How To Play Pairs in Blackjack

Pairs are two of the same cards in you starting hand. By playing correct basic strategy  you reduce the house edge marked cards.

Difficulty: Average

Time Required: one hour or less

Here's How:

1. Look at the dealers up card.
2. Look at the pair in you hand.
3. If you have a pair of Aces or Eights: Always split.
4. If you have a pair of twos or threes: Split if the dealer has 2 - 7, otherwise hit.
5. If you have a pair of fours: Split if the dealer has 4 or 5, otherwise hit.
6. If you have a pair of fives: Double if the dealer has 2 - 9, otherwise hit.
7. If you have a pair juice cards of sixes: Split if the dealer has 2 - 6, otherwise hit.
8. If you have a pair of sevens: Split 2 - 7, otherwise hit.
9. If you have a pair of nines: Split 2 - 6, and  8 or 9. Stand if the dealer has 7, 10 or Ace.
10. If you have a pair of tens: Always Stand.

Tips:

1. These rules are for 4- 8 deck games when doubling after splitting is allowed.
2. Always check the rules of the game before playing.
3. Learn the different strategies for single or double deck games.

Mental Edge and the WSOP Final Table

As all poker fans know by now, the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event is going to be played in less than two weeks.
Harrah's radical decision to move it to November has been assaulted by many, praised by a few and viewed with a mixture of confusion and curiosity by the rest.
But, no matter. The day dawns, and it's time for me to think out loud about the psychological factors introduced by the four-month hiatus.
What follows are my speculations. I don't know any of the folks who've made the final table, and have no special insight into how each will handle the situation. But there are reasons for suspecting marked cards that this temporal lacuna will benefit some more than others.

Recovery from Fatigue

It took seven days and nearly 66 hours of play to get down to the final table. The break gives everyone the chance to recover.

Breather helps the geezer.

Those who benefit the most will be those who were the most tired - most likely Dennis Phillips, 'cause geezers get tired faster than 20-somethings (trust me on this one).
What would have been a disadvantage has been removed. Phillips also gets a boost because he's older, more mature and, as he's put it, "I'm just having a blast." And, of course, he will be sitting behind a freakin' mountain of chips.
Gratification, Now or Later

Some react badly to being forced to wait for anticipated goodies - an effect that has been softened somewhat by everyone receiving ninth-place money (a shade over $900k) immediately after the final table participants were decided this summer.
Delaying the distribution of the remaining pool may impact some negatively and others not so much. Those who start to twitch when they have to sit at a dinner table waiting for everyone to be served may not have liked the time gap.
Those with a Zen-like calm about things will not be bothered. Keep in mind that whoever gets knocked out first will add exactly zero to his bankroll - and who wants to come back after four months, play one hand and get nothing but a bunch of handshakes and a TV moment?
Just contemplating this is depressing. The big stacks should be primed to take advantage.
Sharpening Your Game

I'm assuming all final-table participants took the time to analyze the play of their opponents, tease out patterns and tendencies they hadn't picked up on before and, importantly, worked on finding new ways to mix up their own games to neutralize such efforts on the part of their opponents.

Demidov: He's a certified beast.

Several of the finalists have played in other tournaments, gaining experience and honing their skills.
If anyone got an edge on the field here, it was Ivan Demidov. Demidov has been busy, most recently in the WSOP Europe Main Event where, amazingly, he finished third.
This accomplishment certainly cements his reputation; the final table in London was heavy with talent, including Daniel Negreanu, Scott Fischman and John Juanda (who won). The "book" has Demidov as the one to beat.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder" or "Out of sight, out of mind"?

These two clichés are among my favorites as each seems so real when uttered, yet they are mutually contradictory. Which one will we see here? Will our nine survivors care as much about the infrared contactlenses final table as they would have without the delay?
You may think this sounds silly. How could they not? Nine million coconuts is a serious payday.
However, the latter cliché actually has the data behind it. As the weeks and months have dragged on, they all have lived their lives, bought clothes and cars, traveled, played in other venues, gone out to dinner, formed and reformed relationships
The significance of the final table may have psychologically diminished. For some, it may begin to look less special, more like a date marked on the calendar. Will they be able to "crank it back up?"

