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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Beginners Guide To Downloading An Online Poker Room, Bonus and Rake Rebate
How Do You Start Playing Online? Beginning your poker playing experience at an Online Poker Room is a simple and easy process. To play, you need to download the Poker Room by clicking on the banner add or link at this site. Once you have downloaded the Poker Room , you double-click on the icon and the Poker Room will self-install on your computer. When it completes installing, it will connect to the Poker Room where you will see aregistration window. Once you connect to the Poker Room, you will see the Lobby area. You can look around without registering. To play for free or for real money, you must register. Registration takes just a few moments. Select a unique screen name. Other players in the Poker Room will know you by your screen name. You must also select a password. To play for real money, you must open a cage account with the poker room also. That's all ... you are now ready to sit at a table, get chips, and begin playing poker. We know you enjoy yourself and we wish you the best of luck.
What About Bonus ?
A bonus is extra money the poker room will give you for buying in and playing for real money. It ranges from 20% to 40% of the amount you buyin for at the well established and popular poker rooms up to 100% at the newer poker rooms that are trying to get started. If the the bonus is 25% and to deposit $100 you geta total of $125. I strongly suggest the older and well established poker rooms. One of the deposit options all these poker rooms is a company called netteller. If you use them you normally will get a 10% higher bonus. You can go from poker room to poker room getting the bonuses and it is a fairly common practice known as "bonus whoring". The bonus is for new customers only although from time to time the poker rooms offer a reload bonus. Some people earn their bonus, cashout and move on to the next poker room and bonus.
Rakeback or Rake Rebate?
You must earn your bonus by playing a certain amount of real money poker hands, which varies from room to room. Below is Doyle's Rooms explanation of their bonus and how you earn the bonus. I earned their bonus in 4 days of heavy play. The poker rooms make their money off of "rake". That is a percentage of each pot that the house keeps, ranging from 2% up to 10%. The well established older poker rooms all have rakes at the lower end of the spectrum. "Rake rebate" or "Rakeback" is when an affiliate of the poker rooms, like me, offers you a refund (so to speak) of part of the money that the poker rooms take from your pots. I give all players who use the links at my sites a rake rebate of 20%-40% depending on the site they download. In other words I split what I earn with you in order to encourage you to support my websites and to come back anytime you need another poker room download. For example if you play $25/$50 nolimit holdem you will be refunded about $100 per week for average play. So, at all of my sites you get both the bonus, with no code words required, and rake back too. Note: there is no rake rebate for Party Poker or its skins.
The following is Doyle's Room(one of my favorites) explanation of their bonus and how you earn it:
ACTION POINTS / PROMOTIONS Our Action Points system automatically rewards you while you play! You accumulate Action Points by playing in real money games, including single- and multi-table tournaments. Additionally, from time to time, we may offer additional opportunities for you to earn Action Points that are redeemable for a variety of cool prizes and stuff.The more you play, the more Action Points you earn! If you want to get your hands on Super/System 2, you can get it FREE just by playing. Earn 10,000 action points and get your hands on Super/System 2 absolutely free.Sign up for Doyle's Room and select the Super/System 2 (SS2) option from the registration page. Then accumulate 10,000 Action Points in 90 days and the book will be shipped to you. What if I prefer to receive a signup bonus?Doyle's Room is currently offering a 25% SIGNUP BONUS to all new customers!Upon initial signup to Doyle's Room, players are given a choice between Doyle Brunson's long awaited Super/System 2 or a 25% signup bonus.Make your initial deposit with Neteller and we'll increase your sign-up bonus to 35% -- automatically!Please click here for more details on our bonus program.How Action Points are awarded A pool of Action Points is generated per hand. Each time a bet is made, the Action Points pool increases. So, the larger the pot, the more Action Points there will be *. The available points per pot will be distributed to all players who are dealt a hand in the pot on a pro-rated (percentage) basis. The more you bet, the larger your share of the hand's available Action Points will be -- and it doesn't matter whether you win or lose the pot! Currently, Action Points awarded for tournament fees are credited towards the Action Points usable for freeroll entries and prizes. * For every real money hand that is dealt a maximum of 300 Action Points will be awarded.
Not only is poker good for you, it's the American way, where winners play fair, have the right stuff, and nothing else matters, except, perhaps, a bit of luck every now and then.Lou Krieger
Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just. ~L.K.
