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December 29th, 2004

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Hope you all have a great New Year, when we get back from the New Year we will have a brand new contest! Using our new play money rooms, people with the most points will win prizes like a new Ipod, poker chip sets, and much much more..

Today’s Poker News:

1. Poker Tour International 2005 First Quarter Tournaments – Rolling Good Times – 1 hour, 50 minutes ago – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(PRESS RELEASE) — Poker Tour International (PTI), announces the first quarter Texas Hold’em Poker tournaments for 2005.
2. Cherokee casino bets live poker will draw visitors – News 14 Carolina – Dec 29 8:00 AM – (CHEROKEE) – Leaders of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation say they want to take a gamble on poker games, if they can get the state to agree. With the craze for the card game spreading, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino wants to add poker tables in the coming months.
3. Live Poker Is the Real Deal in NW Indiana – Rolling Good Times – Dec 28 9:12 PM – When television producers sunk their teeth into poker in their quest to satisfy America’s voracious appetite for reality shows, they started a revolution. More people are playing poker today than at any time in history.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Affleck & Duke are getting it ON!(pic)
* These Chips are AWESOME… (warning nudity) (pic)
* IF SUPERHEROS PLAYED POKER (pic)
* Click here to try our new FLASH Poker Play Tables! (cool flash holdem game)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Learn to leave the table:

This is really just a general poker tip, but it still nabs even the poker pros at times. At Party Poker, if you find that you are being outplayed, outclassed or just unlucky at the table, it’s ok to leave. Don’t think about getting your money back or getting revenge on the bastard that rivered you for the 3rd time now. If you are losing money at your table, you do NOT have good table image no matter what you might think. Not only are you not in a good mood, which puts you on tilt (admit it or not), but other players will be more likely to make plays against you. This makes your game harder in more ways than you want. With so many tables at Party Poker, just get up and go, it’s that easy.

December 26th, 2004

New Poker Flash Room, 3rd Party Programs.

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We updated the 3rd Party Poker Programs section with a new review of POKERPAL. An excellent odds calculator not to be missed, be sure to click here to read the review and download the trial version today. Additionally, the new user-review section was added so you can now add your two cents on these programs!

PARTYPOKER CALLS IT QUITS. okay I lied, but here’s some real poker news…

Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. Poker’s Popularity Surging – CBS News – Dec 25 4:30 PM – The very mention of poker evokes images of middle-aged men, cigars, and five-card stud. Not anymore. More and more people are playing, as Susan McGinnis reports in the second in a series on The Early Show .”
2. Poker Faces Getting Younger – CBS News – Dec 25 2:34 PM – Some best-selling gifts this season are poker-related accessories. But as The Early Show correspondent Tracy Smith found out, it’s hardly just adults trying to gauge when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. And that’s causing concern.
3. Poker enthusiasts sharpen skills at local tournaments – Carthage Press – Dec 24 9:43 AM – Poker is a gamble, but for Arrowhead Grill owner Larry Walbridge, it was a sure bet. Walbridge was one of the first businesses in Southwest Missouri to host No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament poker play and take advantage of the food and beverage sales that accompany it.
4. BoDog Receives Accolades – Rolling Good Times – Dec 23 10:56 AM – UNITED STATES – (PRESS RELEASE) — Bodog.com Sports Casino Poker has been ranked with the top lottery and gaming sites in the U.S.A., along with begin ranked in the Top 10 Sportsbooks in 2004.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* The REAL BoDog(pic)
* If loving poker is wrong, I don’t want to be right! (pic)
* Just something awesome about cats smoking. (pic)
* Click here to try our new FLASH Poker Play Tables! (cool flash holdem game)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Use The Rule of Four -Two.

The rule of four-two, as I like to call it, is an easier way to figure the odds for any situation where you know your outs. It is not completely accurate but it will give you a quick “ballpark” figure of your chances for making a hand. Here is how it works.

With two cards to come after the flop you multiply your number of outs by four. With one card to come after the turn, you multiply your number of outs by two. This will give you a quick figure to work with. If you have a four-card flush after the flop you have nine outs. With two cards to come, you multiply the nine by four and you get 36 percent chance of making the flush. The chart shows the true odds at 35 percent. With one card to come you multiply nine by two and get 18 percent. The chart shows that the true figure is 19.6. It is not completely accurate but it is pretty close, and it is an easy calculation to do in your head.

December 23rd, 2004

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And finally, I couldn’t wait… Shana Hiatt Playboy.

LAMER THAN FDR’s LEG … Was that too soon? Try some poker news..

Today’s Poker News:

1. Bank heist suspect fingered at poker table was Hollywood man – Miami Herald – Dec 22 8:49 PM – A Hollywood man was willing to bet that he got away with robbing a bank, but his luck ran out at the poker table.
2. Poker Faces Getting Younger – CBS News – Dec 22 8:00 AM – Some best-selling gifts this season are poker-related accessories. But as The Early Show correspondent Tracy Smith found out, it’s hardly just adults trying to gauge when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. And that’s causing concern.
3. Pros & Online Players Alike Enjoy Big Action at First Caribbean Poker Classic – Rolling Good Times – Dec 22 10:26 AM – NICOSIA, Cyprus –(PRESS RELEASE) — WagerLogic Limited, a global leading provider of online gaming software announced today that its licensees’ first ever Caribbean Poker Classic has proven to be a major success with pros and online poker players alike.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Someone Submitted this as “POKER FART” search on Yahoo! WIERD (pic)
* Christmas Poker! (pic)
* After that one, you probably would think this is a hot girl too. If you thought that you’d be wrong. (pic)
* I felt bad about that, heres a really hot girl!(pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
PartyPoker Hint:
Scroll to the bottom of the history and you can instantly find out what the other player was holding. I normally do this in conjunction with player notes, to get me a good idea of what a player is willing to play with on a river. Showdown information is always the most critical, as you can analyze their decision making process from the ground up.

December 20th, 2004

Its Almost Over!!! But This Updates Just Starting…

You may or may not agree with me – but this CardPlayer comic, is possibly the worst comic ever!

Daniel Negreanu is Card Players Poker Player of The Year. However, I’d like to say that Tips 4 Poker classifies Brandi Williams as our Player of the Year!

Got a surprise in the mail today, the 2005 Bodog Girl Calendar, this thing is HOTT!!! If your not a Player @ Bodog, the hottest new poker room of 2004. You should jump in right now – place is full of fish. Don’t believe me? Just observe a game for 5minutes and see all the loose calls. My dog could win on here!

DEAD HOOKERS, Relax its just Poker news…

Today’s Poker News:

1. New face of poker – phillyburbs.com – Dec 19 5:12 AM – Some see poker and other forms of gambling as just entertainment, fun. Others see huge debts, trouble.
2. Poker publishers say they’re not bluffing – The Indianapolis Star – Dec 18 11:59 PM – Startup magazines jump on craze that has found acceptance on 5 TV networks. With a poker craze in full swing on television networks like ESPN and Bravo, publishers are moving to launch poker magazines before celebrities such as Ben Affleck take up some other game.
3. Here’s why game of razz all the rage on poker steve rosenbloom – TimesLeader.com – Dec 19 12:19 AM – Usually I write about hold ’em in this column. Limit hold ’em, pot-limit, no-limit — it’s all the rage as poker-palooza sweeps the country. But today the game is razz, and here’s why: No matter the brand of poker, you have to read people as much as you read cards, maybe more so.
4. The power of poker – Williamsport Sun Gazette – Dec 18 10:35 PM – The recent popularity of poker has swept up millions of people nationwide, including many locals. Texas Hold Em is the hottest game on cable right now, said Mike Loeh, sales manager for Susquehanna Communications, the primary cable-television provider in most of the region.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Not sure how great their photoshop skills are, but the chicks are hott. (pic)
* Mona Lisa Plays Poker Too. (pic)
* I Don’t Know What This Has To Do With Poker… (pic)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Today’s Poker Tip of the Day is more of a quiz, actually its a quiz we stole from cardplayer. Ok we didn’t steal it, you actually have to click here to goto it. But anyway’s good luck.

December 17th, 2004

Christmas Presents & Big Bonuses.

Here is a list of ideas for Christmas Presents:

Is it better to give or to receive? Both? Now we’re talking! Here are a few last-minute gift ideas:

1. The 2005 Bodog Girl Calendar & Poker Chip Set
2. MLB Boston Red Sox Ballpark Nacho Gift Set
3. The La-Z-Boy Oasis recliner with built-in cooler (large enough to hold up to six 12-ounce cans) and built-in phone.
4. This cell phone comes with a video playback function, a built-in speakerphone, Bluetooth technology, a zoom-capable digital camera, and remix able ringer software.
5. Victoria’s Secret: The gift that keeps on giving.

GREAT CHEAP GIFT IDEA:

-Maxx 10-in-1 System With Texas Hold ’em Poker
Was $15.99;
Outlet Price $7.99
$5 off using code FALLBC
Shipping: $5.95

TOTAL: $8.04 shipped

All-in-one entertainment system with 10 exciting casino games! Includes video poker, roulette, blackjack, slot machine, solitaire, Texas Hold ‘em, craps, baccarat, keno and Caribbean stud poker. Requires 4 “AA” batteries (not included). Ages 10 and up. Buy it @ JcPenny

Additionally PartyPoker has decided to give out a few extra bonuses of its own. Including a free hat if you play 100 raked hands between now and Jan 9th. In addition, they have a 20% reload bonus going down right now, here are the details:

The 20% Deposit Bonus will ONLY be applied on your first deposit made between 00:00 hrs EST, December 17th and 23:59 hrs EST, December 20th 2004. You must use the bonus code “DECBONUS” on the Deposit Screen where you enter the amount of the deposit.

he best in poker news…

Today’s Poker News:
1. Poker players robbed at gunpoint – The Advocate – Dec 16 7:52 AM – BUCKEYE LAKE — Officials say two masked robbers intruded into a Buckeye Lake poker game, demanding cash and personal belongings from the players at gunpoint.
2. Poker attracts younger crowd, but are they playing with fire? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Dec 15 9:15 PM – Poker attracts younger crowd, but are they playing with fire? By Cristina Rouvalis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
3. Poker gifts make a winning hand – The Biloxi Sun Herald – Dec 16 1:06 AM – LOS ANGELES – Retailers are betting poker chips will win big this holiday season as the nation’s craze for Texas Hold ‘Em continues to surge. In 1999, Poker Chips USA in Northridge raked in $60,000 in sales over the holiday season.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Very Cool Poker 3d Art (pic)
* Moogle Poker (pic)
* Dragon Poker (pic)
* Foxtrot Poker Comic, Funny! (pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Use a four color deck:

This tip applies not only to Party Poker but many other poker rooms out there too. There’s a reason poker sites offer four color decks, because they are quite popular and for good reason. If you play poker long enough, you’re going to make mistakes. Everyone who has played long enough has probably misread their cards at some point or another (usually after a long stretch), especially flushes. Using a four colored deck makes it much easier to identify flushes (and more importantly flush draw threats) and enables you to use your brain powers elsewhere.

December 14th, 2004

This Update Hotter Than Desperate House Wives.

First off, Shana Hiatt – Star of PartyPoker, has a few pictures that she would like everyone to see. It appears that she was a Playboy & Hawaiian Tropics Girl. Check out these pictures, warning nude.
Just be sure to click back after your done looking at them!!!

Came across this Poker-Charts, a free web-based service you can use to keep track of your win/losses. Also worth a gander! Its surprisingly easy and very nice layout with minimal advertisements.

An excellent newJoopy’s picture (warning nudity) today, and check back tomorrow for some more great Poker News and Information.

The best in poker news…

Today’s Poker News:

1. Publishers ante up with poker magazines – USA Today – Dec 13 7:53 PM – With a poker craze in full swing on TV networks such as ESPN and Bravo, publishers are moving to launch poker magazines before celebrities such as Ben Affleck take up some other game. A former dot-com executive is launching a national magazine called All In on Dec. 21.
2. Snooker star’s big win at poker – BBC News – Dec 13 4:52 AM – Matthew Stevens pockets $500,000 in a poker tournament and heads to New York to spend his winnings.
3. Poker tournaments raise questions – Casper Star Tribune – Dec 13 12:23 PM – * How it works: Contestant pays a set amount to enter tournament, is given a set number of chips with no monetary value and competes with other poker players at Texas Hold ‘Em. Winners determined by the player that ends up with all chips at a table.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* A Real Poker Run (pic)
* Poker Hottie (pic)
* Poker Hottie – Brandi Williams (pic, gallery)
Poker Tip of The Day:
PLAY LESS HANDS!
The less hands you play, the more money you will keep. This doesn’t just go for tournaments but for poker in general. Play only the best possible hands you can! Meaning, only play the hands that will give you the best return on your investment.

December 12th, 2004

Website Update.

This week Tips4Poker will be redoing some parts of our tips / partypoker guide as well the online cheating portion of our website. We are confident you will enjoy the newly revamped sections and will let you know when they are completed.

Have You seen Card Stacker? Holy crap, this is amazing, check this picture below then check CardStacker.com for more…
Poker Stadium

Holy Crap…

I’ve got good news, and I’ve got bad news, but mostly poker news…

Today’s Poker News:

1. Pair hopes poker trade will let them keep cashing in – Winston-Salem Journal via Yahoo! News – 1 hour, 5 minutes ago – Just one woman waving a religious tract has come in since the poker-chip store opened right off Lexington’s main drag, so John Beck counts himself lucky.
2. Poker Machines seized – The Robesonian – Dec 11 4:36 PM – LUMBERTON – Lumberton police seized three video poker machines from a Roberts Avenue business Tuesday, Detective Burnis Wilkins said. Lisa Lane Britt, 44, 125 Hayes St., Lumberton, was cited with misdemeanor operating a game of chance and misdemeanor possessing illegal gaming machines.
3. Online Poker Gold Website Launches – [Press Release] PR Web – 1 hour, 50 minutes ago – Woolley Design today announces the launch of a new website, http://www.online-poker-gold.com, which is designed to help the average poker player improve their online poker game. [PRWEB Dec 12, 2004]
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Bar Art “Poker” (pic)
* How the Air Force Does Poker (pic)
* Poker Saloon Drawing (user submitted) (pic)
* Poker in the Elevator (user submitted) (pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Use The Rule of Four -Two.

December 9th, 2004

Free Subscription to CardPlayer Magazine

And 3 other reasons why you should deposit at Bodog, immediately.
Bodog Poker (the hottest new poker room of 2004) has some incredible Holiday Promotions going on….

You get all of them, not just one. Including 10% Bonus + 10% reload bonuses.

* Free Subscription to Card Player Magazine
* Free 2005 Girls of Bodog Calendar
* Free Custom Bodog Poker Chip Set

Now its even worth your $20 for all the free goodies you get to make a deposit. So do yourself a favor and get depositing!

As always, today’s news…

Today’s Poker News:

1. Nealon puts on poker face – Variety via Yahoo! News – Dec 07 12:14 PM – (Variety) — “Saturday Night Live” alum Kevin Nealon has signed on to host GSN’s new series ” Poker Royale: The WPPA Championship.”
2. POKER ROYALE: THE WPPA CHAMPIONSHIP Hits a Casino Ratings High for GSN – [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance – Dec 08 2:46 PM – GSN’s new original casino themed series, POKER ROYALE: THE WPPA CHAMPIONSHIP debuted last night with a solid ratings performance of 0.6.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Now we’re talking Poker! (pic)
* Cookie Monster Playing Poker? (pic)
* I believe they call these fish hooks (pic)
* Awesome Poker Art (pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Scroll to the bottom of the history and you can instantly find out what the other player was holding. I normally do this in conjunction with player notes, to get me a good idea of what a player is willing to play with on a river. Showdown information is always the most critical, as you can analyze their decision making process from the ground up.

December 8th, 2004

Holiday Poker Season

Read the whole update, you’ll thank me later.
Damn, how busy are retail stores getting? I went into Fry’s Electronics to pick-up a new LCD screen for a friend. In addition to passing their MASSIVE Poker Chip Display, the place was packed with holiday shoppers. On a Wednesday night, at that! Well good luck to retail and its poker chip craze. Soon everyone will have a set of chips, we’ll never have a shortage again.

Marc from Texas Calculatem just e-mailed me and told me to let you all know that Texas Calculatem, has been updated. In addition to the awesome new features and look, the website has been overhauled. Be sure to head over to Texas Calculatem and check out the BEST odds calculator.

Small shout-out to reader David L. from USC, congratulations on your teams victory. Hopefully they do as well in the bowl, and good luck on finals.

Some great news and poker quick links today, be sure to check them all out…

Today’s Poker News:
1. Nealon puts on poker face – Variety via Yahoo! News – Dec 07 12:14 PM – (Variety) — “Saturday Night Live” alum Kevin Nealon has signed on to host GSN’s new series ” Poker Royale: The WPPA Championship.”
2. Former mayoral candidate behind bars following poker tournament – ABC 13 Texas – Dec 07 3:33 PM – (12/06/04 – TEXAS CITY, TX) — A Texas City man says it was only a poker tournament, but it was a game that landed the former mayoral candidate behind bars.
3. Poker: Latest craze? – phillyburbs.com – Dec 07 5:09 AM – The Intelligencer is looking to talk with teens and parents about a growing trend among teens, playing poker – a game that is growing in popularity, in part, because of television shows that feature tournaments for celebrities.
4. Poker Odds Back at Bodog – Covers.com – Dec 07 6:38 AM – Bodog.com Sports Casino Poker ™ has released odds on who will win the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* College Poker Girls Team (pic)
* Even Homer Simpson is doing it (pic)
* Happy Hanukah (pic)
* ClayMation Poker (pic)
* Lucky Ferret Poker Club (link)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Move out of the $5 tournaments ASAP:

This isn’t as much a trick as it is advice. The $5 sit and go tournaments on Party Poker are cheap, but at a price. With a $1 entry fee, this amounts to a 20% rake, which is no light task to beat. If you are good enough to win enough $5 tournaments that you can beat this rake, you are good enough to be playing at the $10 tournaments. There really is no difference between the two; and in my opinion, the $10 tournaments might even be easier because you don’t get filled out tables of nothing but calling stations. Try as you might and throw the book of poker at me, but there almost nothing humanly possible you can do at an entire table of maniacs or calling stations. The game makes more sense at $10 and even more sense at $30.

December 7th, 2004

3rd Party Programs Update and More

Well, I came home today to a big surprise. Poker Office has been updated. The already awesome program has become even better! It can now read your hole cards before you even see them, simply amazing. Although it has no real benefit, it still is pretty cool. In addition, they fixed a number of bugs and a few new cool features. Check out Poker Office today!

Another big surprise, is Bodog has completed their calendar of the “Bodog Girls”, just received it in the mail. This is by far the best giveaway an online poker room has done for a minimal $20 deposit! That’s right, all you have to do is deposit $20 at Bodog and you get this awesome calendar full of hotties free plus you get to play poker. It’s a win win situation.

Today’s Poker News:

1. Internet poker more popular than ever – Oakland Tribune – Dec 06 7:36 AM – threw out his back playing table tennis a year and a half ago. Up until that point, he says, he hadn’t played poker since high school. Now he regularly plays online, betting real money to enter tournaments or play straight up games.
2. Toss in cards and leave pay-the-host poker game – San Jose Mercury News – Dec 06 3:07 AM – DEAR ABBY : My friend, “Wilma,” recently purchased a house with her husband, “Ken.” They frequently host “poker nights” and invite quite a few other friends — and friends of friends.
3. Poker face: Freshman wins UA tourney – Arizona Daily Wildcat – Dec 06 12:26 AM – The first ever semester-long No Limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament ended Saturday in the Champion of Champions competitions, and the winner walked away with a $350 poker table made by a UA student.
4. Brookstone and Poker Legend Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson Up the Ante on Poker This Holiday with Exclusive Book Offer and – [Press Release] PR Newswire – Dec 06 2:27 – AM Poker fans can register at http://www.brookstone.com for chance to win a limited, autographed copy of Brunson’s much-anticipated new book Super/System 2 Poker legend will also sign advance copies of book at Brookstone Store in New York on Dec. 9 MERRIMACK, N.H. and LAS VEGAS, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Running the tables this Holiday season, specialty retailer Brookstone, Inc.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* New Picture of Joopy The Asian Poker Playing Vixen (pic)
* Affleck/Schwimmer Playing Poker (pic)
* Doyle Brunson – Old School Status (pic)
* VERY cool picture of Dog Playing Poker (link)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Learn to leave the table:
This is really just a general poker tip, but it still nabs even the poker pros at times. At Party Poker, if you find that you are being outplayed, outclassed or just unlucky at the table, it’s ok to leave. Don’t think about getting your money back or getting revenge on the bastard that rivered you for the 3rd time now. If you are losing money at your table, you do NOT have good table image no matter what you might think. Not only are you not in a good mood, which puts you on tilt (admit it or not), but other players will be more likely to make plays against you. This makes your game harder in more ways than you want. With so many tables at Party Poker, just get up and go, it’s that easy.

December 5th, 2004

Weekend Update

First off, today is the last possible day to get your $100 Bonus at Bodog Poker. Click here to sign-up and instantly get a $100 Bonus.
Prizes for contest winners will be mailed out on Tuesday. Congratulations to all the winning participants and keep checking back to the forum for details on a new bigger contest.

Check out our Quick Links today for some funny and useful pictures.

Today’s Poker News:
1. State authorities bust illicit poker operation – News-Record – Dec 04 12:17 AM – GREENSBORO — State investigators cited two alleged ringleaders and more than a dozen other gambling suspects Thursday in a late-night raid at a secret poker parlor off Lawndale Drive that advertised its games on the Internet.
2. From pucks to poker – Canoe – Dec 04 2:33 AM – This is what the City of Champions has been reduced to: hockey-starved sports fans gathered in bars around big-screen TVs watching people play cards. “I can’t believe how many people show up here to watch poker tournaments now,” said a gloomy Doug Munro, co-owner of Mo’s Sports Bar, 5420 Calgary Tr.
3. World Championship Poker – GameSpot – Dec 03 3:13 PM – It’s official: Poker has taken over the world.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Awesome Poker Art (pic)
* Cats Playing Poker (pic)
* Artist rendering of Strip Poker (pic)
* Old School Celebrity Poker Game (link)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Wait a full table rotation before posting the BB:
This tip is probably debatable by many of the players out there. In my opinion, unless you know what you are doing, this tactic will save you money in the long run by letting you not only get mentally prepared for the game, but also gives you invalable time to evaluate your opponents. The worst thing that can happen is to get dealt a strong hand early and then get caught in a massive raising war between two players you don’t know. They could be two maniacs for sure, but what if one of them is a maniac and the other player is super-tight? Most likely, that super tight player is holding the nuts while you are bumbling by with top pair or two pair. Not a good move. So be patient, take notes in the meanwhile and save money in the long run.

December 1st, 2004

Hello Decemeber – Big Poker Bonuses!!
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Meanwhile, check out our favorite asian poker playing hottie, Joopie’s Christmas Update. Be sure to check and see if you won in our November 2004 Contest, if so check the bottom for information on how to claim your prize — Great Job!

Today’s Poker News:
1. Texas Hold’em Poker Tournaments Not Legal In Pa. – WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News – Nov 30 8:00 AM – Nonprofit and other organizations holding popular Texas Hold’em poker tournaments that are being advertised in local newspapers are not legal under Pennsylvania law, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.
2. Lawsuit seeks to legalize poker bets – The Charlotte Observer – 33 minutes ago – DURHAM – A company that wants to operate a poker-betting establishment is suing the district attorney, seeking to have the card game declared a contest of skill rather than a game of chance.
3. Poker going legit – News Observer – 25 minutes ago – Chapel Hill’s Mike Matsinger likes to play poker with his son, Michael. “We played 13 hands,” Mike said. “And my son won 12 of them. He’s played in four on-line tournaments and won two.”
Poker Quick Link’s:
* If your not into Joopy Your Gay (pic gallery)
* Is it just me or does UK Poker seem Fancier? (pic)
* Real Dogs Playing Poker (pathetic) (pic)
* PriceWaterHouse Cooper Verifies Online Gaming (link)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Wait a full table rotation before posting the BB:

This tip is probably debatable by many of the players out there. In my opinion, unless you know what you are doing, this tactic will save you money in the long run by letting you not only get mentally prepared for the game, but also gives you invaluable time to evaluate your opponents. The worst thing that can happen is to get dealt a strong hand early and then get caught in a massive raising war between two players you don’t know. They could be two maniacs for sure, but what if one of them is a maniac and the other player is super-tight? Most likely, that super tight player is holding the nuts while you are bumbling by with top pair or two pair. Not a good move. So be patient, take notes in the meanwhile and save money in the long run.

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November 29th, 2004

Another Poker Week

Well its almost December and you know what that means… Poker Room Promotions, I don’t know about you but my room is having the best promotions I have ever seen. They will do just about anything to keep me away from the mall and inside the room.

Which also means better poker promotions for you guys! Stay tuned this week for a listing of unheard of before bonuses for all your favorite card rooms.

Meanwhile check out our newly revamped Poker Site Review Section. And, if your still unsure what to ask your chick for Christmas, check out our Poker Christmas List.

Today’s Poker News:
1. Poker’s Popularity Grows Among Teens – AP via Yahoo! Asia News – Nov 28 4:24 PM – Now that his high school football season is over, Zak Coppinger has been playing poker every chance he can get.
2. Players try hand at online-poker job – Seattle Times – Nov 28 12:34 AM – Sunday, November 28, 2004 – Page updated at 12:00 A.M. CHICAGO — Nate Silver quit his $55,000-a-year financial consulting job in April to play poker. So far it’s been a wise career move: The 26-year-old Silver expects to make more than $100,000 this year playing the card game, mainly on the Internet.
3. AFFLECK TO COMPETE IN EURO POKER CHAMPIONSHIP – Contactmusic – Nov 28 7:05 AM – Hollywood actor BEN AFFLECK and British singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS are going head-to-head in a star-studded $1.3 million (GBP700,000) poker competition.
4. PartyPoker Gives Out Huge JackPot Online

Texas Hold’em PartyPoker gave out over a $300,000 dollar jackpot this weekend to 10 lucky winners. Read more about it..
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Ben Affleck Spotted Playing Poker (pic)
* Affleck Part Duece (pic)
* CoverGirl Poker (whats up with that chick on the top right??) (pic)
* Strip Poker for the Commodore 64 (link)
* Poker Link Exchange (for webmasters)
* Play 5 Raked Hands @ VIPPoker get a Free T-shirt or Hat (adv)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Get hand histories when players don’t show their at the river:
Great Party Poker trick that I’m sure many people have figured out. Many times on the river, only the winning hand is shown – but you are very interested in seeing what the loser was holding too. Simply click on the hand number at the top right of the screen and click view the hand history for that game. It will display both the winning and losing hands.

November 26th, 2004

Happy Holidays Poker Player!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday, I sure did! Incase, you aren’t sure what to ask for Christmas – I went ahead and created this list of poker goodies that you can pass onto your significant other:

* GUYS:
* We Be “Clubbin” Shirt By Abercrombie ($24.50)
* I Love The Ladies Shirt By Abercrombie ($24.50) (pictured)
* I Love Poker Shirt By Abercrombie ($24.50)
* WSOP Handheld Game ($40)
* GIRLS:
* Royal Flush Tank ($24) By All Pink Usa
* I Love Poker Tank ($44) By All Pink USA
Today’s Poker News:

1. Bar Owner Gambles On Poker Craze Poker Tournaments Increase Bar’s Business – NBC 13 Birmingham – Nov 26 1:27 PM – TUSCALOOSA, Ala — It used to be a game played at family gatherings and in dark, smoky rooms, but now, poker is going mainstream. NBC 13 ‘s Chris Pollone reported on the explosion in the popularity of the game, and a local bar owner is taking full advantage of it.
2. Police Close Gambling Club Catering To Elderly Club Featured Video Poker, Card Games – The Boston Channel – Nov 26 10:54 AM – BROCKTON, Mass. — Police have shut down what they said was an illegal gambling club frequented mostly by senior citizens. The Brockton Club, located steps away from a day-care center for children, featured video poker games, card games, and plenty of alcohol, authorities said.
3. How To: Play Poker & Win – AskMen – Nov 25 9:16 PM – Whether you are a poker afficionado, or you just like taking money from your in-laws when they visit during the holidays, we all like to win when playing poker. In order to make sure you leave with a fatter wallet, understanding the tricks of the trade are compulsory.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Everyones Playing Poker, Even the Westwing (pic)
* High Stakes Poker (pic)
* The Original PartyPoker (Humor) (pic)

Poker Tip of The Day
Use a four color deck: This tip applies not only to Party Poker but many other poker rooms out there too. There’s a reason poker sites offer four color decks, because they are quite popular and for good reason. If you play poker long enough, you’re going to make mistakes. Everyone who has played long enough has probably misread their cards at some point or another (usually after a long stretch), especially flushes. Using a four colored deck makes it much easier to identify flushes (and more importantly flush draw threats) and enables you to use your brain powers elsewhere.

November 24th, 2004

November, What November?

So the month of November is quickly coming to an end. But honestly – when did it start? I can’t even believe its almost the holidays.
Well, I’m not quite done with the Poker Room Review section upgrade yet. However, I updated the Free Money No Deposit Required Section a bit.

Additionally, I also upgraded the 3rd Party Programs Section. I should be adding an interactive feature where you can rate the programs shortly.

Other than that.. some pretty hot poker news:

Today’s Poker News:

1. Police charge 2 brothers in high-stakes poker games – Charlotte Observer via Yahoo! News – 21 minutes ago – Huntersville police arrested two men Tuesday and sought a third in connection with an illegal gambling operation that police say netted up to several thousand dollars a night from poker games at their townhouse.
2. Law frowns on poker tourneys in bars, AG says – Billings Gazette – 50 minutes ago – CHEYENNE – Poker tournaments in Wyoming bars appear to violate state law because the establishment indirectly profit from selling food and drinks to players, according to Wyoming Attorney General Pat Crank.
3. Maxim signs poker deal – Media Week Online – Nov 23 9:58 AM – Dennis Publishing has signed a six-figure deal with Victor Chandler Poker for cross-promotion with Maxim magazine and Inside Edge. Men’s magazine Maxim is to host the Maxim King of Poker Tournament in association with VC Poker to be held in London in June.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Shark (pic)
* Whoa, Moneymaker & his secret starwars buddies. (pic)
* If you hold tournaments, this is a must. (pic)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Read this article about why online cheating did exist. And why its that much harder today.

November 22ndth, 2004

Long Weekend of Poker

First, our good friend and hot young Asian Poker star has updated her picture section. The new pics include girl-girl action and her with some of poker’s hottest faces. Check it out here, unfortunately there is no nudity only really racy pictures.
Don’t you just hate having someone suck-out all the way to the river, and catch that flush? Earlier last night on 5/10, I had someone draw all the way to the river. Check the hand out here. HE paid $30 to draw his stupid flush!!! Grrrr, it made me so mad. So he went on to win that $200, but the guy (as you would expect) only lasted about another hour. So after building back up my bankroll, I ended up finally getting my $100 PartyPoker Reload Bonus and cashed out with a cool $650 earlier today.

Check back tomorrow to see our newly redone “poker room review section” we are in the process of re-reviewing the best poker rooms. Tomorrow we will post our unbiased report of which poker rooms are everything they claim to be.

Today’s Poker News:

1. Putting on her poker face – San Jose Mercury News – Nov 21 3:39 AM – BELL GARDENS – When Marla Schram Schwartz sat down at a Southern California poker club two decades ago, men rose from the table and swore never to play with a woman.
2. Watch World Poker Tour – News Today – Nov 20 3:29 AM – On Discovery Travel & Living channel, catch World Poker Tour, San Francisco at 9 p.m tomorrow which reinvents the image of poker forever. In San Francisco, Lucky Chances Casino plays host to the Gold Rush Tournament, with a prize pool worth nearly $ 500,000.
3. New Small Town Poker Tour Show Blends Real Life and Texas Hold’em – [Press Release] PR Web – Nov 20 12:05 AM – A new television show about poker set to hit the air. The Small Town Poker Tour is as simple as the title states, blend everyday people with the exciting game of Texas Hold’em, a winning combination. [PRWEB Nov 20, 2004]
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Joopy Updated Her Pics! HOTT! (pic gallery)
* Good Avatar, German Band Logo, Called POKERFACE (pic)
* Poker Guys Dream (awesome pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Click between game tabs to refresh your table listings
This trick is useful mainly for SnG (sit and go / single table) tournaments, which are notoriously quick to fill up. Many times, you’ll see “Wtng for 5 players” as the table status, but when you click on the game, it will have already started. This is due to the table status not updating quickly, which you can force by clicking between tabs. Of note however, is that Party Poker has recently upped the refresh rate of the tables substantially, so this isn’t a major issue like it used to be.

November 19th, 2004

PartyPoker Reload Bonus & More

I will pass this useful information along to you from the good folks at PartyPoker:

20% Reload Bonus up to $100 at Party Poker from November 19th – November 22nd.

The 20% Deposit Bonus will ONLY be applied on your first deposit made at Party Poker between 00:00 hrs ET November 19th and 23:59 hrs ET, November 22nd, 2004.

You must use the bonus code RELOADNOV on the Deposit Screen where you enter the amount of the deposit.

Other than that, our Nov. Contest is nearing its end. Which means this is your last chance to win 1 of 30 Great Poker Prizes. Take 5 minutes out of your day and register at our forum for the contest!

Today’s Poker New’s:

1. World Poker Tour at Foxwoods – WTNH-TV New Haven – Nov 18 5:38 PM – (Mashantucket-WTNH, Nov. 18, 2004 7:20 PM ) _ The best card sharks in the world are competing for top dollar at Foxwoods Casino. It’s all part of the World Poker Tour, and the fans can’t get enough of it.
2. World Poker Tour TV Games Now Available – Rolling Good Times – Nov 18 11:53 AM – MALIBU, California â€“ (PRESS RELEASE) — Bring the World Poker Tour(TM) home for the holidays! JAKKS Pacific, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: JAKK) World Poker Tour(TM) TV Games(TM) are now available at retailers nationwide for the holiday season.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* The Hold’em King (pic)
* Hold’em Scratcher tickets, WTF? (pic)
* Honestly, Phil? (awesome pic)
* And, again Phil Hellmuth – losing a bet, suprise, suprise (pic)
Poker Tip of The Day:
Use The Rule of Four -Two.
The rule of four-two, as I like to call it, is an easier way to figure the odds for any situation where you know your outs. It is not completely accurate but it will give you a quick “ballpark” figure of your chances for making a hand. Here is how it works.

November 18th, 2004

WPT Satellites, ARE YOU IN??

Moreso, do you even care? If anything, this editor believe that the only thing that WPT Satellites do for a online pokerroom is add “street cred.” that the site is that much more legit.

However, if your really looking to make it to the WPT this year you might want to check out Bodog. Now, before you dismiss this as a mere subtle advertising please hear me out. In fact if your really worried about it go directly to Bodog.com and see for yourself.

Good your still here… So as I was saying, your best shot at getting to the WPT this year is Bodog. Here is why..
* Bodog is new, but reliable. Therefore your competition is less but, your payout is guaranteed.
* They are an official WPT Satellite host (not wanna-be’s like other sites)
* It only cost you $6 to register for possibly the easiest satellite you’ve ever been in.

