Advantages of Women at the poker table
December 30, 2007
Yes, you got that right. Women do have some advantages at the poker table. You have to watch out for women at the poker table because they have some extra moves that can take any man out of his poker game. If you are a woman then you should use these skills to your advantage. If you are a man then you should watch out when these skills are used against you. You do not know when these magic skills will get you off guard and you do not know when these skills will be used. Always be on the lookout if you are a guy. Always be ready if you are a girl.
One of the main advantages of women at the poker table is their beauty. They can always use this to their advantage. When women are beautiful, a lot of guys will try to flirt with them. Some guys will call hands that they would not normally call so that they can get some sort of interaction with a pretty girl. For example, if the girl is at the turn card and the guy still has nothing, he may still call it because he wants to interact with the girl. Girls can use this to their advantage. If girls are pretty, they can easily take any guy out of his poker game.
Another advantage of women at the poker table is their patience. Normally, guys are overly aggressive and competitive. Women are naturally more patient and nurturing. Although a caveat, there are still women out there that are aggressive! You know what I mean! Anyway, normally, a woman is more patient. Even is she gets beaten on a hand, she will still be able to hold back and play the next hand normally. Males will naturally tend to become aggressive and try to beat out someone else even if they do not have such a strong hand. Women are rarely going to use intimidation or aggressiveness to win a hand.
An advantage of women at the poker table is their ability to look harmless. There are some males out there that will be overly nice to females especially when they have a nice hand. They will tell the female to back off because they have the cards. Some men think that women are harmless and they do not want to hurt women’s feelings at the poker table. They will honestly tell the girl to fold instead of allowing the girl to lose her money. Yes, there are nice guys out there that fall for this sweetie pie girl aura.
If you are a male and you are competing with females then you should be aware of what women can do at the poker table. If you are a female and you are competing with males then you should know when to use these super powers to your favor. If you can use these super powers then there is a high chance that you will win a poker tournament. If you are a guy then you should watch out or else you will get beaten at the poker table.
The gambler’s addiction
December 27, 2007
If you are a gambler then you may be addicted to something else that is more profound than gambling. Why do you gamble anyway? Try to find the reasons why you gamble away one month or even two months of your salary in a casino. Yes, it is absurd but for those gambling addicts out there, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. You have actually maxed out the ATM machine and loaded your wallet with cash. Later on that day, you go home with nothing. Why did you do that? Why did you gamble away all your hard earned money? Okay, there may be an explanation to this and this is the more profound addiction.
One of the more profound addictions behind gambling is the addiction to hope. Some people hope too much. Some people hope that they will buy a Ferrari next year. Some people think that they will buy a mansion in Beverly Hills next year. Some people think that they will marry one of the hottest men or women on earth. But at the end of the day, what does this hope do to you? There is such a thing called false hope and it is not pretty. Okay fine, you may think that it is okay to dream and all but at the end of the day you have to come to terms with reality, right? If you are using gambling so that you can get a one way ticket into the luxuries that you have always hoped for then you should not hope too much. I am going to tell you now, this hope is dangerous. There is no other way to get these luxuries than by sheer hard work. It is not an easy way to luxury. Do not think that gambling will get you these riches. The odds are against you.
Another more profound addiction behind gambling is the addiction to excitement. Some people love the thrill. Some people enjoy the ride. Some people love the rush they get when they gamble thousands of dollars on poker. If you are addicted to the rush in gambling then you are a thrill addict. If you have no other way to thrill yourself than by gambling away thousands of your hard earned dollars then you might want to think your gambling vice all over again. It is not funny to lose thousands of dollars on poker. If you want to be sane then you should put your addiction in check and try to find the best way to find a thrill. Maybe you should go hang gliding or sky diving. Maybe you should go skiing or scuba diving. Whatever controls money pouring out of your pocket is certainly better than losing thousands and thousand of dollars on poker.
In gambling, you have to be smart. You have to know yourself. You have to know when to stop and when to bet again. If you do not know yourself and if you do not keep your addictions in check then you certainly have a big problem to solve. Hi I am blank and I am a gambling addict. Applause!
Finances at the Poker Table
November 27, 2007
How much are you willing to invest? This is the age old question of financiers through time. When it comes to the game of poker, the questions still holds. If you have two pairs on the flop, how much more money are you willing to invest in your cards? The same question is asked and the results will be very similar in the real world as it is on the poker table.