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Understand all of the potential consequences of your actions so that you may properly balance the competing goals of survival and chip accumulation.Every time the action passes to you whether it is to bet, check, raise, or fold, any action or inaction you choose will have consequences.Therefore, it is imperative that you consider all of the consequences prior to making a decision.In no limit hold âem tournaments, a failure to consider all of the consequences can be fatal.If you make a substantial semi-bluff bet from early position after the flop, you must know what you will do in the event of a re-raise.Any tournament strategy should revolve around two main driving forces â chip accumulation and survival.These two forces will frequently be at odds with each other because in order to survive, you must protect your chips and in order to advance, you must accumulate chips.Therein lies the paradox of tournament poker.You must accumulate chips without jeopardizing your own stack.How do you accomplish this?While it is impossible to play poker with zero risk, careful consideration of all of the consequences of every action on your part can certainly minimize your risk and give you a significant advantage.Poker is a game of imperfect information, which is why it is so important at least to know all of the available information each time it is your turn to act.Maximizing your knowledge will open the door for you to pick up chips at minimum risk.To learn more about this principle and other principles, read Tournament Poker and The Art of War.
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Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped bare at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.Anthony Holden
In fact, good poker players are more likely to be the victims of luck than the beneficiaries. Michael Craig
http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com Poker news, tournament reports, strategy, biographies, stories and reviewsCopyright 2005Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:30:12 -0500http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss - - -
In the early nineteen-eighties, I defined a concept that would become central to my teachings about poker and the world beyond. It explains the enigma of relationships. It defines a world of comparative talents that isn't always easily listed in ascending order. Understanding it will make your life less confusing. Here is a lecture I delivered about a decade ago on the subject...
Caro's Conception: The lecture
It is a concept that takes us far, far beyond just the basic strategies of winning at poker. "Caro's Conception" makes us aware that there is a level of poker prowess that is very real, yet nearly not definable. This doesn't just happen at poker, but in real life, too. But, I'm getting ahead of the story. First, I've got to tell you what the Conception - or concept - is based upon.
It's based upon a puzzling truth, long known to those who ponder such things - the truth that strengths are not always ordered by hierarchy. Sometimes stren... Continue reading Today's Word is... Conception
If I told you that you could win a half of a million dollars playing poker without leaving your house or apartment, would that be something you'd be in interested in? Of course, you are! The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) sponsored by PokerStars allows you the opportunity to play in the largest online poker tournament with prize pools that rival the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker. The most appealing aspect of the WCOOP is that you do not have to travel long distances to play against some of the best players in the world. All you have to do is turn on your computer and log on to PokerStars.
On September 16th, PokerStars kicks off the 2006 World Championship of Online Poker featuring 18 different tournaments, ending with the $3 million guaranteed NL main event on October 1st. Just like the winners at the WSOP, every event winner in the WCOOP will also be awarded a gold bracelet. The 2006 WCOOP will be the largest series of online poker tournamen... Continue reading 2006 WCOOP
In my prior article I addressed starting requirements of stud and how they differed from hold 'em. Let me address the later streets in this the second part of this two part series.
If you are selective on Third Street, you will generally continue to bet your Premium Pairs, even if they don't improve, unless you see opponents who seem to have surpassed your hand. On the other hand, if you are going for a straight or a flush with a drawing hand, you generally want to call or check, sticking around cheaply until you make your hand.
In Stud, unlike in Hold Em, you have extra information available to you to help you determine where you stand relative to your opponents - both in terms of your hand's current value and its prospects for improvement. You need to take advantage of this information.
You need to keep an eye on the cards you need to make your hand, as well as the cards that may help your opponents' hands. Stud is a game of live cards. If... Continue reading A Stud Lesson for Hold'Em Players, PART 2 OF 2
Last issue I revealed how our local maniac stumbled onto an extremely effective strategy in tournament play. The wording here has double meaning as Doug was usually plastered at this point in the tournament as a result of his intake of alcohol. While everyone else was tightening up their play hoping that someone else would get unlucky and bomb out, Doug was stealing pot after pot and increasing his stack size even more. It didn't matter to Doug whether he won or lost and as a result he had no fear. This made his aggressive play even more effective than usual and doubly so in tournaments (at least on the sober and reasonably minded players).
There are several strategies that one can utilize to make it deep in a tournament ( the structure of the tournament does influence these strategies ). The two most common styles that are successful in most tournaments are loose aggressive play and tight aggressive play. There are definite advantages and disadvantages to each style of ... Continue reading A Maniac Named Doug
]]> http://www.pokerplayernewspaper.com 3Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:00:00 -0500 - - - I've run into people even now who do not know that I have not dealt a card in over 5 years - sans some extra curricular activity that I am waiting to divulge. No matter, to them I am still that dealer that dealt them broke, a jackpot or have always given them good cards. So, even though your opponents at the table are either betting, folding, or receiving cards, the one person that players remember just as well are the dealers.
Conversely, when I dealt the cards and then played afterwards, I would make mental note of most of the player's tendencies as it related to some unconscious gestures they would do.
That brings me to the point that I was illustrating in my last paragraph in the last issue. People reveal more about themselves unconsciously than if they were to engage you in conversation. Before there was ever card games people were revealing "tells" about themselves on a daily basis.
Why else would a person gifted in this respect -readi... Continue reading Listen Carefully
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