That is the top 3 reasons why you should use Bodog for your trip to the WPT. Now, if you haven’t already go to Bodog and register today. Or at least do yourself a favor and play in there $500 daily FreeRolls. While your playing in a FreeRoll, sit in a tournament and see how soft the competition really is. I’m not kidding on this one.

In other news, this weekend Tips4Poker will be redoing our Poker Room Review section and re-reviewing all of your favorite poker rooms. Keep in mind, this will be an unbiased report. Hence, advertising will NOT affect this report. We are going to give you the straight truth on who’s got the hottest rooms online today.

Additionally, check out our Nov. Contest going on in the Forum Right Now. Sign-up today and you could win 1 of 30 Great Poker Prizes. Really people, it takes 5 minutes. We gave away over $1,000 of prizes last time and we’re doing it again. This isn’t like those contests you have no chance of winning. You honestly have a good chance at this one. Click here for the contest.
Today’s Poker News:
1. Bar lobbies for poker tables – Corvallis Gazette Times – Nov 17 8:19 PM – ALBANY Poker games on television are so popular that The First Round Bar & Grill in Albany wants to have poker tables at the restaurant, too. Jim Mathews of The First Round asked the City Council on Monday to change the municipal code to allow poker playing.
2. High stakes poker at Foxwoods – WFSB 3 – Nov 17 5:20 PM – M ASHANTUCKET– Poker fans and players kept a close eye on a big game at Foxwoods Casino Wednesday. The action was hot and heavy as one and a half million dollars was riding on games that began at four o’clock.
3. Celebrity Poker Tournament on 28th November at Southend following Launch of New Celebpoker.com Software Including Teddy – [Press Release] PR Web – 7 minutes ago
Celebpoker is hosting a celebrity poker Tournament at Southend following the launch of Celebpoker.com software for 50 players, £1000 + 50 buy-ins. The tournament will be held at the Rendezvous Casino in Southend-on-sea, Essex. Play starts at 7pm. Come play with the stars and see if they are as good at poker as they are at Football. [PRWEB Nov 18, 2004]

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Kelly @ Myspace, our best poker friend! (pic, gallery)
* Daniel Negreanu – Gay or not? You decide. (pic)
* Customized Poker Chips $150bux… (not an adv, but cool site)

Poker Joke Of The Day:
Don’t you hate when this happens….
#1187898450: 3Threes wins $66 from the main pot with three of a kind, threes.
…and you fall for it!!

November 16th, 2004

*3rd Party Online Poker Programs UPDATE*

The Infamous question… SOLVED!
DO 3RD PARTY POKER PROGRAMS REALLY WORK?

Check out our new 3rd Party Programs Section for Full Reviews along with Screenshots & Video ofthe latest 3rd Party Poker Programs. Find out — which ones work, which ones don’t! Tips 4 Poker reviews them all!

Editors note: Well reviewing them, I developed a $400 bankroll in a matter or 2hours at 2/4 tables!
Click HERE to Read our New 3rd Party Programs Section

Check out our Poker Quick Links for a Gallery of pictures of new-found Poker hottie Brandi Williams.
Today’s Poker News:

1. Kafelnikov leaving tennis for poker – Sports Illustrated – Nov 15 1:20 PM – LONDON (AP) — Yevgeny Kafelnikov says he’s given up tennis to become a professional poker player. “I have retired,” the former No. 1 player said in Monday’s Independent newspaper. “But I have not officially announced it yet.
2. Poker Tournament Investigated At Massillon Home – Cleveland – NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News – Nov 15 8:30 AM – A Texas hold’ em poker tournament in Stark County came up snake eyes, NewsChannel5 partner WQMX reported.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* A NEW Poker Playing Hottie, Brandi Williams (pic, gallery)
* Daniel Negreanu – Gay or not? You decide. (pic)

Poker Tip Of The Day:
Do 3rd Party Online Poker Programs really work?

The answer lays in who is using them. If you take their advice with a grain of salt and interpret it correctly – YES, it will increase your game 10fold. However, if you accept everything it has to say your bound to lose. Read our 3rd Party Programs section for more information on this topic.

November 13th, 2004

3rd Party Online Poker Programs Blowout
The Infamous question…
DO 3RD PARTY POKER PROGRAMS REALLY WORK?
Tips 4 Poker will be answering your most asked questions about 3rd Party Online Poker Programs using recorded video tests of the usefulness of these utilities…
In addition, we will be re-reviewing all Poker Programs and designing a whole new 3rd Party Poker Program section, similar to how the front page is now. With more in-depth reviews. View our current section here.

All this is coming Tuesday of this coming week!

Finally, it’s almost December — and you know what that means… It’s time for Card Player Magazine to name its Poker Player of the year. Do you have an idea who it’s going to be? Try betting on it over @ Bodog, their odds are pretty incredible, so you have a shot at some real cash here folks!

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News:
1. WPT Launches the Professional Poker Tour – Rolling Good Times – Nov 12 10:05 AM – MASHANTUCKET, Connecticut â€“ (PRESS RELEASE) — Season One of The Professional Poker Tour(TM) (PPT) is jampacked with a stellar line-up of All-Star players, 134 of which turned out for the Tour’s inaugural competition on November 9-10 at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
2. VIP Management Launches Online Poker Product – Rolling Good Times – Nov 12 11:08 AM – WILLEMSTAD, Curacao â€“ (PRESS RELEASE) — VIP Management Services announced today the launch of its much-awaited online poker product VIPpoker.com.
3. Legality of poker tournament fees, prize questioned – The Ohio University Post – Nov 12 10:09 AM – Ohio University poker buffs hoping to take part in the Intramural Sports department’s World Series of Poker tournament last week have been forced to wait until next quarter because of an event postponement.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* In honor of Mr. Arafat…. (pic)
* This is all I want for Christmas (pic)
* Here’s something you don’t see everyday, “CATS PLAYING POKER” (pic)

Poker Tip Of The Day:
Why you should never check : Check/Fold box.

The Check/Fold is there for people who aren’t thinking about the decisions they are making. So instead of clicking that box, take a second and think about what you are about to do.

November 11th, 2004

Poker Frenzy

In case you haven’t noticed, poker continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Today, in Poker News — WPT announced it will open a Poker Boot Camp! In other Poker News, a poker casino guard is charged with stealing over 70K, hows about that for stealing the pot.
In other interesting news, an avid player/programmer has e-mailed me a BETA version of a new poker 3rd party program he has been working on. WOW, this thing is amazing — I can’t tell you anything about it. But, lets just say that online poker is about to get more interesting. Keep your eyes peeled to the 3rd Party Programs section to read more about it.

What would you want in your dream Poker Room? IE) Pocket Aces Cracked, gives you $100 bucks? Post your thoughts in our forum — Poker Room Designers from PartyPoker & Other places are listening!

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News:

1. **IMPORTANT NEWS REGARDING LEGALIZING OFFSHORE GAMBLING!!!**
2. WPT Launches Poker Boot Camp – Rolling Good Times – Nov 10 11:02 AM – WEST HOLLYWOOD, California –(PRESS RELEASE)– WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:WPTE), the entertainment company that transformed poker into a riveting spectator sport, has once again broken new ground with the announcement of WPT Boot Camp(TM). This new initiative can put those who dream of playing in a WORLD POKER TOUR(TM) tournament on the fast track to a WPT Final Table.
3. Bikers hold toy/poker ‘run’ – Quay County Sun – Nov 10 7:43 AM – Motorcycles will be hitting the pavement Sunday, Nov. 21 for the United States Veterans Motorcycle Club, Badlands Chapter third annual Toy and Poker Run.
4. Greensburg poker casino guard arrested in $70,000 theft – KATC3 – Nov 10 6:14 AM – GREENSBURG, La. A security guard at a video poker casino in Greensburg is in custody for allegedly helping to rob the business of 70-thousand dollars.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Royal Flush AKA Wet Dream.. (pic)
* Strip Poker Dreams (pic)
* Maxim Magazine : Life of a Professional Gambler (article)
* JOOPY the Asian Poker Playing/Fan Hottie (link)
* Play poker & bet on sports, elections, espn dream job @ Bodog.com (adv)

November 10th, 2004

Another HUGE Update…

First, you can get a free subscription to Card Player magazine simply for signing up over @ PokerRoom and depositing $10, when you sign-up simply use deposit code “CARDPL”. And, you will instantly get a free subscription to Card Player Magazine!
Second, since so many of you graciously visited us on Monday For Tara Reids expose, we went ahead and posted all 14 of her naughty pictures in todays quick links. It is rumored that she was to appear on Celebrity Poker Showdown as well!

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News

1. Prominent poker player ‘Skyhawk’ Flaton dies at 64 – Las Vegas Sun – Nov 09 10:02 AM – After watching Henderson gambler Ken Flaton spread his arms and scoop up pot after pot in a poker tournament, the late Stu “The Kid” Ungar commented that Flaton swooped down on piles of chips like a “skyhawk.”
2. World Series of Poker Wins Award – Rolling Good Times – Nov 08 11:21 AM – LAS VEGAS – (PRESS RELEASE) — Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: HET) said its World Series of Poker has won a Horizon Award from the Atlanta Sports Council.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* More Tara Reids Pictures (pic)
* Another one of Tara Smiling (closeup) (pic)
* Tara Reid Nipple Slip (closeup) (pic)

November 8th, 2004

Its a Poker Monday

What a weekend! We wrapped up the Party Poker Million. We saw Tara Reids Boobs at P. Diddys Party. Bodog Poker is very close to having the first ever Poker Girl. And, finally we have you coming back to the website you love so dearly!
Wait a second… Did I say Tara Reids Boobs??? Whoops! Someone got too drunk over the weekend and her dress fell off — revealing a horrible breast augmentation. Now, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with poker but, you gotta see this!

Back to Poker, Bodog Poker continually has $400 free roll’s on a daily basis that are easy money! Less than 200people in some of these. Check out this place – I’m telling you it’s the partypoker of the future. Sign-up for our contest and your chance to win a Free Deck of WPT cards.

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. Houstonians Find Ways To Legally Gamble On Poker – KPRC Click2Houston.com via Yahoo! News – Nov 07 4:29 AM – A popular television show about playing poker has made the card game all the rage. Houstonians who can’t seem to get enough have found ways to cash in on the new fad.
2. Weekend ‘Poker Run’ will help children – News-Tribune.net – 2 hours, 2 minutes ago – Hold it right there – before you throw the cover over your motorcycle for the winter, the Sellersburg Police Department wants you to take it out for one last rumble Saturday when it hosts the Sellersburg Shop With A Cop Poker Run.
Poker Quick Link’s: (Submit PokerLink)
* Tara Reids Boobs at P. Diddys Party (pic)
* Tara Reids gets too drunk (pic)
* Geeks Playing Poker (article)

November 6th, 2004

FREE Deck of WPT Cards, Click Here! (contest)
Weekend Update

The semi-qualifiers for PartyPoker Million (Win a all-expense paid poker cruise) is going on Nov 6th, today and Nov 7th tomorrow. Be sure to check this out, it is so easy to win a cruise if you know anything about No Limit Poker Tournaments. I went last year and it was absolutely the best possible thing I could have done for my poker career. I’ll be in the semi-qualifier tomorrow so be sure to drop by and say hello!
Have you joined our contest yet? It’s simple, just go to our poker forum and register. Then post (5) messages and you are automatically registered to win 1 of 30 great poker prizes. In the time it took you to read this message you could be winning~! Click here to register today.

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. Poker event to benefit juvenile diabetes group – Missoulian – Nov 05 11:00 PM – They’ll be betting on a cure for juvenile diabetes Sunday. The Missoula branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is sponsoring a Texas Hold’em poker tournament at the Bitterroot Motors showroom.
2. Retailers are betting on poker accessories – The Courier Journal – Nov 06 1:40 AM – Steepleton owner James Graven figures he has a sure bet for the holidays. Graven and other retailers are gambling that poker’s mainstream popularity will make chips and playing cards among the in-demand items on this year’s Christmas shopping list.
3. Poker Players Start Young (2 Letters) – New York Times – Nov 04 7:38 PM – While “Poker Faces, and They Haven’t Started Shaving” (Our Towns column, front page, Oct. 31) illuminates the new trend in televised poker and its seeming hold on young players, particularly adolescent boys, it does not mention the paucity of gambling research on diagnosis and treatment.
Poker Quick Link’s: (Submit PokerLink)

* Poker Comic (pic)
* Interesting Artistic Poker Picture (pic)
* Geeks Playing Poker (article)
* Secrets to Play Poker Like the Pros (article)
WPVI, PA – 19 hours ago
The name of the game is poker. Thanks to tournaments on TV and poker saloons online, and millions of Americans of all ages are playing again. …

November 4th, 2004

Weekend Update

First off, be sure to check out today’s quick links. Why? Because it features a BUNCH of hot photos of Evelyn Ng. If your not sure who Evelyn Ng is she is the young Asian poker playing hottie. You can thank the users who e-mailed us asking for more of poker hotties after seeing Joopy’s site yesterday!
So the Presidential Election is over now, and did you bet on it? What???? You didn’t know you could bet on the election? Of course, you can! Over @ BodogSportsbook.com you can bet on pretty much anything. Including USC this weekend, and be sure to do so as they will again conquer and be 9-0!

We’ve added a Link Exchange Program, so you can link your poker site to ours! This mutual benefit system can allow you to get in on our 2,000readers on a daily basis!

What’s going on in poker today….
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. ‘Spiderman’ is an ace at poker! – Yahoo! India News – Nov 03 7:37 AM – ‘Spiderman’ is an ace at poker! New York, Nov 3 (ANI): Forget Ben Affleck’s recently revealed poker skills, as ‘Spiderman’ actor Tobey Maguire has emerged as the latest poker ace in Hollywood, after he won the ‘Phil Hellmuth Invitational Poker’ tournament at the Hollywood Park and Casino last week.
2. Sky bets on Black Diamond’s poker challenge – C21 Media – Nov 03 4:04 AM – Sky Sports has picked up the latest branded content project from UK producer/distributor Black Diamond Films, the European Nations Poker Challenge, set to air in January 2005.

Poker Quick Link’s: (Submit PokerLink)
* The Lovely Miss Evelyn Ng Picture #1 (pic)
* The Lovely Miss Evelyn Ng Picture #2 (pic)
* The Lovely Miss Evelyn Ng Picture #3 (pic)
* The Lovely Miss Evelyn & Hottie Shana Hiatt Picture #4 (pic)
* Evelyn & Friends!! WOW! #5 (pic)
November 3rd, 2004

BUSH WINS!

Using advanced computers Tips4Poker determined that President Bush won…. On PartyPoker tonight that is, in a funny game I stumbled upon heads up between Sen JFK “President Bush” won the $50 pot and title.
Anyhow, it’s pretty clear at this point that President Bush will have 4 more years in the White House. Congratulations, John Kerry was a good man and I’m sure that either candidate would have done a great job and hopefully Bush will do fine. Speaking of Bush, check out our poker friend Joopy. She has a very provocative outlook on poker today.
Today’s Poker News:

1. Talking bear, poker set among year’s top toys – CTV.ca – Nov 02 2:15 PM – TORONTO — A car that runs on soy sauce, a furry bear that can be used to record a personal greeting and a slick poker-playing set that can turn a kitchen table into a mini-casino are among the year’s hottest toys, according to Today’s Parent magazine.
2. 2003 World Series of Poker DVD Launched – Rolling Good Times – Nov 02 12:10 PM – CINCINNATI, Ohio – (PRESS RELEASE) — Set in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 34th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw a record-breaking 839 players battle it out for poker immortality and big money at Binion’s Horseshoe casino in one of the highest stakes games in town — the No Limit Texas Hold’Em, the tournament’s “Main Event,” which had a $10,000 buy-in and $2.5 million first- place prize that
3. PartyPoker.com – The 1st Annual Mason & Ireland Celebrity Poker Party – Covers.com – Nov 02 7:48 AM – PartyPoker.com, the world’s largest online poker room, will partner with ESPN Radio 710 and the Bicycle Casino to present the 1st Annual ESPN Radio 710 Mason & Ireland Celebrity Poker Party on Sunday, November 14. Up to 700 participants are invited to compete in the No-Limit Hold ‘em tournament for a guaranteed $25,000 first prize.
4. PartyPoker Gives Out Huge JackPot Online – Texas Hold’em PartyPoker gave out over a $300,000 dollar jackpot this weekend to 10 lucky winners. Read more about it..
Poker Quick Link’s: (Submit PokerLink)
* Now Here is a Poker Face (pic)
* 1988 Strip Poker (pic)
* Play poker & bet on sports, elections, espn dream job @ Bodog.com
* Free Election Based Movies (farenheit 9/11 & stolen honor, more..)
* Gus Hansens Poker Champs

November 1st, 2004

November is a HUGE POKER MONTH!

This weekend I had the pleasure of playing with poker professional Gus Hansen at his new Poker Room known as Poker Champs. Gus is a great guy and had time to answer every question that the excited table had to ask him. This is an excellent room and I hope to have a full review up of it within the week. Only one complaint about it, that real-money is seemingly empty and there isn’t much tournament action going on. Anyhow, best of luck to Gus Hansen and his new site. Check out Poker-Champs!

It has an interesting rake-back program that is worth looking into. However, it seems to me that most rakeback programs don’t actually work out and curse the cardroom.
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. To the delight of the pros, poker craze moves online – The Indianapolis Star – 1 hour, 5 minutes ago – Those good enough give up their day jobs; wagering has jumped by leaps and bounds. Nate Silver quit his $55,000-a-year financial consulting job in April to play poker.
2. Making poker bets online can have a bigger payoff than a real job – St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Oct 31 8:12 PM – The influx of newbies provides opportunity for players who really know the game. Last spring, Nate Silver quit his $55,000-a-year job as a financial consultant to play poker.
3. Fraternity poker tournament draws full house – WHNT-TV Huntsville – Oct 31 2:17 PM – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. A University of Tennessee fraternity held its first-ever poker tournament yesterday and there was a “full house,” so to speak. Pi Kappa Phi sponsored the tourney despite warnings from a state official the event constitutes illegal gambling.

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October 30th, 2004

Happy Halloween!
Congratulations to everyone who placed a wager on USC this weekend, USC is once again my pick for next Saturday as well. Remember to use Bodog for Poker AND Sports booking needs. This way all the cash you win in poker you can bet on your favorite team!

Onward, to poker news…

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Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)
1. Poker Faces, and They Haven’t Started Shaving – New York Times – Oct 30 10:38 AM – Thanks largely to the mania for televised poker, an evening out for adolescent boys almost invariably takes the form of a marathon poker game.
2. UT fraternity poker fundraiser may be illegal – WATE-TV Knoxville – Oct 30 2:48 PM – KNOXVILLE (AP) — A fraternity at the University of Tennessee says it plans to hold its poker tournament for the chapter’s philanthropy despite indications from a state official the tournament constitutes illegal gambling.
3. Bars Lose First Round in Poker Tourney Lawsuit – KATC3 – Oct 30 9:32 AM – BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A state judge has ruled that two bar owners who went to court to save their weekly poker tournaments from state liquor regulators threatening a crackdown acted prematurely and will have to wait until citations are issued.
4. PartyPoker Gives Out Huge JackPot Online

Texas Hold’em PartyPoker gave out over a $300,000 dollar jackpot this weekend to 10 lucky winners. Read more about it..
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October 28th, 2004

Half Way Through The WEEK!
Congratulations, you’ve made it half way through the week. It’s about time you reward yourself by registering to win 1 of 30 great poker prizes. Be sure to make your weekend sports bets & poker play with Bodog. Great job to the World Series Champions the Boston Red Sox!
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. Hold’em or Fold’em – the 2003 World Series of Poker on DVD November 2nd – [Press Release] PR Newswire – Oct 27 12:21 PM – CINCINNATI, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — It’s the pinnacle of poker, where participants, including some of the greatest gamblers in the world, play hard for a chance at poker immortality and caches worth millions of dollars.
2. Dog track wags tail for poker – Florida Today – Oct 26 10:18 PM – VIERA — The new owners of the Melbourne Greyhound Park want to capitalize on the popularity of poker tournaments as a way to increase its coffers and reverse declining attendance at the decades-old track.
3. PartyPoker, ESPN, Bicycle Casino to Co-host Poker Tournament – Rolling Good Times – Oct 26 2:16 PM – LOS ANGELES – (PRESS RELEASE) — PartyPoker.com, the world’s largest online poker room, will partner with ESPN Radio 710 and the Bicycle Casino to present the 1st Annual ESPN Radio 710 Mason & Ireland Celebrity Poker Party on Sunday, November 14. Up to 700 participants are invited to compete in the No-Limit Hold ’em tournament for a guaranteed $25,000 first prize.

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October 26th, 2004

Exciting Week For Everyone
Got a few e-mails this week with some important poker news. First off, it seems Paradise Poker is getting sold to a Sportsbook. Which means, Bodog (the only Sportsbook/poker) will have some competition in the near future.
I received another e-mail from Bill W. out of Texas who asks, “What’s the big sports bet for this weekend?”. Well my poker playing fans, it’s not the world series. My sports prediction for this coming weekend is USC. The undefeated Trojans shall remain untouched! Now, its up to you to win your poker money and place your bets @ Bodog.
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)
1. Poker Tournaments Give Fundraisers Full Houses – Rolling Good Times – Oct 25 12:11 PM – MASSACHUSETTS – As reported by the Boston Herald: “Poker might well be the new bingo among the young fund-raising set. “Ever since it hit the airwaves on the Travel Channel’s `World Poker Tour’ in 2002, the riverboat-era game has attracted legions of followers, from teenagers to grandpas.
2. Paddy Power to Offer Online Poker – Rolling Good Times – Oct 25 12:37 PM – IRELAND – As reported by the (Ireland) Sunday Business Post: “Bookmaker Paddy Power is set to offer online poker as part of the company’s expansion of its internet activities which are becoming increasingly profitable for the Irish company.
3. Sportingbet makes £170m poker play – Belfast Telegraph – Oct 25 8:01 AM – Sportingbet, the online betting company, will line up a strong hand in the internet poker stakes this week if it completes a £170m deal to buy Paradise Poker.
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* Moment of Zen, Dogs Playing Poker (pic)

October 24th, 2004

CHEAP Poker Chips!
Every week my e-mail is full of people asking where can they get the cheapest (*but best quality poker chips). Well if you know me, I stay far away from retail sales and the lucrative poker chip sales business. However, I recently stumbled upon an excellent deal for all my wonderful readers…

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Enjoy! Also, I know I know — thanks for all the e-mail rubbing it in that the Red Sox won. However, its only game one people. And, boy o boy was it a close one. You still have time to get your bets in @ Bodog Sportsbook.
Today’s Poker News: (Submit Poker News)

1. Nonprofits ride poker’s hot streak – Lowell Sun – 1 hour, 51 minutes ago – The Chelmsford Friends of Music needed $10,000 for new instruments and uniforms, and new vice president Ray Velazquez suggested they hold a poker tournament.
2. ESPN Draws Pair for Poker Drama – Reuters via Yahoo! News – Oct 22 12:47 AM – Eddie Cibrian and Chris Bauer have been tapped as the first actors to join the ensemble cast of ESPN’s upcoming drama series “Tilt,” which centers on the fictitious World Poker Championships in Las Vegas.
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October 22nd, 2004

Red Sox Vs. Cardinals

Happy Friday and what an incredible Saturday we have to look forward to. What we have here is one of the most historic World Series ever, one can only hope it will be half as exciting as the league championships. So let us all take a break from our 3/6 game and watch our nations other past time, baseball.
Today’s Poker News:

1. ESPN Draws Pair for Poker Drama – Reuters via Yahoo! News – 53 minutes ago – Eddie Cibrian and Chris Bauer have been tapped as the first actors to join the ensemble cast of ESPN’s upcoming drama series “Tilt,” which centers on the fictitious World Poker Championships in Las Vegas.
2. Online Poker TV Show Debuts – [Press Release] PRWeb – 1 hour, 32 minutes ago – “Poker Updates” launched as the first streaming TV show that takes you inside the world of poker. [PRWEB Oct 22, 2004]
3. Texas Hold Em Poker Secrets Uncovered – [Press Release] PRWeb – 1 hour, 27 minutes ago – Secrets of winning the wildly popular Texas Hold Em Poker game revealed in startling new book. [PRWEB Oct 22, 2004]

October 21st, 2004

Red Sox Take THE ALCS!
Who would have thought that the Red Sox would come back from nearly being swept to doing the sweeping. Even if your a Yankee fan you’ve got to admit that was one hell of a comeback. What an amazing series.
Today’s Poker News:

1. World Poker Tour -WPT- Season Three: Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship – [Press Release] StockHouse U.S. – Oct 20 1:59 PM
In a show of respect for all-time poker great Doyle Brunson, hundreds of players made an appointment with the WORLD POKER TOUR(TM) and its new tournament honoring the man who memorialized the 10-2 poker hand. The inaugural event started Tuesday at Bellagio, Las Vegas.
2. Retailers bet on traditional toys, poker chips this Christmas – Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News – Oct 20 1:25 AM – HONG KONG, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Forget the toys with bells, whistles and flashing lights this Christmas. Traditional games and hobbies are set to make a comeback with yo-yo’s and poker chips expected to be in large supply on Santa’s sleigh thanks to the influence of television and lean economic …
3. Lewisburg Green Dragons slay opponents on the field, each other on the poker tables – The Daily Item – Oct 20 2:10 AM – The ring, emanating from the one player’s cell phone, is — to say the least — ill-timed. What began as an 11-player poker tournament is down to two.

October 17th, 2004

Celeb B-List Poker & Poker Suits

Celebrity Poker Showdown with Phil Gordon, should be interesting this week. Child star Macully Caulkin and Kevin Nealon will be guest starring. IT’s always a good time to watch and see how big of an ass these B-List celebrities can make of themselves playing some B-Class Poker 😉

Check out this PartyPoker Blog, interesting idea.
Today’s Poker News:
1. Poker’s New Suit – Forbes.com via Yahoo! News – Oct 18 12:33 PM – Maybe poker really is a sport. It’s televised. It’s awash in prize loot. And now there’s even an ownership feud brewing between its biggest promoters.
2. Bodog Press Release is pleased to release the remaining dates for the VH1 special “Reality Secrets Revealed 2,” which features segments from Bodog.com President Rob Gillespie.

October 16th, 2004

Tips For Poker Getting Better

You’ve talked, we’ve listened. We are losing the sections that go unused and adding more to the sections that you guys love. We have more FREE MONEY than ever. The BEST PartyPoker Bonus Codes, and the great poker community forum. Join today for your chance to win one of thirty great poker prizes.
Today’s Poker New’s:

1. Do Video Poker Full House and Flush Payoffs Really Matter? – RGT Online – Rolling Good Times – 14 minutes ago – Do Video Poker Full House and Flush Payoffs Really Matter? Are the gambling gurus right? The ones who are always blathering about the importance of finding the machines and table games with the smallest house advantage.
2. Poker supplies could put retailers in the chips – Star-Telegram – Oct 17 5:05 AM – TOLEDO, Ohio – With poker’s popularity growing because of televised tournaments, retailers are betting that playing cards and chips will be among the must-have items during the holiday shopping season.
3. ASCA to host poker tourney – Amarillo Globe News – Oct 17 5:06 AM – Amarillo Senior Citizens Association, Inc. will sponsor another ASCA Texas Hold ’em Poker Tournament at noon Nov. 6 at the center, at 1220 S. Polk St. Entry fee is $25 per person and includes a chicken-fried steak lunch. Tournament play begins at 1 p.m.
4. Poker’s New Suit – Forbes.com via Yahoo! News – Oct 14 3:36 PM – Maybe poker really is a sport. It’s televised. It’s awash in prize loot. And now there’s even an ownership feud brewing between its biggest promoters.

October 15th, 2004

Poker News & New Poker Rooms

Tips4Poker.com is getting a makeover! We are cutting the sections you don’t use and adding more of the sections you love. That means, MORE free money, MORE 3rd Party Programs and MORE of the latest poker news! Also, a new poker links section, add your link today.
Today’s Poker News:

1. Poker’s New Suit – Forbes.com via Yahoo! News – Oct 14 3:36 PM – Maybe poker really is a sport. It’s televised. It’s awash in prize loot. And now there’s even an ownership feud brewing between its biggest promoters.
2. Bars seek to prevent state from halting poker tourneys – The Daily Comet – Oct 15 3:56 PM – Two Baton Rouge bars went to court Friday to save their weekly poker tournaments from state liquor regulators, who plan to crack down on the games beginning Nov. 1.
3. TV captures popularity of poker – Quad City Times – Oct 15 10:16 PM – Have you gotten in the game yet? These days the game is poker. Tournament action on cable TV has captured the public s imagination.

October 12th, 2004

NEW CONTEST!

Sign-up at our Poker Forum and Post (5) Relevant and On-topic posts to qualify for 1 of 30 great prizes:
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(1) Copy of Texas Calculatem
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In other poker news, everyone loves and hates Phil Hellmuth. Read this article about how he flipped his lid and draws attention because of it.

Check out the PartyPoker Jackpot upto $180K! I almost hit it the other day, I’ll keep trying you do to.

Poker News & New Poker Rooms

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October 8th, 2004

CHEATING EXPOSED! : Self-Collusion

This new way to cheat has been EXPOSED in our Members Only Section. This is a VERY important article that you won’t want to miss out on. If you play online poker YOU NEED TO READ THIS. Click here to sign-up for the members only section today!

Don’t Believe me? Click here to watch a video that PROVES online cheating exists, then join here to read how it was done. If you don’t know how then your the victim!

NOTE: This is not regular collusion, this is boiler room collusion what you hear so much about. How you can have unlimited “prop” players in a room and you be the only “real” player getting played.

October 7th, 2004

This Week In Poker

Do yourself a favor and sign-up for the world’s greatest Poker Forum.

Check out this scandalous female poker players website. Quite possibly the most explicit way to express ones love for the game.
PartyPoker jackpot is still growing, someone hit it! And by someone I mean me its up to above $150,000 again.

Bodog offers $400 FreeRolls every day. With the best FreeRoll odds in the industry. Why not try out this awesome new room for a measly, $20 deposit, the lowest in the industry.

October 5th, 2004

The PartyPoker.com jackpot is up to above $100,000 again. So do yourself a favor and play in the 2/4 room and when you hit the jackpot send me half.

More information on Teens And Poker, its really getting out of control. Now I know why I’m so successful on partypoker!

Bodog’s awesome new poker room is going to be offering an exclusive Tips For Poker freeroll so stay tuned for that!

October 2nd, 2004

Weekend Updates

Teens and gambling, on the rise? You be the judge – check out this latest article about how our children are spending their lunch money. Discuss it here. Speaking of teen gambling, have you registered for the College Poker Championship yet? It’s free and you could win your shot at over $100,000 in scholarships.

The Members Only Section has been updated with some awesome information about Free Money, how to be a successful affiliate and online cheating. Later next week we will be posting the ULTIMATE article about how to cheat online by yourself. That’s correct, so get your membership today.

The boys @ Bodog told me to pass this along to you, this is their monthly newsletter which this month explains how sport betting works just in time for football season, be sure to check it out.

October 2nd, 2004

Good Morning October!
Our Contest has come to an end! Thank you to everyone who participated we had just over 80 qualified entries into it, making almost 1 in 5 people a winner. Check our forum to see if you won.

Texas Calculatem, the worlds BEST Hold’Em cards analyzer has been updated (4.0.56 released 9/28/04)to work with Full-Tilt Poker. Check out the latest version here! Read more about it in our 3rd Party Poker programs section.

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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September 30th, 2004

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Reload bonus @ PartyPoker, Use code “25BONUS” to get a 20% bonus up to $100 on your next deposit until, Oct. 3rd! If you are not yet a PartyPoker Member, now is the time to sign-up. When you sign-up use the code “TIPS4POKER” for an instant bonus, then use the “25BONUS” code shortly thereafter for a huge bonus.
Contest has 24HOURS until it is over, if you haven’t already sign-up for it! You have a 1 in 10 chance to win some GREAT poker stuff. Winners will be posted in the forum on Oct. 1st!

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September 27th, 2004

Are Poker Bots Taking Over?
Read this article over at MSNBC about how Pokerbots might be taking over Online Poker. Currently, it is believed they will never succeed in being actual money making machines. Why? Simply because they aren’t humans, they don’t learn and eventually will be outsmarted. The same reason why, chess champions continually beat out computers. With poker its obviously different and there are a large amount of variables one needs to take into consideration. Read about Poker Bots (such as Win Hold’Em) in our 3rd Party Programs Section.

September 24th, 2004

A Few Quick Notes!

* First of all, Bodog, Lowered their initial deposit requirement to $20, you can now bet on your favorite sports team or play poker and try out this HIGHLY reputable website for only $20, well worth it!
* Second – Hope to see you all at the CAC (Casino Affiliate Convention) In Las Vegas.
* If your not already registered for our contest there is only a couple days left before we draw names of winner. Enter today for a 1 in 10 chance to win some great poker stuff.
* Register for our Members Only Exclusive section today, because this coming week we will be posting an EXCLUSIVE article about how people can cheat online poker WITHOUT anyone else. That’s right, cheating does exist and we will expose it in this coming week!
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That’s all for now folks, cya on Monday.

September 23rd, 2004

Welcome Bodog

We would like to welcome Bodog.com to our family of Poker Websites we represent. Why Bodog? Well, I’ve been placing sports bets at Bodog for over seven years now, they’ve made me a lot of money. I just started playing poker there the other day, let me tell you. Their client is simply amazing! A good change from the typical PartyPoker atmosphere and some enjoyable and knowledgeable players on there. Playing low-limit was not as wild as say partypoker. People played with some true poker knowledge. Bodog.net has been the most respected online gambling courier for the past 10 years. Be sure to check them out, at least their daily $300 and $500 FreeRolls.

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September 21st, 2004

We’ve Given Away Over $13,000!

With a big boost in traffic from all sorts of free “deals” sites directing traffic to our Free Money (Comprehensive No Deposit Required Casino Listing), we’ve given out over $13,000. Don’t believe me? Check out this commission chart from Fortune Affiliates detailing my commission for the month. We are actually in NEGATIVE commission because we give out so much money! Obviously I don’t get charged, the balance is zeroed out at the end of the month. But, this goes to show you that online casinos ARE fair!
Chart detailing, over $14,019.30 has been won. $13,162.10 total has been cashed out.

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September 20th, 2004

Mid-Month Poker News

With Gus Hansen’s win over @ the Poker Superstars Invitational I’m predicting his poker room “Poker-Champs” will take-off, whenever it finally opens. Obviously its still got a long way to go in its beta phase but when it starts up I’d say it should be successful with the right marketing director. Anyhow, this month in poker we’re in the midst of the PartyPoker Million and although I’ve won two single table qualifiers I have failed to win either semi-final I entered. It is my single goal this month to win a trip to the PartyPoker Million! I’ll keep you guys posted on this mission. Until then check out Party Poker and get your chance to take a free cruise on the Pacific Coast and play some crazy poker.

Read this interesting article about Hold’em & WSOP over @ SI.

