Regarding Poker

The odds of being dealt specific Hold’em hands before the Flop (odds against):

AA – 220 to 1
2 Kings through 2 Jacks – 72.7 to 1
AK suited – 331 to 1
AK offsuit – 110 to 1
Ace Queen or Ace Jack suited – 165 to 1
Ace Queen or Ace Jack offsuit – 54.3 to 1
King Queen suited – 331 to 1
King Queen offsuit – 110 to 1
Any Pair – 16 to 1
Any two cards suited – 3.25 to 1
*Unsuited Connectors (stretched) - 14.8 to 1
*Suited Connectors (stretched) - 46.4 to 1

*Two connecting cards allowing for maximum chances for straights.

You hold AK suited and the probability that you will Flop…

4 of a Kind – 9,799 to 1
Full House – 1,088 to 1
Flush (excluding Royal Flush) – 119 to 1
Straight – 310 to 1
Any Flop with an Ace or King – 2.08 to 1

Absence of Aces before the Flop (nine handed):

The probability that no player has an Ace (including yourself) – 17.13%
If you have one Ace, the probability that no other player has an Ace – 30.53%
Your hand will have no Ace 85.07% of the time.

Hold’em Long Shots (odds against):

If you hold suited cards, a Flush will Flop – 118 to 1
If you hold a pair, Four-of-a-Kind will Flop – 407 to 1
Heads-up, both players dealt pair of Aces – 270,724 to 1

More Hold’em Odds:

If you hold any pair you will Flop Trips - 7.51 to 1
If you have four parts to a Flush after the Flop you will make it - 1.86 to 1
If you have four parts to an Open-End-Straight-Flush after the Flop you will make a Straight Flush - 10.9 to1
If you have four parts to an Open-End-Straight-Flush after the Flop you will make at least a Straight – 0.85 to1
If you have Two-Pair after the Flop you will make a Full House or better – 4.97 to 1
If you have Three-of-a-Kind after the Flop you will make a Full House or better – 1.99 to 1

Now the hard part; memorize the above!

Just like many online poker rooms; many online casinos are not accepting American players anymore. So I compiled a list of popular and trusted online casinos where everyone is welcome, including American players.

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Good luck!

I recently came across the phrase ‘Heeb’ and ‘Heebing’, and it brought me back a couple of years back when my bankroll at PokerStars was just $0.28!

“Heebing: Heebing is a poker slang term for turning a small online bankroll into a giant roll. Heebing is a term made famous by the NWP member “neverheeb”. Neverheeb was known for heebing up 100-200 dollar rolls into 60k! A truly remarkable feat.” – NeverWinPoker

I remember that it was a Saturday night and I was bored to death and had next to nothing in my PokerStars account. Looking at my measly bankroll of only $0.28 I decided to play some micro Limit Hold’em to try and make enough money for a $1.20 two table NLE sit and go and work my way up from there.

This really did happen and it’s a strange feat that I will always remember. This is how I Heebed over $200.00 from $0.28!

Micro Limit Hold’em: buy-in $0.28 > grossed $1.20
$1.20 two table NLH sit and go: buy-in $1.20 > grossed $7.20
$5.50 NLH single table sit and go: buy-in $5.50 > grossed $13.50 (bankroll $15.20)
$11.00 NLH single table sit and go: buy-in $11.00 > grossed $45.00 (bankroll $49.20)
$39.00 NLH Sunday Million Satellite: buy-in $39.00 > grossed $215.00 Tournament Dollars

Sold the Tournament Dollars for $200.00 for a grand total Heeb of $210.20!

Heeb duration: two days.

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 There is a lot of confusion out there in which online poker rooms accept American players. Even the online poker rooms themselves sometimes don’t clearly mention if they accept American players from the US.

I highly recommend that you only join the most trusted and proven online poker rooms. The list below is a list of the best and most trusted online poker rooms available.

Online poker rooms that accept all players, including American players:

PokerStars – 100% Match Bonus up to $50.00 for new accounts.

Full Tilt Poker - 100% Match Bonus up to $600.00 for new accounts.

Absolute Poker - 100% Match Bonus up to $250.00 for new accounts.

For American Players ONLY:

Sportsbook.com – 10% bonus – One account for poker, casino, horses, and sportsbook.

Help fight to keep online poker alive in the U.S. – Join the Poker Players Alliance today!

Here is a video from the Poker Players Alliance:

You can join the Poker Players Alliance for free, or donate as little as $20.00. You can make a difference.

Doyle Brunson’s online poker room, Doyle’s Room, is no longer accepting American poker players to their online poker room. As a result, even Doyle Brunson needs to find a new room to play at.

Doyle Brunson, also known as Texas Dolly, was spotted playing some high limit HORSE with Patrik Antonius at Full Tilt Poker recently. His chat was friendly and to the point.

