Online casinos offer very attractive offers of free money for simply signing-up or as a percentage of your first and subsequent deposits of cash. The majority of these will be a 100% match on the first deposit; some are more and some are less. After that, you may be offered lesser bonuses on subsequent deposits. Typically, this will be something like a 50% match up to your third deposit and of course there are limits.
The bonus is a credit from the casino; it is not cash. The bonuses are used for wagering, but are never cash redeemable. When you play in the casino with your own money, you will notice that you have two separate balances running. One is the cash you deposited and/or won during gameplay and the other is the bonus. If you play, the wager amount (stake) will be taken from the bonus cash and, if you win, the amount used as the stake will be placed back into the bonus balance Read the rest of this entry »
Mar
23
All poker players have suffered a bad beat. A bad beat means that you had a hand with an excellent chance to win yet you still lost the hand. Let’s say Bob and Dave are playing against one another. Bob has a 95% chance of winning with only the river card to go. Dave only has a 5% chance of winning the hand because there is only one card in the deck that can save him – the 10 of clubs. The river card comes and it’s the 10 of clubs. Dave hit his 1-outer. Even though Bob outplayed Dave the whole time, he still lost the hand. This is a bad beat.
I have been playing poker seriously for a decade. One of the worst bad beats I can remember was only for about $200, but it still hurt. I was playing in a cash game at Foxwoods. I was having a conversation with the guy next to me all day long. He seemed pretty cool. However, a hand came up where I had two pair and I bet $115 on the turn
If you have ever looked into playing poker online, you will have seen the sponsoring site advertising their “Bonus” for the current marketing period. For everyone out there wondering about what a “Bonus” is and what they are talking about, we will try to explain in detail here. For simple math, we will use a 100% bonus so the numbers won’t overwhelm anyone.
If you are fairly new to online poker or have perhaps been playing with play money on a site, and are entertaining playing for real cash, this should help. So at the site, you see this “Deposit now and get a 100% first time Bonus up to $1,000”. What they are telling you is this.
If you deposit the minimum amount up to (in this case) $1,000 they will give you 100% in your account as a bonus for depositing now. Whoa, don’t immediately run off and make that deposit! Their offer is completely correct, but you do not have all the details yet.
In order to get that 100% matching deposit bonus, there are terms. Let us say in this example, you want to put the whole $1,000 in
It has been an additional excellent year within the poker world, crammed with fantastic tournaments, amazing $ games & the advancement of fresh stars who’re ready to shine brilliantly for years ahead. The last month of 2010 did not include that many tournaments, which means that the majors had been extremely participated in by the finest within the game.
The Doyle Brunson North American Five Diamond Poker Classic at the Bellagio within Vegas has been the high point of the month. The World Poker Tour event brought in 438 players, & Antonio Esfandiari finished up the play getting his 2nd World Poker Read the rest of this entry »
Online casinos offer very attractive offers of free money for simply signing-up or as a percentage of your first and subsequent deposits of cash. The majority of these will be a 100% match on the first deposit; some are more and some are less. After that, you may be offered lesser bonuses on subsequent deposits. Typically, this will be something like a 50% match up to your third deposit and of course there are limits.
The bonus is a credit from the casino; it is not cash. The bonuses are used for wagering, but are never cash redeemable. When you play in the casino with your own money, you will notice that you have two separate Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
6
If you want to be an online poker professional, there are many necessary steps you need to take. Like anything else, playing poker online needs to be treated like a business. This means you need to capitalize on every opportunity. If you’re familiar with online poker, you know what this means. It means you need to look for welcome poker bonuses, referral poker bonuses, loyalty poker bonuses, and freeroll tournaments. Any poker player that fails to take advantage of all these opportunities is not a true professional. Paying attention to the details can make a big difference. It will build your bankroll, which will allow you to move up to higher stakes games. This, in turn, can improve your lifestyle and your poker reputation. And once your reputation is established, you can build on it and possibly even market it.
Let’s begin with welcome bonuses. This is obviously the first step. The top online poker sites offer good poker bonuses. However, it’s important to read the fine print. Only a few online poker sites will give you a nice bonus Read the rest of this entry »
Oct
13
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