September 16th, 2004

Free Mobile Phone Hold’Em Client

I just caught wind of this awesome free mobile phone poker client. It’s available from here, (PokerRoom.com) who offers this service free of charge to registered members. Which is a steal because you only have to make a $10 deposit, the lowest in the industry. $10 for this awesome mobile phone poker client is a steal. To get to the client click “poker” in the top left hand corner then a new menu will load with Mobile Poker Trainer, click that then fill in your membership information and your set.

Full review available at our 3rd Party Poker Programs section.

September 9th, 2004

Empire Poker has $5,000 Freeroll!

I just caught wind of a pretty cool promotion going on over at Empire Poker, for new people who buy-in with $100 or more they get automatic entry into a $5,000 FreeRoll. Now, from what I have heard there are only about 20-30 people in this FreeRoll so you have a pretty good chance of winning plus you get to play with a poker champion! Check it out, worth the odds. Use the bonus code link when you register for an additional bonus.

September 6th, 2004

Tips 4 Poker Contest!

We finally gave in to all your e-mails, and took your advice for the better of our site. We added a Forum , not just any forum but the Tips 4 Poker Message Board. And, because we want to start this forum off right we’re giving away stuff to get you to join-up and start posting today. That’s right we’re giving away (5) copies of Texas Calculatem, the #1 Rated Odd’s Calculator, (1) $100 Bankroll for Partypoker, (2) Poker Hats, (1) 500Chip Set of 11.5gram chips.

All you have to do to be eligible for this contest is register at our forum, post (5) relevant and on-topic posts and we will automatically enter you to win this stuff. Contest ends when (200) Members have registered and made their posts or Wednesday, October 1st. Whichever comes first.

START POSTING RIGHT NOW!!

Fulltilt.net Presents a 100% Bonus?

In an attempt to hi-jack the online poker industry single handedly the Poker Professional backed and self-proclaimed “SUPERSITE”, FullTilt Poker is offering a one-time 100% Bonus up to $600.

The catch is simple, you must play raked hands to receive your bonus. For every 100 hands you get a $18 return. Depending on how much you deposited, up to $600.

Interesting marketing ploy to create a stir in the industry. Now all they need is an affiliate program and they might makeup for all the losses incurred for their initial start-up blunder.

This offer is valid for the FIRST deposit made to your account after 12:00 PM, Friday, September 3rd. You have until September 30th to make a deposit and still receive a 100% matching bonus.

September 2nd, 2004

Another Big Winner

Suprise, Suprise! We have another big winner from our free money section. This week one of our visitors won a record $485 from his free $28 Comp. Check it out here:

If you’d like to join in for the free money no deposit required action click here, its completely free in every aspect you look at it! IF you’d like even more free money no deposit required listings we’ve got hundreds in our members only section.

September 1st, 2004

Hello, September!

Check out Poker Professional Gus Hansen’s newest work Poker-Champs in official beta testing offering $10 FreeRolls every (2) hours. The software is very interesting offering support for up to (4) rooms in a easy to use format. My favorite thing about this software is after someone is eliminated from the tournament they cannot speak. Therefore you don’t have to hear their crying.

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The offer was nice while it lasted, but unfortunately all good things must come to an end! The promotion has been revoked and will soon hopefully be replaced with another freebie. Check back everyday and we will keep you posted if any more free poker gear comes about. Thanks!

Check out our Forums here!

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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August 31st, 2004

The Last Day Of August

Party Poker bad beat jackpot was hit. The loser of the pot won over 80,000! Not too shabby, just for sitting at the table each person won over $5,000. That’s a milestone for internet poker.

$300+ for free to a single person

I’d like to say GREAT JOB! To whomever won $300, below is a screenshot showing the $28dollar comp given to this user (FROM OUR FREE MONEY SECTION), and the $337 he/she cashed out with. If you won this money e-mail us and let us know, we’ll thank you with a free members only account, if you don’t already have one. If you do we’ll send you another prize.

If your not a member already, sign-up. In the next month I will be posting a absolutely HUGE article that you cannot miss, it will change the face of poker forever.

Click Here to Sign-Up For Our Members Exclusive Section Today.

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August 29th, 2004

Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Party Poker has a $166,000 Bad Beat jackpot going on right now. THIS IS INSANE!!!! To qualify you must get 8 of a kind or better and be beat. This “Bad beat jackpot” is a lot higher restriction than most poker rooms but for $166k its well worth it to try your shot at it.

Click here to checkout PartyPoker’s $166,000 Bad Beat Jackpot.

Speaking of insanity, Pacific Poker changed up their software added a few new features of their own. The client is looking good and their servers have always been the most dependable.

Finally, poker professional Gus Hansen’s PokerChamps is conducting their beta-test and offering $10 free-roll’s every 2hours. I’ve won about 5 so far, hoping this stupid beta test ends soon so I can collect my cash.

Thanks to everyone who has made the members section a HUGE success, if your not a member already — your missing out!

August 27th, 2004

Thank You

We’ve had a tremendously positive response to our exclusive members section open. If you haven’t already sign-up right away.

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August 26th, 2004

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(CPC) College Poker Championships 2005 qualifiers are going on right now. Click here for your chance at $100,000 in scholarships. — Just found out they will be having a physical tournament as well in Tahoe! This is a great opportunity for all you up and coming Poker Pro’s.

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August 23rd, 2004

Welcome Back

What a weekend, I can’t believe its Monday already. I can already tell its going to be a great week for Poker. If I had to choose a favorite poker room today, it would be Pacific Poker. Why? Well I was playing in a $200 + 1 SNG this weekend, and although I didn’t win it was the best online tournament I had ever been in. I had never laughed so much and found so many people I had things in common with. If you don’t have an account there already — check it out, its also the best because it only requires a $20 deposit. I mean if you have never played online for real before, what’s $20 to try-it? Honestly, you’ll thank me.

August 20th, 2004

Pocket Kings

How many times do you get these and an ace flops and someone bets it. I can’t stress how important it is to play pocket kings safely but strongly. Bet too strong and you’ll scare everyone out, conversely if you bet them recklessly you will almost certainly lose.

Tips4Poker Members Section

Featuring very valuable information for your poker game will be available sometime very soon. Keep visiting T4P for your chance at a free membership and some other great gear.

August 17th, 2004

Big Day For Me

Second of all. I won over $300 in a two hour stretch at empire poker playing 3/6! Honestly, its like taking candy from a baby. I couldn’t believe how many people I was playing with had no clue how to play. Overplaying the good hands and underplaying their mediocre hands. Empire poker is definitely your spot for fish!

August 16th, 2004

This Month In Poker.

A few big things happened in poker this month. A new version of Calculatem and Poker Office, found in our 3rd Party Program section. Fulltilt gave away a few thousand free t-shirts and hats to thirst poker players. Pacific Poker gave out a lot more cash than they expected. And Tips For Poker proved that Online cheating did exist at one time. All this fun stuff and the month isn’t even half over. Check back tomorrow for a special update.

Guess what? Our members only section is coming soon, you won’t want to miss out when we launch it at the end of this month by giving away memberships!

August 13th, 2004

Bonus Exploit @ Pacific Poker?

It would seem that currently at card room Pacific Poker, in addition to getting your current 25% Bonus on your initial deposit (min $20.) you also get a continual 25% Bonus on all of your deposits? Don’t believe me, try depositing two $20 increments yourself. Is this pacific pokers way of continually rewarding players, or a bonus exploit?

As commented on in Rec Poker

“As soon as I deposited the $50, a box popped up saying my account was credited with $10. This amount showed up in my cashier total, and my bonus points total had 0 dollars pending. So I requested the entire $70 for withdrawal into NETeller and was approved. About two minutes later, another box popped up saying my account had been credited for $25. I put in another withdrawal request and it was approved.”

Some people have reported it hasn’t worked for them. I’m guessing probably current customers. So if you’ve never played at Pacific Poker try it out. It’s a small investment, for what could be a big return.

August 13th, 2004

VIP Player Status, which card room treats you the best?

In my vast experiences of online card room’s I’ve had my share of being pampered by VIP hosts. I’m not talking 20% bonuses. If a card room wants me to play, then they’re all over me just like Vegas does it. Calling the cell phone just to let me know about a huge tournament coming up, free chips, nice leather jackets overnighted to my house. Though it happens rarely, nothing makes me more happy to lose money than when I get a call the next day letting me know they credited my account with almost half the nights losses.

For all you big time players out there I must recommend you to PacificPoker.com, a card room that truly takes note to your card playing and feels comfortable pampering you. Check it out today!

August 10th, 2004

Free T-Shirt And Hat! And it’s for a good cause.

Well if there’s one thing that every poker player wants these days its promotional gear from their favorite poker site. This t-shirt and hat are available completely free of charge (no shipping) and come in sizes (S,M,L,XL) The shirt is to promote adding Poker to the Olympics:

To get the shirt you need to get 1000 Poker chips.. This is very easy, sign-up for their site (www.pokerinathens.org) then Sign the Petition to make Poker an Olympic Sport (+100Chips). Send it to your friends (+100Chips). Answer Trivia Questions (+700CHIPS Answers found below.) And send one article to 3 friends for the final (+100CHIPS). After you get over 1000 Chips, even 1025 a coupon will pop-up letting you know you won. Then they will e-mail you a link for the free t-shirt and hat (sizes are S,M,L,XL)! Questions & Answers for Quiz are:
Andy Bloch holds many distinctions, including: ‘All of the above’
Chris Ferguson’s nickname is: ‘Jesus’
Phil Ivey’s favorite basketball team is: ‘Los Angeles Lakers’
Seven card stud has ‘5’ rounds of betting.
In his youth, John Juanda went door-to-door selling: ‘Bibles’
Phil Gordon raised over $100,000 for what cause? ‘Cancer’
In Hold ‘Em the fourth card dealt up is: ‘The Turn’
Howard Lederer’s famous poker playing sister is: ‘Annie Duke’
At age 15, Clonie Gowen was crowned: ‘Miss Teen Oklahoma’
In Hold ‘Em, how many blinds are there? ‘Two’
In Ohama, how many hole cards are there? ‘Four’
How many hole cards can you use in Omaha? ‘Two’
What’s the highest hand in poker? ‘Royal Flush’
How many WSOP bracelets does the Full Tilt Poker team own? ’21’
Chris Ferguson lectures about ‘Game Theory’
Phil Gordon hosts ‘Celebrity Poker Showdown’
Clonie Gowen’s real first name is ‘Cycalona’
What game did Erik Seidel play for eight years? ‘Backgammon’
John Juanda was raised in ‘Indonesia’
‘Chess’ took Howard Lederer originally to New York.
Chris Ferguson has a PhD in ‘Computer Science’
From ten feer away, Christ Ferguson can cut a carrot in half with a ‘Playing Card’
Howard Lederer grew up in ‘New Hampshire’
Phil Ivey won his first WSOP title at age ’23’
Erik Seidel has won ‘6’ WSOP titles.
John Juanda went to college at this school: ‘Oklahoma State University’
Andy Bloch is an expert at ‘Game Theory’
Phil Gordon was Netsys employee number ‘1’
Erick Lindgren went to college at ‘Butte Junior College’
The first two cards dealt in Hold ‘Em: ‘Hole Cards’
Erick Lindgren’s favorite movie is ‘Lock, Stock, Two Smoking’
In Hold ‘Em, after your hole cards are dealt, ‘The Flop’ follows.
In Hold ‘Em, the last card dealt is ‘The River’
In Omaha Hi/Lo, an 8 is known as ‘Qualifier’
Omaha has ‘4’ rounds of betting.
You are dealt ‘7’ cards in seven-card stud. *You should be at 1000 now*
Erik Seidel appeared in what movie? ‘Rounders’

August 9th, 2004

Read this article on cheating poker in the past, and why its much harder to cheat poker today.
Cheat Software

Picture of GUI for the Cheat program

Picture of the Cheat Program GUI.

Excerpt: The program then generated shuffled decks of cards until it found a deck that contained these five cards in the proper positions. Since the Randomize() function is based on the server’s system time, it was not very difficult to guess a starting seed with a fair degree of accuracy. After finding a correct seed once, it is then possible to synchronize the exploit program with the server to within a few seconds. This synchronization enables the exploit program to accurately guess the seed being used by the random number generator, and to identify the deck of cards being used during all future games in under one second!

August 8th, 2004

Playing Dirty

One of my favorite things to do is play dirty. Why? Because it makes for an action packed game. Here are some of my favorite ways to play dirty:

* In tournament play state “I’ve got to go, someone take my chips” when you have an incredible hand. Then go all in. Usually at least one idiot calls.
* If you have pocket aces, announce it. It will throw people off and most will doubt you have it.

Try these methods of playing dirty in a freeroll first. If they workout add them as tricks up your sleeve for your game play.

August 7th, 2004

3rd Party Programs and much more.

The author of Universal Poker Odds Calculator contacted me to let me know there is a new version of it available. Now has less advertisements and a new low price. Also includes Auto-Read feature for Party Poker. Read about it in our 3rd Party Programs section.

August 6th, 2004

Taking Players Notes

One of the best things about online poker is that you can take notes on opponents! Click here to read our special about note taking and why it’s so important.

In addition we teamed up with EMPIRE Poker to offer you a special bonus unique to our site only. For a limited time use this link “LINK” and get 20% up to $100 on your first deposit. Empire is a good change from party and has a lot more fish! Check it out today.

August 3rd, 2004

Check out the new version of Texas Calculatem reviewed in our 3rd Party poker Programs Section. I recently spoke with the author who assures me this program is perfectly legal to use in any poker room. It now supports almost EVERY poker room available today. Click here to find out why this program is a MUST-HAVE for any online poker player!!!

August 2nd, 2004

Tips4Poker Welcomes :: EMPIRE POKER

Tips For Poker would like to Welcome Empire Poker by offering you a one of a kind deal! Use this Bonus Code link “Link” when signing up at Empire and receive 20% up to $100 on your first deposit. This bonus code should be used while installing the program available here!

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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July 28th, 2004

More 3rd Party Programs

Got a new e-mail to checkout this program called Universal-Poker Hold’Em Analyzer. Its a really cool program and completely free of charge. In some ways better than Calculatem. Mainly because it works on partypoker and is free! Read the full review here.

In addition the author of POKERbot sent me the latest demo version and let me tell you… This is SMOKIN! Just wait till you see this program. Online Poker will never be the same.

July 26th, 2004

Cashing Out

So this weekend I decided to get a little crazy. Try a poker room that is different from my normal PartyPoker or local Indian casino. I went with Pokerstars and boy am I glad I did. There are more fish on here than there are in the sea! Within hours I turned $60 into over $500, and Pokerstars doesn’t even have an affiliate program. So I cashed out $350 and using the rest to build even more cash. I choose “get a check” and they say it will take 15days, I’ll keep you posted!

Coming THIS WEEKEND: HACKING POKER CLIENTS! A full article about hacking the poker client of several popular poker places.

July 23rd, 2004

Give Me Money

Here’s an idea — Sign-Up for PartyPoker and deposit $50 — I’ll give you $50 BACK! It’s a win-win situation. Click here for details.

Summary: Sign-up for PartyPoker through us. Deposit $50. Get $50 back. Its the best bonus offered.

In conclusion, if you don’t have $50 get a damn job. Then deposit it (or invest it, as we like to call it) at PartyPoker and earn an extra $50.

PS) In other news, ZeroRake.com is believed to be a “Fraud” so don’t go depositing any money into them. But continue playing their FreeRolls and withdrawing money from them!

Use the bonus code “RICKJAMES” @ partypoker for an automatic $25 on your first deposit. Plus it’s the coolest bonus code in the biz. I’m RICKJAMES BITCH!

July 21st, 2004

With so many new online poker rooms opening everyday now is the time to take advantage of their amazing promotional offers! I listed over 10 of the BEST FreeRolls, none of those bullshit you need points ones. Click here to read when these great freeroll’s happen. There are no affiliate links in our FreeRoll section so we have nothing to gain by advertising these great poker rooms!

In addition to free roll’s we offer a listing of where you can get free money using no-deposit required casinos and some other great offers. Click here to check that out.

Finally, I was playing over at FULLTILT Poker Room today and Erik Seidel was sitting at our table. We chatted a little bit and he fielded some questions. The funny question I asked him was, “Have you heard the Erik Seidel Song?” Apparently a no name band made a song about Erik Seidel but allegedly not thee Erik Seidel but rather one of their friends. He acknowledged he had heard it and admitted it was a funny coincidence. Overall his performance in a 3/6 game was ultra conservative and was similar to most good low-limit players.

Have a funny story about an encounter with a poker celebrity? E-mail us!

July 18th, 2004

Pump or Dump?

Do you find yourself having trouble with no-limit? Here’s some very simple advice:

Pump it or dump it. Unless you have “the nuts” and want to suck players in, you should rarely just call another player’s bet. When another player bets, you should either raise (pump it) or fold (dump it).

Today in the Paradise Poker Freeroll Final for a seat at the WPT I finished at the final table. Not bad considering 4,000 to qualify to get to the main tournament and another 3990 to get to the final table, I did alright. Going out with pocket 5’s vs. pocket 8’s and a runner runner flush came to make my five high flush and his eight high. I’ll see you at the PokerStars.net & Zerorake Freeroll a 6PM PST!

July 17th, 2004

Online Cheating

As online poker players we always need to be on our watch for cheating and cheaters. Cheaters meaning multiple, a team of cheats set to take your bankroll. They utilize instant messaging systems, cell phones and all sorts of communication devices. Watch out for them! Today we added a new article about how they work in their teams. Use this information wisely to quickly learn who is cheating.

Every so often a discussion arises or some evidence surfaces of online cheating. Usually there’s a large debate followed by a calming. This picture was submitted by a user earlier today. Do you think it’s real?

The user who chooses to remain anonymous claims its features include being able to see ‘all’ board cards. It also includes ,a basic feature to launch your instant messaging program. They didn’t say anything about the “stealth mode”. They also made it very clear that neither they nor their friend authored the program but came across it in a chat room. They also insist that it was only used in a play money room. The part that is funny to me is that it says V2, with these limited options I wonder what V1 was — a program to load your AIM? If you have any more information on this program e-mail us or partypoker.

Partypoker didn’t comment on the existence of the program but I know they recently upgraded their software to detect when certain “pokerbot” programs were running in the background. In addition Partypoker like most poker rooms uses SSL encryption which would make this a far fetched idea.

I disagree that using 3rd party programs like Texas Calculatem is cheating however, because at a physical casino you can carry an odds/hands card. Its basically the same thing, just easier and faster to use.

Finally, in this day of spyware,adware, and viruses — it’s important to remember NOT TO DOWNLOAD any programs promising online cheating in the first place.

July 16th, 2004

New Poker Room :: ZeroRake

Zerorake — In a slew of seemingly unlimited growth in the world of Internet Poker outcomes a new site. This one with an interesting twist, no rake! How can they do it? By paying a nominal monthly fee you are exempt from paying a rake. This saves you a lot of money depending on how much you play. My first thoughts were admittedly skeptical but, being one of the first people to register for this site I got a free glimpse into the inner workings of the site.

Registering for a $50 FreeRoll I found myself immersed in the interesting world of rake free play. Now this is a concept that could catch on! My biggest problem with this site is that it lists no gaming license or certification. However, their support was quick to answer questions and solve problems. Interesting that I found their lack of license to be no problem as I accepted their free money in the FreeRoll. Heck, what really is a license from the island of Motamba good for anyhow?

The Freeroll Tournament: (everyday at 9PM EDT for promotional purposes)

Pre Tournament:

I registered around 6PM, the tournament set to begin in 20minutes. I waited patiently as 6people registered in seconds and then 1 unregistered and then another. As time goes on people continue to unregister and register at other rooms for the minimum of 3 players so everyone wins a cash prize. This is great; we are all going to win! 28 Total players are now registered and online with Zerorake. At this time (2) total people are playing in real money games — props, perhaps. But when I’m guaranteed at least $10 I can’t complain, I’ll play around with props using $10 of their own dollars.

Real Tournament:

The tournament start’s with a friendly hello from my (3) other players and onto business. Using a nice new poker client, our first hands were dealt. My pocket 6’s lose the first hand. 6Uldv8 a player at my table stated, “I’ve been playing here since the first day, and haven’t had any problems.” and added, “I’ve saved a bunch on the rake”. Well the game went on and my hands weren’t coming. I was distracted by my Omaha game on Pokerstars and usually I wouldn’t be playing Omaha but it was the Friday online game with some pals from work and I was kicking some ass! Back to Hold’em, I made the stupidest move of my poker career — chasing an ace high flush and am seriously low on chips. I make my final move going all in with a pair of aces and sixes; the other player turns his nine for aces and nines. I’m officially the first player out at ZeroRake poker table #1004. Winning $10 for my valiant effort and to the cash tables I went, in a hurry to use my new winnings to win others newly found free cash.

More on ZERORAKE coming soon!
July 15th, 2004

FreeRoll Junkie

I admit it — I’m a junkie. A FreeRoll junkie that is! I can’t keep away from these exciting tournaments. For me, its the challenge of beating 4,000 people only for a chance to beat another 600 people to get a free trip to the Belliago. Although I’ve only been the champion of one FreeRoll tournament for a trip on Gaming Club Poker I still continue to play these FreeRolls.

Here’s my FreeRoll schedule: I get home from work around 4PM (Making sure to early register for Paradise Poker’s WPT Legend’s Freeroll which starts at 4PM PST) Then I head straight to Pokerstars.net for their 6PM Stud & Hold’em Free roll’s. Followed by an 8PM WPT Legend on Paradise Poker again, and a $200 FreeRoll on Spin Palace Poker.

So I’m addicted to FreeRoll, so what? Usually after I’m done with the free roll’s I go on partypoker and play a $100 sit & go tournament. And the refreshing part, I usually win it. Why? My guess, I spent the last 5hours playing in tournaments for free, now I’m ready for a real game. I’m 5/5 this week on the $100 Sit’n’go and I’ll see you there tonight nickname ‘egthareal’. Thanks and keep flopping aces!

To learn more about freeroll’s click here.

A FreeRoll tournament is a tournament that requires no entry fee or rake but offers a chance to win great prizes or cash.

July 14th, 2004

College Poker Championships

How awesome is that?

– 1,370 cash scholarships valued at over $100,000
– Top 10 students win an all expenses paid trip to the land-based final
to be held during Spring Break in an international exotic location
– $40,000 first place cash award
– $10,000 in charitable donations
– Weekly qualifying tournaments starting on August 29th.

Early bird $500 FreeRoll:
Register for College Poker Championship 2005 before the close of Wednesday,
July 14th, and qualify for our $500 Freeroll to be held on Sunday, July 18th
at 4pm EST.

Registration for 2005 is now open! Register at:
College Poker Championship

July 13th, 2004

Are You AWARE People could be using illegal 3rd Party Programs in your poker room right now?

Don’t get mad, get even. Read about 3rd Party Programs. If your not using a program like Texas Calculatem or Hold’Em Inspector V2 I highly suggest you look into what other people are using to increase their game against you in online poker!

In response to a few e-mail’s I have received — THERE IS NO PARTYPOKER program so you can see the “board” cards before everyone else does.

July 11th, 2004

Tips4Poker has teamed up with PARTYPOKER to offer you an UNHEARD of Bonus! NO OTHER WEBSITE CAN OFFER YOU THIS!!! We will give you an additional $25 ULTIMATE BONUS in ADDITION to any bonus you choose to sign-up for! This would make for upto a total $50 Bonus on a $50 Deposit. Click here to sign-up today and claim your ULTIMATE PARTYPOKER BONUS!

Terms and conditions apply.

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July 10th, 2004

One of the untapped resources of this site, I have to admit is the FREE MONEY page. So many people don’t realize that well they are spending money at these casinos — other casinos want to give them money for FREE! No obligations and we have a section dedicated to free “No Deposit” required casinos that will give you up to $26/per casino sign-up bonus (NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED) how awesome is that?

Too good to be true? Try it out — if you lose at one casino, try another, there are over 20 casinos, your almost guaranteed to win at one of them!

July 9th, 2004

So today on PartyPoker.com I was playing in a $50+$5 tournament when this guy went all in with pocket jacks vs. my pocket aces (boy was I happy). So ended up winning the tournament for $500, pretty darn good tournament day.

July 8th, 2004

I just spoke with the creator of POKERBOT Beta, A New program that is supposed to be the ULTIMATE program. Much better than Texas Calculatem. He said it should be ready for public use in less than a month! I will keep you updated, until then check out 3rd Party Poker Software.

July 7th, 2004

Welcome to Tips 4 Poker ! Home to some of the most valuable news in Online Poker today. What makes us different from the competition is that we offer the most up to date and relevant information for every online poker player today!

Not only do we feature articles regarding online poker, but these valuable topics as well…

* Tips & Tricks
* Poker Chat Forums
* 3rd Party Programs
* Online Cheating
* Free Money to Fund your account
* And Much Much MORE!

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may05

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

May 24th, 2005
A Little Bit Of HEAT!

Online Poker & Gambling sites are beginning to feel the wrath of federal regulations prohibiting the direct advertisement of their establishments. Esquire magazine was recently sent a letter from the Justice Dept. regarding the 8-page feature from Bodog poker room.

Hopefully, this blows over because Esquire is an excellent magazine with a great little poker feature this month!

Anyhow, the problem is that if the feds are going after advertising. It might be an indication that they are starting to catch wind of the legalities of online gaming.

Meanwhile – let’s play some cards shall we? Check out this great poker tip about how to play heads up! Read some poker news about new poker video games, poker cable TV channel, and a judges ruling on poker games!

Bad News is our FORUMS are STILL temporarily out of service. We will let you know just as soon as they are back in action!
Today’s Poker News:
* World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer E3 2005 Impressions [Xbox PlayStation 2] – GameSpot – 2 hours, 6 minutes ago – We see if Crave’s poker sequel has the nuts, straight from the E3 2005 show floor.
* AskMen.com’s Poker Channel – AskMen – May 23 8:14 PM – Identifying and avoiding online poker cheats. If there is a game to be contested, you can bet there is someone out there who is trying to circumvent the system. It is no different in online poker.
* Judge lays cards on table, forbids poker – The Herald-Sun – May 23 9:39 PM – The expert witnesses came from Las Vegas, the Bahamas and Florida to testify that poker is chiefly a game of skill.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Brandi Williams (pic)
* Daniel Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Guidelines on playing against one opponent when a pair flops.
Tip # 24 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) Anytime that a pair hits the board, it reduces the possibility that the flop has hit your opponent’s hand. The reason for this is simple. Having two cards of the same rank on the board takes away one of his opportunities to make a pair. Because the flop is less likely than normal to have been of aid, this is a good opportunity to play aggressively and seize control of the pot.

You Are First to Act

When you are first to act, you should bet if you have any pair (whether in your hand or from the board), as well as a big ace such as A-Q. Typically, these hands are the best hand at this point, but they are vulnerable, so don’t give your opponent a free chance to catch up. It is important not to be afraid that the pair on the board hit your opponent’s hand. Although you will occasionally run into trips (particularly when the pair is a high card such as A-A, which contains cards your opponent is more likely to play), you should not allow fear to sway you into checking.

In fact, if you sense that your opponent is likely to be in the pot with a weak hand — that is, something other than a pocket pair or big ace — it is correct to bet the flop when a pair hits regardless of your hand. The reason for this is that the flop is unlikely to have helped your opponent. In all likelihood, he will fold to a bet, fearing the possibility that you are the one holding three of a kind.

Opponent Is First

When your opponent is first to act and bets into you, call with any pair or big ace. There is just too good a chance that your opponent is trying to pick up this pot with a bet, and you do have a hand that can win without further improvement. If you fold a hand such as 8-8 when the board comes K-K-4 and your opponent bets into you, you are playing far too weakly. There is a very good chance your 8-8 is the best hand here. You won’t win every time, but if you always fold in this situation, you are throwing a lot of winners into the muck.

If you hold an overpair to the board and your opponent bets, you should generally raise your hand for value. When you bet or raise “for value,” this means you want your opponent to put more money into the pot because you probably hold the best hand. Your hand isn’t a lock, but is most likely good.

You Flop Trips

Now, what should you do on those rare occasions when you are fortunate enough to flop trips? First of all, it’s important not to get overly excited. Spilling your drink all over the table after the flop comes down is not a good way of encouraging your opponent to play along with you.

In general, you should tend to play your trips aggressively right from the flop onward. Most players expect their opponents to slow-play when they flop a big hand, so your bet may be interpreted as a sign of weakness rather than a showing of strength. This might lead to your getting unmerited action on the hand, particularly if you are up against a very aggressive player. By playing your trips fast (that is, aggressively, not slow-playing), you are taking advantage of your opponent’s aggressive tendencies by turning them against him.

Conversely, you might need to check your trips on the flop against very tight opponents to suck any more bets from them. They are unlikely to call a bet on the flop, so you might check one time hoping the turn either makes them a pair, or induces a bluff. However, it is dangerous to give free cards when the turn can bring your opponent a miracle. So, it is best to check when fewer draws are present on the flop. For example, checking a hand like A-8 when the flop is 8-8-2 rainbow is fairly safe. It’s probably not a good idea to check A-8 when the flop is 8-8-9 with a flush draw, however, as too many potential hands can either outdraw you on the turn, or at least develop quality draws.

May 23rd, 2005

Mondays SUCK

It’s true, Mondays Suck! We won’t lie to you we here at Tips4Poker feel your pain. Which is why we will do our best to make your Monday a lot better.

Just imagine monkeys! Yes, monkeys… Now, imagine monkeys playing poker. Still following us? Well, if your not here are a ridiculous amount of images showing monkeys playing poker. Thus proving our point that Poker and Monkeys go hand in hand.

Good news is we’ve got some great tips for you on how to play a rainbow flop.

Bad News is our FORUMS are temporarily out of service. We will let you know ASAP when they are back in action. Shouldn’t be more than a day. Our apologies.

Check out the new t-shirt design for Tips4Poker.com then solve some poker trivia in the forum to win one!

Today’s Poker News:
* Poker will bankroll a semester of college – Houston Chronicle – 2 hours, 30 minutes ago – Soon thousands of poker players around the world will be competing in a massive virtual Texas Hold ‘Em tournament with a controversial jackpot: a college scholarship.
* Riders’ Poker Run scheduled for today – The Reporter – May 22 8:36 AM – North County Riders M/C invites all motorcyclists to participate today in its ninth annual Poker Run. Sign-ups will be at the Vacaville Harley-Davidson dealership from 9 to 11 a.m. Cost is $20 per person.
* Daniel Negreanu Introduces the Wynn Poker Room – pPlayer.com – May 22 8:40 AM – Filed under: Casinos & Card Rooms , Professionals Last night Daniel had a cocktail party at Wynn Las Vegas to introduce the new poker room. I got there late but went to the poker room to see if there would be some overflow. Sure enough, he was there, in a sharp black suit, smiling, patient, and friendly as every time I’ve seen him. This time I introduced myself formally, as it was hurried at
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Monkey #1 (pic)
* Poker Monkey #2 (pic)
* Eerily Similair Poker Monkey #3 (pic)
* May Not Be a Poker Monkey – But Damn Close (pic)
* When Searching For Poker Monkey Pics, this came up (pic)
* Monkey Poker Chip (pic)
* Daniel Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Guidelines on playing a flop of K-Q-3 rainbow.

Tip # 22 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) This advice applies to any situation in which the flop contains two face cards and one small card, without a flush draw.

Unlike the previous example, this flop is likely to have hit your opponent in some way, either by pairing him or by giving him a straight draw. As a result, you don’t need to feel the same obligation to bet when it’s checked to you as in the A-9-3 scenario. It is still okay to bet with a very marginal hand (A-T, for example), but you should have some outs to fall back on.

Against one opponent, it is correct to bet with a pair of queens or better, as well as T-J (open-end straight draw). If he is first to act and bets, call with Q-T or better. Also, raise with K-J or better. This is not a good board in which to slow-play a big hand such as Q-Q, since there are several straight draws present. You don’t want to give an opponent the correct price (free) to draw with his J-9 or A-T, so make sure to bet your set here.

If there are several players in the pot, you need to increase both your betting and calling standards. Now, it is likely that someone is holding at least a king, so hands like Q-T have very little value when faced with calling a bet. Tend to fold this hand against several players. You should still be raising with K-J or better, however, partly due to the hand’s value, and partly to give it some protection.

May 21st, 2005

This Sh*t is Bananas

Play Poker, I must! If you’ve seen the new Star Wars you know what we’re talking about. What a great movie. Anyhow, back to poker…

Poker – its a great mysterious thing. It can help cure diseases, be a motive for murder and bring celebrities together. All this and more in today’s poker news.

Daniel Negreanu updated his Blog today with some interesting information on “What a Crazy Week” he had.

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Today’s Poker News:

* Poker player breaks character before jury begins deliberations in murder trial – Court TV Online – May 20 11:08 AM – For a man who made his living as a professional poker player, Greg Chao broke a cardinal rule of gambling Thursday: Don’t lose your cool.
* Poker run funds disease research – WALB News 10 – May 20 11:56 AM – Valdosta – South Georgians are hopping on their Harleys to help fight a deadly disease. Ambling Company is sponsoring its first annual Poker Run for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Saturday. Registration for the ride starts at noon and Charley O’Corley’s and the last bike pulls out at 1:30.
* Charity drops potentially illegal poker event – Houston Chronicle – May 20 10:38 AM – Despite proceeds expected to near $300,000, Houston police and the District Attorney’s Office said a planned no-limit Texas Hold’em poker tournament to raise money for the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation would probably be considered illegal.
* Stars Expected for Celebrity Poker Tournament – Rolling Good Times – May 20 9:58 AM – HOLLYWOOD, California – (PRESS RELEASE) — Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are expected to go all in for Hollywood Poker’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Celebrity Shootout Tournament

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Claymation Poker (pic)
* Interesting Poker Art (pic)
* Daniel Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
When one player has raised, and it has been folded around to you, you should stick to the raise-or-fold philosophy.

Tip # 8 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) Following this advice will keep you out of trouble. Many hold’em hands seem like they should be worth seeing the flop, but when you look at the situation objectively, you see that these hands just get you into trouble.

For example, suppose a player has raised from early position, and you have A-J. At first glance, this seems like a good hand. After all, you have two high cards including an ace. However, when you consider the range of hands the raiser is likely to hold, your A-J doesn’t seem so mighty. (The assumption here is that the raiser only raises with decent hands.) It is very important to think about what sorts of hands your various opponents are capable of raising with, and from what positions.

When you think this way, you see that getting involved in a raised pot (when the raiser is a typical player from early position) with A-J is not a profitable strategy. In all likelihood, the raiser is holding one of two hands: a medium or high pair, or two high cards including an ace. If it’s the first possibility, his pair is probably in the range of aces down to eights. So, if you have A-J, you are in decent shape against eights, nines, or tens. However, you are a sizable underdog against jacks, queens, or kings, and a monster underdog should you be unlucky enough to run into two aces. That is, more than half the pair hands he is likely to have put you at a severe disadvantage. Against two big cards with an ace, you are approximately a 5-to-2 underdog if they are A-K or A-Q. You are a favorite against A-T, but many opponents won’t raise with this hand. If your opponent is almost certain to have either a pair or ace-something here — and that “something” is almost sure to be a high card — he’ll have a hand with an ace in it more than half the time. Thus, overall, you’re likely to be severely behind something over three-fourths of the time. So, although your A-J looks like a good enough hand (particularly if you’ve spent the better part of the last hour looking at 9-2 and 8-4), if you play it here you’re asking for trouble. So, fold your hand and wait for a better situation.

