Poker Blogging

Whether you’re at a party in your teens, at a get-together with your fellow senior citizens, whether you’re watching a western or just surfing the web, chances are somebody will at least mention poker. You might even be playing it. Poker had to go a long way from where it began to the raving casinos of today. But where did it really begin? What really started out what now is one of the most renowned games associated to the American culture?

Sadly enough, we don’t really know. It’s all lost somewhere between Persian sailors and the French settlers of New Orleans, while its name definitely has French origins. However, the bottom line is that it seems to incorporate several previously known card game ideas, such as bluffing. The oldest record of the game is from New Orleans, 1929; afterwards, it is said to have spread thanks to riverboats on the Mississippi (gambling there came naturally) towards the whole country.

The phenomenon has long since entered our ordinary lives. Perhaps one of the most popular and entertaining forms of gambling, poker can be played in an impressive number of different circumstances. Undoubtedly, the most accessible form is free poker over the Internet.

There’s no need to leave the comfort of your own home, you’re in perfect control of just how high or low the stakes are, and most of all, there’s not much of a chance of you returning home with a black eye. You make the relevant choices and you’re in full control when playing free poker online.

Hansa Poker is, in its essence, a brand associated to a website that offers top of the notch poker services and support. It’s more of a free poker experience – it has what it takes to initiate young players, together with help, answers to frequently asked questions and tips from experts.

However, the essential approach for beginners is suggested both by Hansa Poker tips and any other walkthrough you might encounter as a poker player: play free poker first! Money can indeed be a great factor of attraction, but money won can be money lost. Rookies entering high-stake poker tables are the biggest ways for people with no fault of their own, but reasonable game skills to make big, undeserved wins.

In any case, Hansa Poker is a true community that has brought together people of all kinds and skill levels for one common passion. Plus, it features several types of games and means of mastering the poker technique, as well as a wide range of prizes and bonuses for diverse situations.

A close-knit community like Hansa Poker proves the value of this game, regardless of its controversial, blurred origins. At the end of the day, its popularity speaks for itself. A vast quantity of poker content is available on the Internet, since the number of online poker players has soared; online poker revenues were estimated at a staggering 200 million US dollars in 2005. Each month of 2005, that is. An excellent balance between increasing winnings and increasing skill will undoubtedly make online poker players successful.





By: Amelie Mag

People see a lot of bad beats, but have any of you actually played live poker? Or do you guys watch it on TV? I see 1 outers hit all the time. During the WSOP 2008…..it seems like the lower pocket pair won almost everytime. Guys were catching 1 outers/runner runner a ton! Pocket queens lost almost everytime to AQ.

I am not gonna give you the whole people stay in more or you see more hands per hour. I genuinely feel like the biggest contributing factor to why people believe online poker is not random is because they don’t realize that certain hands are not as big a favorite over other hands.

The reason why you feel like your pocket KK’s are always losing to A 2 is because you don’t realize that your are expected to lose 1/3 of those confrontations. And if you play in MTTs with HUGE fields like many online players do you should eventually get a brutal knockout/bad beat.

Even if you always get it all in with the better of it….the odds are still stacked against you actually winning all (or even the majority) of those showdowns.

Ex.) Say, you go all in with pocket QQ’s early in the tourney and beat out AK…..then you go all in later with AK and beat A Q…..then you go all in with JJ and beat 10 10. Then you go all in with AA and lose to 10 J (and get knocked out or severley crippled)

Most people don’t realize that the odds are they should lose (at least) one of those hands.

the odds of you winning every single one of those is (51% * 70% * 80% * 80%) which = 22%

so even if though you get it in with the best of it every single time you still have almost an 80% failure rate in that situation.

And that is if you get in that many perfect all in situations.

And when you finally get knocked out and get your A A cracked you say OMG!!! that is so rigged….when the bottom line is the odds were against you even making it that far in the tournament given the amazing All in confrontations you faced.

hopefully this makes sense to people….but just know that going all in with KK and getting called by A 2….you are only expected to win 2/3 of those….meaning that chances are you will not win 2 of them in a row.

Hope this makes sense and stops the blabbering about online poker being rigged.

Plz comment

Free online poker is always the best option when you feel like playing a game with a win. Do not imagine huge sums; they are just enough to keep you interested for hours. This is only for beginners though, because for expert players there are more complex games and bigger prizes.

As a novice you have to aim for play money because is the best way to get used to the free online poker tables, types of players and strategies. By playing without depositing real money, you don’t take the chance of losing your money. And also by playing for play money, which is available on every site, you can learn a few tricks which will help you move to the real money games.

One of the thousand websites where you can access free online poker is hansapoker.com, and like all the other sites we give online poker players the opportunity to play without depositing money. To be able to play, you need to register on the site and download the Hansa Poker software. Hansa Poker is offering the players the chance to win real money with absolutely no deposit needed. The moment you sign up for a real money account and you fill the bonus claim, you will be transferred to the Hansa Poker site’s Customer Service and your account will be credited with $10. If you win 5000 Action Points you will get another $30.

To be able to download the Hansa Poker software, your computer needs to be able to support the size and necessities of the software components, so it means that it should be equipped with at least 30 Mb of free space on your disk, a version of Windows 98 or higher, minimum 128 RAM memory and at least 40MHz the power of the processor.

Free online poker has made the poker game easier to learn, and a lot of people play it just as training for real games, outside the online poker environment. Most of these games have really high stakes involved, so using your computer to train without losing money can be of great help. Most of the poker players view free online games as an unparalleled occasion because it gives them the opportunity to play their favorite game for free.

Play money games are easy to play, so people have the tendency to get carried away. But this might really prejudice them, because they might go for real money games and not be able to win. So before you throw yourself head first into a real game make sure you have enough experience on the free online poker sites.

Most of the sites have freerolls which are tournaments where the hosting puts up cash prizes for the players, which can enter the game for free. The danger with this type of tournaments is the time vortex. This happens when you sit for hours and play the freerolls and the time spent doing this goes into a sort of black hole. This is not really worth the effort, unless you are a very good player and in real need for cash.

The most played poker games are Texas Holdem Poker and Omaha. Both of them are easy to learn to play but the difference between playing online and playing live consists in the fact that when you play live you need to be able to spot bluffs and be a good judge of character.





By: Amelie Mag

although PS has lots more players, I like the smaller limits onthe tournaments on Full tilt. PS tournaments allow 10000 players. I like using my own image on PS though.

I also like playing with estatablished pros like Ivey and Ferguson. PS has the new pros like Moneymaker and Hecham. I like the fact that Howard Lederer was part of FT’s design team also. The rake and card dealing on FT feel a lot more normal.

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I host radio show on http://www.RogueRadio.us and I’m trying to find an Online Poker community where I can host a table once a week or once a month and have my staff and listeners join in on the table.

I have a Joomla website, so something integrated into that would be best, but if that’s not an option, no big deal. Java would be the next best choice, but if software needs to be downloaded, I’d prefer not, but if it’s the only option, I’ll go with it.

I’d like to give my listeners the ability to win money/prizes. If I can customize those prizes, that would be best, so I can add items from the show store.

Any suggestions? A Poker Room I can host privately, access using a password (preference), have the ability to win money, etc,.