Here’s an excerpt from Doyle Brunson’s chat on Full Tilt Poker:

jackwildcard (Observer): hey doyle is that you
getasack (Observer): lol
texdolly: yep
jackwildcard (Observer): swweeet
texdolly: doylesroom is gone
Dealer: Luigi66369 shows two pair, Fives and Twos, for high
Dealer: Luigi66369 shows 8,6,5,2,A, for low
Dealer: bigie smalls shows two pair, Queens and Jacks, for high
Dealer: bigie smalls wins the high pot ($14,298.50) with two pair,
Queens and Jacks
Dealer: Luigi66369 wins the low pot ($14,298.50) with 8,6,5,2,A
Dealer: Hand #1907034519
getasack (Observer): hi honey GL
Cactus League (Observer): gone?
Ducks1987 (Observer): can you virtually sign my copies of SS1 and
SS2 lol
jackwildcard (Observer): lol ducks
Dealer: CrazyZachary has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: woeisme wins the pot ($2,197)
Dealer: Hand #1907040084
getasack (Observer): yes they transferred my doyle money to my ftp
acct. today
caryb83 (Observer): you sad about that doyle?
Ducks1987 (Observer): europeans can still play right?
getasack (Observer): yes
texdolly: right
texdolly: yes im unhappy about it
getasack (Observer): me too
Dealer: Luigi66369 has 15 seconds left to act
texdolly: maybe we will come back
jackwildcard (Observer): we us members still believe in you doyle
we will be back
Ducks1987 (Observer): will there be any bounty tournies for us euro
..
Dealer: bigie smalls wins the low pot ($11,798.50) with 7,6,4,3,2
texdolly: i think so
jackwildcard (Observer): GL doyle
getasack (Observer): well gl here doyle
Dealer: Hand #1907051989
texdolly: ty

Doyle’s Room switched all their American cash accounts to Full Tilt Poker recently. Obviously some kind of deal was made between the two online poker rooms.

I for one welcome Doyle Brunson to Full Tilt Poker. He may not be one of the official Team FullTilt players, but he’s still one of the best at the game and even having Doyle Brunson there as a player is a treat for some of us.

Live long…

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I just came across this video on YouTube and I am totally and utterly shocked by this guy’s poker play. He actually has a few videos on YouTube that he classifies as poker lessons!

The title of his poker video… Poker Lesson #1 - Never let avatars push you around

So bad…

There are so many things wrong in this video that I am speechless.

Now, how do I get to play with this guy for real money?!

Dario Minieri used his PokerStars Frequent Player Points ( FPPs) to bag himself a free Porsche Cayman S.. He’s the first PokerStars player to order a car using his FPP.

He ordered it last year, but it finally arrived and delivered to his home in Italy. PokerStars will give you the car, but anyone who orders a car from PokerStars using their FPPs must pay for any options, taxes and delivery. Still a good deal if you ask me!

So how many FPPs does it take to buy a car that goes from 0-60 in under 5.2 seconds? 3,000,000.00 FPPs, and if you want to trade in your FPPs for an Aston Martin V8 Vantage instead, then your looking at 5,000,000.00 FPPs.

Dario Minieri played a lot of poker with higher limits to achieve this feat, but thankfully, PokerStars offers many affordable items in their FPP Store for us who can only dream of accumulating three million points.

PokerStars’ FPP Store has everything from hats, poker books, t-shirts, TV’s, and well, cars!

How PokerStars rewards Frequent Player Points (FPP):

1. Earn FPPs for cash game play
First Frequent Player Point (FPP) is awarded for playing a hand in which the rake reaches:

$0.40 for fixed limit poker games with stakes $1/$2 and lower
$0.40 for NL/PL poker games with blinds $1/$2 and lower
$1.00 for all other games

Second FPP is awarded for playing a hand in which the rake reaches:

$2.00 for all 6-max tables (this doesn’t apply for games being played 6- handed at 10/9/8 player tables - just 6-max tables)
$3.00 for all other tables

Third FPP is awarded for playing a hand in which the rake reaches $5.00.

2. Earn FPPs for tournament play
Five (5) FPPs are awarded for each $1 in tournament fees paid.

For example, playing in a poker tournament with $20 buy-in and $2 tournament fee, each player will be awarded 10 FPPs. *Note that partial Frequent Player Points are always rounded to the nearest whole number.

In a $5 buy-in Sit & Go poker tournament with only a $0.50 fee, 3 FPPs (instead of 2.5) will be awarded to each player who played poker in the tournament.

In a $5 buy-in 4-player Heads-Up Sit & Go poker tournament with only a $0.25 fee, 1 FPP (instead of 1.25) will be awarded to each player who played poker in the tournament.

Please note that “FreePlay” tournaments do not award FPPs. You can play poker for play money at their free tables, but these poker games and tournaments are not part of the PokerStars FPP program.

So what are you waiting for? Get to PokerStars today and start earning your FPP’s and who knows… maybe you’ll cash in a free car too!

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Roy Rounder (AKA Rory Monahan) is a poker professional for more than 15 years. His free poker newsletters offer a wealth of insight into the game of poker, especially No-Limit Texas Hold’em.