With a hand that figures to be the best, it is good to reraise and make things tough on the players yet to act. Against one early-position raiser, if you stick to a general philosophy of reraising with J-J or better or with A-K, and folding all other hands, you will tend to get involved mostly in situations in which you are holding the better hand. And, if you consistently start with the best hand, you should do just fine in the game.
However, when the pot is opened by a raise from a late position player, the situation changes considerably. It is helpful to possess some knowledge of your opponents’ playing styles here. Some players feel that “any two will do” when the hand has been folded around to them in late position. So they raise, attempting either to steal the blinds or play against them with position. When confronted with a player like this, you must expand the range of hands with which you are willing to go to battle. Otherwise, you will be folding the best hand too often.

Although you don’t want to loosen up too much, when confronted with a late-position raise, it is frequently correct to reraise with hands such as A-T offsuit or 77. The reason for this is that your opponent may be holding an even weaker hand, such as K-T, A-x*, or 4-4. By reraising, you accomplish two things. First, you knock out the other players (unless they either have very good hands or are extremely stubborn), enabling you to play the probable best hand in position against one opponent. Second, a reraise allows you to take the lead in the pot. Frequently, the flop will be of no benefit to either of you, and your follow-up bet on the flop will convince your opponent to fold (partially due to the strength you represent by reraising before the flop).

May 19th, 2005
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Today’s Poker News:

* Poker T-shirt maker fights Wal-Mart – CNN Money – May 18 2:11 PM – A small company that makes poker T-shirts has declared a ‘ban’ on Wal-Mart.
* Luck of the draw Poker tournament catching on in local pool hall – Arkcity.net – May 18 2:17 PM – Out of 30 poker players, the final table was reduced down to two: me and Jack Palmer. As a beginning poker player, I thought I had the poker game in the bag. However, Palmer showed a slight aggravation when tournament organizer Alex Torres stopped play and simplified the chips.
* Eagle Games Reports Poker Schedule for 2005 – Rolling Good Times – May 18 12:28 PM – PLAINFIELD, Illinois — (PRESS RELEASE) – The WSOP(R), Celebrity Poker Showdown(R), DD Poker 2006 and Annie Duke, Eagle Games and Donohoe Digital today announced the summer schedule for their best selling DD Tournament Poker franchise.
* Repeat: WPT Legends of Poker – pPlayer.com – May 18 3:59 PM – Filed under: Television Tonight’s World Poker Tour is another repeat, this time of the Bicycle Casino’s Legends of Poker that originally aired in early March. The event took place in August of 2004 and it features a memorable performance by perhaps the greatest of all-time, Doyle Brunson. Others at the final table: Joe Awada, Tom Lee, Lee Watkinson, Grant Helling, and Pete Lawson. A fresh
* Gentleman’s Poker – pPlayer.com – May 18 3:07 PM – Filed under: Magazines You know where I always look first for great poker lessons? Esquire Magazine . Ok, no I don’t, but I’m sure somebody will really enjoy reading all about how “poker is like sex” and “winning increases libido” and yadda yadda. What I’m more interested in is Esquire’s ” Search for the Best-Dressed Real Man in America.” Now that’s an area where Esquire really has some
* Shuffle Up & Deal Launches Mobile Poker Game – Rolling Good Times – May 18 9:44 AM – LOS ANGELES – (PRESS RELEASE) — MFORMA Group, Inc., the leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment, has brought the excitement of WORLD POKER TOUR(TM) (WPT) into the wireless arena, creating a new way to enjoy the high-stakes, high-energy brand of exciting poker revolutionized by the television series.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Claymation Poker (pic)
* Interesting Poker Art (pic)
* Daniel Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
A tight-aggressive playing style gets the money in hold’em.

Tip # 1 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) Adopting a tight-aggressive playing style is a winning strategy in all forms of poker. You would have a hard time finding a poker game in which this is not the case. To play a winning game of hold’em, you should (and must) adopt this style of play.

How do we define “tight-aggressive”?

Tight means entering fewer pots than most of your opponents. Being selective by playing only quality starting hands is the key here. “Quality starting hands” is a relative term — sometimes hands that are good in one situation are quite weak in another, and vice versa. As this book progresses, you will learn to read situations and how your read influences which hands are playable, and which are not.

Aggressive means that when you do decide to enter a pot, you play the hand for all it’s worth. You place an emphasis on betting, raising, and check-raising. Checking and calling just does not get the job done most of the time. There are some situations in which this is the correct play (and the text will identify these situations for you), but they are the exception. By the way, an aggressive approach does not mean that once you decide to play a hand, you jam your foot on the gas pedal and don’t ease up until the pot has been played out. Like most things in life, hold’em requires discretion, and that will come from experience.

How the World Poker Tour Has Affected Poker Play

Tne by-product of the recent popularity of the World Poker Tour (WPT) is that a whole new breed of poker player has been created. If you watch the show with your goal being to learn how to be a world-class poker player, you may be in for a rude awakening when you go to play. The problems with using the show as a learning device for live game limit hold’em are numerous. Right away, realize that you are watching a different poker game. It may look the same; after all, the players are dealt two cards, and there are blinds, flops, turns, and rivers. That is where the similarities end, though. What you are witnessing is the end of a no-limit tournament, in which the blinds are high, the game is shorthanded, and the program has been edited to showcase the more interesting hands. This book talks about limit hold’em, which plays completely differently from the no-limit game. Also, when you play in a brick-and-mortar cardroom or online, unless you are in a tournament, the blinds are not large compared to your stack size. You are probably in a nine- or ten-handed game. And you see all of the hands dealt, not just those that some producer thinks might turn out to be interesting.

Loose-aggressive play seems to be a winning style on the WPT. The successful players are in there dancing around with hands that you toss into the muck without a second thought. And the thing is, they are correct (most of the time) to play these hands, and you are correct to throw them away. The reason for this is that we are dealing with totally different circumstances.

As a newer player who has not yet developed a good understanding of the game, you may think it self-evident to emulate the style of play you witness on television. After all, if T-2 is good enough for a world-class player, it should be good enough for you. So, as a new “television era” player, you may enter the game playing an extremely loose-aggressive style, and believe that to be a winning strategy. In reality, what you are doing is playing final table no-limit short-handed poker in a full limit hold’em game. You will not win playing like this, unless your opponents are all doing the same (only doing it worse).

The Tight-Aggressive Edge

So, how exactly does a tight-aggressive approach give you an edge over your opponents? If you have played much low-limit hold’em, you have probably found the games typically to be loose (with four or more opponents seeing the flop on average), and for many hands to go to the showdown. This means that to win you must show the best hand most of the time, as bluffing is difficult in these games (one more down side to being a TV student).

The tight part of tight-aggressive means that you play fewer hands than your average opponent. Thus, it stands to reason that the quality of your starting cards is typically higher than those of other players, which in turn means that a higher percentage of the hands you play reach the showdown as the best hand. Since bluffing is typically not a viable option in loose low-limit games, playing hands that often end up at the river as the best hand is obviously a desirable strategy. This book teaches you which hands are worth playing and which are not, based on the situation.

By playing good cards aggressively, you win the maximum amount from your winning hands. If your opponents wish to stay in the pot against you with inferior cards, you should charge them as much as possible to do so. An added benefit of aggressive play (and a key one) is that you will win some pots that your more passive playing opponents do not, by inducing opponents to fold hands that ultimately would have won the pot. You can’t win these “default pots” by checking and calling.

May 17th, 2005

Poker Player BEATEN with Belt!

Just when you thought that poker couldn’t possibly get any more “nuts”. Then we come across this poker news article in which an 18year-old tournament player was beaten with a belt after winning a tournament!

Check out our Poker Babe of the day Brandi Williams host of the Ultimate Poker Challenge on Fox!

Speaking of Tournaments – yesterday we observed a FINAL TABLE WSOP Tournament @ Bodog which had only 33 participants. We have pushed Bodog before but, you really really must check this place out. Competition is few and far behind.

If your following the possible PARTYGAMING IPO check out this recent update.

Today’s Poker News:
* Report: Poker Game Winner Beaten With Belt – WDIV ClickOnDetroit.com via Yahoo! News – May 16 11:36 AM – An 18-year-old man was reportedly beaten with a belt after winning a poker game on Sunday night.
* RYAN BAKKEN COLUMN: Poker pays off for East Grand Forks farmer – Grand Forks Herald – 4 minutes ago – Two months after getting married in Mexico in January, Renae and George Cariveau held a local wedding reception. Playing in a poker tournament, George already was 30 minutes late for the reception when his cell phone rang. Renae must have been furious, huh?
* 3 Factors Keep Poker Games Legal – NBC 4 Columbus – May 16 8:14 PM – Poker in Central Ohio continues to grow in popularity. NBC 4’s John Ivanic shows how to make sure your poker games stay legal.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Brandi Williams 1 (pic)
* Brandi Williams 2 (pic)
* Brandi Williams Miss USA (pic)
* Brandi Williams Photo Gallery (link)
* I’ve Heard Of Dog’s Playing Poker but WTF is This? (pic)
* Daniel Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Going on tilt will destroy your bankroll..
Tip # 50 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) This tip is here for encouragement, although the wording may not appear to be uplifting. Tilt is a poker player’s enemy when it happens to him, and friend when it happens to other players in the game. You can use tilt to your advantage by not falling victim to it, even though your opponents do.

What is tilt? Quite simply, tilt occurs when a run of bad luck causes a player to make irrational decisions in a poker game, letting emotion guide him instead of reason. Tilt can be instigated by the turn of a single unfortunate card, or as the culmination of a two-week streak of bad luck. Each player has a different “tilting point,” and it is important to recognize your own.

Unfortunately, it is often extremely difficult to admit to yourself when enough is enough. If you insist on staying in a game after you have reached your tilting point, you are likely to “tilt off” a significant number of chips to your undeserving opponents. Any player who is able to admit to himself when he is emotionally unfit to play further, perhaps due to some bad luck in the game, and is strong enough to stand up and leave, is way ahead of the competition.

A true understanding of the nature of poker is one of the best ways to avoid going on tilt. You should realize that this game has an incredible amount of short-term luck, allowing less skilled or even poor players to win improbably for extended periods of time. Don’t be discouraged by this, though; rather, realize that this is the lure for the weaker players. If the best players always won, there wouldn’t be any poker games. The losers would take up War or some other game in which they had a fighting chance.

Every poker player at one time or another endures a seemingly endless bad streak in which his A-A or K-K never seems to hold up, his A-K is consistently greeted with a flop of 7-8-9, and his J-J is pummeled by a flop of A-K-5. What you must realize when this is happening to you is that you are not alone. This is simply part of the inevitable statistical deviations in the game. It will happen to you just as surely as it happens to everyone else at one time or another. By the way, it is generally not recommended to share your pain with your neighbors in a poker game. Although they may pretend to lend a sympathetic ear, they aren’t really listening. They are simply waiting for a pause into which they might insert their own tales of woe.

You must remember that poker is a long-run proposition. It is of key importance that you play correctly in all situations, even on days when nothing is going right. If you give in and start “playing like them,” you will just lose more money. Regardless of how well you play, though, you will have some losing days. It should be your goal to walk away from these losing sessions saying to yourself, “I lost $100 today, but any other player would have lost $300.”

Striving for perfect play, rather than perfect results, should ultimately help you to avoid going on tilt. If you can come to terms with the fact that occasionally someone will hit a 40-to-1 draw on you, you will be better equipped to handle the swings of the game. Focus on what you can control, and you will maintain the emotional balance necessary to beat the game. And, if you feel that balance slipping away, quit the game for the day, week, or month — until you have regained your composure.

May 16th, 2005
Better Than Paris Hilton’s Sex Tape!

Well obviously we know how to get your attention. But, honestly Paris Hilton isn’t even that hot. Shana Hiatt now there is a hottie. Which is why she is a Poker Babe and also featured in our Poker Quick Links Section today.

Here at Tips For Poker we strive to make your Mondays better than any other website ever could. Which is why we not only post Shana Hiatt Pics, but we also include some quality strategy and tips by Mr. Barry Schulman himself.

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Today’s Poker News:
* (AFX UK Focus) 2005-05-16 08:23 GMT: Gaming VC in deal with Boss Media to launch online poker product – Interactive Investor – 6 minutes ago – LONDON (AFX) – Gaming VC Holdings SA has signed an agreement with Boss Media AB in which Boss Media will provide a poker platform for Casino Club, Gaming VC’s online casino.
* Poker DVD Pair is Better than Pocket Aces – [Press Release] PR Web – 17 minutes ago – Picked as the best quality DVD to hit the poker and magic community! [PRWEB May 16, 2005]
* He wrote the book on how to win at poker’ s elf-taught player from Mercer Island says anyone can learn the game – King County Journal – May 15 3:35 AM – When Barton Gratt set out to write about poker, he went about it like the scientist and medical professional he is, performing extensive research and experimentation.
* Poker periodicals: How to hold them – South Bend Tribune – May 15 7:44 AM – WASHINGTON — Daniel Negreanu won $4 million in poker tournaments in 2004, and Card Player magazine named him Player of the Year. All In, another poker magazine, said Negreanu “might just be the hottest poker player in the world.”

Poker Quick Link’s:
* OMG Shana Hiatt your SOOO Hott (pic)
* Shana Hiatt 2 (pic)
* Shana Hiatt 3 (pic)
* Shana Hiatt 4 (pic)
* Funny Poker Rankings Pic (pic)
* Schulmans Yip-Yappin’ n Card Tricks (link)
* Negreanu’s Blog (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Raise or fold when you are first to enter a pot.
Tip # 4 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) This tip refers to those situations in which no one has yet called or raised when the action gets to you.

Since tight-aggressive poker is winning poker, you should fold your inferior hands. Don’t call trying to hit a lucky flop. Not only is it tough to get a nice flop when you are holding rags (substandard cards), but if you initiate the action by calling, this is often seen as an invitation for other players to call behind you. Now, you must play an inferior hand while out of position. This is not a winning proposition.

When you do have a good hand, you should open the pot with a raise. In addition to putting pressure on the players yet to act and the blinds, your raise allows you to take the lead in the pot. Even if you miss the flop completely, a bet on the flop, coupled with the strength you demonstrated with your initial raise, may be enough to win the pot.

Generally, it is advisable to open the pot only if you feel your hand is likely to be the best. This means that hands such as 8-7 suited, while playable in some cases, should not be played when you are first in. This hand is not strong enough to merit a raise, and calling when first in is not in your repertoire. If you are unsure of whether your hand is worthy of a raise, a good guideline for playing before the flop is that whenever you are in doubt, you should fold. You will be dealt plenty of hands with which you can forge ahead aggressively.

May 14th, 2005
S is for Saturday, T is for Tournaments!

If there’s one day out of the week you find yourself having enough time to actually site down and play a full tournament without interruption – its Saturday. That’s why Saturday is officially Tournaments day!

Do you often struggle about what tournaments/limits to play at? Check out Barry Schulman’s tip about when to move up!

And, if you need some inspiration for your poker tournament. Check out Poker Babe, Joopy’s newly updated pictorial featuring some quality shots from her trip to England.

PAIR OF 10’s took the LONGEST ever World Series of Poker yesterday. Read about it here along with the rest of Poker news.

Check out our awesome poker quick link section – featuring Poker Art today.

Today’s Poker News:
* Next up in the poker craze? It’s in your hand. – Boston Globe – 1 hour, 51 minutes ago – Tired of high cell phone bills? Maybe you can win some of that money back. Now you can whip out your cell phone and dial into a new service that lets people around the world play poker against one another, for real money.
* Rose could be fined for wearing poker logo – Centre Daily Times – 1 hour, 31 minutes ago – PHILADELPHIA — An advertising logo worn by Afleet Alex jockey Jeremy Rose during the Kentucky Derby for an online poker site could land him a fine. One problem with the logo: Churchill Downs has a business relationship with a competing online site.
* Pair of 10s Wins Longest World Series of Poker Final – Rolling Good Times – May 13 11:43 AM – NEVADA – As reported by the Tahoe Daily Tribune: “In the longest final table in circuit history, the World Series of Poker wrapped up at 3:15 a.m. Thursday at Harveys Casino Resort with the top prize of $542,360 going to a 39-year-old property investor who had a pair of 10s.

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* Quality Poker Art (pic)
* Poker Art 2 (pic)
* Poker Art 3 (pic)
* Poker Art 4 (pic)
* Poker As a Puzzle? (pic)
* Joopys Poker Update (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
When to move up.
Tip # 52 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) If you have experienced success (or at least gained experience) at hold’em at one limit, you will probably consider playing in a bigger game at some point. This is particularly true if you have been successful, as the possibility of winning significantly more money at a higher limit is a strong incentive to step up.

Before you do so, however, you must make sure you are adequately bankrolled for the move. This is not a concern if your bankroll is renewable, but if you fear going broke, you should adhere to certain guidelines. In general, assuming you are a winning player, many experts recommend a bankroll of approximately 300 big bets to remove the risk of going broke.

The better you play compared to your opponents and the smaller the game, the less strict that figure need be. In general, though, for a $2-$4 hold’em game, you should have a bankroll between $600 and $1000 to “weather the storms.” Someone with equivalent skills ought to have a bankroll of $12,000 for a $20-$40 game. And for a $50-$100 game, $30,000 to $50,000. And “bankroll” here means money set aside specifically for poker. It does not include the “rent money” or your savings.

Simply having the bankroll to move up does not mean that it is necessarily in your best financial interest to do so. It is probably best not to increase limits until you have become a consistent winner at your current level. One incentive you might choose to provide for yourself is to force yourself to win at your current level the required bankroll for the next highest limit. When you have increased your bankroll to the necessary level, you can step up.

May 11th, 2005

It’s WSOP Wednesday

Do you have your set to the WSOP yet? You don’t? Shame on you! You could be the HERO of your local card room – the talk of the city or your office. One schmuck at my office is lucky enough to have won (2) seats already! Where did he win them?

Well, we’ve tried telling you guys…. Bodog is your easiest way in. This site is so new they can’t even get 40 players to play in their FINAL WSOP tournies which are every day! That’s right – you against 40 people is all it takes to get into the WSOP. Of course that’s with a direct buy-in of $250, but the good news is they have satellites starting at $1.

Just download the software and see just how FEW people are in there tournaments.

Game spot destroyed Chris Moneymakers new video game in a battering review of World Poker Championship. What’s wrong with this guy? First a horrible book, now this? Give it up!!

Tips For Poker’s Favorite College Grad Paul sends his love from Evansville, IN:

Congratulations Paul and any other Tips For Poker College grads out there!

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Today’s Poker News:

* Sordid tale of poker losses, loans and murder unfolds in Vegas courtroom – Court TV Online – May 10 9:52 AM – A Canadian man brutally killed a fellow countryman and avid gambler in his Las Vegas hotel room and then only hours later went across the street to play poker with the dead man’s bankroll, prosecutors alleged during opening statements at the murder trial of Greg Chao on Thursday.
* Poker for the Sheer Fun of Playing the Game – Rolling Good Times – 2 hours, 48 minutes ago – Poker and playing for money are as inseparable as coffee and a donut to a majority of people. But for Shawn Riley, president, CEO and CFO of the Amateur Poker League (APL) with headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, poker and playing for fun is the jackpot combination.
* Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship Review [PC] – GameSpot – May 10 4:26 PM – Stick to the free, online poker wherever you can get it, and leave Chris Moneymaker’s World Poker Championship on the shelf.
* World Famous Poker Website – Tips for Poker Makes Its Debut On eBay – [Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News – May 10 5:00 AM – (PRWEB) May 10, 2005 — If you known anything about popular culture your well aware of the Poker boom that has occurred in the past two years. Financial analysts are projecting continued exponential growth for the poker industry. And, if you”re a dot com genius, webmaster or just a smart investor now”s your chance to cash in on the fun.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Astronomy Picture Of The Day – The Sombrero Galaxy (pic)
* Joopys Poker Update (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Guidelines on playing a multiway pot when two face cards flop.
Tip # 26 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) Again, we assume that four or more players are in the hand. For this example, the flop is K-Q-3 of three different suits.

If no one has bet yet, bet if you have a king or better, as this is probably the best hand. You can call a bet with a queen and a decent kicker. Your kicker should be a 10 or higher, as it is capable of developing a straight draw in addition to making two pair. However, if the bettor is a very tight player who bets only strong hands, it’s probably safe to assume that your queen is not the best hand. Thus, it should be folded.

When facing a bet, raise with A-K or better virtually every time. Sometimes it is correct to raise with lesser hands, though, when doing so will help protect your hand. For example, in a five-way pot, if the first three players check, the fourth bets, and you are next with K-T, you should definitely raise. This makes it difficult for players with hands like A-J to call behind you. A-J poses some danger to your K-T here, as it can catch one of three aces or one of three tens. If a 10 comes, you are likely to lose several bets, as it makes you two pair. Players drawing with six outs are often correct to pay one small bet to draw. Your raise takes this play away from them, and makes it a mistake for them to continue with the hand.

If you hold J-T, for an open-ended straight draw, you should call. There is no point in raising with this hand, as all you will do is knock out the other players behind you. Since you are drawing to the nuts, and won’t win the pot unless you make your hand, it doesn’t really affect your chances of winning whether there are two or 20 players in the pot. It is good to keep everyone in, so that they can pay you off those times that you do make your hand. This is one situation in which checking and calling is the correct play most of the time. The main exception is when you think a bet might induce everyone else to fold, but in a multiway pot with two face cards on the board, someone almost certainly has a pair with which to call you down*.

May 10th, 2005
Good Job Paul !

Tips For Poker Reader & Recent College Grad – Paul Britt recently walked the line. Why is this so interesting? Because, he did so advertising our site! You see – we bid on Paul’s Graduation Cap on eBay as a unique way to advertise Tips For Poker website. And, this is what Paul wore on his head yesterday as he walked the line:

Congratulations Paul and any other Tips For Poker College grads out there! We’ll have more pictures of his graduation posted soon – in a special advertising section.

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Other than that, Happy mothers day!

Today’s Poker News:
* Sordid tale of poker losses, loans and murder unfolds in Vegas courtroom – CourtTV via Yahoo! News – May 09 1:57 PM – LAS VEGAS (Court TV) — A Canadian man brutally killed a fellow countryman and avid gambler in his Las Vegas hotel room and then only hours later went across the street to play poker with the dead man’s bankroll, prosecutors alleged during opening statements at the murder trial of Greg Chao on Thursday.
* Poker run a worthy event – The Border Mail – May 09 5:13 PM – Thousands of dollars have been raised on the run over the past nine years for Legacy. The Poker Run involved almost 300 motorbikes and raised more than $5000.
* Felony charges dropped for home poker game – KRQE Albuquerque – May 08 11:47 PM – HOBBS, N.M. — The host of a poker game raided in February for allegedly being high stakes will spend no time in jail. Dennis Barcuch, 38, of Hobbs has pleaded no contest to gambling — a petty misdemeanor.

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* Russian Casino Girls (pic)
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Poker Tip of The Day:
When a player in front of you has already bet, raise if you think you have the best hand.

Tip # 18 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) One of the inevitable side effects of playing hold’em is having to listen to your opponents whine about how unlucky they got in the last hand, the hand before that, and the hand last month when some caught two consecutive flush cards to outdraw their set. What you won’t hear is how their demise could have been avoided with one simple action: a raise on the flop! So often it happens that a player calls a bet with a fairly strong hand on the flop, which in turn convinces other players to call as well. Had he raised, the player holding the best hand on the flop might have induced his opponents either to fold or make a very expensive call, both of which are positive results for the raiser.

Make It Tough on Opponents

When you hold the best hand, play it aggressively. Tip 17 encouraged you to bet whenever you feel you have the best hand, and this Tip encourages you to raise when the player to your right has bet, if you feel you have the best hand. Again, you need not be certain your hand is good to make raising correct.

You want to make it difficult for players behind you to remain in the pot. Raising serves to protect your hand; that is, it becomes very expensive for opponents to stay in the hand with you, and they will likely fold. This generally increases your chances of winning the pot, and that is a good thing.

Don’t Give Them Odds to Call
Suppose you have K-Q and the flop comes K-9-5. You flopped top pair. If the player to your right bets and you are next (with a few players yet to act), you must raise here. Yes, it is possible you are behind. The bettor could have A-K or 9-9, for instance. However, most likely you have him beat at this point. The problem with just calling is the players behind you. If you call, they will probably call as well with hands like Q-J or A-9. Raising here relates to the concept of pot odds. You don’t want to call and give your opponents a favorable price to overcall in an attempt to draw out on you. Rather, raise and take away the value of their hands. They may choose to call anyway, but you have done your part. They are throwing money away if they call — throwing it away to you. Don’t give your opponents the proper pot odds to draw out on you.

Build a Pot
Another reason to raise a bet to your right when you feel you have the best hand is to build a bigger pot. There is nothing wrong with getting more chips to the center when you have the lead. Aggressive play will enable you to win the maximum with your good hands.

Don’t Slow-Play
Some players choose just to call on the flop when they have a big hand such as a set or a straight. They want to wait for the “expensive” rounds to bet their hand. Slow-playing* can cause problems, however. First, doing this will occasionally cost you the pot. By just calling, you may allow an opponent to see a cheap turn card that produces a miracle** straight, or helps him develop a good draw. Then, when you do later decide to put some chips into the pot, you may find to your dismay that you are the one who has been trapped.

A second reason not to slow-play is that players in lower-limit hold’em games typically call anyway. Why play deceptively when you don’t have to? Slow-playing is generally done in an attempt to gain later action on a hand you feel you won’t be able to get any action on if you play it aggressively right away. However, you rarely run into this problem in the games we’re talking about, so go ahead and raise if someone bets.

May 6th, 2005

Friday = Poker Day

Well you finally did it. You grinded out the whole week. And, if your a college student your no doubt in peril of the upcoming finals. Good luck with that. However, for the time being you don’t have to worry about it.

Why? Because, its Friday of course! The best day of the week.

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Today’s Poker New’s:
* Trial set for loan shark accused of killing fellow poker player – CourtTV via Yahoo! News – May 05 10:13 AM – LAS VEGAS (Court TV) — The trial of a small-time loan shark and professional poker player accused of brutally slaying a fellow gambler for his bankroll, then leaving the body in a hotel stairwell, is set to begin Thursday.
* Wordking Poker Hands-On [Mobile] – GameSpot – May 05 2:51 PM – We get esoteric with Wordking Poker and bring you our hands-on impressions of the game.
* 17 Tech students guilty in poker ring – New River Current – May 05 10:02 PM – Another wave of Virginia Tech students was convicted and fined Thursday for involvement in an illegal poker ring that university officials hope was an isolated incident rather than a sign that the college gambling explosion has come to Blacksburg.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Russian Casino Girls (pic)
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Poker Tip of The Day:
Usually raise when you hold the best hand and it is bet to you.
Tip # 30 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) When you hold the best hand and someone else has bet, you are giving your opponents a free card if you merely call. There is little difference between checking the best hand if no one has yet bet, and calling with it once someone has wagered. So, once again, you must focus both on extracting the maximum from your opponents, and on how potentially catastrophic granting a free card might be.
As a general policy, you should raise a bettor whenever you hold a fragile hand that nevertheless figures to be the best at this point, especially if other players remain to act in the hand. For example, you hold J-J and the board is 4-6-9-T. Raise if someone bets and you are next, for two reasons.
* You don’t want to give players holding overcards or other draws a cheap shot at the pot.
* You are very likely getting more money into the pot with the best hand, which is a good thing.
The time to just call a bet with the best hand is when you want other players to call behind you. This happens when your opponents are drawing dead* or very close to it. Only a few big hands deserve to be played in this fashion — nut flushes, full houses, and four of a kind. And, you should smooth call** only when you feel this action will create a larger pot than a raise would, because you fear that your opponents will run for the hills when faced with calling a raise. If they are willing to call a raise on the turn, then by all means accommodate them.

May 4th, 2005
Godzilla’s In The World Series Of Poker

With a recent visit to the local card room. Tips For Poker discovered the who’s who in our town. Basically if you were going to the WSOP you were a local card room hero. This is also where we learned that Godzilla will likely be making an appearance….

Think you don’t have what it takes to hack it in the WSOP? Nonsense, just check out todays poker news for inspiration. Another Joe Schmoe made millionaire overnight in Vegas, blind woman is crowned poker champion and people play hold’em under water!

All Joking Aside… In May, Bodog is guaranteeing a seat to the WSOP everyday in may!

FullTilt is giving away over $10 million dollars worth of WSOP promotions.

If your looking for an interesting read check out Negreanu’s new Blog. Talking about his tournament and love-life stresses.

Today’s Poker News:

* Poker tourist plans to retire after shock $1.7m win in Vegas – Independent – May 03 6:35 PM – After 25 years running a company that makes drying equipment for the pharmaceutical industry, Paul Maxfield reckoned he had earned two weeks of fun on the Las Vegas poker tables.
* 4/30/05 Texas Hold’em Underwater Poker – KCBD-TV – May 03 5:34 PM – The Caprock Dive Club held it’s 2nd Annual Texas Hold’em Underwater Poker Tournament. The tourney was held at the Texas Tech Aquatic Center and benefits the Coral Reef Alliance; which helps save coral reefs around the world.
* Blind Woman Crowned Poker Champ – pPlayer.com – May 03 8:06 PM – Filed under: Casinos & Card Rooms Big congrats to Deborah Crumley for winning the title of the first Humboldt County Poker Champion! According to an AP report, Deborah is legally blind in both eyes. I don’t want to be insensitive, but how does she play? Can she see a little bit like the way I used to cheat against my brother playing pin the tail on the donkey, strainging my eyes to see
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* One Heck Of A Poker Party In San Diego (pic)
* Even Godzilla Plays… (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Guidelines on playing multiway pots when a flush or straight draw is present.

Tip # 28 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) The presence of some draws on the board somewhat complicates the reading of hands. When no legitimate draws are present, bets and raises signify made hands. With two to a straight or flush on the board, however, bets and raises occasionally are come bets, in which a player is pushing a drawing hand rather than a made one.

As in the examples given in the previous tips, you should bet if you hold top pair or an overpair to the board, both to help protect your hand and for value. If there is a bet to you, you should raise with top pair-top kicker or better. Just calling with top pair-lesser kicker is often best, unless a raise might narrow the field. You should have a good idea whether a raise will accomplish this objective based on your position relative to the bettor. If the bettor is to your immediate right, your raise forces all the other players in the pot to call double bets. However, if a player bets and several opponents have already called, all raising accomplishes is to build a bigger pot. You need a very strong hand to do this.

One hand you can raise with in this case is the nut flush draw. You have close to a 40 percent chance of completing your flush by the river, and if several players are “trapped” between the original bettor and you, you don’t mind building a larger pot with a quality draw such as this. A side benefit of raising here is that the other players are likely to check to the raiser (you, in this case) on the turn. This way, if the turn card does not provide improvement, you can check as well. So, you save half a big bet those times the turn card doesn’t help your hand, but you gain several small bets when it does.

For the most part, call with quality draws to flushes and open-ended straights. You won’t win the pot unless you hit the draw, and you don’t want to raise out any of your opponents. You gain nothing by narrowing the field down to you and the best hand. Your chances of winning the pot are virtually the same, but you won’t win as much money when you do.

There is one notable exception to this, however. Sometimes it is good to raise with a drawing hand when simply making a pair might win the pot for you. Here is an example:

It is a five-way pot, and the first player bets. Although you won’t raise out anyone holding a better flush draw, and your queen high is surely not the best hand right now, a raise might be the right play for another reason. Suppose your raise causes a player holding A-J or K-Q to fold. Now, you might win the pot not only if you make a flush, but also if you make a pair. In this case, you have created extra outs for yourself. However, don’t take this idea overboard. It is best to make this play with two cards in the T-Q range, as they are most likely to be in kicker trouble* should they pair up. That is, you want to drive anyone out of the pot who will have a higher kicker than yours if he pairs.

May 2nd, 2005
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If your looking for an interesting read check out Negreanu’s new Blog. Talking about his tournament and love-life stresses.

Today’s Poker News:

* Poker Parenting: You gotta know when to hold ’em… – Blogging Baby – 1 hour, 11 minutes ago – Professional trainer and speaker Mark Borowski gets a lot of requests to speak on the topic “Big Slick Daddy: Poker Strategies for Parenting Success.” He believes whether you are a professional player or just someone caught up in the recent poker craze, you can take your poker skills and turn them into parenting skills in four ways. First, he compares parenting to Texas Hold ‘Em . ”None of
* Poker: A winning hand for charity? – May 1, 2005 – The Mail Tribune – May 01 7:42 AM – Poker: A winning hand for charity? The popularity of Texas Hold ’Em poker could mean jackpots for Jackson County nonprofit groups following the Oregon Legislature’s approval this week of an expanded gambling law.
* NY Times on poker – pPlayer.com – May 01 8:39 AM – Filed under: Business of Poker The NY Times is running a poker article in their Sunday edition today, titled, “Everything You Need for a Poker Party, Save a Winning Hand.” Nothing groundbreaking here, but it’s a nice little Sunday read. It’s a general piece that touches on the business behind the boom, including the many attempts by WPT to cash in on licensing. One interesting product that

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Joopy – Has Ben Updated (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forums (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
With most of the cards out, and the bet size doubled, you frequently fold on the turn.
Tip # 27 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) In hold’em, you use five of seven cards to make the best possible poker hand. By the time you have seen the turn card, you know six of those seven cards, so you have a good idea of how the hand is shaping up. This is also the point at which the stakes double. As a result, the turn is not the time to chase, because you have only one card left, and it has become much more expensive to remain in the hand.

Therefore, you should fold on the turn unless one of the following three conditions is met:

* You are holding the probable best hand. If this is the case, you should usually raise if another player bets, or bet if no one has bet yet.
* You are drawing to the best hand. As always, you need to weigh the pot odds to determine if your continued involvement in the pot is justified. Generally, you are getting the right price to draw to a flush or open-ended straight. Also, if another player has obviously made a flush or straight, you can probably continue with a set (as you have 10 cards to improve). However, hands such as inside straight draws (four outs) or two pair when someone has a flush (four outs) should be folded, unless the pot offers appropriate odds to stay in the hand. In very large pots, you might call a bet with middle pair if you are convinced that hitting either the pair or your kicker will be enough of an improvement to win the pot. You have five outs in this case, and are at times getting enough of an overlay from the pot to make a call the correct play.

* You have been given a free card (that is, no one has bet on this round). Obviously, you are happy when everyone checks on the turn if you have a longshot draw such as an inside straight possibility or a pocket pair that needs to hit a set to win. Occasionally this free card allows you to win a large pot that you shouldn’t be entitled to. The lesson here is that when you are on the flip side of things, don’t give your opponents “free” chances to outdraw you.

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April 27th, 2005
Great News…

The good news is that The Poker Forum Arcade is fixed! That’s right all the Snake you can play – is back on. Enjoy.