Advantage goes to Chino when it comes to WSOP final-table experience.

Probably, but some will get sharper, others not. If there's an advantage here I suspect it goes to the young and hungry, with Chino Rheem looking good here with two WSOP final tables to his credit.
Momentum

In virtually any game, stopping play is unhelpful when things are going your way and a blessed relief if you're getting thumped. Those on a roll tend to be alert, focused and show little fatigue, while their opponents are down, distracted and exhausted.
This is why coaches call time-outs, and one reason why the second half of a game is often different from the first.
But momentum in poker is a different kind of beast. Because the luck factor is so large, momentum fluctuates more and for different reasons.
Cards are mere slips of plastic and paint. They don't "know" that they gave the same player three huge flops in a row.
The impact of momentum here, as opposed to a game like football, is largely mental, and it can shift without anyone doing anything. In football someone has to do something (interception, great run-back); in poker all it takes is the random turn of a card.
While all the players know, consciously, that each hand is independent of every other hand, the player who got hit in the head with the deck during the playdown to the final table isn't going to like this break.

But his chip stack is sooo low ...

The one who was mucking hand after hand and hanging on for dear life is breathing a sigh of relief - even though both know their feelings are based on a statistical illusion.
The lull will smooth out the momentum factor, which will benefit players who'd been card-dead. I'd give Kelly Kim an edge here, but his chip stack is sooo low ...
Prognostication?

I could find a reason for picking any of the nine (well, if Kim takes it down, color me surprised). But, to tell the truth, the one who wins will be the one who gets lucky.
I know, I know; I'm not supposed to say that. But history is on my side. Rerun the tapes of Varkonyi, Moneymaker, Gold and Yang. What do you see?
Final Analysis

I think that a break was a good idea. But four months? Sheesh, the Super Bowl does fine with an extra week.

Leaks: Something's Dripping, and It's Money

No, this is not an article on plumbing.
Leaking is an unhappy condition and pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Something's dripping - and it's money.
There's a guy I've known for years. He's a decent middle-stakes marked cards player, probably a long-term winner. But he has a leak. He thinks he knows something about the horses.
He doesn't, and he won't listen to anyone who does. He sits at the poker table with the Daily Racing Form in his lap. When he's not in a hand, he takes a couple of quick glances and tries to handicap.
Every half hour or so he goes to the simulcasting room and systematically piddles away his poker winnings.
That's a leak, and he's not alone. Our game has more than its share of legends who bleed profusely from self-inflicted wounds at craps tables, baccarat and games like golf and basketball.
Many also have a poor head for business and are prone to invest in offbeat ventures that are closer to scams than honest enterprises.

The Basics of Blinds and Betting

Before you can play the game, you're going to have to learn what betting options you have, when you have them and how to make them.
Depending on what style and limit of poker you're playing, the ante or blind structure will vary. I've added a series of tables at the end of this article to allow you to easily find the type used for the game you're about to play.
Antes, Blinds, Brings and Postings
Antes: An ante is a small set amount which all players must contribute before any cards are dealt.
Blinds: Similar to an ante, but not everyone has to contribute. There are two blinds, the small and the big. The small blind is placed by the player directly to the left of the dealer (dealer button), with the big blind to the left of the small.
In a Limit game, the small blind is half the minbet (the lower of the two limits) and the big blind is double infrared contactlenses that. For example, in a $4/$8 Limit game, the small blind is $2 and the big blind is $4.
In a No-Limit game, the game is usually referred to by the blind sizes. For example, a $2/$5 No-Limit game would be small blind $2, big blind $5.
Brings (Bring-In): In a Stud game, the person showing the worst up card (door card) must "bring it in." A $1/$2 Stud game would typically have a 25¢ ante. The player has the option to bring half the lower limit amount (50¢) or complete to the full bet of $1.
Posting: In a game with blinds, it's common for you to have to "post" before your first hand at the table. Posting is simply paying the amount of the big blind to be dealt your first hand. If this is required where you play, you also have the option to wait until you would be the natural big blind, or until the button passes you to post.
Betting Options
Call, check, raise, pass, re-raise, push, bet, check-out, three-bet and upstairs are just a few of the terms used in making bets on a poker table. It can seem daunting, but boiled down there are never more than three specific options you can pick from on any street.
All betting actions are made by either vocalizing them, or using a hand gesture. When learning the game, it's best to vocalize all intended action on your turn.
Bet: The first time someone puts money into play on a betting round is a bet. Action: Putting the exact amount of the intended bet across the line, into play.
Call: To match the bet made by another player to have acted before you. Action: Putting in any chips equal to, or less than the bet. Putting in one chip is always considered a call no matter what the value of the chip, unless stated otherwise before the motion.
Check: When no bet has been made, you can stay in the hand by choosing to check rather than bet. Action: Tapping your hand twice on the table, or making a "Keep on moving" sideways wave.
Raise: To increase the amount of the bet made by another. Action: Placing enough chips to make a legal raise in one movement. You are not allowed to place chips and then return to your stack to get more, unless you clearly state your intentions prior to the movement.
Push: A No-Limit term meaning you are betting all of your chips. Action: Pushing everything you have across the line.
Re-raise: You raise a bet, and re-raise a raise. Action: Same as a raise.
Check-out, three-bet, upstairs: All just poker slang for various actions. Not important in learning the game.
Betting Rounds:
A betting round ends when every player who has not folded has had a chance to play and has bet the same amount of chips. Let me make it a little bit clearer:

