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Lucky Red Christmas Rollover and Merry Christmas Bonanza

Patrick Bruel — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:26:10 +0000

Lucky Red Casino has already forced many online casinos to bite the dust with fantastic promotions, which run continually. The very special Christmas has made them even more liberal. They have empowered you with the golden opportunity of celebrating the Christmas in two phases. The first one is called the Lucky Red Christmas Rollover and the second one is Merry Christmas Bonus Bonanza.

The Lucky Red Christmas Rollover enables you to earn some fabulous deposit bonuses for four days starting from 21st December and ending on 23rd December. The deposit bonus will increase to 60% on 21st, 65% on 22nd and 70% on 23rd. The bonuses are available on the games slots, keno and scratch cards. The player has to use the bonus code XMAS1 on Tuesday, XMAS2 on Wednesday and XMAS3 on Thursday.

The Christmas eve, 24th December is coming up even with more attractive bonuses. The player becomes entitled to earn 100% bonus on 24th, Friday. The only condition is that the player needs to claim all the three coupons on the same day and he becomes entitled to special Friday offer of 5×100%. However the offers will continue in various forms.

The Merry Christmas Bonus Bonanza of Lucky Red Casino is even more generous. The offer remains valid from 24th December to 27th December. The players can claim a bonus of 75% on any 5 deposits during this period for playing slots, Keno and Scratch Cards. Never forget that the coupon code for this offer is MERRYXMAS.

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About Poker ODDS

Patrick Bruel — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:40:47 +0000

Poker odds is said to have factorial notation n! = n (n-1) (n-2) (n-3)….. Does it scare you? Well, it did scare me to the core! It is really a lot of confusing math scribbles. I will tell you it is not really easy arriving at 1999xxx combinations and probabilities. Poker odds are like hard nuts for a math allergic kid like me.

I discovered to use something called poker calculator to help me work out poker odds for I really hate all that binomial coefficients and calculating the number of thousands of unique hands in a 10 player table to be 3,948,xxx for a 52 card deck!

But using poker odds calculator at online tourneys and then proceeding with every move can disgust your co-players and make you feel odd before them.

I am okay with understanding the basics like A-A in hole cards is better than A with any other card, but when I will have to graduate further to calculate poker odds to place my chips, like arriving at possibilities of those face down cards.. I prefer just peeping in or grabbing the cards of my fellow players to have what they have, but that cannot happen isn’t it!

However, those were my psychological disposition towards calculating poker odds in by beginning games, but believe me I swear it was all possible at a later point in time!

Full Tilt Poker Affiliate Program

Patrick Bruel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:59:07 +0000

The games and limits at Full Tilt Poker are Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Texas Hold’em, No Limit Texas Hold’em, Limit Omaha High, Pot Limit Omaha High, No Limit Omaha High, Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo, Limit 7 Card Stud, Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, and limit Razz.

There are Full Tilt Poker Bonus Codes available through several affiliate and sub affiliate programs and for direct sign up. You can compare between affiliates of you can choose to sign up directly.

You will get a maximum of $600 signup bonus with 100% deposit match along with Freerolls through bonus codes. Full Tilt Poker has always been friendly to US players and they have not shown hostility to them at any point in time.

You can team up with Full Tilt Poker with one of the affiliate programs. By joining one of the biggest poker networks in the internet you will be able to have liberal access to affiliate income through referral apart from playing poker.

If you do not wish to work through online affiliation, you can sign up for offline bonus processes by distributing business cards, fliers, word of mouth advertisement and lot more.

Preview of New Poker Slot Machine

Patrick Bruel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:49:12 +0000

I just spent several interesting hours playing Omaha and hold’em poker in a friend’s basement. But there were no other human players in the room. I was playing with the two prototype models of my new poker slot machines, which are called Cappelletti’s Omaha Poker Challenge and the Holdem Poker Challenge. So here is a preview of coming distractions. These machines evolved from the “Omaha Solitaire” game described in my Sept. 8, 1989, Card Player article. Both machines function similarly and essentially allow the player to compete against five random computer “opponents”; the Omaha machine deals four card hands, and the hold’em machine deals two card hands.