More good news for College Students, is that Absolute Poker wants to pay your tuition. In their newest advertising scheme they are intending to pay for college students tuition in a free hold’em tourney. Read more in our Poker News.

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If your bored check out Negreanu’s “make” your own poker blog. If your not bored – check out Card Players cool little Poker Analyst tool.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Poker Site Offers Tuition Jackpot – Rolling Good Times – Apr 26 12:10 PM – SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – (PRESS RELEASE) — Absolute Poker, the fastest-growing online poker site in the world, is holding a Free “Win Your Tuition” Texas Hold’em tournament for all University and College Students.
* Town wants to ban poker machines – NEWS.com.au – Apr 26 11:06 AM – THE Outback town of Coober Pedy wants to ban poker machines, with a third of the town’s residents demanding their removal. In a sign of how highly the community rates the issue, more residents signed an anti-pokies petition than voted in last year’s federal election.
* Poker by the Blog #3: Hawaiian Shirt Guy – pPlayer.com – Apr 26 5:09 PM – Filed under: Poker for Beginners Here’s the thing, if you can’t spot the Hawaiian Shirt Guy in your first half-hour at the table, then you are the Hawaiian Shirt Guy. One of the very first lessons I learned about playing in NLHE tournaments came within minutes of sitting down in my first live event. Although my experience with Hold’em had to that point been limited to a brief book lesson,
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* Little Joopy – The Poker Playing Hottie (pic)
* CardPlayer Magazine (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Hold’em is a game of position
Tip # 2 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) In poker, position refers to when a player must act on his hand relative to the other players in the pot. When a player is one of the first to act, he is in early position. When a player is last or nearly last, he is in late position. Similarly, players with several opponents on either side of them are in middle position. These terms appear frequently in this book, which provides a clue about the significance of considering position in your hold’em decisions.

Late Position Advantage

As you begin to play hold’em, you quickly become aware of the numerous advantages of having late position in a hand.

One of the most important advantages is that you generally have a decent idea of what kind of strength you are up against. For example, suppose you are holding 8-8. This looks like a good hand, and, in absolute terms, it is just that. It is not, however, a great hand, and it is often unclear how (or whether) to proceed with it.

If you are in late position with your pocket eights, the actions of the other players influence how you play. Suppose everyone has folded to you, and only the blinds are yet to act. It is highly probable that you have the best hand, so you should choose to play it aggressively by raising the pot. Assuming the blinds call your raise, you now hold a positional advantage over them for the remainder of the hand. This means that on the flop, turn, and river, they must act before you, giving you the advantage of making your decisions with more information about your opponents’ cards than they have about yours.

Let’s look at a different scenario in which you hold 8-8 in late position. This time, however, a tight player has raised and an even tighter one has reraised before the action has reached you. Once again, the useful information gained due to your positional advantage can be used. Clearly, your two eights are not the best hand here, and this knowledge, combined with the high price of entering the pot, allows you to safely fold your hand.

Early Position Disadvantage

Contrast this with holding the same hand in early position. Poker is a game of incomplete information, and the earlier your position, the more incomplete the information. Now, you don’t have the benefit of knowing what your opponents are going to do. You must make a poorly informed decision, and in poker these kinds of decisions are often wrong. In the case of the 8-8, sometimes it is the best hand (or at least playable), and other times it is way behind. Thus, the earlier your position, the less likely you are to know which one is the case. But the problems with early position don’t stop there. Once you decide to enter a pot by opening early (or decide to look at the flop from a blind position), you act before your middle and late position opponents for the remainder of the hand. This will cost you, in terms of both bets and pots. Because you must act first, you will at times be unsure as to whether a card helped your opponents’ hands. For example, you may check, when in fact had you bet your hand one or more opponents might have called with inferior hands. Your poor position has cost you one or more bets in this case.

Worse yet, your apprehension about whether the development of the board has helped your opponents may cause you to check, when betting would have induced everyone else to fold. Now, suppose everyone checks behind you, and the next card comes. An opponent who would have folded for a bet on the previous betting round now improves his hand and wins the pot. For example, suppose you are first to act with 8-8, and the flop is K-9-7. If you are first, with three or four players behind you, you would probably choose (correctly) to check, as this flop is likely to have helped one or more of your opponents. However, suppose nobody can beat your pair of eights, and the hand gets checked around. Now, an ace comes, giving one of your opponents holding A-5 a better hand. Since this player would probably have folded on the flop had you bet, your check has cost you the pot. If you had the same hand in last position, however, it would have been correct for you to bet the flop once it was checked around to you, likely making you the winner of the pot.

Playing Position
Clearly, it is to your benefit to try to play most of your hands from late position. As a result, you should enter the pot only with premium hands when you are one of the first players to act. When you play only big pairs and big cards such as A-K from early position, your postflop positional disadvantage is partially offset by your hand being fairly easy to play after the flop. If you have a big pair, you stay aggressive on the flop in nearly all cases (the main exception being when your pair is smaller than aces, an ace flops, and several players are in the pot). If you have big cards, such as A-K, you tend to bet when you flop a pair, and check when you don’t (tempered by certain factors to be discussed later). These hands don’t require as much guesswork; thus, their postflop performance does not suffer as much from poor position as do more marginal holdings like small and middle pairs.

Because you have the benefit of observing the actions of all your opponents, you can be much more liberal with your starting requirements when you are in late position. Don’t misinterpret “liberal” as “loose” or “sloppy,” though. Some hands are not profitable to play in any situation. Nevertheless, acting last allows you, first, to see how your hand figures to stack up against your opponents before the flop, and, then, to make well-informed decisions about how to proceed after the flop.

Do not underestimate the value of position. It should be a consideration in nearly every decision you make in the game.

April 25th, 2005

Monday Blues

Well its Monday and the daily grind is about to start all over again. Unless, your a poker all-star and you recently quit your job to pursue your incredibly lucrative habit.

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Check Tom McEnvoys article today about betting the wrong amount in no limit. Its a great read!

Today’s Poker New’s:
* Chief wants hold put on illegal poker tourneys – The Daily Item – 1 hour, 19 minutes ago – S AUGUS – If you’re planning a “Texas Hold ‘Em” poker night, you better not try and bluff the town or you could be in for a serious fine, or jail time.
* All poker, all the time – Vail Daily – Apr 24 2:45 PM – EAGLE COUNTY – The popularity of poker is rapidly increasing locally as well as nationally. Its popularity is fueled by a combination of television exposure, technology, and the opportunity to win big money and/or prizes.
* Guess The Poker Player – pPlayer.com – Apr 24 2:03 PM – Filed under: Poker for Beginners , Professionals So, here I am in Vegas, getting my bearings, and meeting poker players by the minute. Since I’m fairly new to the game, friends are introducing me to veteran card masters left and right. Every player I meet has a history with America’s new darling, and I’m doing my best to catch up on the lessons. To bring you in on it, lets play guess the

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* Little Joopy – The Poker Playing Hottie (pic)
* CardPlayer Magazine (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Guidelines on playing a multiway pot when two face cards flop.

Tip # 26 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) Again, we assume that four or more players are in the hand. For this example, the flop is K-Q-3 of three different suits.

April 23rd, 2005
April’s Almost OVER! 2 Months Till WSOP

Congratulations to our winners of the first ever Tips For Poker Forum Freeroll! Keep watching early next week for information on another upcoming tourney.

Check out the Poker news today – featuring FOX Sports New Poker Website, Fobes On The Poker Craze and a community taking advantage of a legislative poker loophole.

NoblePoker offering 100% Bonus Upto $450. (4Raked Hands / Dollar)

One of our favorite players Daniel Negreanu updated his blog with a great read entitled “I Played My Heart Out” referring to his recent loss @ the WPT.
Today’s Poker New’s:

* Poker’s Winning Hands Down – Forbes – Apr 22 3:18 AM – Poker has become the hottest game in town, with an estimated 50 million Americans putting their cards on the table.
* State Seeks To Close Poker Loophole – The WMUR Channel – Apr 22 8:27 AM – CONCORD, N.H. — The state wants a better hand in Texas Hold ’em poker tournaments. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte wants to close a loophole that some charities are exploiting.
* FOXSports.com debuts poker section…finally! – pPlayer.com – Apr 22 4:58 AM – Filed under: Odds & Ends FOX Sports has added a poker section to its website, and it’s not bad. The fact that it comes almost nine months after I pointed out that FSN was attempting to get into the poker business with no mention of poker anywhere online is astonishing to me. For almost the full year since Championship Poker at the Plaza debuted on FSN, a search for “poker” on FOXSports.com

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Top Hand Of Last Nights Freeroll (pic)
* Fabulous Poker Art, “THE POKER NIGHT” (pic)
* Another Great Poker Art Example (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Paying attention while playing helps you learn to read hands better.

Tip # 47 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) To apply this tip, it doesn’t matter whether you are involved in the pot or not. You can really jump-start your game by closely following the play of hands when you are out of the pot. Not only will you develop a better handle on your opponents, but you will learn what sorts of hands tend to win in different situations.

What is the number one skill that allows the top poker players to be so successful? Is it their ability to sit patiently waiting for premium cards? Or is it their great success with timely bluffs? In reality, the top players are highly skilled in many areas, but what really sets them apart is their ability to read hands*. In most cases, this skill was probably not a God-given gift. Rather, it is the product of much hard work as they progressed up to the top of the poker food chain. These top players have an ability to focus whether in or out of a hand on how the pot is played out. After enough trials, they develop a sense of what sort of hand each player is likely to have. Simply by actively paying attention in the game, you can learn to read the hands of your opponents.

Here is a checklist of what you should be observing about your opponents while out of a hand:
o Level of aggression: What sorts of hands do your opponents bet, raise, or reraise with? For example, some players have no problem raising with just a flush draw, whereas others only call even after they have completed the flush. Also, do your opponents bet after the flop with just ace high, or do they need a pair to fire in a wager? How often do they bluff? Do they play much more aggressively when they are in late position? Do they raise preflop with two suited cards, or do they need a pair or big ace to raise?
o How position affects their starting requirements: Some players play only top-notch hands from early position. Others disregard the importance of position altogether. Learn how the play of each of your opponents is influenced by their position by observing how often they enter pots from various positions, as well as seeing what sorts of hands they turn over.
o Who bluffs, and who doesn’t? Learning this can help you save some bets on the river when a known non-bluffer bets. It also prevent you from making an ill-advised lay down against a chronic bluffer.
o Who are the calling stations? Observe which players refuse to be bluffed. Then, you can avoid trying to bet busted hands at them. However, you should be able to bet with a large number of marginal hands on the river for value against these players. Once you have identified a calling station, you can bet with hands as weak as second pair on the river, as you will be getting called by any pair or even ace high.
o How liberally do your opponents defend their blind hands? Some players automatically call a raise from the big blind position, reasoning that they are already halfway in. You can expect these players to show down a wide variety of hands. Others use more discretion, calling only with good hands. This list can go on and on, as there are a number of things to look for. If you remember to watch the hand as it plays out, and recreate the betting after you see the hands turned up, you will begin to find patterns in the play of your opponents. Most hold’em players tend to play the same hands the same way time after time. Once you have identified some reliable tendencies or patterns, you can develop ways to exploit them for your benefit.

April 20th, 2005
Interesting Day, Is It Not??

Finally a Pope emerges and if you were one who took Vegas odds , and bet on his home country of Germany. You likely picked up a few $$$

Trying to justify a nasty habit? Check out this Tobacco museum – very interesting.

Gary Thomson was named by Harrah’s to oversee the WSOP events.

Don’t forget the Tips4Poker.com $100 Freeroll is This Thursday!
Check out Daniel Negreanu’s updated blog humourously titled “FOCUS DANIELSON FOCUS” for a real enjoyable read.

Today’s Poker News:
* Poker Mania Worth Millions – AskMen – Apr 19 8:06 PM – Q uestion: Who won the 2003 World Series of Poker, essentially turning a $40 entry fee into a $2.5 million prize? (You can find the answer at the end of this article.)
* Video poker blamed for rise in women gambling addicts – Provo Herald – 27 minutes ago- SALEM, Ore. — Maryann started gambling 10 years ago, playing video poker machines in hotel restaurants in Oregon as she traveled for her job.”It got so any place I would see a lottery sign and that was a restaurant or other place that was comfortable, I would play,” says the woman, who is in her 40s.
* Gambling and Finance: The Rise of the GAMinvestor. Gambling Finance, Gaming Stocks, Online Casinos, Poker Rooms IPO’s, – [Press Release] PR Web – 40 minutes ago – Investing in the gaming industry has never been easier or hotter: GAMinvestor.com (http://www.GAMinvestor.com) is the guide for the smart investor in casinos, poker rooms, sports books, mobile gambling, online casinos. Blog, free lessons and community about gambling, finance, spread betting, casinos IPO’s, online casino gambling companies, Las Vegas casinos. [PRWEB Apr 20, 2005]
* Poker Tournament Kicks Off at Bellagio – Rolling Good Times – Apr 19 12:53 PM – Professional gambler Annie Duke played in the World Poker Tour championship, which runs through Sunday. It kicked off Monday at the Bellagio. More than 450 players ponied up a $25,000 buy-in to compete for a first-place payout of about $3 million from a total prize pool of about $11.3 million.

Poker Quick Link’s
* Winner Of The POKER RUN (pic)
* Strip Poker Girl (pic)
* WARNING Nudity Strip Poker (pic)
* Why You Shouldn’t Blame Other People (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
When one player has raised, and it has been folded around to you, you should stick to the raise-or-fold philosophy.

April 18th, 2005

WPT Time…

Mr. Negreanu is preparing for the WPT, click here to read his blog to see just what his preparations involve. Our favorite line of this entry, ” Oh I almost forgot- I ended up playing for six hours and I won $120,000…”

What an amazing guy! Be sure to pickup CardPlayer this month, it has an absolutely MUST-READ article about Stu Ungar.

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Today’s Poker New’s:

* Saturday Night Poker – pPlayer.com – Apr 17 9:39 AM – Filed under: Home Games While Harold is doing it up right out there in Vegas this weekend, I’m stuck in Indianapolis. Although miles away from the closest actual poker room, I always find ways to get in a game. Last night I was able to play in a nice little charity event put on by a member of my local poker circle, Jay N (it’s like Tony G, but he’s also known as ‘whojedi’ online). Proceeds
* Yahoo! for Poker Downloads – pPlayer.com – Apr 17 9:05 AM – Filed under: Software Everyone’s favorite web portal is now offering a free trial version of Poker Superstars , the game, which purports to allow users to recreate the magic of the TV show’s first season. I’m actually excited to play this game, not really to test the program’s unlikely skill at simulating top pros, but to find out what the structure of the first season of Poker Superstars
* Wharton: Poker craze: Utahns say, ‘Deal me in’ – Salt Lake Tribune – Apr 16 7:25 AM – My father’s relatives and friends once gathered in a tiny cabin at Camp Strawberry before the opening of the fishing season to play all sorts of strange poker games. Cigar smoke filled the room that was lit by a bare light bulb. The language could get a bit coarse, especially when the dealer picked some strange hybrid. I can remember that a game called “no peeky baseball” elicited groans from
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Annie Duke , Not Getting Any Hotter (pic)
* Evelyn Ng however – Definately Getting Hotter (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Usually raise when you hold the best hand and it is bet to you.
Tip # 30 – (from CardPlayer By: Barry Schulman) When you hold the best hand and someone else has bet, you are giving your opponents a free card if you merely call. There is little difference between checking the best hand if no one has yet bet, and calling with it once someone has wagered. So, once again, you must focus both on extracting the maximum from your opponents, and on how potentially catastrophic granting a free card might be.
As a general policy, you should raise a bettor whenever you hold a fragile hand that nevertheless figures to be the best at this point, especially if other players remain to act in the hand. For example, you hold J-J and the board is 4-6-9-T. Raise if someone bets and you are next, for two reasons.
o You don’t want to give players holding overcards or other draws a cheap shot at the pot.
o You are very likely getting more money into the pot with the best hand, which is a good thing.
The time to just call a bet with the best hand is when you want other players to call behind you. This happens when your opponents are drawing dead* or very close to it. Only a few big hands deserve to be played in this fashion — nut flushes, full houses, and four of a kind. And, you should smooth call** only when you feel this action will create a larger pot than a raise would, because you fear that your opponents will run for the hills when faced with calling a raise. If they are willing to call a raise on the turn, then by all means accommodate them.

April 15th, 2005

Tax Day Schmax Day – Lets Play Some Cards

Quit worrying about Taxes! Honestly, just take a deep breath and read this update – you’ll be glad you did.

Did we mention its Friday???
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Daniel Negreanu once again updated his blog this time about Carlos’s Birthday. It’s very interesting to peek into the private life of this Professional CardPlayer.

Today’s Poker New’s:
* Online poker craze lifts ukbetting – ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance – 1 hour, 10 minutes ago – Online betting specialist ukbetting has recorded its maiden underlying profit after a surge in interest in online poker and other games in the past six months.
* poker perfection The night – AskMen – Apr 14 9:35 PM – Rounders, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Boiler Room; these are the movies that come to mind when we think of poker because after watching them, we wanted to become pros at the card game as well. It’s like a requirement of machismo, a vindication of manhood.
* World Championship Poker: Deluxe Series Ships for Nintendo – Rolling Good Times – Apr 14 9:53 AM – LOS ANGELES – (PRESS RELEASE) — Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames, today announced that World Championship Poker: Deluxe Series has shipped for the Nintendo DS system.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* These Two Play Poker With The Best Of Them (pic)
* Joopy The Poker Playing Hottie (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
You can occasionally reraise from the big blind against a late position “blind thief.”

Tip # 16 – (from CardPlayer) Although it is generally advisable to just call a raise on the big blind (since reraising is unlikely to eliminate any opponents, and just calling provides some deception about the strength of your hand), in some situations reraising is proper strategy. Remember, though, that the small and large blinds are different animals altogether.

When you are in the small blind, one of the major reasons to reraise a late-position raiser is to knock out the big blind. Without this possibility, you want to reraise less frequently from the big blind than from the small.

Reraising from the big blind allows you to take control of the pot. As shown in Tip 13, the player with the lead after the flop often wins the pot when the flop is of no help to either player. Typically, whichever player gets the final bet in prior to the flop bets regardless of what comes, putting the burden on the other player to either call the bet or fold.

For example, suppose you hold K-Q offsuit in the big blind, and the button (a loose-aggressive player) raises. Obviously, you are at least going to call here, as the button could have a wide range of hands (most of which you can beat). Suppose you call and the flop comes 9-6-6. No help to you. It seems natural to just check and fold to your opponent’s inevitable bet here, or perhaps call one time hoping to spike a king or a queen. However, what if you had reraised before the flop? This flop is unlikely to have helped your opponent either, and perhaps your reraise, coupled with a follow up bet on the flop, could have won you this pot. Your opponent could have Q-T just as easily as A-T. Either way, he is going to bet the flop if you just call preflop, but he would likely fold on the flop if you had reraised. So, your aggressive play has earned you the chips.

How low can you stoop in your reraising standards? This depends largely on the play of your opponent, as well as his position. For the most part, we recommend making this play (unless you have a monster hand) only against a loose player on or next to the button. This way, you are more likely to be up against an inferior hand. That said, you can make this play with hands as weak as A-8 offsuit, K-Q, or small pairs.

One final reason to reraise here is the intimidation factor. You are better off if the players in late position think twice before raising your blinds. It is sometimes helpful to make this reraise play once or twice early on in a session, as it helps set the tone for the session. If you are successful, your opponents will be more likely to wait for real premium hands before raising your blinds in the future, as they realize you are not afraid to challenge them. Poker is part psychological warfare, and making a few well-timed reraises on the big blind is an effective pre-emptive strike against the enemies to your right.

April 14th, 2005
Its Almost Friday

It’s almost Friday, think your desperate to play some poker? Check out what this guy did to play some cards! He won’t be getting laid this month.

The WSOP Pink Bunny is back in the news today. Mr. Enke is one crazy SOB!

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Check out Negreanu’s updated Blog piece about Gamblin’ With the Boys.

Today’s Poker News:

* GoldenPalace.com Closes Ebay’s World Famous Pink Bunny Poker Auction for $15,100 – [Press Release] PR Web – 35 minutes ago – Internet Casino GoldenPalace.com purchases Jeremy Enke’s World Famous WSOP Pink Bunny Poker Auction for $15,100. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]
* Analyst: Poker Not the Best Bet – Rolling Good Times – Apr 13 1:23 PM – NEW YORK – As reported by CNN: “…Poker is hot, particularly the game known as Texas Hold’em, thanks to TV shows like ESPN’s ‘World Series of Poker’ and Bravo’s ‘Celebrity Poker Showdown’.
* Play your cards right to win Poker Bash – Nyngan Observer – Apr 13 4:38 PM – Nyngan Rotary Club and Nyngan Central Committee have combined forces to bring together The Great Bogan Poker Bash on Saturday April 23 at Rotary Park.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* The 70’s Were F’ing Wierd (pic)
* Born Into a Life Of Addiction… (pic)
* Cats Playing Poker (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Guidelines on playing a flop of K-Q-3 rainbow.

Tip # 22 – (from CardPlayer) This advice applies to any situation in which the flop contains two face cards and one small card, without a flush draw.

April 13th, 2005

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Today’s Poker News:

* Poker Academy’s “Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Software” Selected as Part of Student Materials for WPT Boot Camps – Rolling Good Times – Apr 12 10:53 AM – Minneapolis, Minnesota — (PRESS RELEASE) — Poker Academy, a leading poker software developer, today announced that the WPT Boot Camp has chosen Poker Academy’s Texas Hold ‘Em software as part of its course materials for the two-day, hands-on seminar series held at hotels and casinos across the country.
* Rob Hollink Wins the First WilliamHillPoker.Com European Poker Tour Player of the Month Award – Rolling Good Times – Apr 12 11:38 AM – Holland’s Rob Hollink has been voted winner of the inaugural ‘WilliamHillPoker.Com European Poker Tour Player of the Month’ for March 2005, as voted by a panel of esteemed judges.
* Poker Draws And Holds ‘Em In – CBS News – Apr 11 9:29 PM – Not too long ago, gaming executives thought poker rooms were wasted space — the games are too long and the casino’s cut too small. But poker’s resurgence, driven by TV championships, celebrity tournaments and online games, has changed all that.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Not Sure, But I’d Like To Be Part Of This Poker Run (pic)
* This Girl Plays At The Bellagio 2000/4000 and wins everytime (pic)
* Afflecks Been Working On His Poker Face (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Tip # 23 – Guidelines on playing against one opponent when the flop contains a straight or flush draw.
“Anytime a straight or flush draw is present on the flop and you have only one opponent, you must be aware that a draw is a logical possible holding to be up against. If you bet and are called or raise… “

April 11th, 2005
WSOP Coming Soon ARE YOU IN YET?

Check out Daniel N’s new blog post about how easy he found the 100/200NL at the Bellagio. Interesting post and for the most part true depending on what time you visit the Bellagio. Also, check out Negreanu’s recent interview about his new video game coming out this summer in our poker forums.

It seems like we have been getting a lot of fan mail recently posing the question, “What is the EASIEST way into the WSOP?” Our response is usually, “Buy a lotto ticket, its about the same odds!” Just kidding, but seriously if your looking for the easiest way to get a full paid trip to the WSOP. Tips For Poker points to PokerRoom which is on their way to giving out over 200 paid entries to the WSOP. Good luck in the WSOP.

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Today’s Poker New’s:
* Gunmen Rob Poker Players Of $50 In Quarters – Tampa Bay Online News – 2 hours, 22 minutes ago – DUNEDIN – David Holmes shook his head over the thought of armed men bursting into his home to steal $50 of poker money. He and six friends play every week in his Dunedin home. They bet with quarters.
* Corvallis allows poker to resurface – Corvallis Gazette Times – Apr 10 6:15 PM – After retreating underground for two months, poker night could soon be making a comeback in Corvallis. City officials have approved an ordinance allowing social gaming in public places, including bars and restaurants.
* Casino poker is a big deal Published in the Home News Tribune 04/10/05 – Home News Tribune – Apr 10 3:04 AM – MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — It’s just another day at Foxwoods Resort Casino and the wait for a seat at a poker table is well over an hour. All 81 tables, all 810 seats at New England’s only poker room, are filled.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Not Sure, But I’d Like To Be Part Of This Poker Run (pic)
* This Girl Plays At The Bellagio 2000/4000 and wins every time (pic)
* Afflecks Been Working On His Poker Face (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Know Your Outs:

The rule of four-two is an extremely easy way to figure out basic poker odds for most situations where you know your outs. This method is not 100% accurate but it will supply you with an idea of your chances for making a decent poker hand. Here is how it works:

April 9th, 2005
Poker Weekend!!!

You finally made it! The week is over you can now relax and play a game of cards with your buddies. Or, maybe if you find the right amount of ladies you could play some strip poker with Carmen Electra!

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The boys over at PokerOffice wanted me to remind you they have recently upgraded their poker stat tracking software – and you should look into it!

Check out today’s Poker Quick Links for humor related Poker Faces Pictures.

UNRELATED STORY: Poker Game Got You Down? Hey, it could always be worth – you could be paying $21,000/month in child support!!!

Today’s Poker News:

* County likes Flats charity poker idea – WKYC 3 – Apr 08 6:38 AM – CLEVELAND (AP) — A tent where Texas Hold ‘Em poker can be played might rise on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland this summer. It’s an idea of developer Jeff Jacobs, who also favors a casino in Cleveland.
* Bravo Resources Ltd. and SPI Productions LLC. Sign Letter of Intent to Produce Strip Poker Invitational with Host – [Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance – Apr 08 1:01 PM Bravo Resources Ltd. and SPI Productions LLC announced today that they have entered into a letter of intent for the acquisition of SPI by Bravo. Under this arrangement, Bravo will then produce and distribute the series “The Strip Poker Invitational” hosted by Carmen Electra and executive produced by Michael Berk, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Baywatch.
* Police issue warning about illicit poker games – Provo Herald – Apr 08 12:20 AM – SALT LAKE CITY — Police and prosecutors in Utah’s most populous county on Thursday said they’ve banded together to crack down more evenly on poker tournaments in private clubs — which are becoming an increasingly popular marketing tool to get people to come out on weeknights.
* Full Tilt Poker Offers $10 Million Giveaway – Rolling Good Times – Apr 07 2:11 PM – LOS ANGELES, California – (PRESS RELEASE) — The biggest cash prize in any sporting event just got bigger at the WSOP Main Event. Full Tilt Poker announces the richest poker giveaway ever.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Face Pic 1 (pic)
* Poker Face Pic 2 (pic)
* Poker Face Pic 3 (pic)
* Poker Face Pic 4 (pic)
* Poker Face Pic 5 (pic)
* Poker Face Pic 6 (pic)
* Rate My Poker Face (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUMS Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Programs That Keep Notes For You
Lazy, Aye?
Check out our 3rd Party Programs Section.
There are a number of programs that will either take notes for you, or take detailed statistics on your fellow players.
IE) Poker Office, Poker Edge, Etc.

April 7th, 2005

Poker AT THE DRIVE-IN

Well maybe Poker isn’t likely to be at your drive-in anytime soon. But, there are a slew of expected new poker related movies expected to come out this summer. Here’s a quick preview of an upcoming release:

Lucky You: An Upcoming Poker film starring Drew Barrymore and revolves around a struggling singer who becomes a poker champ to survive! (How many of you have tried that???)

Did you know Pierce Brosnan is coming back as BOND???

Check out today’s poker quick links for some great poker videos.

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Today’s Poker New’s:

* Hollywood Takes on Poker: A-Listers Affleck, Maguire Set Sights on Final Table – Rolling Good Times – Apr 06 12:56 PM – LOS ANGELES — (PRESS RELEASE) — Pokertropolis has posted the opening odds for players to win the 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) finals held at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino, July 7-15, and Hollywood A-Lister Ben Affleck is the current favorite to win at 450-1.
* WPT Boot Camp — Poker Fantasy Camp — Coming To Miami/Ft Lauderdale – Rolling Good Times – Apr 06 10:26 AM – FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida — (PRESS RELEASE) — First there were baseball fantasy camps, then football and ultimately golf. Now there is a poker fantasy camp, WPT BOOT CAMP™, coming April 30 and March 1 to Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
* Canadian National Poker League: Cnpl.ca Launches Today – Owner of One of Canada’s Biggest Existing Poker Sites is – [Press Release] PR Web – Apr 06 12:16 AM – It’s rather common for players in the poker world to sell shares of themselves in order to acquire the resources to partake in a large poker event. The Canadian National Poker League (cnpl.ca) starts with that premise and goes from there. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Funny Poker Face Video (vid)
* Poker Commercial (vid)
* Bluff Poker Magazine (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Advantages To Keeping Notes
The reason why Online Poker can be more profitable (to the user) than live poker is simple. There are many features that a user can utilize that live poker never could offer.
For instance, some advantages that online poker has over live poker is the ability to have multiple windows open, taking player notes, and advice from friends or experts.
The advantage we are focusing on here is taking players notes.
Taking detailed notes is EXTREMELY important. WHY? Because, if your serious about playing online – YOU MUST KEEP DETAILED notes on players. Plain and simple, you will encounter the same player again.
It’s so important that we have dedicated a whole section to teaching you how to keep details notes.
Click HERE to read the Players Notes Section.

April 6th, 2005

True Heros Of Poker

Who says there’s no heart in Poker? Read about Henry Orenstein who is a very giving poker player and holocaust survivor in today’s poker news.

Speaking of heroes, here’s Poker Babe Miss Laura Prepon!

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Who doesn’t love Poker Comics? Check out this one and then look at this reality poker comic. All found in today’s Poker Quick Links.
Today’s Poker New’s:

* Holocaust survivor Henry Orenstein is toy-maker, poker player and giver – JTA – Apr 05 1:13 PM – NEW YORK, April 5 (JTA) — Henry Orenstein has nearly 100 toy patents to his name, and television sports insiders say he’s responsible for the TV poker boom that has hit the United States over the last several years.
* World Poker Tour Enterprises Rolls the Dice – The Motley Fool via Yahoo! News – Apr 04 10:36 AM – For poker players like me who cannot stand being stared down, and who have a hard time not fidgeting at a live table, online poker has been a godsend. I can make a huge bluff bet in Texas Hold ‘Em and scream “Fold!” at my cyber-opponents without their knowing. I can also leap for joy when I catch a card on the river and not be considered a boor. Online gaming is great in one other respect — I
* Knob Creek Signs Poker Players – Rolling Good Times – Apr 05 10:12 AM – DEERFIELD, Illinois – (PRESS RELEASE) — Knob Creek(R), the number-one selling ultra-premium bourbon in the United States, announced today it has signed a year-long agreement with professional poker players, Howard Lederer and Erick Lindgren.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Dog Comic (pic)
* Reality Poker Comic (pic)
* Bluff Poker Magazine (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUMs Section (link)
April 5th, 2005

DAMN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

Hope you had a great weekend, and we’ve got some great Poker News For You Today! Read Daniel N’s blog today about grinding it out in a $2000-$4000 game.

Get inside the mind of this poker playing genius and analyze his game for when you see him in the WSOP. $1 Buy-In is all it takes to get on your way to this years WSOP!

Check out this great news about the latest NL Tourneys being offered by the Bellagio every night @ 5PM.

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The winner of the BEST Poker-Related April Fools Joke is Bodog for claiming it got taken over by Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Eight U of C card sharps may bet big at poker competition – Chicago Maroon – Apr 03 4:26 PM – Amidst the ongoing poker craze sweeping across college campuses, a handful of University of Chicago students have taken their game to the next level. The Second Annual College Poker Championship has captured the attention of avid poker fans through a…
* Game on for poker players – The Scotsman – Apr 02 4:38 PM – THE first official UK Student Poker Championships is taking place this weekend at the University of St Andrews.
* Poker games, hairstyles and sushi at strip center – The Arizona Republic – Apr 02 12:42 AM – WHERE: Northwest of Chandler Boulevard and Mountain Parkway (40th Street), Ahwatukee Foothills. WHAT : Spread over this corner is a cluster of businesses that offer an opportunity to play the popular Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, choose from many hairstylists, learn to run faster or eat sushi.
* He knew when to hold ’em N.C. State graduate wins $1.5 million in professional poker tournament with a nine of hearts – News Observer – Apr 02 12:59 AM – Even though he earned enough money as a card player to pay his college tuition, Maciek “Mike” Gracz’s parents were not crazy about the idea of him playing professional poker.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* A Little Poker Vixen (pic)
* Beautiful Poker Art (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Waiting For The Blind:
By waiting a full rotation before posting you are allowing yourself a huge advantage. You get to watch how everyone plays/reacts etc. before you even spend a penny. So unless you are familiar with the players do yourself a favor and sit out until the BB comes around.
In the meantime be taking notes on each players actions, or use a 3rd Party Program to do so.

April 1st, 2005

Online POKER MADE ILLEGAL !!!

In a emergency congressional hearing the legislature to make poker illegal was passed with an incredible 52-2 vote! Citing the large export of US Dollars, the emergency vote passed making all online gambling illegal.
Poker Congress

And if you believe that, you’ve probably been tricked about 8 other times today on this 2005 April Fools Day. Here’s a good site to trick your friends with.

Here is the joke that is not a joke… Pink bunny auction ends at 15k with Jeremy Enke getting his WSOP entry paid for and additional 5k to blow… on blow.

$100 EXCLUSIVE TIPS FOR POKER FREEROLL for members of our forum. Click here for more details.

Bodog.com is starting to offer $100,000 Guaranteed weekly tourneys. IF you haven’t played here yet – look into it for the softest competition on the net. If you EVER thought you had a chance to make it in the money. Try Bodog! You’ll thank me later.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Rice’s Poker Hand – New York Times – Mar 30 10:05 PM – I’ve been to this play before. It always starts out like the coming-out season for debutantes in Palm Beach, and it always ends around a smoky poker table at Binions casino in Las Vegas.
* Spring City Poker Run set for April 16 – Rhea County Online – Mar 31 10:15 AM – The Spring City Chamber of Commerce is rolling into spring with a Poker Run fundraiser to be held Saturday, April 16. Everyone is invited to participate in the Poker Run as motorcycle enthusiasts run a scenic route through five counties on a four-hour ride.
* ‘Poker run’ changed to ‘benefit ride’ – Peoria Journal Star – Mar 30 10:17 AM – EORIA HEIGHTS – A call from the state has forced a motorcycle group to change its Saturday fund-raiser for children. Riders with Heart will hold a “motorcycle benefit ride” rather than conducting a “poker run.”

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Wow, Not Sure How Good This Hand is In Draw – But I LOVE IT (pic)
* Maybe Brunette is your thing (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUMS Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day: (Click Here For More Poker Strategy)
Use A Four Color Deck:
This might seem basic, but, its actually quite advanced. In a recent survey, 6/10 people actually refuse (or don’t know how) to change their options to 4-Color Decks.
Its fairly simple and seemingly obvious, just go into the options section and click the Four Color Decks. You now have an advantage over many mistake making folks out there!
Everyone who has played long enough has probably misread their cards at some point or another (usually after a long stretch), especially flushes. Using a four colored deck makes it much easier to identify flushes (and more importantly flush draw threats) and enables you to use your brain powers elsewhere.

