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57 gold bracelets are up for grabs, as the 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament in Las Vegas gets ready to crown a new international poker champion. This year’s WSOP, held in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, will join poker players worldwide to compete for the holy grail of poker: the WSOP bracelet.
Events will take place within 51 days between May 27th and July 17th. The no frills poker events will all look forward to the final $10,000 no-limit Texas hold ‘em Main Event between November 6th November 9th. With nine final players, the “Nine in November” table is likely to hold several familiar faces such as xyz.
Apart from the headlining names is the addition of several new tournaments that are catching the eye of many. One of the more anticipated past events, the $50,000 Players Championships, has been replaced by the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. tournament. This new event will hold the same $50,000 buy-in and will add no-limit hold ‘em, pot-limit Omaha, and limit 2–7 triple draw to the five H.O.R.S.E. games. It will wrap up with a no-limit hold’em final table, and as in the Players Championship the famed Chip Reese Memorial Trophy will be awarded to the victor.
Complementing this top tier event will be a $25,000 six-handed no-limit Texas  hold ‘em four day tournament which will take place in the final leg of the WSOP; it is promised to draw many well know players. The 2009 $40,000 no-limit hold ‘em tournament has been removed from the 2010 schedule, as a result the largest full-table no-limit hold ‘em event will take place this year.
All bracelet events are now open for play. Hurry up before the designated seats are sold or before the third level of play begins (roughly two hours after start time). Visit online through www.wsop.com. There is more than five months to go so register to the  World Series of Poker today.

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Betting Strategies for Poker Texas Holdem Game

Betting Strategies for Poker Texas Holdem Game

You know the feeling.  You’re sitting at the poker table playing another hand of Texas HoldemPoker Game and here comes The Flop.  You’re pretty sure the player sitting across from you is waiting on a flush or straight draw.  No problem.  You’ll just bet to get them out.  Except it’s a limit game.  Pot odds in limit games are often such that you can’t chase him.  In fact, even with a flush or straight draw, he might just raise you.  So you’ve bet all you’re allowed to and still can’t chase him.  If he pulls that draw and gets the flush or straight, it just seems unfair.  If you’ve been feeling that way, you’re better off playing in a game where the limit allows players to bet different amounts.  Then you can push so hard that a poker player on flush or straight draw has to fold.  If they call instead, the odds are against them because of your betting strategy.

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When you’re playing no limit Texas Holdem, you can make a lot of money making bets and pushing the odds for that player with the flush or straight draw.  You want to bet so that the odds aren’t right for that player to call, but little enough so he goes ahead and calls. In Texas Holdem you have to figure a player is on a flush draw.  It’s the most common and the draw with the best chance to hit.  So use it when you’re calculating a bet.

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Let’s say your playing $5/$10 no limit holdem.  The pot is up to $700 and it’s just you and one other player. He’s got about $1400 in poker chips in front of him. He’s sitting on a flush draw and, after counting up his outs, figures he’s got a 35% chance of pulling it.  Now you have to bet enough so he’ll have the wrong odds to call.  If you bet $450 that drives the odds to 39%, statistically the odds are against calling.  But 39% isn’t all that dramatically different from 35%.  So you’ve got to push hard.  The pot’s $700?  Then you bet $1200.  Now the odds are 63%, and he’s not going to call.

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USA Misses The Boat With Online Poker

USA Misses The Boat With Online Poker

Poker, especially Texas Holdem, has become incredilbly popular.  Millions of viewers can’t get enough of Texas Holdem on TV.  And all these new fans can’t wait to try their hand at a hand of Texas Holdem.  Of course, gambling is illegal in most of the United States.  That means if someone wants to play at a casino or live poker room, they have to travel to a place where it’s legal, like Las Vegas or Atlantic City.

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However, thanks to the World Wide Web, poker enthusiasts have another much more accessible place to play…in an online poker room.  Online gaming has become a multi-billion dollar industry that keeps growing every year.  Seems like we could use a growth industry, but there’s a catch.  All the money online casinos make goes overseas.  Online gambling is still illegal in the United States.  Oh, no one is worried that the FBI is going to break down your door and arrest you and your computer, but it’s annoying.

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Especially annoying because it means that anyone from the U.S. that wants to set up an online poker room has to set up a company overseas first, often in places like the Cayman Islands or Gibraltar, anywhere that is not in the United States.  So even though over two thirds of online gamblers are American, the profits they generate go out of the country.  Hmmm, think the government could use the taxes on those businesses?

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The law that prohibits online gaming is over 40 years old.  It was set up to prohibit gambling over the telephone (a handy charge to use to crack down on illegal bookies back in the day).  But it was extended to include the Internet.  Some members of the US Congress want to make the law even tougher.  They haven’t gained much traction, and the major online casinos aren’t worried.

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In these troubled economic times, it would make more sense to legalize online gaming in the US so companies could be based in America, pay taxes and hire US citizens.  In the meantime, poker players will continue to log on and sit down at online poker tables, and continue to send money to overseas companies.

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