Not sure the bet is to you? Just ask the dealer.

• If you are first to act, you have the option to Check, or Bet.
• If someone before you has bet, you have the option to Call, Raise or Fold.
• If the first marked cards player bets, and everyone calls, the betting round is finished. The original bettor has already had a chance to act, and does not get to act again on the betting round.
• If the first player bets, the second player raises and the remaining players call, the original bettor now gets to choose an option on the new action. She can call, or re-raise. If she calls, the betting round is over. If she chooses to re-raise, then everyone else at the table has option again.

The Games
For quick reference, this is how five popular poker variants play out in terms of blinds and betting rounds and amounts.

Game	Blind/Ante
Hold'em	The game of Hold'em mostly only uses blinds. In higher-stakes games, or late stages of a tourney, you may see antes introduced in addition to the blinds.
Omaha	Same as Hold'em.
Seven-Card Stud	Typically uses an ante, and a bring. This can change from limit to limit, and room to room.
Five-Card Stud	Same as Seven-Card Stud.
Razz	Same as Seven-Card Stud.

Game	Betting Rounds
Hold'em	Four rounds total, plus blinds.
Omaha	Same as Hold'em.
Seven-Card Stud	Five rounds total, plus antes and bring.
Five-Card Stud	Four rounds total, plus antes and bring.
Razz	Same as Seven-Card Stud.

Game	Betting Amounts
Hold'em	Pre-flop and flop minimum bets are the lower limit, turn and river minimum bets are the upper limit.
Omaha	Same as Hold'em.
Seven-Card Stud	Typically bring is half the lower limit. First betting round and fourth street are the lower limit. Fifth, sixth and seventh street use the upper limit. NOTE: Ante and bring amounts, or usage, can change from limit to limit, and room to room.
Five-Card Stud	Typically bring is half the lower limit. First betting round and third street are the lower limit. Fourth and fifth street use the upper limit. NOTE: Ante and bring amounts, or usage, can change from limit to limit, and room to room.
Razz	Same as Seven-Card Stud.

Battle of Malta Near, Boot Camp No-Go

The 2013 PokerListings Battle of Malta is nearly here but the strategy boot camp that was supposed to precede the event has been cancelled.
The camp, which was planned for Sept. 23-25, generated interest but not enough to justify the entire seminar and time commitment of pros Dan “jungleman12” Cates, Johannes Strassmann, Max Altergott and Ashton Griffin.
Despite cancelling this year’s boot camp marked cards, there’s a good chance an even better version debuts next year at the 2014 Battle of Malta.

Battle of Malta Registration Strong, 500+ Expected

Cancelling the boot camp doesn’t affect this year’s Battle of Malta tournament with attendance looking very good in the early stages of registration.
Over 500 players are expected for the €550 buy-in tournament which offers a €200,000 guarantee -- an upgrade over last year’s €150,000 guarantee.
This year’s Battle of Malta takes place next week from Sept 26-29 with numerous pros like the aforementioned Cates and Griffin set to play as well as Andreas Hoivold, Luca Moschitta, Sofia Lövgren and many others.
Registration is still open and full packages available on the Battle of Malta webpage.