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March 30th, 2005

Good News Wednesday

Did I say good news Wednesday? I meant GREAT NEWS WEDNESDAY!

First, Tips For Poker would love to announce our 1st $100 EXCLUSIVE TIPS FOR POKER FREEROLL for members of our forum. Click here for more details.

Second, ABSOLUTE Vodka is still giving away FREE DECK OF CARDS. And the World Poker Exchange is still giving away a free poker t-shirt.

Third, the week is half over and its almost the weekend which means POKERTIME. Four, go to Poker Stars (trust me) deposit $50, and you get a 100% matching bonus. Now, play 1200 hands in 12hours you will have $300 extra bucks for your poker bankroll. Or, if your as good as you claim – A LOT MORE!

Five, I can’t believe you made it this far! There fore I will give you another sexy little poker babe. Make that one your wallpaper; your significant other will love it. Oh ya don’t forget about ENKE’s pink bunny stunt, lucky bastard.

Today’s Poker News:

* World Poker Tour – KOLO – Mar 29 10:57 PM – Two years ago at this time, very few people had ever heard of “No Limit, Texas Hold ‘Em.” Today, that poker game is sweeping the nation. A few hundred of the world’s best poker players are in town until Friday.
* Try out some of poker’s newest faces – Hampton Roads Daily Press – 2 hours, 58 minutes ago – Get Serious! The craze for those modern variants of poker, Texas Hold ‘Em and Omaha, shows no signs of abating. But sooner or later every craze abateth, so you’ll want to be ready for the next big thing.
* MGM Opens New Poker Room – Rolling Good Times – Mar 29 12:18 PM – LAS VEGAS — Gamblers played in the new poker room in the MGM Grand after its opening on Monday. The nonsmoking room has 23 tables and a computerized waiting list.

* Wow, Not Sure How Good This Hand is In Draw – But I LOVE IT (pic)
* Maybe Brunette is your thing (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Taking Notes In a Tournament
A very valuable skill in an online tournament is taking notes.
A good player (in a multiple table tourney situation) will be watching multiple tables and taking notes on each player — knowing he will shortly encounter that player. However, focus more on the players play, than taking notes itself. By this I mean watch the players play, rather than focusing on trying to keep up with typing notes about him.

The advantage is he will now know for the most part exactly how he plays. His bluffs, his tells (if any) and his betting structure.

Taking notes during a tournament not only keeps you alert and busy but, it keeps you from playing the hands that will bust you out of the tournament quick.

March 28th, 2005

Its SPRING, How about A Free DECK OF CARDS!!!

Alright, a lot of people believed me about the Noble Poker, offer. Because, I received about a dozen e-mails thanking me how incredibly easy it was to extract the max $300 bonus from this site.

Explanation: Because, they are offering a 100% bonus up to $300. Now, normally I’m not one to push bonuses however, this is quite possibly the easiest bonus to clear (4raked hands per $1) I’ve ever seen! Go play at Noble Poker, and get your bonus .

FREE DECK OF CARDS: Guess WHAT? It’s your lucky day, because, free cards are on the way! That is what you’ll be hearing after you roll over to and sign-up then click the “SWAG” link and have a brand new deck of ABSOLUTE Vodka Playing Cards sent your way.

Additionally, World Poker Exchange is giving away a free t-shirt for signing up.

Quote from site; “By completing this registration page, a promotional T-Shirt will be sent to you, and you will have access to play free money games at World Poker Exchange”

Enjoy your free Poker gear and cya tomorrow! Ehh you want more free poker stuff you say?

Well, go to the poker forum and register to win 1 of 35 GREAT Poker Related Prizes. Alright then head over to the free money no deposit required section and heap up all the bonuses you dirty little bonus whore.

Today’s Poker News:

* Online poker draws collegians – The Des Moines Register – Mar 27 2:01 AM – A global tourney has proven very popular in the state. But here’s the kicker: It’s illegal, an official says. University of Iowa freshman Lindsey Negaard was drawn to the online poker tournament by the free entry and thousands of dollars’ worth of prizes.
* The poker explosion – Canoe – Mar 27 2:42 AM – It’s not even noon yet on a Saturday and the poker room at Baccarat Casino is packed. Too packed. There are only 88 seats available in their weekly no-limit hold-’em tournament, and you can tell by looking that won’t be enough.
* sundaymail – PLAY YOUR CARD RIGHT: POKER IS PEOPLE POWERED – Sunday Mail – Mar 26 5:28 PM – POKER is a fascinating game but explaining its appeal to non-believers can be a thankless task. A friend asked me why poker was so compulsive last week and I had a hard time trying to get the message across.

* Strip Poker Sloozie (pic)
* Star Trek Poker (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

3rd Party Programs In a Tournament Situation

Using a program such as Poker Office, a tournament player can gain an advantage very easily.

By monitoring his/hers own play – the player can find the mistakes they are making and quickly remedy them.

Programs like Poker Office, also watches your opponents. Giving you a great idea of their play style. IE) loose, reckless, aggressive, etc.

You should step up to a program such as Poker Office and see your tournament play increase almost instantly.

March 26th, 2005

Holy Bonuses Batman!

First off, if your looking for a new poker room and an excellent bonus – you might want to check out Noble Poker. Because, they are offering a 100% bonus up to $300. Now, normally I’m not one to push bonuses however, this is quite possibly the easiest bonus to clear (4raked hands per $1) I’ve ever seen!

You can easily play for a couple hours and clear the whole bonus and cash out if you like! You like free money don’t you? Of course you do! Who doesn’t? Go play at Noble Poker.

The Pink Bunny Auction is back, crazy SOB and marketing genius Jeremy Enke has finally done it (his third time around) and will officially (unless Harrahs won’t let him) be playing in the WSOP in a full bunny suit. Enke would be wise to watch his back, as bunnies have been known to be assaulted on occasion.

I’d give it about a week before the naked cowboy from New York realizes his advertising potential at the WSOP.

Today’s Poker News:

* Online poker is the Net’s fastest-growing business – CBS Market Watch – 1 minute ago – SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It’s a Thursday afternoon and Tyler Jewell is looking for some poker action.
* Adding Pizzazz To Poker Night – CBS News – Mar 25 12:00 PM – Celebrity poker shows and Internet sites are driving the poker craze. So Colleen Brewer, the home director at SHOP Etc., visits The Saturday Early Show with a list of products to make your party a success.
* Internet Poker – KXMA-TV Dickinson – 1 hour, 51 minutes ago – Today the state Senate defeated a constitutional amendment — to require lawmakers to authorize Internet poker. The vote was 43 to three against. North Dakota’s constitution prohibits gambling. The amendment would have exempted Internet poker from the gambling ban.

* Hilarious Poker Video (vid)
* One Game Of Hold’Em I’d Like To Get In On! (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forums (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Advantages To Keeping Notes
The reason why Online Poker can be more profitable (to the user) than live poker is simple. There are many features that a user can utilize that live poker never could offer.
For instance, some advantages that online poker has over live poker is the ability to have multiple windows open, taking player notes, and advice from friends or experts.
The advantage we are focusing on here is taking players notes.
Taking detailed notes is EXTREMELY important. WHY? Because, if your serious about playing online – YOU MUST KEEP DETAILED notes on players. Plain and simple, you will encounter the same player again.
It’s so important that we have dedicated a whole section to teaching you how to keep details notes.
Click HERE to read the Players Notes Section.

March 24th, 2005

Imagine this, sitting at your weekly home game only for the SWAT team to bust in and raid your ass! Don’t think it can happen to you? Read today’s Poker News, where even small town cops are on the lookout for your seemingly innocent home games.

Have you seen the *new* upgraded version of Poker Room? Tips For Poker’s very own EG, visited it and wrote up this quality review citing why you might want to revisit PokerRoom!

Have you ever imagined playing poker on your cell phone? Well mid next month you’ll be able to. Read this on why!
Read Daniel N’s updated Blog on his recent tournament loss in Rio.

Today’s Poker News:

* Fairfax Police on Alert for Illegal Poker Games – WTOP Radio Network – Mar 23 12:24 PM – If you want to play high-stakes poker, take your game to Las Vegas.
* 5 Arrested In Chalmette Over Poker Game – News Channel 6 New Orleans – Mar 23 7:11 AM – CHALMETTE, La. — Two bar operators and three card dealers have been arrested by State Police in connection with a poker tournament in which the bar allegedly was taking a cut of the fees paid by players to participate.
* BSkyB alums gamble on Poker – C21 Media – Mar 23 5:40 AM – A group of former BSkyB executives will lay their cards on the table today with the launch of a new UK digital satellite channel dedicated to poker programming.

* Hilarious Poker Video (vid)
* One Game Of Hold’Em I’d Like To Get In On! (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forums (link)

Poker Tip of The Day: (Click Here For More Poker Strategy)

Feel Out The Situation and Bluff HARD (C/S Rule #4)
Don’t bluff when you have Two Pair and a flush draw on the flop? No one betting, but you have position? Make a smart-bluff at the pot. Make a bet that you think that is big, but callable. Like you want someone to call you. If no one has anything watch them all fold like cowards.
Don’t be scared if you get a caller, REbluff him on the next card – IF you don’t think it helped him.
If that fails, don’t hesitate to fold.

March 22nd, 2005
Bad News For Online Poker

Today in Poker News, the attempted measure to legalize online poker in North Dakota was defeated by the senate. Maybe next year boys!

If you like to talk poker, check out our Poker Forum – which broke a new record of over 37 people on at a single time yesterday!

We’ve upgraded the Comprehensive Freeroll Listing directory – it looks better now and is more effective. Shortly it will be updated with about (20) other free roll’s and display important information such as “PLAYER POINTS NEEDED” , etc.

Check out this funny picture of snowmen playing poker in poker quick links.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Boston-NY poker? Deal me in – Boston Globe – 1 hour, 11 minutes ago – Boston vs. New York. NESN vs. YES. Six of our wiseguys vs. six of theirs (actually two of the “wiseguys” are ladies) in an eight-week team poker competition. Round 1 aired Sunday, and reairs tonight, Thursday, and Saturday at 9 p.m.
* Matt Savage Joins World Poker Exchange – Rolling Good Times – Mar 21 11:03 AM – ANTIGUA, England – (PRESS RELEASE) — World Poker Exchange has engaged poker legend Matt Savage as tournament director of the Aug. 3-6 London Open. The gaming and lifestyle event, produced by one of the world’s fastest-growing online poker sites, will incorporate an exciting array of lifestyle events framed by the allure of United Kingdom landmarks.
* Senate defeats Internet poker measure – Bismarck Tribune – Mar 21 12:52 PM – 2:34 p.m. – BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Legislature’s dalliance with Internet poker regulation ended abruptly Monday, when a bill to make North Dakota the first state to license cyberspace poker tables got only three votes supporting it.

* Snow Poker, Classic(pic)
* Save Toby, a must (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Switch Up Your Play (Common Sense Rule #3)
Just Bluffed a big hand? Consider showing your bluffed hand to the table, then next time you have a huge hand bet really strong – you might get a few people who still think your bluffing! Alternate your play in a non-predictable manner but try to keep your betting rhythmic and predictable no matter what hand you have!

March 21st, 2005
Freerolls, Freerolls, FREEROLLS!

Tips For Poker would like to give you even more free money! By adding a new Comprehensive Freeroll Listing directory, which is updated live.
You can now easily keep track of whenever a new FreeRoll is starting up. Best of all you can add it to your RSS for streaming FreeRoll information.
Check out this funny picture of snowmen playing poker in poker quick links.
Chat in our forums and win $650 of poker stuff!
The boys at FORTUNE CASINO wanted me to tell you that if you deposit $50 using NETeller you get $50 free. Read all about fortune casino in our free money section.

Today’s Poker News:
* Different takes on charity poker – The Morning Journal – 1 hour, 17 minutes ago – LORAIN — Mike Kennedy, the owner of Kennedy’s Broadway Billiards at 105 W. Fourth St. who was cited by the Ohio Department of Public Safety for hosting Texas Hold’em tournaments, said yesterday he believes that poker for charity is a good idea, but that it needs to be legalized for everyone.
* Fewer walls, more room for poker – Delaware Online – 2 hours, 24 minutes ago – Rick Post (left) deals a hand of poker to family and friends gathered in the newly remodeled and expanded space in his home. Toni and Rick Post, and their son, Taylor, 12, enjoy their new great room and kitchen space.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Snow Poker, Classic(pic)
* Save Toby, a must (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Use Your Mind (Common Sense Rule #2)
Think through every hand. The pro’s get to the final tournaments because they think through every hand and every move the person made. Think HARD! What hand do you think they have? What hand do you think they just made? Why are they betting this much? Are just a few examples of questions you should be asking yourself.

March 20th, 2005

Sunday Is Free Money Day!

Looking to Bet On March Madness For Free? How about $50 for free? Deposit $50 @ SportingBetUSA via Neteller ; get $50 free!

Or, you could go to BetOnUSA and get $50 free just for creating an account, simply follow these steps:
1. Go to BETONUSA and create an account.
2. Go to www.BetONUSA.com/FREE50 to claim the free $50, enter promo code: PP-I7A5FO or some combination of that.
The Poker Forum is becoming very active, now’s your chance to talk all about poker with other educated players in a moderated environment!
Did you know that PartyPoker is considering going public on the FTSE aka LONDON STOCK MARKET? Read all about it in todays poker news.
The boys at FORTUNE CASINO wanted me to tell you that if you deposit $50 using NETeller you get $50 free. Read all about fortune casino in our free money section.

Today’s Poker News:

* sundaymail – PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT: POKER IS PEOPLE POWERED – Sunday Mail – 2 hours, 16 minutes ago – POKER is a fascinating game but explaining its appeal to non-believers can be a thankless task. A friend asked me why poker was so compulsive last week and I had a hard time trying to get the message across.
* Poker princes eye pot of gold – The Telegraph – Mar 19 2:01 PM – London, March 19: Two Indian batchmates from IIT Delhi, Vikrant Bhargava and Anurag Dikshit, who set up the online Party Poker website four years ago, are thinking of floating their company which is being valued by financial analysts in London at a mind-boggling $6 billion.
* Is your poker game legal? – St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Mar 19 10:19 AM – It’s probably not, but with differing state laws and poker’s popularity, bars and charities try to play it straight.
* Poker games help inspire great room – InsideBayArea – Mar 19 7:06 AM – AT the moment, poker may be as red-hot as, well, a red-hot poker. But even so, is it possible that a card game could cause a family to undertake a $100,000 house remodel?

Poker Quick Link’s:
* This Lady Loves Holdem (pic)
* Carmen Electra Plays Poker (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
* Play Less Hands (Common Sense Rule #1)
The less hands you play, the more money you keep. This doesn’t just go for tournaments but for poker in general. Play only the best possible hands you can! Meaning, only play the hands that will give you the best return on your investment. Duh!

March 18th, 2005

Friday Means PARTY TIME!

Hope you all had a great St. Patricks day and hopefully your hangover isn’t too big!

Lets Talk Inspiration… Inspiration to play poker, Inspiration to win big – well here is your INSPIRATION.

Unfortunately, we have some bad news – as today in a poker robbery gone horribly bad a fatal shooting occurred. Read all about this tragedy here.

Did you know that card shark Amarillo Slim was kidnapped in Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar? Read more in his feature in CardPlayer

The boys at FORTUNE CASINO wanted me to tell you that if you deposit $50 using NETeller you get $50 free. Read all about fortune casino in our free money section.

Today’s Poker New’s:
* Internet Poker Legislation – KFYR – Mar 17 8:51 PM – The internet poker bills are still in the state senate… where some lawmakers still question the legality of allowing on-line gambling.
* PokerLizard.com Starts Off It’s New Interview Series With A Bang! Poker Pro Jennifer Harman is the Subject For Their – [Press Release] PR Web – 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
PokerLizard.com talks with Poker Pro Jennifer Harman about her career as a professional poker player and what it takes to be successful in the poker world. [PRWEB Mar 18, 2005]
* Pompano Beach man killed in poker game robbery – Miami Herald – Mar 17 1:55 AM – POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – Shooting erupted after two gunman broke into a poker game at a boarding house, killing one player, wounding a second and critically injuring one of the intended robbers, authorities said.
* Two poker tournament organizers arrested – 2theadvocate.com – Mar 17 1:08 PM – Two organizers of a “Texas Hold ’em” poker tournament league have been arrested on charges of illegal gambling, state police said Thursday.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Sloozies aka sluts (pic)
* The Arcade (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day: (Click Here For More Poker Strategy)
Odds Calculators:
If you are not an “old school” sort of guy and think you can handle your own when it comes to Online Poker. Step into the 22nd century my friend and try out Automatic Odds Calculators.

What these 3rd Party Programs do for you is automatically determine your odds of making a hand by reading your hold cards and the board cards. Don’t worry – this isn’t cheating!

Click here to read our reviews on automatic odds calculating programs and what they can do for your poker game today!

March 16th, 2005

Aye Captain Poker

We have a GREAT update for you today! First, lets start with a bad-beat suffered in our Poker Forum. If you haven’t seen it yet, its brutal. Lets just say it includes a rivered flush simply devastated by quad kings.

Can’t get enough of Poker News? We’ve added an additional news section with an RSS feed to the latest news directly above the current news.

Here is picture perfect proof you can win on Paradise Poker. This picture shows the chip leader of the Bay 101 tourney who won his seat through a $5 satellite on Paradise!

Today in Poker Quick Links tons of hott poker girls, poker comics and free old school strip poker games.

Advice From Pro’s as posted on CardPlayer:

“It has always been my belief that knowing your opponents in pot-limit and no-limit hold’em — how they usually play, and how they play in specific situations — is the most important thing in the game.” – T.J. Cloutier & Tom McEvoy

Today’s Poker New’s:
* Poker craze hitting Crawford County – Telegraph-Forum – Mar 15 9:33 AM – NEW WASHINGTON — There’s a saying in the poker world: “All you need is a chip and a chair.” Translated: If you have a stake, regardless of the size, and a place to sit, you always have a chance.
* Poker fever raises concerns – The Electric New Paper – Mar 15 8:27 AM – IT is a big deal now on some US campuses. And some see it as a dangerous trend. Spurred by televised poker championships and a proliferation of websites that offer online poker game, Ivy Leagues and state universities alike have seen a spurt in the popularity of poker games.
* ‘Pegger heads to world-class poker tournament – CBC Manitoba – Mar 15 7:47 AM – WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg man is on his way to Monte Carlo to play in one of the world’s top poker tournaments. Will Clarke won his way into a paid spot at the table at the European Poker Championship by playing poker online. Normally, the entry fee into the tournament is 10,000 euros – about $17,000 Cdn.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Are These Girls REALLY Poker Players? (pic)
* Free Commodore 64 Strip Poker Games (pic)
* German Poker Cartoon (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Advantages To Keeping Notes
The reason why Online Poker can be more profitable (to the user) than live poker is simple. There are many features that a user can utilize that live poker never could offer.
For instance, some advantages that online poker has over live poker is the ability to have multiple windows open, taking player notes, and advice from friends or experts.
The advantage we are focusing on here is taking players notes.

Taking detailed notes is EXTREMELY important. WHY? Because, if your serious about playing online – YOU MUST KEEP DETAILED notes on players. Plain and simple, you will encounter the same player again.
It’s so important that we have dedicated a whole section to teaching you how to keep details notes.

March 14th, 2005

Monday Bloody Monday

Another Cinderella Story happened this weekend at the WPT’s Shooting Star tournament as poker amateur Danny Nguyen took the $1million dollar pot. That gives hope for all of us poker amateurs to win day win the big one! Read more about it in poker news…

New/Updated versions of Poker Software Reviews have been added to the Poker Forum.

More Tips For Poker Exclusive Babes are coming your way soon, keep your bookmarks locked on T4P!
If your looking for a great alternative to Party Poker, try Paradise Poker. This place is the nuts, for serious players – Paradise is key. A lot of quality poker players makes it easier to play quality poker and make a reliable living off of poker winnings.

Today’s Poker New’s:
* S.J. poker player wins $1 million pot – San Jose Mercury News – Mar 13 3:21 AM – There were cheers for Danny Nguyen at both of San Jose’s card clubs this weekend, after the local poker dealer and hometown hero won the $1 million prize in the World Poker Tour’s Shooting Star Tournament at the Bay 101 Casino.
* Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker Is a Campus Draw – New York Times – Mar 13 7:51 PM – PRINCETON, N.J. – For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends. But last fall, he says, it became the source of a six-figure income and an alternative to law school.
* Casino Aims to Keep Workers Slim, but Heavy Publicity Hasn’t Hurt – New York Times – Mar 13 8:44 PM – ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 – Calvin France sat at the bar playing video poker for a quarter a game and casting a glance now and then at Sylvester Stallone, who was putting the muscle on a deadbeat on one of the big flat-screen TV’s overhead.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* King Of Hearts (pic)
* Shana I’m SOOO Hott Hiatt (pic)
* Poker Cartoon (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Show the avatars (people in chairs), but don’t stereotype them: This is probably the most debatable tip I’m guessing, because if you’ve turned them off, you probably really don’t like the avatars to begin with. And if you do like avatars, well, they’re probably on already. I just want to get my two cents in about this Party Poker tip by saying that even though avatars are computer graphics, it’s again human nature to easily identify faces. That means we can more easily associate a personality to a face, so it makes it easier to remember how someone is playing when we can attach a face to a playing style.

March 12th, 2005
Poker Filled Weekend

You made it to the Weekend! Now, its time to sit back relax open up that corona and fire up the old poker room and join a nice SNG or Satellite.

Daniel N. updated his blog today with another interesting but bland post. Worth a look to get inside the mind of a poker champion.

Participate in Poker Trivia for REAL PRIZES in our Poker Forum and enter our “GRAND OPENING” contest to win part of $650 in poker related goods including a Phil Hellmuth card cover!

Today in Poker Quick Links babies playing poker, drug dogs and even a random comic.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* World Intercollegiate Poker Championship to be Broadcasted – Rolling Good Times – Mar 11 11:49 AM – ANTIGUA, BWI – (PRESS RELEASE) — World Poker Exchange (WPE) today announced that IFILM Corp., a leading broadband entertainment destination reaching more than five million people per month will exclusively stream clips and highlights from Worldpx.com’s first annual World Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico from March 12 – 14, 2005.
* Justice Dept. to Stenehjem: ND Internet poker bill illegal – IN-Forum News – Mar 11 4:56 PM – BISMARCK, N.D. The U.S. Justice Department has told Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem it believes a proposal to license Internet poker sites violates federal law. The legislation’s sponsor, Fargo Rep. Jim Kasper, called the agency’s opinion a “hollow threat.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Ironic Humor (pic)
* Can You Imagine This HomeGame At Your House? (pic)
* Poker Night (pic)
* Drung Dog (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Move out of the $5 tournaments ASAP:
This isn’t as much a trick as it is advice. The $5 sit and go tournaments on Party Poker are cheap, but at a price. With a $1 entry fee, this amounts to a 20% rake, which is no light task to beat. If you are good enough to win enough $5 tournaments that you can beat this rake, you are good enough to be playing at the $10 tournaments. There really is no difference between the two; and in my opinion, the $10 tournaments might even be easier because you don’t get filled out tables of nothing but calling stations. Try as you might and throw the book of poker at me, but there almost nothing humanly possible you can do at an entire table of maniacs or calling stations. The game makes more sense at $10 and even more sense at $30

March 10th, 2005
Thursday The Bland.

Just one day till the poker filled weekend. Hang in there your almost there. Check out some poker babes while your waiting!

It’s 10 days into march and we are already at the $3,000 in free money mark! If you haven’t tried these no deposit required casinos and poker rooms yet – give them a whirl.

Visit the fast growing Poker Forum and enter our contest to win part of $650 in poker related goods including a Phil Hellmuth card cover!

Today in Poker Quick Links some quality poker art prints, poker comics and even a Joopy update!

Today’s Poker News:

* TV Poker’s Rising Stakes – BusinessWeek – Mar 09 9:20 PM – World Poker Tour founder Steve Lipscomb has seen his brainchild become a ratings hit. Now he has to beat the imitators
* Charges Announced In Greensboro Poker Raid – WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com via Yahoo! News – Mar 09 9:10 AM – Two people and two businesses have been charged with violations of gambling statutes after authorities raided a poker game last week at a Greensboro Ham’s Restaurant.
* Lawmaker Want Poker Networks to Fund Help – AP via Yahoo! News – Mar 09 5:22 AM – On Bravo, it’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown.” On ESPN, it’s “The World Series of Poker.” On compulsive-gambling help lines, the real stakes emerge.
* Internet Poker Arguments Heat up Capitol – Rolling Good Times – Mar 09 5:04 PM – BISMARCK, North Dakota — As reported by the Associated Press: “North Dakota should license Internet poker sites instead of turning a blind eye to the business, and both the state’s treasury and the Bank of North Dakota would benefit, industry officials contend.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Interesting News Feature On Hold’Em (link)
* Nightmare Causing Poker Art (pic)
* Cute Strip Poker Comic (clean) (pic)
* Check Joopys Tahoe Pics (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Know Your Outs:

The rule of four-two is an extremely easy way to figure out basic odds for most situations where you know your outs. This method is not 100% accurate but it will supply you with an idea of your chances for making a hand. Here is how it works:

March 9th, 2005

March is Flying By…

Before you even know it, this month is going to be over and it will be one month closer to summer and the WPT!

Check out Daniel Negreanu’s rant on how Phil Hellmuth actually won a tournament today, its hilarious. The magician himself Antonio Esfandiari has a quality feature in Card Player today, worth a gander.

The Poker Forum was in Yahoo! news today… Are you a member yet???

Check out Sporting Bet USA for a free $10 Bet on March Madness. They also have a promotion deposit $50 via Neteller get, $50 Free. This place is money!

Today in Poker News more on North Dakota’s legal woes and information on NJ Lawmakers trying to tax Poker TV shows!

Today’s Poker New’s:

* For poker bill foes, RSI case fresh in memory – IN-Forum News – 12 minutes ago – BISMARCK — Former Gov. Art Link and other foes of Internet poker wonder why North Dakota wants to welcome a major gambling industry when the memory of Racing Services Inc. s criminal trial hasn t faded.
* Police seize poker machines; new charges to come – Hickory Daily Record – 1 hour, 44 minutes ago – Investigator: Numerous complaints received. Hickory — A poker tournament business police busted last week was dealt another bad hand Tuesday.
* NJ lawmaker wants poker networks to chip in for gambling addicts – phillyburbs.com – Mar 08 3:01 PM – ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – On Bravo, it’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown.” On ESPN, it’s “The World Series of Poker.” On compulsive gambling help lines, the real stakes emerge.
* One needs only watch cable television during prime time to figure out America’s latest craze – poker – Park Rapids Enterprise – Mar 08 1:19 PM – One needs only watch cable television during prime time to figure out America’s latest craze – poker. Celebrity poker games, the World Series of Poker and Texas Hold’em tournaments are everywhere, showing viewers how dreams can come true and Average Joes can win million-dollar pots.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Very Random Poker Comic (pic)
* The Abstract End Of Poker (pic)
* Brad Playing Poker… Is this Legal? What is this? (pic)
* How The Army Plays Poker (pic)
* Poker Babes Section, Just Do IT! (link)

Poker Tip of The Day: (Click Here For More NL Poker Strategy)
* Feel Out The Situation and Bluff HARD (C/S Rule #4)
Don’t bluff when you have Two Pair and a flush draw on the flop? No one betting, but you have position? Make a smart-bluff at the pot. Make a bet that you think that is big, but callable. Like you want someone to call you. If no one has anything watch them all fold like cowards.
Don’t be scared if you get a caller, REbluff him on the next card – IF you don’t think it helped him.
If that fails, don’t hesitate to fold

March 7th, 2005
Exclusive New Poker Babe Pics!

Joopy, our favorite poker playing beauty and also a Tips For Poker Poker Babe. Has posted some Tips For Poker Exclusive Pictures. Be sure to check them out! Thanks Joopy!

RSS/XML feeds have been added to the Poker Forum so you can now add a live bookmark. Join the contest and get your share of the $650 in Poker Related Prizes!!

Check out Sporting Bet USA for a free $10 Bet on March Madness.

Today in Poker News North Dakota is under fire for its attempts to legalize online poker.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Lobbying blitz beginning on Internet poker measure – IN-Forum News – Mar 06 4:57 PM – BISMARCK, N.D. Licensing Internet poker sites can help prevent gambling by youngsters, compulsive gambling and other consequences that concern state policy-makers, an Internet gambling company executive believes.
* Internet poker bill: Feds say it’s illegal – Bismarck Tribune – Mar 06 2:12 AM – Supporters of making North Dakota the first U.S. home for Internet poker sites face a difficult hurdle — the federal Justice Department believes the idea is illegal.
* Poker players ante up under deal – News-Record – Mar 06 12:17 AM – GREENSBORO — Prosecutors on Friday won more than the pot from 14 poker players charged after a late-night raid of a secret Greensboro poker parlor in December.
Poker Quick Link’s:
* Poker Software (link)
* How Do You Keep a Poker Player Busy? (pic)
* Annie Duke, the Hillary Clinton Of Poker (pic)
* Nude Poker Chips (pic)
* Poker Babes Section, A Classic (link)

March 5th, 2005

March Madness!

The Poker Forum contest is going great! Already 21+ members. If you haven’t stopped in yet, be sure to stop by for your chance at $650 in Poker Related Prizes.
Check out Sporting Bet USA for a free $10 Bet on March Madness.
Poker News Popular UK Betting site is making big waves with their new poker room . Tips For Poker investigated it today and found over 5,000 players today at 5PM PST!
If you’ve never seen PokerPulse before you must check that site out. Very interesting statistics for online poker.
Today’s Poker News:

* Ukbetting launches online poker site – Reuters.co.uk – Mar 04 4:56 AM – LONDON (Reuters) – British online betting firm ukbetting Plc has launched a new poker site, boosting its shares as a new report predicts the online poker market could double in 2005.
* Bikers can play in annual poker run – The Reporter – Mar 04 6:29 AM – ABATE Local 17’s 16th annual FYAO Poker Run takes place Sunday. Sign-ups will be held at Miss Darla’s, 110 Peabody Road in Vacaville from 9 to 11 a.m. Run pins will be given to the first 200 entrants. Cost is $10 per person and is open to all bikers.
* Big poker winner to visit state for hearing – Bismarck Tribune – Mar 04 2:12 AM – A man who won $5 million playing Texas Hold ’em poker will be among several Internet poker representatives visiting Bismarck next week to promote the industry in North Dakota.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* PartyRiches Forum, A Must (link)
* One Classy Poker Video (pic)
* Some Nice SOFTware (pic)
* Check Out These Stacks (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
* Use Your Mind (Common Sense Rule #2)
Think through every hand. The pro’s get to the final tournaments because they think through every hand and every move the person made. Think HARD! What hand do you think they have? What hand do you think they just made? Why are they betting this much? Are just a few examples of questions you should be asking yourself.

March 30th, 2005

Good News Wednesday

Did I say good news Wednesday? I meant GREAT NEWS WEDNESDAY!

First, Tips For Poker would love to announce our 1st $100 EXCLUSIVE TIPS FOR POKER FREEROLL for members of our forum. Click here for more details.

Second, ABSOLUTE Vodka is still giving away FREE DECK OF CARDS. And the World Poker Exchange is still giving away a free poker t-shirt.

Today’s Poker News:

* Wow, Not Sure How Good This Hand is In Draw – But I LOVE IT (pic)
* Maybe Brunette is your thing (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker FORUM Section (link)

The advantage is he will now know for the most part exactly how he plays. His bluffs, his tells (if any) and his betting structure.

Taking notes during a tournament not only keeps you alert and busy but, it keeps you from playing the hands that will bust you out of the tournament quick.

March 28th, 2005

Its SPRING, How about A Free DECK OF CARDS!!!

Alright, a lot of people believed me about the Noble Poker, offer. Because, I received about a dozen e-mails thanking me how incredibly easy it was to extract the max $300 bonus from this site.

Additionally, World Poker Exchange is giving away a free t-shirt for signing up.

Quote from site; “By completing this registration page, a promotional T-Shirt will be sent to you, and you will have access to play free money games at World Poker Exchange”

Enjoy your free Poker gear and cya tomorrow! Ehh you want more free poker stuff you say?

Today’s Poker News:

* Strip Poker Sloozie (pic)
* Star Trek Poker (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

3rd Party Programs In a Tournament Situation

Using a program such as Poker Office, a tournament player can gain an advantage very easily.

By monitoring his/hers own play – the player can find the mistakes they are making and quickly remedy them.

Programs like Poker Office, also watches your opponents. Giving you a great idea of their play style. IE) loose, reckless, aggressive, etc.

You should step up to a program such as Poker Office and see your tournament play increase almost instantly.

March 26th, 2005

Holy Bonuses Batman!

You can easily play for a couple hours and clear the whole bonus and cash out if you like! You like free money don’t you? Of course you do! Who doesn’t? Go play at Noble Poker.

I’d give it about a week before the naked cowboy from New York realizes his advertising potential at the WSOP.

Today’s Poker News:

* Hilarious Poker Video (vid)
* One Game Of Hold’Em I’d Like To Get In On! (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forums (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

March 24th, 2005

Have you seen the *new* upgraded version of Poker Room? Tips For Poker’s very own EG, visited it and wrote up this quality review citing why you might want to revisit PokerRoom!

Have you ever imagined playing poker on your cell phone? Well mid next month you’ll be able to. Read this on why!
Read Daniel N’s updated Blog on his recent tournament loss in Rio.

Today’s Poker News:

* Hilarious Poker Video (vid)
* One Game Of Hold’Em I’d Like To Get In On! (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Forums (link)

Poker Tip of The Day: (Click Here For More Poker Strategy)

March 22nd, 2005
Bad News For Online Poker

Today in Poker News, the attempted measure to legalize online poker in North Dakota was defeated by the senate. Maybe next year boys!

If you like to talk poker, check out our Poker Forum – which broke a new record of over 37 people on at a single time yesterday!

Check out this funny picture of snowmen playing poker in poker quick links.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* Snow Poker, Classic(pic)
* Save Toby, a must (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

March 21st, 2005
Freerolls, Freerolls, FREEROLLS!

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Snow Poker, Classic(pic)
* Save Toby, a must (link)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

March 20th, 2005

Sunday Is Free Money Day!

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Today’s Poker News:

Poker Quick Link’s:
* This Lady Loves Holdem (pic)
* Carmen Electra Plays Poker (pic)
* Poker Cartoon Of The Day (link)
* Poker Babes (link)

March 18th, 2005

Friday Means PARTY TIME!

Hope you all had a great St. Patricks day and hopefully your hangover isn’t too big!

Lets Talk Inspiration… Inspiration to play poker, Inspiration to win big – well here is your INSPIRATION.

Unfortunately, we have some bad news – as today in a poker robbery gone horribly bad a fatal shooting occurred. Read all about this tragedy here.

Did you know that card shark Amarillo Slim was kidnapped in Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar? Read more in his feature in CardPlayer

The boys at FORTUNE CASINO wanted me to tell you that if you deposit $50 using NETeller you get $50 free. Read all about fortune casino in our free money section.