One of the basic principles in finance that you have to remember is that for anything that is high risk, a high return must compensate you for it. For example, if you are going to invest in stocks that are risky, the company must give you a commensurate amount of return if the stocks increase in value. On the poker table, the principle still applies. If you have an ace and a king on the pre flop then you can ask yourself the same question, if I put my heart out and go all in on this hand, there are high rewards at the end of the day. Although there is a chance for me to lose, there is also a high chance of me winning. If you ask yourself that question before you go all in then you are thinking of the principles of finance. If you are ready to go all in and take the plunge then you are a high risk high return player.
Another basic principle in finance is never to put all your eggs in one basket. In other words, you have to diversify your risk. You have to make sure that all your bets aren’t in one place. In essence, this principle tells you never to go all in. But does this make any sense? Sometimes you have to go all in, right? What finance is telling us is that when you are about to go all in, you might want to rethink your odds. If you go half all in on this hand then may be you can try your luck on another hand in the near future. Finance is telling us that two chances are better than one. You may agree or disagree with this but at the end of the day; any added knowledge will help you.
A principle in finance is never to bet the farm. What the finance books are trying to say is that you should never bet the lifeblood of your business. You should never allow your business to be exposed to total risk. If the farm is gone, where will you get the resources to make money? In poker language, this is translated to never bet a substantial amount of your chips if you are unsure of a reasonable return. This makes a lot of sense. You should not be betting half of your chips if all you have is a two three off suit and you only have a paired three on the turn card.
Finance is something great to learn. In the world of business, it is one of the most powerful tools. If you apply this knowledge into poker then you are going to go very far.
Marketing and Poker
November 25, 2007
Playing poker has a lot of similarities when it comes to the art of marketing. Marketing is basically finding ways and means of selling a product. For example, when you market Diet Coke, you try to find ways to make it sell more in the market. You launch campaigns, you have promotions, and you make all sorts of advertisements to help your product sell. In the game of poker, you are also trying to sell something. You are trying to sell your hand. You are trying to sell what you have. You may be trying to sell a bluff. You may be trying to sell a two three off suit against someone who has a pocket ace. If you are playing the game of poker then you are going to learn a lot from marketing text books.
One of the things that you should keep in mind when it comes to marketing is branding. How do you brand yourself as a poker player? Are you a bluffer? Are you a safe player? Are you outright risky? If you play with some poker players often then they will brand you as such. You can use this to your advantage. If a lot of people think that you are a safe player then you can pull off a bluff once in awhile. Just make sure that you do not get caught! If a lot of people think that you are a risk taker then you can reel in people when you have a hand. These are the things that you should be aware of when it comes to branding and marketing yourself. You should know yourself and you should know how people perceive you so that you know how to act around them.
Another thing that you should keep in mind is public relations. You should know when to talk and when not to talk. Can talking help you in your poker game? The answer is yes and the answer is no. If you talk too much then people might find out what you have. If you do not talk at all then people will think that you are hiding something. You should simply just talk enough. You can actually lure your other competitors to talk too much if you ask the right questions. If you are able to get it out of them then you are a good public relations manager on the poker table.
The homework that you need to do before sitting at the poker table is market research. If you know who your opponents are then you should do your homework on them. Where are they from? What is their occupation? What is their job? These are clues on how to determine the style of a poker player. The more clues you have, the better your chances of selling your winning hand. If you can master marketing and if you can master poker then you will be able to take your poker game to another level. Make sure that you have fun doing these things so that you can enjoy and win at the same time.
The Gulp Buy In
November 23, 2007
What is the gulp? What do you do when you gulp? When you gulp, you feel a bit uneasy, right? The gulp buy in is the amount of buy in recommended to make poker players feel uneasy, not too little to make them feel like the game is pointless and not too much to make them feel like if they lose, they will never come back again.
If you are hosting a poker tournament at home, you should make sure that you know the demographics of the people playing. For example, if you are playing with a bunch of unemployed teenagers then you should not make the buy in so large. You should make it just enough so that they will lose their allowance for two to three days. If you make their buy in as much as their allowance for a month then if they lose, they are likely never to come back.
If you are hosting a group of tycoons then you should make the buy in around the ten thousand dollar range. You have to make sure that they will feel the money or else they will not care about the poker game at all. You have to make sure that they are a bit uneasy when they play. Imagine, if there are ten players on that table, the winner will end up with one hundred thousand dollars. That is still some money for a tycoon, right. He or she could buy a Porsche with it.
If you are hosting a poker tournament with normal people then you should put the buy in at around fifty to one hundred dollars. This is the normal buy in range for the average home invitational poker tournament. If you have ten players then the winner can win as much as a thousand dollars. That isn’t bad. At least you know that the people will be taking the poker game seriously to some extent, right?
