips are a great way to keep your guests full and nibbling throughout the night. How can you prepare chicken strips? First you simply thaw the chicken and then cut it up into strips. You prepare a breading or a mixture that is made up of flour, egg, some pepper, and some salt. You coat the chicken fingers with this mixture and then you deep fry it until it turns golden brown. When it is golden brown, you remove the chicken strips and try to drain as much oil from the chicken strip as possible. You can put some ketchup on the side when you serve this dish. Your guests will certainly enjoy this.
Garlic mushrooms are also a great way to keep your guests nibbling on something throughout the night. The first thing to do when preparing garlic mushrooms is to cut the garlic as finely as possible. Cooks would call this mincing. When the garlic is as minced as possible, put it in a frying pan with oil. Add the mushrooms quickly after. Toss the garlic and toss the mushrooms around until you see the garlic turning golden brown. When you see this happening, you can remove the mushrooms and the garlic from the frying pan. Serve this hot and your guests will keep coming back for more.
Aside from these two great dishes, you might want to add some club sandwiches. Making a club sandwich is very simple. Toast some bread. Toss in a few lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and some mayonnaise. Put in cold cuts for some sandwiches and put in some fried bacon in the other sandwiches. Vary the meat in the sandwiches. Put all the ingredients in between layers of the sandwich and then cut the sandwich into four. Use some toothpicks to hold the layers together. Serve this immediately.
These great tasting dishes are perfect for anybody’s poker night. Toss in some beer and some wine and you will have the perfect poker night. In some cases, some people will simply enjoy the company and the food and not mind losing the money at poker. If you can cook really well and if you can keep guests entertained then you are on the road to being one of the best poker hosts. If people love your place and if they love your food then there are a lot of reasons for you to host the best poker games.
Mixing your drinks
October 15, 2009
Aside from great food, you will have to make great drinks at a poker invitational at your house or condo. If you want to make good drinks then you have to pay attention to the details. You have to pay attention to the people that are going to your party. You have to pay attention to what kind of drinks they want. Are you going to make lady’s drinks? Are you going to make drinks that will automatically get you wasted? These are the things that you should think about when you are mixing drinks for your poker invitational. Anyway, going back to the drinks, here are a few drinks that you might want to have at your next poker game.
The rum coke is one of the most popular drinks at bars nowadays. It is very easy to make rum coke. You put in two parts of coke and one part of rum into a drinking class. Add some ice and then serve. This drink is ideal for those who simply want to get a little bit of a buzz at the poker table. If you would like to be a little bold when it comes to your poker game then maybe a glass of rum coke is the way to go.
Gin Pom or Gin Pomelo is another great drink that you can serve at your parties. Again, it is very easy to make Gin Pom. The first thing to do is make Pomelo Juice. You can use the powdered mixes that you can find at the supermarket or you can make your own natural Pomelo juice from the Pomelo fruit. It definitely tastes better when the natural fruit is used. An alternative to Pomelo is Lemon. If you do not have pomelo around then simply make lemonade. In this kind of drink, you mix two parts of the juice and one part of the gin. Serve this drink with ice. This drink is also used to give a buzz to your guests. If you want your guests to start being bolder with their poker moves then this is one of the drinks that you should have in your party.
Vodka Seven or Vodka Sprite is a drink that you can serve the ladies. This is simply mixing two parts of Seven Up or two parts of Sprite with one part of Vodka. Serve this with ice and a cherry on top. If you want to give a buzz, especially to the ladies out there, then you can serve this drink at your poker games.
The drink that you should never go without is definitely beer. No party is a party without beer. Selecting your beer is important. You can go get the Corona and add lime to it or you can go get the classic Budweiser to serve your guests. For the more health conscious people, you can have Coors Light. Make sure that you have enough drinks for the guests and the poker players at your poker games. In this way, everyone enjoys and has a good time.
Comments on Phil Gordon
October 8, 2009
On a personal level, Phil Gordon is my idol in poker. Why? Even if Phil Gordon has never won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker, I think that he is an admirable person as a whole. First of all, before Phil got into poker, he finished a Computer Science degree at Georgia Tech. He went on to start up a software company that he later on sold for millions of dollars. Phil Gordon is certainly one of the smarter poker players out there. With solid education and solid business skills to back him up, it is very hard to knock this guy off at the poker table. Phil Gordon is also very intimidating. At six foot and nine inches tall, he towers over almost anybody around him. Phil Gordon spends his time travelling around the world and appreciating existence. He guests at poker television shows and still continues to play at a lot of live poker games.