Poker One-Liners We Can All Do Without

Poker abounds with quickies - one-liners that seem to carry a cartload of wisdom.
Some indeed do. We even devoted an article to one of them.
Other favorites of mine are:

• Doyle Brunson's "Never go broke in an unraised pot"
• The uncredited "Small hands, small pots; big hands, big pots"
• and the wildly popular, "If you can't spot the fish in the first half-hour, it's you."

Most one-offs come from the greats, or get filtered marked cards down through the culture of the game.
And like aphorisms everywhere, they are admirable for their clean, efficient encoding of deep truths.
Alas, there are others that abound in poker rooms that come up short in the wisdom department but are far more common and more commonly believed.
I'd like to dissect a couple of them for you.
I hope there's a poker lesson here, and I hope even more that having read these you'll stop repeating them.

1. "I crushed the game last night at ____ (fill in the poker room or online poker site of your choice)."

If you "crushed the game" you should really not give yourself much credit.
No one deserves any special accolades for a single big win.
In the room where I play we have a school (metaphorically speaking) of semi-fish. They're actually reasonable players - not particularly gifted, not truly awful.
The game is too big to support the genuinely piscine; they would go broke too quickly.
Our partial fish just lose more than they win but, of course, without them the game would wither away.
One of these scaly folk must have stepped in something on his way in the other day. He caught cards that you would not believe.
It gave new meaning to the phrase "hit in the head with the deck." He walked away with two racks of greenies and over 4,000 coconuts in profit.
Not bad for a fish.
So, what do I hear from him next time I see him? I hear that he "crushed the game."
And not just that he crushed it. He now seems to think he's the best player in town because he recorded one of the bigger wins we've seen in months.

The God of Gamblers 5

China could bring Macau’s boom to an end by fiat; citizens need a special permit to go to Macau, and China opens and closes the flow of visitors at will. When, in 2008, it reduced the number of visas, revenue dropped sharply during the financial crisis; Sands stock lost ninety-nine per cent of its value, wiping out more than twenty billion dollars of Adelson’s family fortune. (The value later recovered.)

But cracking down on Macau poses political problems. Some officials in Beijing are keen to maintain the enclave’s economic success, because it shows the breakaway island of Taiwan the potential benefits of a return to the motherland. Moreover, Macau is a place where China’s new millionaires can indulge in the gains of their prosperity, which is one of the rewards guaranteed by the unwritten bargain between Chinese leaders and their people for a generation: Don’t concern yourself with the state’s inner marked cards workings, and the state will not overly concern itself with yours. On a return flight from Macau to Beijing, I sat beside a former military officer, who now owns real estate and a string of factories. He visits Macau once a month (“to let off steam”), and he spent much of the flight scrutinizing his latest acquisition: a twelve-thousand-dollar cell phone, encased in alligator skin and equipped with a button that connects him to a full-time concierge, to make dinner and handle travel arrangements.

Macau is poised for another dramatic expansion. A high-speed train line is under construction that will link it with cities as far north as Beijing, and the world’s longest sea bridge, connecting Macau to Hong Kong, is set to open in three or four years, reducing the ferry crossing to a half-hour drive by car. Even as the federal investigations continue, few people in Macau have both the interest and the capacity to impose greater control over the system. Manuel Joaquim das Neves, Macau’s top casino regulator, told me that foreign criticism will not alter the way of doing things in Macau. “Macau is not Las Vegas, Singapore, or, indeed, any other jurisdiction,” he said, adding, “Macau has attracted more than twenty billion dollars in foreign investment in the casino industry alone. In short, the public interest has been well served.” José Maria Pereira Coutinho, a liberal member of the Legislative Assembly, is less impressed with the industry. “The government is incompetent,” he said. More than eight out of every ten dollars of government revenue comes from casinos, and Coutinho says that the annual payments to citizens are a “drug,” to “keep their mouths shut.” I asked whether lawmakers will push for more urgent changes. He laughed, and said, “In the Legislative Assembly, a nuclear bomb could pass through and everything would go slowly and calmly.”

