Sunday, May 18, 2008

The Flop in texas holdem

Top card from the deck is discarded by the dealer after the first round of betting. This refers to Burning. Burning is accomplished for ensuring that the top card has not been seen by any one even accidentally. The card which is burnt is to be placed now along a side of the Flop, in the mess or beneath the next card opened.

Then the next three cards are placed by the dealer to be faced up on the table. Such cards are called as Flops.

There is a definite edge in dollars in the limit game of Texas holdem to know the actual need of betting amount in every round of betting. It is the tightest form of limit betting. At the moment, when betting and raising are limited to the total amount of money is called the pot limit. The pot is including all the bets made by others players previously in that round. Pot limit game of Texas holdem poker has the possibility for larger amounts of betting than limit. No limit game of Texas holdem poker where all players possess the opportunity to bet any sum of money having before them. Irrespective of which limit they are playing a Texas holdem poker game.
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Texas Holdem Poker Rules 1st round

Immediately, after the deal, the first round of betting takes place. The player who is in the very left of the big blind has to speak first. In the games which are not being played in tournament, he is allowed to choose to be a third Blind by means of placing a bet of double amount in comparison to the cards dealt by the Big Blind. This refers to the Straddle. The benefit of this straddling for the Straddler is, he gets the opportunity to speak at last in the first betting round that enables him taking the bets of all other players into consideration.

The first player going to speak who is immediately on the left of the Straddler or Big Blind has three alternative: to call, to raise or to fold.

For calling, the player has to place a bet, which is equivalent to the Straddle or Big Blind.

For raising, the player has to add some extra money. The size of this extra money varies with the variety of game playing there: it is of a fixed amount in limit holdem games, and after the rounds which have been set earlier, it might be limited. Normally, four round are set in online poker games. It cannot be made larger than the currently available amount in the pot in pot limit holdem games whereas there may be any amount in no limit holdem games. It is only limited by the total number of chips before the player.

For folding, the player has to place his cards before him in face-down position and to push them to the center of the poker table where they constituted the mess. When any card getting into touch with the mess it is considered to become folded card. That player doesn’t allowed for taking any part further in the hand and the bets he has made will be forfeited.

Subsequent poker players are also having the similar three options, along with the option to reraise. A reraise is required to be at least equal to the size of the amount of last Raise.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Gamnesia poker

Gamnesia
There's agame played among sorne smug inteUectuals where you add, subtract, or change one letter of an existing word with an eye toward creating a whole new word with a whole new meaning. Examples inc1ude glibido, aU talk and no action, and osteopornosis, a degenerate disease. This game is, of course, a divertissement for people with far too much time on their hands, plus the inflated sense of self-importance that cornes from knowing what words like divertissement mean.
Being a pers on with far too much time on his hands, 1 now offer these additions, subtractions, and alterations of the poker lexicon (or flexicon, as it were; a more liberal dic­tionary):
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Gamnesia. A bettor's tendency, strangely, to forget how mu ch money he lost.
Cashino. The place you go to lose yours.
Omahad. What you feel you've been when the river coun­terfeits your low in Omaha/S.
Soumament. The state of mind you faU into when you bust out on the bubble.
On the babble. The mindless, pointless stories you teU about busting out on the bubble.
Fucktuation. It's easy to get mad when luck goes against you, but please keep profanity to a minimum.

my keen judgment in poker

if you ask me what a man of my keen judgment
recommends,
1'11 look you squarely in the eye and answer, "It depends."
Depends on who's a c1ever git,
or with the deck's been getting hit, or who'11 play any piece of­(Don't use that word; it offends. Let's just say it a11 depends.)
A check-rai se on the turn, you want to know what that
portends.
Is the raiser's rai se legit or could it be he just pretends? You wait for my reply, and how Y0uf disbelief suspends. 1'11 look you squarely in the eye and answer, "It depends."
So if you want sorne confirmation
that Y0uf recent devastation
was just normal fluctuation,
(not sorne self-induced damnation) 1 can feel Y0uf consternation,
but 1 fight against temptation
to provide you with salvation. Though 1 want Y0uf admiration
1 will risk disapprobation,
for 1 can't give affirmation
to Y0uf certain situation
without better information, fo11owed by sorne cogitation
and sorne subtle ca1culation
not to mention computation
to the point of constipation.
And now with no more hesitation 1'11 complete Y0uf education