As you approach the machine you will see my ugly picture puffing on a big cigar. You start the game by putting one dollar (other units will be available) into the machine. In the Omaha version a four card hand is then displayed upon the screen. If you do not like this first hand, you have the free option of rejecting it and getting a new four card hand (Kenny Rogers will like this feature). If you wish to raise with either the first hand or the forced second hand, you may do so and put in a second dollar. After so indicating your before-the-flop options, three board cards (the “flop”) are displayed. From this point on you have the usual poker options:

Fold – end this hand, conceding money already invested.

Call – enter another dollar & see the next card.

Raise – enter two more dollars & see next card.

If you elect to fold, the game ends, and you lose the one (or two if raised before the flop) dollar invested, and the machine is ready for another game. If you call or raise, the fourth board (“turn”) card is displayed. You now have the same options as after the flop, namely, fold, call, or raise. If you now call or raise, the fifth (last) card is displayed. You again have the options of folding (conceding previous bets), calling (entering another dollar) or raising (entering two dollars).

If you either call or raise after the fifth (last) card, then there is the showdown between you and the five other computer “players”, whose randomly dealt four-card hands have been hidden thus far. If any of the five random hands, now displayed, make a better Omaha poker hand than your hand (in Omaha use exactly two cards from the four-card hands and three from the five-card board), then you lose (whatever money you bet). If you have the best hand, you win twice the amount you have invested (and also get your invested money back). If you tie one or more of the five opponents, you win the amount you bet (and get your bet money back).

If you press the “all-in” button before entering any coin, the machine will then complete the hand (without further betting), and whatever money you bet will be either lost, paid double (win), or paid single (tie), as above. Note that this all-in feature may be used on any hand as an alternative to folding, and thus provides additional options which would probably not be tolerated in real play.

When the above games were being simulated to estimate the house “hold”, it became clear that a precise evaluation of either game was impossible, since all potential strategies have not yet been conceived. Against very weak players the “hold” will be somewhere around ten percent or more, depending mostly on how a player procedes after the flop (of course the single most important strategy is to fold a lot of hands after the flop). Against skilled players, the hold will be (at most) a skinny few percents (we hope), thus, expect a waiting line to play.

It seems likely that these machines will become very popular, since they are a lot more fun to play than conventional poker slots. After we get a better feel for the “hold”, these machines will probably be banked together with a royal flush jackpot. Hopefully you will start seeing the production versions of these machines in your favorite casino sometime this Fall.

Pot Limit Holdem

Patrick Bruel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:50:50 +0000

Pot limit holdem can be dangerous areas to bet aggressively unless you have monster hands. I never risk betting high unless I have a better pair of J, Q, or K in pot limit holdem games. When someone is going to call a raise in these games I figure that they are having a better hand than bluff. Bluffing calling a raise in these games requires real skill a little slip means a multifold loss of your stakes!

However most of the players believe in getting lucky if they happen to see some pair of A-A or better in hole cards and bet some good highs in pre-flop. However, following street cards it is always better to bet per strategies and odds. If there seem to be less progress in street cards you need to stop believing your luck and making raises, believing luck is just a one time story in your primary stands of hold cards. As the game in pot limit holdem flows you need to be following odds.

Bluffing in pot limit holdem with monster hands can get your some very juicy pots, but you need to make sure that they do not make out you are bluffing and series of bluffing may be foolish despite a strong hand.

Differences In Playing Roulette Live Versus Online

Patrick Bruel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:39:20 +0000

There may be several notable differences while playing Roulette both online and in a terrestrial casino. The noteworthy differences are in terms of the chips, the wager used for gambling, and the level of precision in adopting to the conditions which are not always the same. There are some advantages and disadvantages for both the versions of the Roulette game which one will get to know only if one plays the game both ways. In a usual terrestrial casino game of roulette, the dealer will offer roulette chips which are distinct from that of the online casinos.

A table must always have 8 players who have to bet on their selection from the list of numbers. As per their selection of number every player will be provided with a distinctive tinted roulette chip, which is to assign the players a distinction with respect to the choice that they have made.

Usually the live casino games will not be facilitating the players with the usage of denominations about which the dealer asks the player on the account of he placing a chip.

After mentioning the denomination the player looks forward for the dealer to identify the exact picking of the coin that the player has placed in his last trial. There is no rule that the player has to keep the same denomination in the next trial and it can vary if needed.