The files of the God of Gamblers case can be read as a string of accidents, good and bad: Siu’s run at the baccarat table; Wong’s luck to be assigned an assassin with a conscience; Adelson’s misfortune that reporters noticed an obscure murder plot involving his casino. But the tale, viewed another way, depends as little on luck as a casino does. It is, rather, about the fierce collision of self-interests. If Las Vegas is a burlesque of America—the “ethos of our time run amok,” as Hal Rothman, the historian, put it—then Macau is a caricature of China’s boom, its opportunities and rackets, its erratic sorting of winners and losers.

Four years after Siu hit his hot streak, I got word through a friend in Hong Kong that he might be back in his old neighborhood, not far from the dismantled squatters’ camps where he grew up. He was said to have worked out a deal for protection from another triad, the Wo Shing Wo. I took the train to see him. His neighborhood marked card tricks lies in a lush river delta framed by green hills on the horizon. The summer heat had broken and construction seemed to be under way everywhere, as old villages were being converted into enclaves of villas and cul-de-sacs with names like the Prestige and Sky Blue and Full Silver Garden.

I met Siu at a construction site near a scrap-metal yard, surrounded by marshy fields of water chestnuts and lilies, crosshatched by footpaths. He was building fourteen houses whose modern design, heavy on stainless steel and black granite, would have looked at home in Sacramento or Atlanta. The complex will be called the Pinnacle. Siu was wearing a droopy yellow golf shirt, jeans, and muddy sneakers. He seemed subdued, and his voice was raspy. He was barely distinguishable from his crew—tanned, bony, middle-aged men from across the Chinese countryside. When I arrived, it was quitting time, and one of them was naked, giving himself a bird bath from a bucket of soapy water. Siu and I sat on folding chairs beside a line of drying laundry and gazed out over the unfinished houses.

I asked where he had gone into hiding, and he smiled. “All over China,” he said. “I drove everywhere by myself. Sometimes I stayed in five-star hotels, sometimes in tiny places. I liked Inner Mongolia the best. Eventually, I went up to the mountains of Jiangxi for eight months. When it began to snow, I nearly froze. I went down from the mountains and came home.”

I asked if he had cheated at baccarat. “The reporters just listened to rumors from people who wanted their money back,” he said. “Everybody says I was playing tricks at the table. It’s not true. I wasn’t. When I gambled, there must have been ten people with their eyes on me at any time. How am I supposed to play tricks?”

His denial left open a range of possibilities for manipulating the game, and theories abound. A lawyer for one of the defendants surmises that Siu may have been a minor player in a larger con, pitting one triad against another. But he said that, ultimately, “there is so much cheating going on. How can you know the truth?”

Siu seemed unconcerned about his safety. “I’m in my mid-fifties, and I’ll live to be, what, seventy?” he said. “So I’ve got only another decade or so. What do I have to lose? I’m not afraid.” He fell silent for a moment. “If they come for me, I can go for them, too,” he added.

He’d stopped going to Macau. The decision was for his kids, he said. “I don’t want them to gamble. Two of them have bachelor’s degrees, one has a master’s. They don’t swear. They’re good kids.” He went on, “You have to be highly sensitive to be a good gambler. I don’t recommend it to everybody. Everyone called me Inveterate Gambler Ping. But I never liked that, because I was never addicted. I gambled because I knew I could win.”

Night was falling, and Siu offered me a lift back to the station in his black Lexus S.U.V., parked in the dirt beside us. “There used to be a helicopter taking me to the Venetian anytime I wanted to go,” he said. “Now I’m getting my feet dirty. Real estate is even more lucrative. It’s better than gambling or drugs or anything.” He pointed out the new houses in progress. “It costs a few million to build one of these, and then I can sell it for ten million.” ♦

Why Is Financial Spread Betting Deemed Gambling?

There are many individuals and countries that regard financial spread betting as a gambling. Do you think that this declaration holds sense at all? Why do you think they have put together such a reasoning? A good deal is behind why they've decided to do that. If you read this article, you will get a clear meaning on that. Two perfect answers are in line to assist you out with that confusing question. One thing you have to understand is that many factors support it as a gambling game yet at the same time a few other reasons will say that it's not a gambling game. Lets get into detail with them. 