What can you learn from Phil Gordon? You can learn a lot from Phil Gordon. First of all, first things come first. You have to be stable with your education and your career if you want to spend the remaining years of your life playing poker. At the age of twenty seven, Phil Gordon was already done with all the money making stuff. He was already a multi millionaire at that age. From then on, all he did was travel the world and play poker. If you are able to make millions like Phil Gordon then you certainly deserve to relax and play poker for the remaining years of your life.
Second, it pays to be smart at the poker table. If you are gifted with a high IQ then use it. If you are able to finish degrees like computer science, molecular biology, astrophysics, and all those geeky courses, then you might as well put your good brains to work with poker. With sharp brains, you will be able to calculate odds quickly, you will be able to compute the right amount to bet, and you will be able to weigh your chances against a certain number of opponents. If you can calculate this quickly in your head then you have a good chance of winning at poker tournaments.
Third, it pays to be street wise at the poker table too. When I say street wise, you have to know how people react in certain situations. You have to understand how people think. You have to be able to spot cunning people and take them down. In the world of business, Phil Gordon has an idea on how to work around the streets. He has his way with people. If you want to master the game of poker then you have to learn how to master challenging certain types of opponents. You have to learn how to analyze your opponents. You have to see whether your opponents are doing some funny street tactics. You have to learn how to take them down when the time comes.
Teaching people how to play poker
October 1, 2009
You love the game of poker. You love the thrill that it brings to your life. You love spending time playing this game. When it comes to poker, you know that you will be having tons of fun. You know that you are going to enjoy the next number of hours playing to your hearts content. What more to share the joy of poker than to teach it to others? If you are planning to teach poker to other people then here are a few steps to take.
First, teach the beginners what the hands are in poker. They have to understand the high card. They have to understand the pair, the two pair, the three of a kind, the straight, the flush, the full house, the four of a kind, the straight flush, and the royal flush. They have to understand that the ace is the highest card but can also be used as a one in a straight.
Second, you have to teach the beginners the cycles in poker. You have to teach them how many cards you receive. You have to teach them what the flop is all about. You have to teach them about the turn card. You have to teach them about the river card. You have teach them about the community cards and the cards that they are holding.
Third, you have to teach them the betting system. You have to teach them how much to raise, how much to call, and when one should fold. You have to teach them appropriate betting. You have to teach them who wins the pot at the end of the game and who loses the pot at the end of the game.
Fourth, you have to teach them the blinds, the dealers, and the antes. You have to explain to them the logic of these things. You have to show them how to deal if ever they become the assigned dealer. You have to make it a point that they understand these details.
When you are done teaching them these things, make sure that you have some practice rounds of poker before you actually make any bets. Make sure that the person that is playing for the first time is comfortable shelling out money. You have to make sure that this person is comfortable with the idea of gambling and comfortable with the idea that you can lose a lot of money in poker.
At the end of the day, there is nothing more fulfilling than watching your students appreciate the game that you play. There is nothing more fulfilling than watching your students become good at the game that you love so much. There is nothing more fulfilling than watching one of your students become a world poker champion one day. Who knows, your poker prodigy might even end up giving you a bit of the winning pot. If you make the right bets then you will have students blossoming into great poker players one of these days.
Good luck charms
September 17, 2009
Poker is not entirely a game of skill. Poker also involves a great deal of luck. As some wise poker players would say, winning at poker is a mixture of being lucky and being skilled. If you are not lucky then you will not win at poker. If you are not skilled then you will not win at poker either. A healthy balance of skill and luck makes people poker champions. Let us say that you have all the skills in the world, how do you boost your luck then? There are a lot of lucky charms out there. Some people have specific lucky charms while other people have generic lucky charms that most people use. Here are some of the lucky charms that might come in handy for you.
Look for something that reminds you of winning. Wear a graduation ring or a championship ring at your poker match and you will feel a bit luckier. When you have things and icons that remind you of successful things then you might get a boost of luck out of nowhere. If you have a shirt that makes you feel lucky then you have to wear it during your poker matches. If you wore a certain kind of shirt and you got lucky most of the time then you should keep wearing it so that more luck comes to you.
Get yourself a horseshoe. A lot of people think that having horseshoes around brings a lot of good luck. If you want to get a boost of luck out of nowhere then you might want to put a lot of horseshoes around the place. You might want to put some horseshoes in your wallet. You might want to put some horseshoes in your bag. If you like jewellery then you might want to wear a horseshoe necklace or bracelet on your next poker match. Wear these lucky horseshoes and you may be on your way to winning your next poker match.