Joining his poker newsletter is absolutely free and he’ll discuss:

• A simple three-step method for avoiding up to 90% of the “bad beats” you take playing online poker.
• How to calculate poker pot odds quickly without complicated math formulas.
• How to spot poker tells online and in live poker games. He also includes audio and diagrams to make his point understandable.
• How to improve your position to ’steal the button’, good for getting an extra one or two pots an hour.
• How to manage your poker bankroll and much more.

I personally enjoyed and learnt a lot from Roy Rounder’s Newsletter and highly recommend it to any poker player that wants to improve his or her’s poker game.

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Jamie Gold, the winner of the 2006 WSOP Main Event has agreed to a settlement without litigation with Bruce Crispin Leyser.

Jamie Gold and Bruce Crispin Leyser made a verbal deal prior to the Main Event that would give each other a cut of any of the earnings either of them made in the WSOP Main Event.

As you know, Jamie Gold won the tournament and received $12,000,000.00 for finishing first. Bruce Crispin Leyser quickly made it aware to everyone that he and Jamie Gold made a deal that would give him half of the winnings, six million dollars. Apparently Bruce Crispin Leyser even has the verbal deal on an answering machine with him and Jamie Gold talking about the deal.

Whatever the details were of the deal, the US Court held six million of the winnings in an interesting bearing account until the matter was dissolved. Jamie Gold never gave details of the deal but has always stated that he intended to give Bruce Crispin Leyser some of his winnings.

The final amount of the agreement has not been disclosed.

Who is Jamie Gold?

Jamie Gold is a former television producer and Hollywood agent, turned poker pro. He was the chip leader of the WSOP Main Event on day four and never looked back to win the tournament. He beat out a record 8,772 players.

He worked with WSOP Champions Johny Chan and Chris Moneymaker on an upcoming television show and that’s when Johny Chan started to mentor Jamie Gold.

Jamie Gold took what he learnt from his mentor and won his first poker tournament in 2005 and within the next twelve months finished in the money in other poker tournaments seven more times.

Jamie Gold said he didn’t want to win the WSOP Main Event tournament because of the attention he would get and the responsibilities of being an ambassador to poker. He said he would much rather win the cash than the fame. Well, he got both.

Shortly after winning the Main Event Jamie Gold became a representative of Bodog Poker and just recently Bodog let him go. Bodog has said that they are focusing their marketing efforts overseas and Jamie Gold did not fit in with that plan. That sounds pretty fishy, as I think any poker player from anywhere in the world would have known about his remarkable win.

Many people dislike Jamie Gold, probably because of his poker style in the Main Event. He had a knack of goading his opponents to either call or fold their hands.

Although Jamie Gold has the name for poker, “Gold”, he never did get accepted like other former WSOP Main Event winners.

Maybe Jamie Gold would have been in a different situation if he had been representing PokerStars? All their past champions have been received very well by poker fans from allover the world.

I look forward to seeing how well Jamie Gold does in this year’s WSOP, and it will be interesting to see which, if any, online poker room he represents.

Here is a short video on Jamie Gold being schooled by ‘Texas’ Doyle Brunson in Jamie’s first High Stakes televised poker game appearance:

You’ve probably seen him on TV playing in a poker tournament or heard of him somewhere in cyberspace. Bryan Micon is a top online and live poker tournament player and people either hate him or love him.

There is no denying his success in live and online poker tournaments; he is a force to be reckoned with. So why do some people hate him? Probably because he comes off as a cocky person, you know, the kind you love to hate.

Bryan Micon has his own web site where he sells his inside secretes to winning online poker tournaments. He recently launched a much improved system, as his first attempt was not done very professionally and a lot of people felt that they didn’t get their monies worth; another reason why some hate him.

Here is a short video of Bryan Micon in the 2006 WSOP Main Event:

Well, to everyone’s surprise his second attempt at discussing his tournament strategy is much well received this time around. The Micon System 2: Full Disclosure system offers over four hours of lecture and takes his system presentation much more seriously and presented in a much more professional manner then his first poker system attempt.

Bryan Micon:
Lives in Atlanta, Georgia
Born in 1978
Full-time Online Poker Professional
Developed the “Micon System”
PokerStars Player Name: Micon
Bryan calls himself the “King of the Degenerates”

Recent Finishes:
2006 WSOP NL Main Event $10K - 63rd - $123,699
2006 WSOP NL Holdem - 9th - $74,620
2006 WSOP NL Holdem - 111th - $2,902
2006 WSOP Pot Limit Holdem - 40th - $6,017

For more of his accomplishes go to his web site where he lists his online tournament results and more.

If you want to know his winning secrets and strategies then this system is for you. You will certainly learn some things and it will give you some more insight on what it takes to win a poker tournament. There is a 100%, 30 day money back guarantee, so if you don’t like it you’ll get your money back.

Click here to visit Bryan Micon’s web site.

Remember, success in winning poker is absorbing as much knowledge as possible, even from players you may hate!