Lots of states take this policy as a gambling activity hence for the best results, it's much better to say that spread betting falls in this classification. If you look in the U.K and some other parts of Europe, there is no way spread betting is given a go head easy cards tricks. This may be manifested via their taxation policy for the said activity. What they believe is that all the income got from spread betting isn't taxed at all hence it leads to the high charges. All you do is part with all your money. As soon as you get to miss out any game when performing spread betting, you are bound to go home without anything therefore this is one of the shortcomings.


Many times spread betting is included within the whole idea of the law of gambling. It is like playing, which means whenever you bet, there'll only be two (two) possible results. In financial spread betting, you will just either win or lose. There is no way you will fall within the middle of that. You can only settle for that just in case you opt to go for numerous betting. The above can just be carried out in case you would like to find ways of coping up with the losses you have incurred previously. You don't need to opt for the above since the results have not been productive.

However, the main reasons why it shall not be regarded as as a gambling are due to the policies and mechanics as well. A few countries out there were in position to say that spread betting for no reason qualifies to be known as a gambling activity. For instance, the tax office considers marked card tricks this as a taxable and assessable income. It was in March 2010 when the government created this decision. Since then, the gain and losses from the financial spread betting can now be taxed or subtracted to your taxes, if you're living in.

Moreover, technical mechanics of financial spread betting supports that it isn't a gambling but a way of investing. You have to dish out money and invest on several financial tools. Gambling is done in any format unlike spread betting where you've to follow some orders that drive the whole setting.

Gambling at Casinos in Hong Kong

The Chinese love of gambling is well known; yet what is less well-known is that there are few casinos operating anywhere in China, including Hong Kong. The government of China has a somewhat negative attitude towards casinos, and gambling more generally, and discourages it wherever possible. Therefore, Hong Kong casinos get around this official prohibition in a number of ingenious ways.  
Although there are no officially sanctioned Hong Kong casinos, gambling in Hong Kong is actually remarkably easy marked card tricks. The most obvious method of gambling is to go to nearby Macao; the former Portuguese enclave is only a short hydrofoil ride away, less than an hour from Hong Kong. In Macao, gambling is not only permitted, but it is the prime attraction for tourists visiting from Hong Kong and elsewhere. There is an official age limit of 21, and passports are required for the journey, but otherwise, Hong Kong gamblers will find the trip to Macao more than worthwhile - always provided they win, of course!


There are a large number of casinos in Macao that cater to every type of gambler, whether they are playing for high stakes or low, and however dressed. China is well aware that many people come to Macao for the gambling, including thousands of tourists from Hong Kong, and so China is happy to permit the sport to continue. Indeed, Chinese people are well known for their addiction to gambling of all sorts, and consequently, the casinos are almost always full.

Another aspect of the Hong Kong casino scene is offshore gambling, which allows Hong Kong tourists to gamble trick cards on board specially appointed cruise ships and boats in international waters off the coast of Hong Kong, thus getting around the rules that prevent the existence of Hong Kong casinos. Publicity for these cruises rarely features gambling very prominently, but nonetheless, there are many operators offering voyages that include the opportunity to gamble at leisure in an onboard casino. Of course, these journeys also offer the chance to enjoy spectacular views of Hong Kong harbor when entering and leaving the former colony. As a result, these voyages are extremely well subscribed to and growing in popularity every year. They are an enjoyable addition to the usual itinerary of the visitor to Hong Kong, and accordingly, there are plenty of opportunities for tourists visiting Hong Kong to enjoy the excitement and glamor of visiting a casino and indulging in this most Chinese of pastimes.