What these 3rd Party Programs do for you is automatically determine your odds of making a hand by reading your hold cards and the board cards. Don’t worry – this isn’t cheating!

Click here to read our reviews on automatic odds calculating programs and what they can do for your poker game today!

March 16th, 2005

Aye Captain Poker

Can’t get enough of Poker News? We’ve added an additional news section with an RSS feed to the latest news directly above the current news.

Here is picture perfect proof you can win on Paradise Poker. This picture shows the chip leader of the Bay 101 tourney who won his seat through a $5 satellite on Paradise!

Today in Poker Quick Links tons of hott poker girls, poker comics and free old school strip poker games.

Advice From Pro’s as posted on CardPlayer:

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Are These Girls REALLY Poker Players? (pic)
* Free Commodore 64 Strip Poker Games (pic)
* German Poker Cartoon (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

March 14th, 2005

Monday Bloody Monday

New/Updated versions of Poker Software Reviews have been added to the Poker Forum.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* King Of Hearts (pic)
* Shana I’m SOOO Hott Hiatt (pic)
* Poker Cartoon (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

March 12th, 2005
Poker Filled Weekend

You made it to the Weekend! Now, its time to sit back relax open up that corona and fire up the old poker room and join a nice SNG or Satellite.

Daniel N. updated his blog today with another interesting but bland post. Worth a look to get inside the mind of a poker champion.

Participate in Poker Trivia for REAL PRIZES in our Poker Forum and enter our “GRAND OPENING” contest to win part of $650 in poker related goods including a Phil Hellmuth card cover!

Today in Poker Quick Links babies playing poker, drug dogs and even a random comic.

Today’s Poker New’s:

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Ironic Humor (pic)
* Can You Imagine This HomeGame At Your House? (pic)
* Poker Night (pic)
* Drung Dog (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

March 10th, 2005
Thursday The Bland.

Just one day till the poker filled weekend. Hang in there your almost there. Check out some poker babes while your waiting!

It’s 10 days into march and we are already at the $3,000 in free money mark! If you haven’t tried these no deposit required casinos and poker rooms yet – give them a whirl.

Visit the fast growing Poker Forum and enter our contest to win part of $650 in poker related goods including a Phil Hellmuth card cover!

Today in Poker Quick Links some quality poker art prints, poker comics and even a Joopy update!

Today’s Poker News:

Poker Tip of The Day:
Know Your Outs:

March 9th, 2005

March is Flying By…

Before you even know it, this month is going to be over and it will be one month closer to summer and the WPT!

The Poker Forum was in Yahoo! news today… Are you a member yet???

Check out Sporting Bet USA for a free $10 Bet on March Madness. They also have a promotion deposit $50 via Neteller get, $50 Free. This place is money!

Today in Poker News more on North Dakota’s legal woes and information on NJ Lawmakers trying to tax Poker TV shows!

Today’s Poker New’s:

March 7th, 2005
Exclusive New Poker Babe Pics!

Joopy, our favorite poker playing beauty and also a Tips For Poker Poker Babe. Has posted some Tips For Poker Exclusive Pictures. Be sure to check them out! Thanks Joopy!

RSS/XML feeds have been added to the Poker Forum so you can now add a live bookmark. Join the contest and get your share of the $650 in Poker Related Prizes!!

Check out Sporting Bet USA for a free $10 Bet on March Madness.

Today in Poker News North Dakota is under fire for its attempts to legalize online poker.

Today’s Poker New’s:

March 3rd, 2005
Exciting News And Bonuses!

Our Poker Forum contest continues, here is your chance to win over $650 in poker related prizes from Tips For Poker!

Joopy the poker playing hottie recently updated her pics, be sure to check them out!

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Today in poker news, WSOP info tips from poker pro Phil Gordon and much much more.

Today’s Poker New’s:

* World Series of Poker taping at Rincon Casino – The Californian – Mar 02 5:08 PM – RINCON —- Wednesday marks the final day that residents of San Diego County can catch world-class poker action in their own backyard.
* In Poker, He’s One of a Kind – Rolling Good Times – Mar 02 12:28 PM – CALIFORNIA — As reported by the Mercury News: “Phil Gordon knows the exact moment he became a poker player. It was 1 a.m. on a Wednesday in 1991 at San Jose’s Garden City Casino.
* Absolute Poker Celebrates 100 Million Hands Played, Offers Cash Bonuses to Coincide with Milestone – [Press Release] PR Web – Mar 02 5:24 PM – Online poker destination Absolute Poker is quickly approaching the 100 million hands played milestone. To celebrate, Absolute Poker is offering some fantastic cash prizes for online poker players who are logged the day the 100 millionth hand is played. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2005]
* Poker Most Popular Game at the Online Casino – Online Casino Reports – Mar 02 7:10 AM – Online Casino Reports has been documenting the rising trend in online casino poker and it has certainly taken first place in terms when it comes to the most popular games you can find at the online casinos. There are many contributing factors to the rise in popularity of online casino poker.
* Absolute Poker Celebrates 100 Million Hands Played, Offers Cash Bonuses to Coincide with Milestone – [Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News – Mar 02 4:00 AM – (PRWEB) March 2, 2005 – – Absolute Poker ( www.AbsolutePoker.com ), one of the web”s most popular and successful online poker sites, is days away from setting a new company benchmark when it deals its 100 millionth hand. As this milestone approaches, the excitement is building — Absolute Poker players are getting ready to win cash prizes that commemorate this event.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Joopy Updated Her Pics (link)
* A Sneak Peak (pic)
* Never seen cufflinks like these before (pic)
* Old School Strip Poker, Commadore Style (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Play Less Hands (Common Sense Rule #1)
The less hands you play, the more money you keep. This doesn’t just go for tournaments but for poker in general. Play only the best possible hands you can! Meaning, only play the hands that will give you the best return on your investment. Duh!

March 1st, 2005

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Today in poker news, stock analysts are predicting that Poker is the next dotcom bubble!

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Today’s Poker New’s:

* More poker players take plea deals – Galveston County Daily News – 1 hour, 2 minutes ago – TEXAS CITY Of the 78 people cited for gambling in a poker raid at a bar in December, only nine have elected to continue the fight. On Monday, 22 were due in court. The defendants, who faced class C misdemeanor gambling charges, originally turned down a plea bargain in favor of setting a trial date.
* State tells taverns to fold their poker tournaments – Lansing State Journal – Feb 28 3:51 PM – BAY CITY – Players might argue otherwise, but state regulators say there’s enough luck to Texas hold ’em to make it illegal for bars to host the wildly popular poker game.
* GSN Poker Royale Hosts Battle of the Sexes – Rolling Good Times – Feb 28 10:43 AM – SANTA MONICA, California – (PRESS RELEASE) — The name calling has been done, sarcastic punches thrown, and the men have won every single previous match in the series — it all comes down to the final table of six players in GSN’s POKER ROYALE: BATTLE OF THE SEXES where on Friday, March 4 at 9:00PM ET/PT one gender will prove once and for all who is better skilled at No Limit Texas Hold’Em. Will
* Online poker ‘a gamble too far’ – Evening Standard – Feb 27 7:30 AM – ONLINE poker sites have expanded dramatically in recent years, but analysts are warning that they may prove a gamble too far and become the next dotcom bubble.

Poker Quick Link’s:
* Aliens Playing Poker (pic)
* Is That Howard The Duck In The Corner? (pic)
* Shes Holding My Cards (pic)
* The Alltime Greatest Card Holder “GOLDEN GONZO” (pic)
* Poker Babes Section (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Add fish to your Buddy List
This is a pretty popular tip used by many of the good players on Party Poker. By checking your buddy list off and on, you can see when your favorite maniacs are logging on to play. Though you are unable to see exactly which table they are seated at, you can manually search through the tables to look for your target.
This tip is mainly useful if you are adding maniacs to your buddy list, as maniacs tend to create table dynamics that are much better for you than say, a calling station. With a maniac at the table and five calling stations for example, there will be serious pots being generated, so you can score big if you hit your cards. At the same token however, with so many drawers in the pot, your chances for getting outdrawn are very high. Just remember that.

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February 27th, 2005

NEW CONTEST, Major Poker Prizes!

In order to stimulate healthy growth of our poker community forum we are offering another excellent contest offering over $650 in poker-related prizes!

In order to win these great prizes simply register at our new forums and post (5) or more quality posts and you automatically qualify for this contest!

Prizes include $100 Bankrolls to your Favorite Poker Room, Poker E-books, Poker Chips, Poker Software and much more.

Today in poker news, one of the most “hated” poker players Dutch Boyd makes news for his devious human tattoo advertising. As well as some information on teen related gambling addiction.

The Gaming Club Poker – was so full of fish tonight it was ridiculous. Even if your a mediocre player its relatively easy to pull a couple hundred from this place.

Tips For Poker is now proud to present an exclusive bonus code for Full Tilt Poker.

* I Host – Inventors of Human Billboard Tattooing Gamble on Dutch Boyd Sponsorship in World Series of Poker – Web Host Directory – Feb 25 9:34 AM – C I Host, a global leader in Web hosting and data center operations, has stacked the deck with guerilla marketing. Today, it announced television sponsorship of ESPN World Series of Poker contender Dutch Boyd during circuit competition. First stop — Harrah’s Rincon San Diego casino.
* Teens catching poker fever – The Indianapolis Star – Feb 26 11:08 AM – A beam of light shines like a spotlight on a green-felt table. Sitting behind stacks of red, white and blue chips in a basement in Lawrence, players intently study their opponents.
* Poker tournament winners to earn bean-bag toss-up – Daily Pennsylvanian – Feb 25 2:42 AM – State gambling law may interfere with a poker tournament this weekend since monetary prizes cannot be directly awarded to the winners. (adv)

* Quality Poker Face (pic)
* Another Poker Comic (pic)
* Poker Babe Jennie Garth (pic)
* Random Poker Hottie (pic)
* New Evelyn NG Section @ Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Taking Notes In a Tournament:
A very valuable skill in an online tournament is taking notes.

A good player (in a multiple table tourney situation) will be watching multiple tables and taking notes on each player — knowing he will shortly encounter that player.

The advantage is he will now know for the most part exactly how he plays. His bluffs, his tells (if any) and his betting structure.

Taking notes during a tournament not only keeps you alert and busy but, it keeps you from playing the hands that will bust you out of the tournament quick.

February 25th, 2005

Poker Friday
Congratulations! You made it to the end of the week. It’s Friday and you know what that means, POKER NIGHT!

Today in news, there is some really important posts about legalizing online gambling in North Dakota! As well an update about the PartyGaming IPO!

Bored Tonight? Check out, The Gaming Club Poker – this action on here is insanely hot. Fishes run rampart and its easy to turn $100bucks into $300-$500 in some $50N/L Games overnight.

Joopy put up some fancy new pictures of her in some fishnets, be sure not to miss these!

Tips For Poker is proud to present an exclusive bonus code for Full Tilt Poker.

Rec.Gambling.Poker is now available in our Poker Forum !

* WPT Invitational Draws Poker and Hollywood Stars – Rolling Good Times – Feb 24 9:46 AM – COMMERCE, California – (PRESS RELEASE) — The World Poker Tour’s annual star-studded WPT Invitational today at the Commerce Casino brought out Hollywood’s new crop of poker aficionados including such personalities as Ray Romano, Camryn Manheim, Jon Favreau, the Masterson Brothers Danny and Chris, Brad Garrett, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers, Mena Suvari, Ed Asner, Norm MacDonald, Lou Diamond Phillips,
* Man faces jail for illegal poker game – WRGB – Feb 24 6:18 AM – (Rochester, NY – AP) — A 61-year-old man ordered to spend nine months in Monroe County Jail for running an illegal poker game says he was unfairly singled out by Rochester police.
* Online Poker: IPOs in the Cards? – BusinessWeek – Feb 24 7:58 PM – Investors looking to get into Internet gaming may soon be able to place their bets on Europe’s PartyGaming. Other sites could follow
* Full deck of visitors to lobby for poker – Bismarck Tribune – Feb 23 11:12 PM – A legislator’s push to legalize Internet poker sites is drawing major attention from the offshore Internet poker industry, prompting industry leaders to plan visits to the state.

* Quality Poker Face (pic)
* Another Poker Comic (pic)
* Poker Babe Jennie Garth (pic)
* Random Poker Hottie (pic)
* New Evelyn NG Section @ Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Use POKER SOFTWARE!!!

February 25th, 2005

North DAKOTA Seeks To Legalize Online Poker

Today we have some very important news. North Dakota is seeking permission (and quickly gaining it) from its citizens and law makers to be the first state to legalize online gaming. Read the full article here.

IF your a Deborah Gibson fan your going to love this picture of her playing some hold’em.

The recent WPT Invitational took off and brought such celebrities as Ray Ramono and other pertinent Hollywood VIPS. Read the full article here.

Tips For Poker is proud to present an exclusive bonus code for Full Tilt Poker.

Rec.Gambling.Poker is now available in our Poker Forum !

* Poker Club President Gets Jail Time – R News – 1 hour, 4 minutes ago – Luck has run out for a man who hosted poker tournaments in the Rochester area. The president of the “Texas Hold ‘Em Club” of Rochester, is now in jail.
* Full deck of visitors to lobby for poker – Bismarck Tribune – 21 minutes ago – A legislator’s push to legalize Internet poker sites is drawing major attention from the offshore Internet poker industry, prompting industry leaders to plan visits to the state.
* Social poker the best kind – Corvallis Gazette Times – Feb 23 7:28 PM – Let’s hope Corvallis is starting a trend: People meeting face-to-face for high fun, low-tech entertainment that doesn’t involve electronic beeping or even the 21st Century. Instead, the new thing is a refreshing blast from the past: low-stakes poker for social purposes.
* Push to Change the Constitution for Internet Poker – KFYR – 2 hours, 51 minutes ago – THE STATE HOUSE HAS GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT TO ALLOW LIVE INTERNET POKER SITES TO COME TO NORTH DAKOTA… AND NOW IT’S THE SENATE’S TURN TO LOOK AT IT. BUT THERE’S A BIG HURDLE IN THE WAY… AND THAT’S THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

* Deborah Gibson Plays Poker (pic)
* Dutch Boyd Chip Roll Video (vid)
* If SuperHeroes Player Poker (pic)
* AWESOME Poker Video (vid)
* New Evelyn NG Section @ Poker Babes (link)
Poker Tip of the Day
Use A Four Color Deck:

This might seem basic, but, its actually quite advanced. In a recent survey, 6/10 people actually refuse (or don’t know how) to change their options to 4-Color Decks.

Its fairly simple and seemingly obvious, just go into the options section and click the Four Color Decks. You now have an advantage over many mistake making folks out there!

Everyone who has played long enough has probably misread their cards at some point or another (usually after a long stretch), especially flushes. Using a four colored deck makes it much easier to identify flushes (and more importantly flush draw threats) and enables you to use your brain powers elsewhere.

February 22nd, 2005

Good News

The Poker Babes section got a boost today with the addition of a special and exclusive Evelyn Ng section. Featuring an awesome video – be sure not to miss this one!

If you’ve got an awesome “poker” room that your starting somewhere in your house or garage. You will probably want to check into getting a print of this awesome poker art.

Live in the LA Area? Check out Commerce Casinos latest promotion inviting you to bring your home game to them! Drinks, everything is on the house.

* Is no-stakes poker a crime? – Omaha World-Herald – Feb 21 10:24 PM – ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Not 20 minutes into a Texas Hold’em poker tournament at the Granite Bowl bar and grill here, Minnesota State Sen. Mike McGinn pushed his entire pile of chips into the pot.
* Sportingbet delivers record H1 profit after Paradise Poker deal – Sharewatch – 1 hour, 9 minutes ago – LONDON (AFX) – Sportingbet PLC, the world’s biggest online gaming group, posted record first-half profit buoyed by a first contribution from recently acquired unit Paradise Poker.
* U.S. Poker Series Launches West Coast and Northeast Operation – Press Release] PR Web – 55 minutes ago – Corportate Entertainment and Event operator of the Travelin’ Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament establishes regional offices to meet demand. [PRWEB Feb 22, 2005]

* Awesome Poker Art (pic)
* Here’s A Poker Game I’d Like To Be Involved In (pic)
* An Aliens Last Supper (pic)
* Odd But Funny Poker Comic (pic)
* New Evelyn NG Section @ Poker Babes (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Add fish to your Buddy List

This tip is mainly useful if you are adding maniacs to your buddy list, as maniacs tend to create table dynamics that are much better for you than say, a calling station. With a maniac at the table and five calling stations for example, there will be serious pots being generated, so you can score big if you hit your cards. At the same token however, with so many drawers in the pot, your chances for getting outdrawn are very high. Just remember that.

February 21st, 2005

Good morning fellow Poker Players. It’s an excellent day to celebrate Presidents Day.

In a bizarre related advertising story, Golden Palace paid this woman upwards $15K to advertise on her breasts.

Check out other ridiculous eBay auctions won buy goldenpalace.

Our Poker Forum is taking off! Get over there and start chatting.

How about this article asserting that poker is simply just luck?

* (AFX UK Focus) 2005-02-21 07:57 GMT: Gaming Corp launches online poker site – Interactive Investor – 1 hour, 29 minutes ago -LONDON (AFX) – Gaming Corp PLC said it launched an online poker site, www.findpoker.com. Gaming Corp said it aims to replicate its successful casino.co.uk website, which currently generates over 2 mln monthly visitors.
* Poker Academy Donates $13,000 of Texas Holdem Software to Lehigh University for Continued Research and Development in – [Press Release] PR Web – 1 hour, 25 minutes ago Poker Academy, a leading software developer of poker products, has donated $13,000 in software to Lehigh University for students in computer science and engineering to use in artificial intelligence (AI) research projects. [PRWEB Feb 21, 2005]
* Computer Genius and Poker Pro David Glazen Reveals How Anyone Can Make Money at Online Poker with an Automated PokerBot – [Press Release] PR Web – 1 hour, 26 minutes agoDavid Glazen offers to teach a few memebers of the public how they can build online poker playing computer programs that consistenly beat human opponents. [PRWEB Feb 21, 2005]

* Poker Babe Evelyn Ng (pic)
* Hope She Swings Both Ways (pic)
* Poker Comic (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Show the avatars (people in chairs), but don’t stereotype them:

This is probably the most debatable tip I’m guessing, because if you’ve turned them off, you probably really don’t like the avatars to begin with. And if you do like avatars, well, they’re probably on already. I just want to get my two cents in about this Party Poker tip by saying that even though avatars are computer graphics, it’s again human nature to easily identify faces. That means we can more easily associate a personality to a face, so it makes it easier to remember how someone is playing when we can attach a face to a playing style.

February 20th, 2005

Poker Humor, More Babes and Poker Forum

In the latest and greatest series of Ebay-related poker stunts we are blessed with the addition of the “Pink Bunny Suit” walking poker advertisement done by none other than Tips For Poker infamous friend and fellow affiliate Jeremy Enke.

Check out Joopy’s exclusive picture for RATE MY POKER FACE, here’s your chance to give feedback to the amateur poker hottie we all love!

LA POKER CLASSIC is going on right now, news regarding the tournament outcome and action is expected soon!

Our Poker Forum is fast becoming an excellent resource for this website. You are strongly encouraged to join today and begin talking with your fellow Tips For Poker Bretheren!

* Poker run helps Albany animals – WALB News 10 – 57 minutes ago – Albany- More than 200 riders participated in today’s Poker Run to help the Albany Humane Society. The 25 mile course made five stops, the last stop, a party and chance to check their cards. Drivers paid an entry fee, but many also brought bags of change as a donation.
* 2K Sports Signs Licensing Agreement With WPT Enterprises, Inc. For Console, PC And Handheld Games Based On World Poker – GameInfoWire – Feb 19 12:32 PM
The games will create an authentic World Poker Tour experience for users simulating the excitement of the smash hit television show
* Online poker deals jump in earnings – Canoe – Feb 18 11:46 PM – TORONTO — CryptoLogic Inc.’s move to capitalize on the demand for online poker has “paid off in spades,” the Internet casino and poker software firm said yesterday as it posted a 25 per cent gain in quarterly profits, increased revenues by a third and saw its stock rise more than 10 per cent.
* Ebay’s World Famous Pink Bunny Poker/Body Advertising Auction Getting Record Number of Visitors – [Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News – Feb 19 4:00 AM
(PRWEB) February 19, 2005 — One of the worlds top online poker affiliates is now auctioning himslef off to the tune of $150,000 on Ebay to play poker in Las Vegas for 30 days wearing a Pink Bunny suit. The auction can be viewed at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5958012369

* Poker Babe Evelyn Ng (pic)
* Hope She Swings Both Ways (pic)
* Poker Comic (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Get hand histories when players don’t show their at the river:

Great Party Poker trick that I’m sure many people have figured out. Many times on the river, only the winning hand is shown – but you are very interested in seeing what the loser was holding too. Simply click on the hand number at the top right of the screen and request the hand history for that game.

February 18th, 2005

New Forums Are Ready

Tips For Poker has installed the latest and greatest VBulletin Software in our new forums!

Start chatting in our new forums today.

LA POKER CLASSIC Begins Today! If you had the $10,000USD to enter – good luck to you. We will keep you posted on who is playing and who is leading as it happens.

Have you seen this new Budweiser Energy Drink? Pretty good stuff, just tried some at 7-11 its like Redbull but BEER! You should look into trying it on this wonderful Friday night.

Going to Vegas soon? Might want to hold off until March. Insanity The Ride is coming to the Stratosphere. You really must see this ride to believe it. Literally its INSANE!

Got Poker Software?

* Take-Two Signs with World Poker Tour for Game – -Reuters via Yahoo! News – Feb 17 7:50 AM – Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., working quickly to expand its sports business, on Thursday said it signed a deal with the World Poker Tour for poker video games.
* Smokes’ poker prize fizzles – Daily Pennsylvanian – Feb 18 2:40 AM – College senior Lauren Kowtna used to be a weekly customer at Smokey Joe’s bar, but now she vows never to return. Kowtna is upset because Smokey Joe’s owner Paul Ryan refuses to give her the iPod that was promised to the winner of a 10-week Texas Hold’em poker tournament last semester.
* WPT BOOT CAMP(TM) Announces Initial Locations for Poker Instruction – [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance – Feb 18 9:00 AM – Ever wish you knew the poker pros’ secrets for winning multimillion-dollar pots?

* Awesome Poker Commercial (vid)
* Another Great Poker Video (vid)
* Semi-Entertaining Video (vid)
* If You Thought That Was Bad – Worse (pic)
* The Hottest Poker Babes (link)
* OT: Quite Possible The Best Music Video Ever (vid)

Poker Tip of the Day
Move out of the $5 tournaments ASAP:

February 17th, 2005

In a startling new trend home games are routinely becoming subject to armed robberies. Read the latest news on yet ANOTHER hold-em hold-up. The robbers scored over 15K in this hit alone.

Ever wondered what it would be like to play with Chris “MoneyMaker” – read this recent AP interview of a journalist slash poker hobbiest who got the pleasure of dancing with the accountant himself.

Speaking of Chris Moneymaker, did you ever see his cameo in “Poker For Dummies”? That had to be the all time WORST instructional poker video. It looked as if MoneyMaker was either stoned, hung over or both.

Check out our Poker Quick Links section to read an excellent Poker Comic.

Don’t even try telling me that you don’t use Poker Software yet… Well if you don’t its about damn time you start.

* AP Plays Poker With Winner Moneymaker – AP via Yahoo! News – Feb 16 8:29 AM – I have stared directly into the Oakleys, and lived to tell the tale. Playing poker with Chris Moneymaker, the accountant who came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker, is a bit like shooting hoops with Michael Jordan — though lady luck can even the odds slightly.
* Is it time to fold or bet on poker chokers, tees? – Bradenton Herald – 10 minutes ago – Is it time to fold or bet on poker chokers, tees? I f you’re on the fence over whether the poker craze sweeping the nation is a good thing or a bad thing, consider the following exhibits, all touted by fashion heavies as the very picture of hip.
* Poker wear becomes a best bet – North Jersey.com – Feb 16 9:03 PM – If you’re on the fence over whether the poker craze sweeping the nation is a good thing or a bad thing, consider the following exhibits, all touted by fashion heavies as the very picture of hip.
* Police seek two suspects who robbed local poker game – The Huntington Herald-Dispatch – 1 hour, 15 minutes ago -Two armed robbers made way with $15,085 from eight individuals during a local poker game at 12:03 a.m. Wednesday. Witnesses told police that an approximately 30-year-old male and an approximately 20-year-old female kicked open the front door of an apartment in the 2600 block of Collis Avenue.

* Awesome Poker Comic (pic)
* Don’t Ya Wish This Was You? (pic)
* 80’s Flash Back (pic)
* If You Thought That Was Bad – Worse (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Buy-In More Than Necessary :

There are more than a variety of reasons for buying in more than necessary at the poker table.
Intimidation Factor
Reserves
Having “THE NUTS” and not being able to raise.
Although, the minimum suggested 20times the big blind is hardly what people buy-in with to this day. I would recommend a buy-in more on the lines of at least 50times the big blind.
After you start doing this – you will notice people respect your raises/play more. You will always have the opportunity to raise (not be the person who flops a boat, and is out of cash). And will always have a cash reserve after a bad beat.

February 16th, 2005

Poker Art Sells for 600k

An example of just how ridiculously big poker is , the “Dogs Playing Poker” painting sold for close to 600K on the auction block today.

Don’t believe us that Poker is absolutely out of control HUGE? How about this article that estimates 100MILLION is wagered online everyday.

In a recent outbreak of Poker Related robberies. We find yet another robbery, this one a home game. BE SAFE OUT THERE!

Lesson learned: Don’t invite strangers to your home game.

With our recent increase in traffic (largely due to the Poker-Babes section) we have also had a lot more people taking advantage of our FREE MONEY NO DEPOSIT REQUIRED section. If you haven’t already, check it out!

Like our content? Of course you do – sign up for a membership.

* Dogs-Playing-Poker Paintings Fetch $590G – AP via Yahoo! News – Feb 15 6:17 PM – A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000 at auction Tuesday.
* Area residents win at poker – Rapid City Journal – 31 minutes ago – DEADWOOD Floyd Dahl of Deadwood won first place and took home $4,500 in the Cadillac Jack’s Gaming Resort SUPERBOWL Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament last weekend.
* Dogs playing poker’ paintings fetch $600,000 US – CTV.ca – Feb 15 5:43 PM -The painting ‘A Bold Bluff,’ by artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. NEW YORK — A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000 at auction Tuesday.
* Online Poker: Children Are Getting Hooked – CBS 2 New York – Feb 15 2:11 PM – Dozens of internet sites offer poker games for real money. Big money, in fact. An estimated $100,000,000 is wagered at poker sites each day. Now, there’s a new concern about children getting hooked on poker. Video: Tony Aiello reports.

* Poker Dogs Game (pic)
* Fido’s Casino (pic)
* Do You Ever Get Sick Of These Dogs? (pic)
* Brunson Style Poker (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Add fish to your Buddy List

This is a pretty popular tip used by many of the good players on Party Poker. By checking your buddy list off and on, you can see when your favorite maniacs are logging on to play. Though you are unable to see exactly which table they are seated at, you can manually search through the tables to look for your target.
This tip is mainly useful if you are adding maniacs to your buddy list, as maniacs tend to create table dynamics that are much better for you than say, a calling station. With a maniac at the table and five calling stations for example, there will be serious pots being generated, so you can score big if you hit your cards. At the same token however, with so many drawers in the pot, your chances for getting outdrawn are very high. Just remember that.

February 15th, 2005

Poker Players ROBBED & New Poker Movie

First and foremost, we added new “full nude” gallery to the Shana HiattSection on Poker Babes.

Secondly, check out “ROOKIES” picture in our quick links section.

BREAKING NEWS: just hours ago another Poker Related robbery occurred. This one is actually related to video poker, but, if you remember correctly several months ago a WSOP was robbed. As poker gains its popularity we can expect this trend to continue.

New Poker related movie called “LUCKY YOU” , starring Drew Barrymore and focused around WSOP events is set to debut in a couple of months. Read about LUCKY YOU here.

Speaking of Poker – check out our new POKER TV link on the left hand side underneath the main menu!

* Masked man steals video poker money – New Orleans Times-Picayune – 2 hours, 9 minutes ago – A man wearing a mask that partially covered his face and who implied he had a gun robbed an Arabi restaurant of its video poker money Saturday night, authorities said.
* Optimal Video Poker Review [Mobile] – GameSpot – Feb 14 4:18 PM – If video poker’s your thing, laying down some chips on this game is a very smart bet.
* You Can Trust Your Intuition at Video Poker, but Just So far – Rolling Good Times – Feb 14 9:14 PM – Suppose you got a starting hand of 3-H 7-H 8-H 9-H 10-D at video poker. Do you ditch the diamond and look for the heart flush. Or throw the three and hope for a straight?
* Las Vegas, Nevada-World Series of Poker Comes to Hollywood – New Hollywood Motion Picture “Lucky You” Scheduled for – [Press Release] PR Web – 45 minutes ago
Drew Barrymore and Eric Bana are set to star in “Lucky You” at Warner Bros. Story revolves around struggling singer (Drew Barrymore)who hooks up with professional poker player (Eric Bana)as he collides with his estranged father at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. The casting company for the movie is currently seeking poker players and dealers for the film. Details and application forms are

* Claymation Poker, now you’ve seen it all (pic)
* Classic Poker Art (pic)
* Rookies (pic)
* Funny Poker Comic (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Learn To LEAVE!

Not only is this a great tip for poker players – but gamblers in general. However, this rule is often overlooked, even by professionals.
There is a simple rule of thumb, when your up LEAVE! Odd’s are that you can only go down from here. So, do yourself a favor and listen to the voice of reason nagging at you in the back of your head. It’s there for a reason.
Another huge advantage to Online Poker is that there is always another table just waiting for you, so if you’ve experienced 5 bad beats in a row at one table. It’s quite simple – just get up and leave.
You might be wondering why this rule is in the ADVANCED strategy section. Quite simply, its what sets apart professional gamblers from amateurs. Professionals know when its time to walk.

February 14th, 2005

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

May you find your love in something other than poker today…

NEW POKER BABES ADDED

Free Poker Cards

ABOUT FULL TILT:
The much debated site Full Tilt Poker , is to many poker players surprise still in action. The sites primary focus to connect professional players to everyday fans has somewhat diminished.

In fact, over a three day period of investigating Full Tilt Poker we were hard pressed to find a single poker celebrity. We were engaged in their WSOP Satellites where the competition was soft at best. The satellite gives us our choice of (4) WSOP main events later next month.

* Calling their bluff: State gets tough on `charitable’ poker games – Boston Herald – 1 hour, 22 minutes ago – Authorities are cracking down on a wildly popular new poker game spreading across the state, worried that clubs and charities sponsoring the big-money tournaments could run afoul of the law. “We con…
* Unique Online Poker Website Gives Away Free Playing Cards – [Press Release] PR Web – 54 minutes ago – PokerFaces.net is a unique new poker website which caters for poker players bringing a touch of reality to the faceless world of online poker. As a part of the new wave of poker interest, they are giving away free packs of playing cards for all new members of their website. [PRWEB Feb 14, 2005]
* Play poker? Well then, dress the part – San Jose Mercury News – Feb 13 7:18 AM – Play poker? If you’re on the fence about whether the poker craze sweeping the nation is a good thing or a bad thing, consider the following exhibits, all touted by fashion heavies as the very picture of hip.

* Jose Canesaco Loves Poker (pic)
* A Small Full House (pic)
* Advanced Cheating Method (article)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day

Taking Notes In a Tournament

A very valuable skill in an online tournament is taking notes.
A good player (in a multiple table tourney situation) will be watching multiple tables and taking notes on each player — knowing he will shortly encounter that player. However, focus more on the players play, than taking notes itself. By this I mean watch the players play, rather than focusing on trying to keep up with typing notes about him.
The advantage is he will now know for the most part exactly how he plays. His bluffs, his tells (if any) and his betting structure.
Taking notes during a tournament not only keeps you alert and busy but, it keeps you from playing the hands that will bust you out of the tournament quick.

February 13th, 2005
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Tips4Poker launched a BETA version of our new…

“Top Ranked Poker Sites“
Visit it, learn to love it.

In addition, we are testing out waters of a relatively new poker site called “Noble Poker” , which will be completely reviewed in our Poker Room Review section by tomorrow. This new site boasts excellent play and great tournament action. Stay tuned!

Today in a great turn for rural poker players – felony charges against poker players have been dropped!

As expected, home games remain safe.

Poker is probably one of the largest and most popular fund raisers out there! Check out this great poker fundraiser for the kids.

* sundaymail – POKER: DON’T BE ODDS MAN OUT IN BLUFF GAME – Sunday Mail – 14 minutes ago – PART of poker’s skill lies in understanding that every time you make a decision to play or respond to what another player does you are taking or laying odds.
* Felony charges dropped against some poker players – KVIA – Feb 12 8:23 AM – HOBBS, N.M. Prosecutors have decided to drop felony gambling charges against all but one of seven people arrested last weekend during an illegal poker game in Hobbs.
* Poker run for kids – Courier Gazette – Feb 12 7:59 AM – A poker run for kids on snowmobiles is planned for tomorrow, February 13, from Marion to East Williamson.

* Classy Poker Comic (pic)
* You Stay Classy San Diego (pic)
* Jusssst a Hottie (pic)
* Poker Babes 101 (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Buy-In More Than Necessary :

February 12th, 2005

LA Poker Classic, Coming Soon

This Puppy Needs To Work On Her Poker Face!
Meanwhile, The LA Poker Classic (a televised event) will be getting underway at our favorite venue Commerce Casino in LA.
This No-Limit Tournament features some of the biggest names in Poker today! It get’s under way on Feb. 19-22nd and Tips4Poker will bring you in the middle of the action.
Also, coming up at the Commerce is the WPT invitational making February one of Poker’s Biggest Months!
It’s been awhile since we heard from Chris MoneyMaker – except that he busted out (as expected) at last years WPT final event. However, he’s back in the news today – this time in CANADA!

* Poker Fans Lose Big Hand in State House – KFYR – Feb 11 7:12 AM – Poker fans in the North Dakota House have lost a big hand. State law allows charities to run two poker nights each year. Bismarck Representative Dave Weiler put in a bill to get rid of the limit.
* Poker tournament on tap at Commerce Casino – Redlands Daily Facts – Feb 10 9:00 PM – LOS ANGELES Commerce Casino is hosting the L.A. Poker Classic Championship Feb. 19-22 and the World Poker Tour Invitational Feb. 23-24.
* Local Poker Games Popping Up Everywhere Odds Are, Tournament Is Going In Your Area Soon – The Louisville Channel – Feb 10 3:31 PM – LOUISVILLE — It’s one of the most popular games out there, and they’re popping up everywhere these days. Texas Hold’em poker tournaments are plentiful, big and if not approved by the state, illegal, WLKY NewsChannel 32’s Paul Moses reported Thursday.
* Poker with World Series winner Chris Moneymaker not your average game – Canada.com – Feb 10 8:15 AM – NEW YORK (AP) – Playing poker with Chris Moneymaker, the accountant who came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker, is a bit like shooting hoops with Michael Jordan – though lady luck can even the odds slightly.