Look for a four leaf clover in your garden. Some people say that the four leafed clover is one of the lucky charms that will bring you a lot of money. If you are able to find a four leafed clover somewhere around then I suggest that you preserve it and have it vacuumed or dried so that no bacteria can get to it. Preserve it and bring it along when you need a stroke of luck.
Aside from the lucky clover, the lucky horseshoe, and the lucky shirt, you might want to look for your lucky penny. There are a lot of pennies in the world but there are some pennies out there that give you a stroke of luck every time it is in your pocket. If you want to have a lucky penny then you have to search for it. Every person has a connection to his or her lucky penny. If you are lucky enough to find yours then hold on to it. Grab on to it and make sure that you never let it go. Lucky pennies are hard to find.
Watches at the poker table
September 10, 2009
One of the things that is seen a lot at the poker table is your watch. Your watch says a lot about you. Depending on your fashion and your style, your watch is a way of telling the opponents what kind of person you are. Below are some of the impressions that watches give off at the poker table.
If you are wearing a Rolex at the poker table then you are simply telling everyone that you are a rich person. Maybe you like to show off or maybe you like to intimidate people. Maybe you simply like expensive jewellery. As long as you are wearing a Rolex at the poker table, your opponents will simply look at you and think that you are a rich person. Is this an advantage or a disadvantage? It is up to you and it is up to the way you handle the impressions of other people on you.
If you are wearing an Omega watch at the poker table then people will think that you are elegant. From the likes of Cindy Crawford and Pierce Brosnan, wearing an Omega watch will simply give off the impression that you are a classy person. You are either a super model or some James Bond. If you want to give off the classy impression, the impression where you are not bothered by distractions and you simply want to show yourself elegantly then wearing an Omega watch will do the trick. Is this an advantage or a disadvantage? Again, impression management is up to you.
If you are wearing a Tag Heuer watch then you are giving off the impression of the classy sporty type of person. You are showing people that you are willing to take risks but at the same time, you have control over matters at hand. If you are going to wear a Tag Heuer watch then people can get a glimpse of your risky but controlled attitude. Does this help your game? Again, this is up to you.
There are a lot more watches out there and it would simply be impossible to enumerate all of them here. Your cue when it comes to watches is to find out how they are branded. The branding of the watch has a lot to do with the person wearing it. If you want to make sure that you are giving off the right impression when it comes to your watch then you have to pay attention to how it is branded in media. You have to pay attention to how people react to it. You have to pay attention to how the watch reflects your poker personality. If you are having trouble selecting a watch that suits your poker personality then why not wear no watch at all? In this way, you will have no problem branding yourself at the poker table. You will have no problem being seen as this or that. Is this an advantage at the poker table or not? Again, this is your decision to make.
The irony of victory
August 26, 2009
You win a poker match and you pat yourself on the back. You are the victor among nine players at a poker player. You have multiplied your money by a factor of nine. You are on top of the world. But now what? You have won the poker game and you should celebrate and be happy. Fine, you can sit back and relax for awhile but at the end of the day, you are back at square one. At the end of the day, when you play poker once again, everyone has an equal stack of chips. This is the irony of victory. Although victory is temporary in poker, the only thing that you can bring to your next poker match is your experience of winning. Aside from that, you are back to square one.
So you know that your victory is only temporary. You know that the irony of victory in a poker match is that in the next one, no one knows that you are victorious. In fact, if ever someone knows that you won the previous match, all the more that these people want to take you down. There is a marker on your forehead saying “previous winner, please eliminate before this person wins again.” Being victorious in the previous poker match can make you learn a couple of things. First, when you win, enjoy it at that moment and then move on. There are much more battles ahead of you. Second, when you win, make sure you bring the valuable lessons that you have learned in the previous poker match.
What are the things that you should learn from victory then? First, you have to review how you took out your opponent in the heads up game. On a two on two match, you should review your strategy and find out what worked on whom. You have to review the way you took out your last rival. The heads up game is one of the most crucial parts of a poker match. You learn a lot from it. Although it may be weird to take down notes at the poker table, try to take down mental notes while you play. Make sure that you remember the good things that you did and the bad things that you did. If you remember these things then you will be able to become a better poker player in your next match. Instead of starting from scratch all over again, you have some experience that will allow you to take out everyone at the poker table all over again.