If you think about it, the ideal gulp buy in is the amount of money you earn in one day of work. If you are earning three thousand dollars a month then a hundred dollar buy in is just right for you. If you lose then gone is a day’s work but if you win then you can spend lavishly for the next week. That isn’t bad, right? If you want to enjoy life more then make sure that you keep winning your poker games!
Imagine if you were earning three thousand dollars a month and the buy in was three thousand dollars! What would happen if you lose? If you lose, gone is a month’s work for you. That is so horrible. If you earned that money with your sweat and blood then you will feel it go away. You will curse gambling and you may never play a poker game ever again. This is certainly not the goal of the gulp buy in. Make sure you compute the gulp buy in right so that you can keep having poker tournaments in your house.
Host a Poker Invitational
November 21, 2007
Sometimes it would be great to have an invitational poker tournament in your house, right? It is great to be among the company of friends and colleagues having a good time. So why not host a poker tournament or a poker invitational at your house? It is very simple to host a poker tournament in your house.
The first thing to do in order to have a poker invitational in your house is to invite the right people. Make sure that the people that you invite are people that are fun to be with. Do not invite any party pooper or war freak that will ruin the evening. Once you are done with your guest list, invite all of them and inform them of the buy in.
The next thing to do is to prepare a long table for the event. Normally, a poker table should sit nine to ten people. If you are inviting more people to an event then you should have two long tables then, and so on and so forth.
The big night has come and you are ready to host your poker invitational. Depending on the number of players, if you have a lot of people, you are going to be spending a lot of time. This means that if there are nine to ten players - expect the match to last for about three hours. If you want to speed up the game then you can increase the blinds faster.
Make sure that you have some sort of loser’s lounge in your area. Pop in a DVD and put on that high definition television in your living room. You might want to play a feel good poker movie like Ocean’s 11, 12, or 13. If the losers are happy and having a good time then the winners will certainly have a good time also.
If you are hosting the tournament then you might want to chip off ten percent of the pot to cover the expenses. If you are the type of person that simply loves to treat his or her friends to a good night of poker then you should leave the pot with the winner. It is up to the winner to decide if he or she wants to share the wealth among the group. He or she may decide to treat pizza. He or she may decide to buy drinks. He or she may even be so generous that he will treat the whole group to food and drinks! All of you will have a good time and all of you will enjoy the game of poker. Hosting a poker tournament at home is certainly one of the things that you should do in your lifetime. If you haven’t hosted a poker tournament yet then you should certainly start hosting some as early as now. You are missing out on a lot of fun and excitement. Make your list right now and start messaging everyone so that you can get a poker tournament rolling as early as this weekend. Go now and make your move.
Getting into the World Series of Poker
November 13, 2007
Have you ever dreamt of getting into the World Series of Poker? Have you ever thought about yourself as a poker pro? Sometimes you simply have this gut feeling that you can take out Phil Gordon and Scott Nguyen on a heads up match. Well, if you think that you can take out these guys then why don’t you give it a shot? I am not kidding. You can join the World Series of Poker anytime. All you need is the guts to actually walk that path.
The first step in getting into the World Series of Poker is raising the cash to get in. The cheapest way to get into the World Series of Poker is online. You can upload amounts from around fifty to two hundred dollars online and see where it takes you. There are people who have uploaded less than a hundred dollars and have actually won a seat at the World Series of Poker. These people earned their World of Series Poker seat right at the comfort of their own homes.
If you aren’t that lucky on the internet then maybe you have to earn your seat at the World Series of Poker the traditional way. Go to any Harrah’s casino and try your luck in their poker events. The buy in will range from two hundred dollars up to a little over a thousand dollars. The chances of getting in to the World Series of Poker becomes pretty okay in these poker tournaments.
If you aren’t lucky on the internet and you aren’t lucky at Harrah’s then you might have to buy your way in to the World Series of Poker. Yes, I said it. You can buy your way into the World Series of Poker. The amount of money that you have to shell out is not one thousand, not two thousand, and not five thousand, the amount that you have to shell out is ten thousand dollars! They might have even increased this amount lately!
Well, at least you now know how to get into the World Series of Poker. If you really want to get into this great event then you have to be determined to do so. If you are only half hearted in this event then you are merely wasting your time and your money. If you want to make it to the big table then you have to play like a big winner.
If you are the type of person that does not have the guts to compete in a worldwide poker tournament then you should not even think about joining the World Series of Poker. The World Series of Poker is for people who have the guts to call and then go all in! If you have what it takes then you should get your pocket ready and go for the big ticket. You only have one life to live so you might as well make it as exciting as possible. Take the plunge and risk some of your hard earned money. You never know, you might make it to the final table and take home more than a million dollars in cash!
Welcome To SeriousPokerBlog.com
November 4, 2007
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