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Texas Holdem
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Welcome to our free Texas Holdem page offering Online Poker education for fun and profit. Poker Rules, Game Strategy, Tips and Tricks are the focus of this website. For a complete overview of the Texas Hold em game visit our Learn About Poker pages. New players should start with poker rules page while more advanced players can improve by reading our poker articles.
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Introducing HoldemPokerCalc : Holdem Poker Odds Calculator.
HoldemPokerCalc watches you play and calculates your hand odds, outs and your opponent's odds in real time. HoldemPokerCalc gives you all the statistical facts at a glance and helps you make a more informed decision about your next move. Now available as a free download.
Don't play Texas Holdem Poker without this invaluable tool. Leave less to chance by knowing the exact outs and odds of your hand. Enjoy the game more by winning more. Read more about HoldemPokerCalc.
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Everest Poker
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Everest Poker is in our view the easiest No Limit game around. They are one of the few poker rooms to benefit from the U.S online gaming restrictions, and now in 2010 have grown to become one of the largest international Poker Rooms in terms of traffic. The best time to play is between 16.00-00.00 GMT, and for the niche No Limit holdem player, Everest will never disappoint. 16 languages are supported and players can actually play and converse in their own language. This is a unique feature which attracts a large mixed European crowd with the number of active online players often exceeding 15,000.
Everest makes a great training ground for new players, and has always been known for its fantastic promotions. The Summit Club is the primary promotional tool, where players collect Summit Points based on the rake per hand, and it is possible through this system to earn 3 times the standard rate by playing at short handed tables. The whole experience at Everest is both fun and challenging, and we highly recommend it.
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Find out more about Everest Poker.
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Full Tilt Poker
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Full Tilt was launched in 2004 and has gone from strength to strength to become one of the largest and most popular rooms out there today. Full Tilt is a collaboration of the worlds best poker players with some of the best software available. To enhance your skill level you can play against the best in the world who play exclusively at this room including Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Eric Seidel to name a few.
Not only is the team at Full Tilt second to none, so are the promotions. $600 match bonus for new players combines with a weekly $750k guarantee tournament. There is a guaranteed $8 million given away every week, which is a phenomenal statistic and great news for players. Full Tilts latest exclusive feature is the development of Rush Poker. This is a brilliant feature that is unique to Full Tilt and allows players to play 250-500 hands per hour without having to open any additional windows. It is a must try feature and really does set Full Tilt in a class of its own.
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Full Tilt Poker Review in Detail.
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Poker Stars
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Pokerstars in 2007 become the Largest poker room out there following their decision to keep accepting U.S players and has held its position ever since. The room was always popular, prior to that and does seem to turn out some of the best players in the world. The 2003, 2004, and 2005 and 2008 winners of the World Series of Poker took their seats via satellite entries to Pokerstars. As the site has grown they have managed to maintain their quality with fantastic software that is easy to personalise, and if its variety you’re looking for then Poker Stars is the site for you with every variant of poker you could ever imagine catered for.
As the largest provider they have the biggest tournaments both in value and selection. The prizepool of the big weekly game is a staggering $1.5m guaranteed pot. No longer the largest monthly guarantee prize but still the largest available weekly tournament prize. Poker Stars continue to impress us and it well worth a visit to advance your game.
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Poker Stars Review in Detail.
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Titan Poker
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Titan Poker in a relatively short time period has managed to muscle its way in, and complete with the biggest of poker rooms. It is part of the iPoker Network, Titan guarantees a good supply of players and just as importantly lots of "fish" (see Glossary). Play is loose due to the mixed crowd. You do have poker players but Titan also draws a casino crowd (due to multi-functional software). Many of the casino players believe that poker is simply another form of gambling and such ignorance is clearly to our advantage.
There is a wide variety of game types and good levels of players at all tables with online numbers hitting the 55,000 mark at peak times. There is plenty of freerole and satellite opportunities with the key attraction being the multi million dollar European Championship, which Titan offers plenty of satellites for. If you are starting out as a poker player this is a good place to start the journey.
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Titan Poker Review in Detail.
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How to use Texas Holdem Odds Calculators in Online play
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This article focuses on poker strategy and the practical use of odds calculators in the online game.
Hopefully if you are reading this then you are already aware of the advantages offered by online odds calculators. If not, then here is a summary recap:
1) Mathematical calculations are performed automatically and leave your available brainpower free to concentrate on other aspects of the game such as table position, bluffing, opponents’ playing style etc.
2) Accurate mathematics aids playing discipline. If you know that you are playing starting hands less than say 50 in rank, and can see that statistically you are likely to be behind chasing cards then you are less likely to do it!
3) Education – the basis of poor poker play is a lack of discipline, education and often both. Most players underestimate the complexity of the game and while experience is something that can only come with time and effort, learning the mathematics of the game through exposure to calculations in this way is undoubtedly beneficial to the quality of your own play.
The examples used in this article draw on the use of my own odds calculator called HoldemPokerCalc which can be found at hpc.htm .
Stop chasing cards! Card discipline is the first benefit any odds calculator is likely to bring to your game. Do you play starting hands such as A9? Do you realise that it has a hand rank of 72 out of 169? I am constantly amazed at the number of people who play rather than fold marginal hands like this, and this hand in particular is a killer because if you pair your Ace then you are probably still behind. Take a look at our member survey of this question survey19.htm to see how many people play this and many other marginal hands badly. Odds calculators can therefore point out your game weaknesses and help you stem losses in addition to highlight when you are likely to be ahead.
Understanding and accepting that Texas Holdem is a very complex game where even in its online form a deep understanding of your opponent playing style, the value of Table Position play, and knowledge of how and when to bluff are essential elements to success will lead you to conclude that removing the complex mathematics to an automated aid has to be beneficial to all of the other facets of the game that must be monitored.
Highlighting outs that you may have overlooked. Given the number of variables that have to be assessed in any particular hand it is very easy to overlook straights, flushes and other potential hands for either yourself or your opponents. Overlooking opportunities presented by your own cards will happen from time to time, but seeing what your opponents could have and understanding the statistical likelihood of them catching big hands is difficult on your own. Complex Poker Odds Calculators such as HoldemPokerCalc are able to detail opponent odds for up to 9 opponents holding 18 cards you cannot see.
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