But on the other hand the online roulettes will have the denominations as the system monitors all your activities after you have logged on to the portal. Depending upon the availability of money in your funds you can fittingly use your appropriate denomination. Unless you have that adequate sum in your funds you cant carry on playing. On the whole the online mode is practically regulated in terms of code and perfect.

Though the lowest possible bet is in action always in Online games. one can’t get beyond a particular constraint in the case of a Live roulette game at a terrestrial casino. So one can be assured of getting highly entertaining and competitive roulette game just at the expense of few dollars which is not at all possible in case of land based scenario.

With the online casinos you may get aware of all the experiences of the players through discussion forums. Multi-tabling which enables one to get huge benefits out of small wager is also possible .

Online game of roulette is far better than the casino based game when you consider the pay outs and the low-priced cost which you may have to pay for placing wagers.

What Is Restealing and Restealing As A Short Stack

Patrick Bruel — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:21:21 +0000

The play in No Limit Texas Hold Em tournaments has changed significantly over the last five years. With the number of players playing on the Internet and the wealth of poker training sites and learning resources, what and how people play is no longer a matter of just what cards you are holding. It has become much more than that and one of the concepts that has emerged into the forefront is restealing. Restealing, explained simply, is re-raising a player with a marginal hand when you believe that they are stealing themselves. Your goal when you are restealing isn’t to win a showdown, it’s to get your opponent to fold pre-flop. Restealing works because usually the opponent who has opened the action has done so with a marginal hand and cannot withstand the heat of the re-raise.

A common mistake players make when talking about restealing is something along the lines of the following. They’ll be talking to their poker buddies and say, “so it was folded to the button who raised three times the big blind. I knew he was stealing. I looked down at pocket 9′s and decided to resteal so I made it 10 big blinds to go.” Re-raising with a legitimate hand is not restealing. If instead our hero had a hand like 7-3 off suit and had re-raised to 10 times the big blind, then he could have said he had made a resteal.

It is important to know about restealing not only as a viable strategy to add chips to your stack, but to understand what players are doing against you. If you open with a hand like A-J from the cutoff and find yourself facing a re-raise from the blinds, don’t automatically assume that your opponent has a monster. It’s highly possible, especially in this day and age, that they could be coming over the top of you with nothing thinking that you are stealing. Use what you know about your opponent to help you make your decision. If they’ve been playing ultra-tight, then folding might be the right thing. If it’s someone who has been mixing it up a lot, however, you might want to consider coming back over the top of them rather than laying your hand down.

Restealing when you are a short stack is actually one of the best methods of chipping up when you are a short stack. The key is to not be too short that calling is automatic for the initial raiser. Ideally you want to make sure that you have enough chips that calling would hurt their stack and where they aren’t getting a ridiculous price to call like 2:1 or better. Usually somewhere in the range of 12-15 big blinds is the right amount of chips to have.

Let’s look at an example to see why. Let’s say player X has 30 big blinds and has opened the action for 3 big blinds. If the blinds are 500/1000 with a 100 ante at a 9 handed table this means there is 5,400 in the pot. If you have 9,000 left after posting your big blind and move all in there will be 14,400 in the pot. Your opponent would have to call 7,000 to win 14,400 or over 2:1 on his money. What if you had 14,000 instead of 9,000? Now your opponent would have to call 12,000 to win 19,400 or 1.6:1 on his money. The price change is significant but more importantly 9,000 is a much smaller percentage of his remaining 27,000 than 14,000 is. He can make the 9,000 call and still have 18,000 if he loses. If you had 14,000, however, he’d only have 13,000 if he lost that hand.

As is the case with any type of resteal, and perhaps even more so in this instance, when you are restealing as a short stack you need two conditions to exist. One, your opponent must be willing to fold. If they aren’t, then the move will never work. Second, they need to be the kind of player that is raising light. Restealing against a rock has about the same probability of success as restealing against someone that never folds. Little to none.

How to play Omaha High Low

Patrick Bruel — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:57:59 +0000

How to play Omaha High Low ? With 4 pocket cards dealt and with the compulsion of having to use 2 of the hole cards in making the final hand makes Omaha High low a bit more challenging.

In Omaha High Low A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J, T-T, 9-9 pairs considering the 8 or better factor can be a better hand in any position of the table image. Suited cards like K-Q, K-J, K-T, Q-J, J-T, T-9 or A-(any suited card) of the same suit can also be a better place in any table image. Unsuited cards like A-K and A-Q are also better. These hands are a safe way to proceed regardless of your position in the table.