* Funny Puppy Poker Face (pic)
* Bodog Conference (Marketing)
* Funny Poker Dog Video by Request (video)
* Quality Poker Art (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Waiting For The Blind:

By waiting a full rotation before posting you are allowing yourself a huge advantage. You get to watch how everyone plays/reacts etc. before you even spend a penny. So unless you are familiar with the players do yourself a favor and sit out until the BB comes around.

February 10th, 2005

Poker Gets BUSTED!

Who says that small time games never get busted? In today’s news over (3) separate small-time poker games have been shut-down.

The difference between these games and you hometown game is that they are on a more “underground” money making focus than your innocent weekly game.

We added some new beautiful babes to our Poker Babes section!

Some interesting Quick Links today including an open source Poker Server/Client for anyone interested!

UPDATE: No news on the Party Gaming IPO as of now. They are still expected to go public in the next (3) months.

* Police Bust Up Illegal Poker Circle – KOAT TheNewMexicoChannel.com via Yahoo! News – Feb 08 1:28 PM – Poker is all the rage these days, but an illegal game landed seven Hobbs-area gamblers in jail.
* Poker king winning big on television – The Brunswick News – Feb 09 10:59 AM – NEW YORK — I have stared directly into the Oakleys, and lived to tell the tale. Playing poker with Chris Moneymaker, the accountant who came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker, is a bit like shooting hoops with Michael Jordan — though lady luck can even the odds slightly.
* Public moves ‘all in’ on poker trend – Western Herald – Feb 09 3:06 AM – When a person finds meaning in phrases like “all in,” “rockets,” or “I got the nuts,” it’s probably a sign that person has fallen victim to one of the fastest growing forms of real-life and online gaming — the world of Texas Hold ’em poker.
* “Sunglasses Should Be Banned”: Poker Pro Annie Duke – Rolling Good Times – Feb 08 9:14 PM – There is one skill that a professional poker player must possess in order to be successful: The ability to play a known quantity (your hand) against an unknown quantity (the hands of the people against whom you are playing).

* OpenPOKER (OpenSource poker game/server)
* Nebraska Strip Poker (pic)
* Friends Cast Playing Poker (pic)
* 4 Dogs Playing Poker Trailer (video)
* Cool “Rounders” Trailer(video)
* PartyGaming IPO (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Use A Four Color Deck:
This might seem basic, but, its actually quite advanced. In a recent survey, 6/10 people actually refuse (or don’t know how) to change their options to 4-Color Decks.

Its fairly simple and seemingly obvious, just go into the options section and click the Four Color Decks. You now have an advantage over many mistake making folks out there!

February 9th, 2005

Poker Babes Section is LIVE.

By popular demand our new POKER BABES section has gone live. Although it’s just the start of a great new addition to Tips For Poker, be sure to check out all the beautiful poker women.

We expect to be adding new beautiful poker babes on a monthly basis!

Tips For Poker sub site Rate My Poker Face welcomes its 40th new member! Be sure to check out RMPF and add your own poker face or simply rate others. Either way you look at it, a great way to waste time.

Check out this Poker Themed Valentines Gift for your special guy!

Hollywood Poker player Lou Diamond Philips filed for divorce! Maybe its the Poker that drove him to sanity.

* Poker’s popularity plays with teens – Northwest Herald – Feb 08 5:17 PM – For Ryan Larson, Justin Rueff and Alan Swanson, poker is a fun way to unwind and spend time with friends. “It’s a good pastime,” Rueff said. The Crystal Lake Central High School juniors said they generally played several times a week with about five to 25 friends.
* Police Bust Up Illegal Poker Circle – Action News 7 New Mexico – Feb 08 1:40 PM – HOBBS, N.M. — Poker is all the rage these days, but an illegal game landed seven Hobbs-area gamblers in jail. The state’s special investigation division operation netted the gamblers and their cash when police raided an apartment Saturday night.
* They take a career gamble with online poker – The Electric New Paper – Feb 08 8:12 AM – IN THE past 24 hours, around US$180 million ($295m) was wagered in online poker rooms worldwide, and Mr Boyd Leys wants a slice of the action.

* Fancy Poker Art (pic)
* Hillary Duff (pic)
* More Poker Art (pic)
* You Know Poker is Big When Claymation is Involved (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day

Feel Out The Situation and Bluff HARD (C/S Rule #4)
Don’t bluff when you have Two Pair and a flush draw on the flop? Noone betting, but you have position? Make a smart-bluff at the pot. Make a bet that you think that is big, but callable. Like you want someone to call you. If noone has anything watch them all fold like cowards.
Don’t be scared if you get a caller, REbluff him on the next card – IF you don’t think it helped him.
If that fails, don’t hesitate to fold

February 8th, 2005
Welcome Back, We Missed You.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! May it bring you good Poker LUCK.

The good news is we have more Shana Hiatt Pictures. The even better news? We are in the process of creating a poker babes section! With some great new unique poker babes!

The bad news? Due to lack of interest we will be closing the Tips4Poker private tables.

Another Poker Themed Valentines Gift for any your Valentine!

* Wiechmann: Poker players drawing dead in Texas thanks to DA, not TABC – University Daily – 1 hour, 56 minutes ago – The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has pushed its chips all-in, and it would be wise for bar owners and managers not to call their bet. Thanks to a recent change of opinion from the district attorney, in-house poker tournaments no longer are allowed in Lubbock.
* KSL News: Poker Tournaments Illegal in Utah – KSL-TV News – Feb 07 5:21 PM – (KLS News) — Are poker tournaments legal in Utah? Don’t bet on it! As a poker tournament craze spreads across America a lot of the games have been held in Utah. Some have even been advertised in local newspapers.
* World Poker Exchange Hosts Intercollegiate Poker Championship – Rolling Good Times – Feb 07 10:29 AM – ANTIGUA – (PRESS RELEASE) — World Poker Exchange, one of the world’s fastest growing online poker sites, will host the first annual Intercollegiate Poker Championship encompassing 100 top universities throughout the United States.

* Brandi Williams Poker Vixen (pic gallery)
* Rate MY POKER FACE(site)
* Shana Hiatt… sooo Hott (pic)
* Good Golly Miss Shana Hiatt (pic)
* Short Poker Student Film (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day

Switch Up Your Play (Common Sense Rule #3)

Just Bluffed a big hand? Consider showing your bluffed hand to the table, then next time you have a huge hand bet really strong – you might get a few people who still think your bluffing! Alternate your play in a non-predictable manner but try to keep your betting rhythmic and predictable no matter what hand you have!

February 7th, 2005

Patriots Win – Back To Poker

Patriots won – they didn’t cover the spread, but hey, they won. Back to Poker!

First off, we have a semi-new layout. As usual Tips For Poker is taking away stuff that doesn’t work out and adding more poker related content!

Check out today’s great quick links for some great poker related content! Features new pictures from JOOPY our Asian poker playing persuasion – soooo hot.

Check out this Perfect Poker Gift for any Valentine!

We got the Aloha Bowl, Pro Bowl, LA Poker Classic and WPT Invitational coming up. More on those events as they come.

Today’s Poker News:
* Poker arrests are rare – Jacksonville Daily News – 57 minutes ago – By Adam Linhardt and roselee papandrea North Carolina law doesn’t split hairs on the legality of poker. If money changes hands, those in the game are breaking the law, district attorneys across the state say. Still, poker arrests are rare. In Jackso…
* Poker not illegal in N.C.; money changing hands is – Kinston Free Press – 1 hour, 12 minutes ago – North Carolina law doesn’t split hairs on the legality of poker. If money changes hands, those in the game are breaking the law. Still, it’s been more than a decade since the last poker arrest was made, according to Gaston County court records. In 1991 Ga…
* sundaymail – POKER: PLAY YOUR CARDS RIGHT – Sunday Mail – Feb 06 2:35 AM – POKER fever is sweeping the mansions of Hollywood and stars like Leonardo Di Caprio and Tobey Maguire are slapping down £6,000 for a seat at a monthly Billionaire Boys’ game, according to a US magazine.
Poker Quick Link’s:

* New Pictures Von JOOPY! (pic gallery)
* Watch out for the POKER FACE (video)
* Funny But Explicit Amatuer Poker Vid (video)
* Quality Poker Art (pic)
* Shana Hiatt (pic)
* Shana Hiatts Ass (pic)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Use Your Mind (Common Sense Rule #2)

Think through every hand. The pro’s get to the final tournaments because they think through every hand and every move the person made. Think HARD! What hand do you think they have? What hand do you think they just made? Why are they betting this much? Are just a few examples of questions you should be asking yourself.

February 6th, 2005

Free Super Bowl Bet / Members Cash

It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday and although I highly encourage you place your bet with Bodog . There is a Free $15 Bet being offered by Sporting Bet USA.

Simply register, deposit $50 and place the bet – if you lose they will return the $15 to you. Nothing to lose, there is no requirement to bet the rest of your deposit.
Free $15 Super Bowl Bet from Sporting Bet USA.

The Members Only section received a new listing of over 50 cash making websites. Where you can take surveys for money and prizes. It’s easy to make a couple hundred bux a month using these resources!

Super bowl is coming very fast and it’s your last chance to get bets in. Bet safe – Bet with Bodog

Check out today’s quick links, featuring funny poker videos and poker art!

Today’s Poker New’s:

1. World Poker Tour: Texas Hold ‘Em Hands-On [Mobile] GameSpot – 2 hours, 50 minutes agoMforma swings in and posts its blind with the biggest licensed poker game of all.
2. Gambling Boat Busted For Super Bowl Poker Tournament WJXT News4Jax.com via Yahoo! News – Feb 03 9:27 PMA casino ship operator offering Super Bowl visitors the chance to play high-stakes poker without leaving downtown was arrested Thursday morning.
3. World Poker Exchange to Host London Open Rolling Good Times – Feb 04 2:14 PMANTIGUA – (PRESS RELEASE) — World Poker Exchange, one of the world’s fastest growing online poker sites, will host The London Open, a high stakes $2,000,000 minimum prize pot offline poker tournament in partnership with FHM UK and The Bravo Channel, the UK’s leading men’s entertainment network, on August 4th through August 7th.

Poker Quick Link’s:

* Strip Poker Will & Grace (video)
* Star Trek Poker (video)
* Killer Poker Art (pic)
* More Poker Art (pic)

February 4th, 2005

Too Easy To Bluff

Have you found yourself stuck in your home games – baffled at how easy it is to beat your friends? Recently during a recent observation of a couple home tournaments I was surprised to find the ridiculous hands people call with.

Don’t believe me? Try bluffing your friends HARD next time – check the nuts the whole way through and when someone bets make a quick reraise no hesitation to make your bluff look real. Or take the move and tweak it to work with your own friends.

HILARIOUS VIDEO – and click here for more quick links.

Super bowl is coming very fast and it’s your last chance to get bets in. Bet safe – Bet with Bodog

Coming up soon is the LA Poker Classic on the 19th, and the WPT invitational *at the commerce* towards the end of the month. Keep your bookmarks onto Tips For Poker for updates about those events.

Today’s Poker News:

1. Gambling Boat Busted For Super Bowl Poker Tournament WJXT News4Jax.com via Yahoo! News – Feb 03 9:27 PMA casino ship operator offering Super Bowl visitors the chance to play high-stakes poker without leaving downtown was arrested Thursday morning.
2. Casino Windsor to open 10-table poker room Detroit News – 2 hours, 21 minutes ago24-hour venue is in response to game’s growing popularity, due to cable shows. Casino Windsor will open a poker room on Feb. 11, the third Detroit-area casino to offer the card game in response to its growing popularity.
3. Online Poker Site Absolute Poker Agrees to Promote World Poker Tour (WPT) Event [Press Release] PR Web – 47 minutes ago Absolute Poker signs agreement to promote the Third Annual Five-Star World Poker Classic allowing Absolute Poker to offer daily satellite tournaments where players have the opportunity to win buy-in and travel and accommodation to the prestigious event. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

* Dogs Playing Poker (video)
* Seven Card Stud / Funny Clip (video)
* Poker BABE to the TENTH degree! (pic)
* Party Riches Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:
Try Third Party Programs :

IF you haven’t already third party programs are REVOLUTIONIZING online poker and will really give you the edge against your fellow players.

Do yourself a favor and start researching these great new additions to online poker right now! Click here to read up.

February 2nd, 2005
Your Ship Set Sail

Last month, folks just like yourself, won over $17,000 in FREE REAL MONEY in our Free Money No Deposit Required Section. How much will you win this month?

What’s coming up for Poker in February? Well, we have the 250K PokerBowl on Feb 6th @ Bodog. Should be a fun event to keep poker rocking and busy during the old SuperBowl!

Other than that we got the LA Poker Classic coming on the 19th, and finally the WPT invitational towards the end of the month. Keep your homepages locked onto Tips4Poker for more updates about those.

Today’s Poker News:

1. Gambling dens take wholesome twist at Utah Valley establishments :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah
Daily Herald – Jan 31 2:09 AM Parents and church leaders may not always approve, but poker, popularized in recent years with televised tournaments, seems to be sweeping the country, reaching all the way into the nooks and conservative crannies of Utah County.
2. Toga Parties? Greek Games? 24-Hour Open Bar? Sounds Like Spring Break with National Lampoon Collegiate Presswire – 39 minutes ago Toga Parties? Greek Games? 24-Hour Open Bar? LOS ANGELES–(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)–Feb 1, 2005–Quick! 1. National Lampoon is the comedy sausage factory that produced such film hits as Animal House, the Vacation series and Van Wilder.
3. Poker Nuts and Nudists, Come Aboard – New York Times – Jan 28 9:48 PM – It may be one of the few vacation options upon which nudists, Harley Davidson enthusiasts and economic policy wonks might agree – not to mention gays, and fans of bluegrass music.

* Check out Joopy, She Misses You (link)
* Dogs Hustling (pic)
* Poker BABE to the TENTH degree! (pic)
* Party Riches Forum (link)

Poker Tip of The Day:

Buy-In More Than Necessary :
There are more than a variety of reasons for buying in more than necessary at the poker table.
Intimidation Factor
Reserves
Having “THE NUTS” and not being able to raise.
Although, the minimum suggested 20times the big blind is hardly what people buy-in with to this day. I would recommend a buy-in more on the lines of at least 50times the big blind.
After you start doing this – you will notice people respect your raises/play more. You will always have the opportunity to raise (not be the person who flops a boat, and is out of cash). And will always have a cash reserve after a bad beat.

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January 31st, 2005

LAST DAY OF JANUARY!

It’s the last day of January and what have YOU DONE FOR POKER TODAY???

Well if your like me and you can’t sit still about the PartPoker IPO you are probably checking PartyPokerIPO.com every 24hours!

In other news – BoDog has been having some incredible tournament action. The other day I was playing on there for their $250,000 PokerBowl qualifier and was surprised to encounter a truly excellent thought provoking game of poker. I would compare it to a fine game of chess which made the 1st place qualification victory exceptionally wondrous. The poker action is really picking up over there – if you haven’t already check it out.

Moral of the story is $5.50 was all it took for me to qualify to possibly win their 250K prize pot. Though it wasn’t easy it sure was challenging and I can’t wait for the big game.

All the Rake that’s fit to Muck…

1. Not Bluffing: Poker mag makes serious start – A poker fanatic and a friend with publishing experience have combined forces to create a new poker magazine that already is selling swiftly off bookstore shelves.
2. Red-hot poker – The pot just keeps getting richer in the poker-tainment racket. Sure, we can thank Ben Affleck and his ilk for giving the wily game a tabloid boost (and we can thank poker for keeping him out of the movies for a nanosecond), but it looks like it’ll outpace the Benifer phenom by a long shot.
3. UW student wins $1.5 million in major poker tourney – A UW-Madison philosophy student pulled off an upset victory in a major poker tournament Thursday night, becoming an instant millionaire. And they say liberal arts majors will never get rich.

* BoDog Weekend Hottie (pic)
* Odd Poker Art (pic)
* Fairies Playing Poker (pic)
* Poker Comic (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day
Short-handed Play:
Aggression is the name of the game. Bet, Bet and Bet some more – even when your beat you have to keep betting. Bet the good hands, Bet the bad hands. Every hand will start off by someone raising and then someone either calling or three betting.

January 29th, 2005

SERIOUS News

First off, PartyPoker, the worlds biggest poker room is considering going public on the London stock exchange in what very well possibly could be the biggest IPO ever!

In other news, a student from Wisconsin who took the week off of classes ends up winning the World Poker Open! A truly remarkable story that will have almost every college student in the world drooling for poker mania!

1. Wisconsin Student Wins $1.51 Million in Binion World Poker Open – TUNICA RESORTS, MS (Jan. 28)–He took a week off from classes at the University of Wisconsin to take in some side action at the 6th Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open. He didn’t know he would soon be swimming with some of the most aggressive poker sharks in the world last Thursday night.
2. Poker and blackjack come to the Sooner State – The day that some tribal leaders in Oklahoma have been waiting for and anti-gambling forces have dreaded finally arrived as some previously prohibited card games including poker and blackjack became legal at a handful of Indian casinos.
3. World’s biggest poker site could be set for £5bn float – LONDON – PartyGaming, owner of the world’s biggest poker website PartyPoker.com, could be looking at floating in London, with reports that it has hired financial advisers to look at its strategic options.

* This is the REAL BoDOG (pic)
* Self Proclaimed Poker “Girl” (pic)
* Click Here To Play 5 Raked Hands @ VIPPoker and recieve a Free T-shirt or Hat. (adv)

Poker Tip of the Day
Waiting for the Blind:
By waiting a full rotation before posting you are allowing yourself a huge advantage. You get to watch how everyone plays/reacts etc. before you even spend a penny. So unless you are familiar with the players do yourself a favor and sit out until the BB comes around.

January 26th, 2005

Cool Online Poker Tourneys And Poker Faces

Over 36 registered users @ Rate My Poker Face! Is your Face Good Enough?

If you haven’t already – check out the Swish Poker Tour. Truly an amazing attempt to create a great and stationary online poker environment. And, best of all its affordable. Most qualifying tournaments are $20 or under!

Celebrity Poker showdown kicked off its new season tonight. Unfortunately, we cannot report that the show is getting any better. For a sheer entertainment factor however, this is an excellent resource. Be sure to check it out on Wednesday nights on Bravo! Check your local listing for times and be sure to watch the new episode of TILT tonight!

1. Schilling aced in celebrity poker; gala eyes glitterati – ANTE UP No danger of Curt Schilling embarking on a career as a card shark. Appearing last night on Bravo’s ” Celebrity Poker Showdown,” the Sox ace showed himself to be a decent, if not great gambler. Squaring off against actresses Catherine O’Hara and Sara Rue and ”Everybody Loves Raymond” stars Ray Romano and Brad Garrett , our hobbled hero …
2. Poker star Annie Duke is an unlikely celebrity – CHICAGO – Two years ago, few people could pick poker champion Annie Duke out of a crowd. Today, the ruby-haired mother can’t go through an airport without getting stopped.
3. World Poker Open Draws Flocks of Players to the South – LOS ANGELES, California — (PRESS RELEASE) — The tenth stop on the WORLD POKER TOUR™ (WPT) kicked off today at the Horseshoe/Gold Strike casinos in Tunica, Mississippi.

Poker Tip of the Day
Use A Four Color Deck:
This might seem basic, but, its actually quite advanced. In a recent survey, 6/10 people actually refuse (or don’t know how) to change their options to 4-Color Decks.

Its fairly simple and seemingly obvious, just go into the options section and click the Four Color Decks. You now have an advantage over many mistake making folks out there!

January 25th, 2005

3rd Party Programs and Annie Duke

Try using 3rd Party Programs – they’ll bring up your game!

Congratulations to Card4, TeflonDon, and thuglove316 winners of our January Private Play Money Hold’em Contest.

Oy Vay! Could it be true, Annie Duke is becoming a television star? Now, don’t get me wrong – I used to think she was hott. But, after what I read about her scandalous ways on RGP I am not impressed. And, the fact that its Affleck’s sloppy seconds just doesn’t cut the cake for me!

Finally, it looks like PokerRoom has some competition. MFORMA has created a new multi-player game for mobile phones! It has some quality reviews so be sure to look into this!

1. Poker craze takes hold of STC – Who would have thought, 10 years ago, that poker would take its place among the most watched sports on television? Poker, a game long associated with smoky bars and shady characters, has come into the limelight in recent years, thanks in part to television.
2. Poker hand rankings – There are 10 hands that can win in poker. 10. High card. In poker, the ace is high, followed by the king, the queen, the jack, and then the rest in reverse numerical order. If no other combinations are dealt, an ace high will beat a king high, and so on.
3. ‘World Poker Tour’ Signs Official Beer – LOS ANGELES To promote its Michelob AmberBock brand, Anheuser-Busch has become the official beer sponsor of the 2005 World Poker Tour , according to the cable program.

* Strip Poker (pic)
* More Strip Poker (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day
Advantages To Keeping Notes:
The reason why Online Poker can be more profitable (to the user) than live poker is simple. There are many features that a user can utilize that live poker never could offer.

For instance, some advantages that online poker has over live poker is the ability to have multiple windows open, taking player notes, and advice from friends or experts.

The advantage we are focusing on here is taking players notes.

It’s so important that we have dedicated a whole section to teaching you how to keep details notes.

January 23rd, 2005

World Poker Open, Begins!
Jack Binion’s World Poker Open Jan 24th-27th.

Presented by Binions Horseshoe in Tunica and the Gold Strike Casino Resort.

The World Poker Open has quickly established itself as one of the most successful poker tournaments in the world and is attended by both nationally and internationally renowned poker players. Follow the links below for a documented history of the WPO.

I know what your thinking – the World Poker Open is here, big woop! You are here, and the tournament is there. But, it’s not at all as bad as you think.

For starters, our Tips For Poker WORLD TOUR contest ends tonight. With T4P regular “card4”, as the strong favorite looks like the contest is all about wrapped up. Official winners will be announced tomorrow, as well as the mystery prize.

1. Business in the cards for poker champ – Denver Post – Jan 23 12:22 AM – Poker has long been a metaphor for business, but for Howard Lederer, it is business. Lederer is one of the most recognizable faces in TV poker, not only as a champion in the game but as lead commentator on poker tournaments for Fox.
2. Poker players ante up for charity – Centre Daily – Jan 23 12:15 AM – STATE COLLEGE — A deluge of snow Saturday could not keep almost 90 men and women from putting on their best poker faces for the Kards for Kids Poker Tournament at the Ramada Inn and Conference Center.
3. Spa City to get taste of poker fever – Saratogian – Jan 23 12:21 AM – SARATOGA SPRINGS — A Texas Hold’em poker tournament is being held to benefit various Easter Seals New York programs that serve the Capital Region and northward.

* Rate My Poker Face, How Good Is Your Face? (link)
* Shana Hiatt in Stuff Magazine (pic)
* Bunch of GREAT Shana Hiatt Pics (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day
Know Your Outs:
The rule of four-two is an extremely easy way to figure out basic odds for most situations where you know your outs. This method is not 100% accurate but it will supply you with an idea of your chances for making a hand. Here is how it works:

January 21st, 2005

Online Poker Tours, Contests, more Free Cash!

Check out the Swish Poker Tour, a brand new concept of a great online poker tour. Here’s the straight juice:

The 2005 Swish Poker Tour is the best thing ever introduced to the Online Poker world. Filled with 5 week-long “seasons”, tour members are ranked by our unique ongoing point system. Top performers at the end of each season get paid with cash and prizes. All of this, of course, is in addition to the typical payouts for ALL TOUR EVENTS which are held on Sunday nights at 11est! Just download the Swish Poker software and you’ll be hearing from us regarding the Swish Poker Tour!

Current Contest Leaders:

1 card4 9485
2 TeflonDon 1944
3 Thors1982 671
4 harrington 423
5 jumpman23 349
6 slayer 178
7 Raykf 120

Mike Sexton, Brand Ambassador for PartyPoker.com, won the televised $20k (winner take all) invitation tourney at Crown Casino, Australia beating a table comprising – Marcel Luske, Mel Judah, Scotty Nguyen, Tony Bloom, Harry Dimitrivo. Mike had a long interview after the tourney. It is to be televised on Fox and Discovery!!!

Free Money No Deposit Required has added a new ($35 free offer) from Portofino casino. Be sure to check it out!

STEELERS Going all the way? BET ON THEM @ Bodog.

Play Poker With Your Sports betting winnings — Bodog is a Poker Room too!

1. Hold it: Poker, states at odds – Sun-Sentinel – 17 minutes ago – ST. PAUL, Minn. · David Bischoff thinks he got a raw deal last year when state gambling regulators raided his bowling alley, shut down his weekly Texas Hold ’em poker tournament and confiscated his cards and chips.
2. Poker Craze Collides With State Laws – ABC News – Jan 20 1:14 PM – National Poker Craze Collides With State Gambling Laws Across Country
3. Poker craze is dealing headaches to regulators – Arizona Daily Star – 1 hour, 20 minutes ago – ST. PAUL, Minn. – David Bischoff thinks he got a raw deal last year when state gambling regulators raided his bowling alley, shut down his weekly Texas hold ’em poker tournament and confiscated his

* Free Shana Hiatt Screensaver from FHM (link)
* Holy Crap Shana Hiatt looking HOTT (pic)

Poker Tip of the Day
Learn to Leave:

Not only is this a great tip for poker players – but gamblers in general. However, this rule is often overlooked, even by professionals.

There is a simple rule of thumb, when your up LEAVE! Odd’s are that you can only go down from here. So, do yourself a favor and listen to the voice of reason nagging at you in the back of your head. It’s there for a reason.

Another huge advantage to Online Poker is that there is always another table just waiting for you, so if you’ve experienced 5 bad beats in a row at one table. It’s quite simple – just get up and leave.

You might be wondering why this rule is in the ADVANCED strategy section. Quite simply, its what sets apart professional gamblers from amateurs. Professionals know when its time to walk.

January 20th, 2005

Rate My Poker Face!

RATE MY POKER FACE.com Opens:

Tips For Poker is proud to present its new legitimate face of Poker Websites, <POKER FACE> is the first ever free arena for users to upload their personal images and get a chance to get their poker face rated! Think you can bluff the best? Prove it! Click here to visit Rate My Poker Face today!

Contest Leaders:
* Card4
* TeflonDon
* Thors1982
Free Money No Deposit Required has surpassed the 10k mark for this month, do you have your share yet?

STEELERS Going all the way? BET ON THEM @ Bodog.

Play Poker With Your Sports betting winnings — Bodog is a Poker Room too!

1. How’s Your Poker Face? Now You Can Find Out – [Press Release] PR Web – 20 minutes ago – Tips For Poker www.Tips4Poker.com, the number one online poker resource has released a new fun and free website. The website, RateMyPokerFace.com , allows users to submit their pictures to be rated on a scale of 1-10 and get feedback on how well their poker face stands out! [PRWEB Jan 20, 2005]
2. Caribbean Sun Poker January Tournament Announced – Rolling Good Times – Jan 19 4:14 PM – UK — (PRESS RELEASE) — On January 22, 2005 Caribbean Sun Poker will be hosting a “New Years Extravaganza” poker tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000 or roughly $190,000.
3. New Poker Show has Big Name Attention – [Press Release] PR Web – 18 minutes ago – The Small town Poker Tour Show has people talking worldwide. [PRWEB Jan 20, 2005]

Poker Tip of the Day
Taking Notes In a Tournament:
A very valuable skill in an online tournament is taking notes.

A good player (in a multiple table tourney situation) will be watching multiple tables and taking notes on each player — knowing he will shortly encounter that player.

The advantage is he will now know for the most part exactly how he plays. His bluffs, his tells (if any) and his betting structure.

Taking notes during a tournament not only keeps you alert and busy but, it keeps you from playing the hands that will bust you out of the tournament quick.

January 19th, 2005

Contest Continues & RMPF Opens!

What You Can Win:
1st. Place: $50 Via Neteller/PayPal
2nd. Place: $25 Via Neteller/PayPal
3rd. Place: Mystery Prize

How You Win: Click Here and register @ our private play money tables. The person with the top scores by NEXT Sunday January 23rd, 2005 win the prizes.

GOAL: Use your first 100 starting points – to get as many play money points as you can by January 23rd 11:59PM. The top (3) persons with the most play money points at that time will be contacted and receive a prize. You can view your current position by clicking the “Leaders Board” button at any time.

Contest Dates/Times :
January 17th 12:01AM – January 24th 11:59PM

Click Here For Full Rules & Regulations

1. Poker Tour International Announces Upcoming Tournaments – Rolling Good Times – Jan 18 2:59 PM – FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — (PRESS RELEASE) — Poker Tour International (PTI) announces upcoming Texas Hold’em Poker tournaments for 2005. Dates are as follows: March 16-20, 2005 — Circa’s Hispanola Resort and Casino, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and April 13-18, 2005 — Norwegian Cruise Caribbean Spirit Ship. Rates for the trips, including buy-ins, travel, and accommodations, run $2,999.
2. News Article: Crave Announces Poker for DS – Planet Gamecube – Jan 18 9:40 AM – The publisher’s first DS title will go all in on the current poker phenomenon. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POKER: DELUXE SERIES™ COMING SOON! LOS ANGELES, Calif. –
3. Spurred by TV tournaments, poker all the rage – Macomb Daily – Jan 18 7:43 AM – Enter Gameland Sports in Clinton Township and you might think you walked into a Las Vegas novelty shop. Spread out seemingly as far as the eye can see is a virtual smorgasbord of poker-related items: poker tables, poker chips, poker visors and even poker books.

* Artistic Poker Face (pic)
* True Indian Poker (pic)
* Click here to try our new FREE FLASH Poker Play Tables! (cool flash holdem game)
* Click Here To Play 5 Raked Hands @ VIPPoker and receive a Free T-shirt or Hat. (adv)

Poker Tip of the Day
Buy-In More Than Necessary:
There are more than a variety of reasons for buying in more than necessary at the poker table.

Intimidation Factor
Reserves
Having “THE NUTS” and not being able to raise.

Although, the minimum suggested 20times the big blind is hardly what people buy-in with to this day. I would recommend a buy-in more on the lines of at least 50times the big blind.

After you start doing this – you will notice people respect your raises/play more. You will always have the opportunity to raise (not be the person who flops a boat, and is out of cash). And will always have a cash reserve after a bad beat.

January 15th, 2005

More Free Poker Money

The Free Money No Deposit Required section has been updated with a new $16 (or close to) free from Noble Poker. Be sure to take advantage of that! Tips For Poker already had one winner take out $90 today from them, minus their initial free cash.

1. Organizers say poker tournament will continue despite warning – Gazetteonline.com – Jan 15 9:38 AM – CARTER LAKE — Organizers of a poker tournament that the state says is illegal may be headed for a high-stakes showdown with regulators.
2. Las Vegas fantasy poker camp – Denton Record-Chronicle – Jan 15 3:13 AM – Almost 170 signed up for the first Howard Lederer Poker Fantasy Camp, the latest vacation choice that allows wannabes to mix with famous professionals, pick up poker tips, ask questions and match their skills against others in tournaments. Fantasy camps have been around for years.
3. Knowing When To Fold’em Important For Teen Poker Players – NBC 10 Philadelphia – Jan 14 8:43 PM – What on Earth is interesting enough to pull a kid away from their video games? Try poker. TV shows with big bucks on the line and professional poker players are glamorizing the game, so NBC 10’s Dawn Timmeny took a look at the pros and cons of kids and poker.
4. ‘Gamblin’ Granny’ Creates #1 Poker Show in America, ‘Ultimate Poker Challenge’ – [Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance – Jan 14 10:48 PM – At age 90, Florence Pugliese is not your average poker player.

* OLD School Celebrity Poker (Jon Franks, Joe Piscapo, etc.) (link)
* Poker Babe! (pic)
* How HOTT is Joopy??? (pic gallery)

Poker Tip of the Day
Feel Out The Situation and Bluff HARD (C/S Rule #4):

Don’t bluff when you have Two Pair and a flush draw on the flop? No one betting, but you have position? Make a smart-bluff at the pot. Make a bet that you think that is big, but callable. Like you want someone to call you. If no one has anything watch them all fold like cowards.

Don’t be scared if you get a caller, REbluff him on the next card – IF you don’t think it helped him.

If that fails, don’t hesitate to fold.

January 13th, 2005

Tonights The NIGHT, TILT BABY
How many times have you went on TILT this month? Well if the answer is more than once than ESPN might have an answer for you.

ESPN’s new Poker Drama, TILT, will be on the air for its first night tonight. Check your local listings for exact times, standard is January 13th @ 9pm with a ridiculous amount of reruns to shortly follow.

However, some review’s are already in. John Ruch of the Boston Herald seemed to think that TILT will soon be TILTING off the air! Click here to read his opinionated article. On the other side the NY times thought the show to be on its way to the big time, with this optimistic piece.

Just like New York and Boston to do that to each other!

When viewing the TILT Preview special yesterday, One must give the show credit. It appears to have everything a good drama should and it also has Poker. Which is exactly what the show promised. What more could you want? Other than, a hundred begging affiliates to offer you $50 to sign-up for the fan club.

Tips for Poker feels that if you take this show with a grain of salt – it will be enjoyable. But, go in expecting this show to be MATLOCK from the start and expect to be disappointed.

Now, only if Poker players could use this show as an alternative to actually going on TILT and the show may very well be a hit!

1. Deal me out: ESPN poker drama `Tilt’ comes up short of a royal flush – Boston Herald – Jan 12 2:55 PM -`Tilt,” ESPN’s new pinball – er, poker – drama, aims to be hard-boiled but never gets deeper than attitude. Still, props to ESPN for taking a shot at another fictional expose series after its 2003…
2. Online Poker Industry Grows – Rolling Good Times – Jan 12 2:05 PM – UNITED KINGDOM – As reported by the UK Register: “In the two years since online poker first tempted punters, the industry has grown from $100,000 in gross rake per day in January 2002 to between a staggering global $2m and $2.5m While online gaming itself continues to grow at a dramatic pace, the online poker industry has more than tripled in the past year according to statistics provided by
3. James Woods’ Online Poker for Tsunami Aid – Rolling Good Times – Jan 12 1:36 PM – Los Angeles — As reported by the Indo-Asian News Service: “Hollywood actor James Woods (“Any Given Sunday”, “The General’s Daughter”) will host an online poker tournament to aid the victims of the devastating tsunami tragedy.

* Name this Poker Appearence in a MOVIE. (pic)
* Poker FACE! (pic)
* JOOPY’s hot Poker Pics. (pic gallery)
* Link Whore Takes So Much, But Gives So Little. (link)

Poker Tip of the Day
Switch Up Your Play (Common Sense Rule #3):

January 11th, 2005

TILT, ESPN’s Baby – Coming Soon
In Case, you weren’t aware – ESPN’s new POKER-Based series “Tilt” will shortly be making it’s appearance. Will it FLOP? Or will it be a huge success? My bet is, that the show itself will be a huge success and continue to draw huge crowds and attention on Poker.

ESPN, truly has something going here. The most exciting part about Poker is what goes on in the players mind. And, if they work this show in the right way it will very well work out. The cast is dynamite, they have a great day to air it on. And, Tips4Poker is willing to bet, TILT will be a huge success. Be sure to check it out this Thursday!