If you think that victory is a permanent thing in poker then you are very wrong. In poker, you have to roll the dice at the beginning of every game. Sometimes you will be lucky, sometimes you will not be so lucky at all. The only thing that will make you a winner is your skill and your experience. You might have bad nights where there seems like nothing is going your way. Even if you are playing like a professional poker player, for some unlucky people, you will not win at all. The catch is this, even if you are lucky, you are not guaranteed that you will win. You need to have the necessary skills to win a poker match. If you have won a poker match before already then all you have to do is try to remember what you did right.
The morning after poker
August 20, 2009
There are a lot of nice things that happen in a poker match. There are also a lot of nasty things that happen in a poker match. When you wake up in the morning after a poker match, you can feel good, feel bad, or feel indifferent about your poker game the previous night. You can feel bad about your poker game the last night for the following reasons. You can feel bad because you were making a lot of mistakes. You were calling hands that should not be called. You were going all in with two pairs. What were you thinking that night? You can also feel bad about your poker game last night because you got so wasted with alcohol. You have a really bad hangover and you have to go to work. You have a bad hangover and you have to step up for something important. Nothing is worse than stepping up with a hangover.
You can feel indifferent about your poker match on the previous night if you were making a mix of good calls and bad calls. Sometimes you got a bad beat on someone with a higher straight. Sometimes you were playing too defensively to the point where you were not taking advantage of any opportunities anymore. Maybe last night you were too distracted to play a good poker match. Maybe last night you were not paying too much attention to your opponents. Maybe last night you were too lazy to analyze the odds of some hands. You took advantage of some opportunities but at the same time, you let a lot of opportunities pass you by. The morning after that poker match, you are going to feel indifferent.
There is nothing more pleasing than waking up after a good poker game. Why? You have ten times more money in your pocket! Aside from the money, it is nice to wake up after a good poker match because you knew that you were playing your cards well. You knew that you were taking advantage of the right opportunities. You knew that you seized the opportunities right when they were in front of you. There is no better way to win a poker match where your timing was always right. You were making the right decisions at the right place at the right time. You called your straight when everyone else was bluffing. You went all in and you won the pot. You try to bluff and people fall for it. For some strange reason, you are on a roll. You are making a lot of good calls. You are playing like the professional pokers you see on television and the poker players that you read in books and magazines. Isn’t it good to feel like a poker player? All your poker studying has been put to good use. You can finally say that poker is a nice game. If you are the type of person that has been cursing poker since day one of your poker career then now is the time to change perspective. Poker is really a hard game to win but when you win, the fruits are very fulfilling.
The misdeal
August 10, 2009
What is a misdeal? A misdeal is when the dealer makes an error in dealing the cards. When there is a misdeal, the dealer has to collect all the cards and deal the deck all over again. Sometimes, there are penalties for a misdeal, on other times, there are no penalties for the misdeal. There are some times where the dealer is charged the big blind for a misdeal. There are some times where the dealer is charged the small blind. Sometimes the dealer even has to pay the small blind to all the players. Sometimes, the dealer simply has to reshuffle and deal again. Whatever suits you and your group is okay. Make sure that the house rules are established before the game begins so that you will avoid any misunderstanding in the middle of the game.
There are a lot of instances where a misdeal can happen. When can a misdeal happen? One instance where a misdeal can happen is if one of the cards accidentally flips over. How will this happen? This will happen if the dealer is distributing the cards too quickly that a card will end up flipping over because the air pressure is unbearable beneath it. Try throwing a card as fast as you can across a ten foot table. Throw all the cards to the other side one by one and see if one of them will flip over. Chances are, even if you are the best dealer in town, one of them will accidentally flip over.
Another instance where a misdeal can happen is if the dealer forgets how many players are on the table. The dealer can forget the number of players if someone or two people get knocked out in a poker match. Sometimes the dealer will give away seven sets of cards when there are only six players left. When this is the case, the dealer has to reshuffle and declare a misdeal.
A misdeal can also happen if the dealer deals out too many cards. There are some instances where a player will receive three cards instead of two. In poker games that have a dealer’s choice option, meaning the dealer can choose whether people will be playing Omaha, Hold’em, or Pineapple, sometimes the dealer forgets which one is being played and simply gives out the cards.
If you are the dealer of a certain poker round then you have to make sure that you are dealing the right amount of cards. You have to make sure that you are giving the cards to the right people. You have to make sure that you give the first card to the small blind. If you do not follow these measures as diligently as possible then you will end up giving away a large amount of your chips to the pot for no reason at all. When you are dealing at a poker match, the most important thing that you should have is presence of mind. Do not allow your mind to wander off when you give away the cards because the moment you lose concentration is the moment you lose chips.