For all other combination of hands in Omaha high low you need to decide based on your table image and other odds like the nature of the opponents, the bet limit of the game etcetera. Avoid playing with trap cards as they can be useless most of the times than we believe. Sometimes unsuited cards seem to perform better than trap cards and such estimates come to you only with experience after playing 100s of tables.

Do not hesitate to fold in Omaha High Low if starting hands are bad. Lady luck never arrives late in these games; she sends you signals in the start!

E-books To Improve Your Slots Gaming

Patrick Bruel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:06:27 +0000

In order to promote the e-books that their writers come up with, gaming websites don’t bother in making the enthusiasts gullible. After purchasing online they find the e-book to provide no additional information on the game. The knowledge that one could gain in playing the casino game online is composed and marketed as the ultimate guide for mastering the game. There ends all. Perhaps the best feature about the slots game online is the free signup mode where in one gets to while away one’s time and get exposed to the intricacies of the game.

Now we shall have a look at the issues that one has to address if at all one is an amateur in playing the game.

1) Emotional stat(e)s!

Though the game lacks complexities it has in itself some elements that makes one’s concentration shrivel up. So a person who enjoys the essence of this bounteous game it is easy for one to get bore off. It is beneficial if one maintains to have his mind under control, as the myths of temptation may take the player to any extent. Whiling away some time in playing online slot it is better if one sets a bankroll that makes him afford to lose for every session that he tries. Once a session is over one should not chase losses as it may help him get stuck in insistent losses.

2. Play safely with limited coins

It is advisory not to play on machines that are regarded as “equal distribution” or “straight multipliers.”

If one overlooks the highest pay line and sees displays like: 100 coins for one coin; 200 coins for two coins; 300 coins for three coins, one must be aware enough to not play in those.

3. Maximum Coins on Progressives

To win the progressive jackpot, which is the only reason, one plays these online slot machines, one has to use maximum amount of coins on these machines
One sets things up for another person to win a jackpot if one doesn’t take risks in using maximum coins.

4. Machines are hot and cold

Don’t get entangled by the usual notion that slot machines are hot or cold and when one is able to work out the streaks the machine is beatable – A preposterous belief.

5. Slot Systems

Playing online slots is totally ergodic and one cannot use a system on a random game of chance – Period!

6. Play Machines You’re Comfortable With

Picking up a suitable machine that one finds comfortable with is the vital factor and in due process one can earn maximum proceeds.

One-coin machines find their way amidst people who play the game for fun and expect little money as pay out. On the other hand people prefer progressive machines to enjoy maximum benefits in the form of a jackpot.

7. Check the Payout Table

To maximize your chances read the instructions on the pay lines carefully.
One has to play with limited number of coins to at least win the payback that you had once invested.

8. Play Higher Denominations

When playing online slot machines the higher the denomination, the better would be the amount of return.

9. Enjoy

Enjoying online slot games is the fact that has deepest significance immaterial of winning and losing in the trial game modes. Don’t take things for granted as you begin your serious stint in winning. Try to win but don’t complicate things by facing repetitive losses!

There’s No Better Place to Play Online Poker

Patrick Bruel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:58:38 +0000

Online poker is best experienced at Mansion poker because in addition to this gaming site being the web’s leading online destination, it also has the highest standards, the best bonus offers and the most acute visuals anywhere! Just go on in and check it out. First thing you’ll see – fantastic graphics. State of the art mind boggling graphics.

All designed to make you feel more comfortable and to add a favourable ambiance to your online poker experience.All you have to do to begin your poker escapades is just download the free software, install it and open up and account and you’re there. Online poker on demand.

You’ll also notice that after you’ve arrived you’ve become eligible for some pretty cool bonus offers like the 100% Bonus up to $200. That’s real cash money to use towards your real online poker game. Of course if you’d like to just practice your online poker, that can be arranged to.

For free.With a safe and secure cashier, speedy cash-outs, bigger online poker tournaments than ever and free poker software you’re sure to really dig your experience at Mansion.

There’s also a live chat room where you can ask others about their experiences here, free tutorials, and a 24/7 customer service center wherein you can ask any questions that have heretofore not been answered.

So why hesitate? This is definitely the place for poker. There’s even a live chat room where you can ask others what they think of the place!