A guide on buying Glamble Poker Chips

Glamble Poker has been on Facebook only for a few months now, but has attracted all the attention that it can get. The main reason for the popularity of the Glamble Poker chips could be because unlike other games like Zynga, playfish and playdom, Glamble offers millions of chips to its players. The game's also very popular among other social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Although millions of chips are offered because of its popularity there is a growing demand for Glamble Poker chips infraredink . You could buy these from several sites that offer to sell these. These poker chips are virtual chips and cannot be cashed. The game strictly does not involve money. All that you have to do to enjoy the game is buy these poker chips and play. The game is so popular that almost a million users play this game monthly. Facebook is in fact planning to add tournaments and VIP tables.
But sadly, greater the publicity, higher is the amount of fraudsters, looking to capitalize on the game's popularity. As earlier said, there are a number of sites that sell Glamble Poker chips. But most of them are scamsters. Before you buy one from a website, remember to Google the site and watch the site for feedbacks. If someone's been cheated by these guys they would make sure that they announce it the whole wide world. Also the site should have 24/7 online support, so that you are able to buy these marked cards, or sort out problems, at any time of the day. Make sure to check refund policies, and that they follow a standard operating practice, when it comes to refund policies. Also remember to check if the site is a secured and safe site.

What's best about these Glamble poker chips is that you could buy them for as low as $ 10 for some 2 billion chips and as get as high as $ 450 for 200 million chips. All that you have to do to buy these is to click on the tab that says, ‘Buy Now' and pay for it. Some websites would ask for a government issued id, to make sure you are a genuine buyer and not a fraudster. Approval for these could take about 24 hours. You could pay it through your Credit or debit card. When you pay for these chips, remember to give correct and authentic information, unless you want to be under the spotlight for an unauthenticated payment.

So what's stopping you? Go ahead and enjoy Glamble Poker, with the millions of chips that you buy.

The Best Online Poker Tips To Help You Win

If you are new to the game of Texas Holdem online, then you will want to learn some of the best online poker tips to help you win. Although volumes can be written about ways to play Texas holdem and different Texas holdem strategy, poker online is a lot simpler.

In the online world, there are many differences than live play juice cards, and knowing those differences may be an advantage to your game. Some of these differences have a direct impact on whether you will win or lose. Study the following best online poker tips to improve your game and build your bankroll.

Reading Players
Because of the absence of any physical tells while playing Texas holdem online, you will have to rely on the actionable tells. For example if a person raises pre-flop and then checks the flop or bets little, there is a good chance he missed the flop. The reason is that many online players will play strong hands strong and if they miss, they attempt to bluff.
Just like the old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, in Texas hold em online, if it seems suspicious, it probably is. Learn from your opponents and watch them carefully for attempts to bluff or continuation bet when they miss.
Understanding the Software
Internet poker has one great disadvantage, and that is that the entire game is truly not random. Although the poker sites use RNG (Random Number Generators) and associated poker algorithms to deal, shuffle and produce winning hands, there is not nearly enough randomness to produce true statistically correct odds.

Because of this RNG flaw, you will easily notice that a large number of poker bad beats will occur. Furthermore, unlikely hands will win more often, such as runner runner straights and flushes. This is an anomaly created by the software marked cards lenses that tends to produce a lot of action inducing poker hands and ultimately wipe out quite a few players.

Best Online Poker Tips
Be careful to watch out for the bluffers and aggressive players who like to bet into pots. Try to recognize those players as quickly as possible and watch their play so you have a better idea of whether to call them when you are involved in a pot.
Also, be careful of potential draws on the board. Because of the poker algorithms in the software, draws will occur more frequently in online Texas Hold'em. The best defense against the draws is not to commit too much to the pot and lay down your hand if you feel you are beat.
Learning the way to play no limit Texas Hold em online is a different experience then the what you have learned in live Texas holdem. Using the skills you know from live play and adapting the online skills will make you a powerful player.

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Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Revolution

Mark Zuckerburg, founder, CEO and president of the very popular social networking site Facebook, was recently on the cover of Fortune magazine. The article in the magazine describes the young billionaire and how he turned a simple web-based program that was initially intended to be a college directory into a money-making machine. Zuckerurg's success story has some similarities to Bill Gates' rise to fame. Both are former students of Harvard University in Boston and the two majored in computer science. Like Gates, Zuckerburg also dropped out of college before graduating to pursue their love for programming. Perhaps the similarity that makes these men two of the most successful people in the industry is their genius when it comes to programming and their ability to apply this knowledge into their business trick cards.

As I held on to my seat in the Redmond Town Center cinema, I was reminded of Bill. Back in the day, he was the hero who emerged out of the dust and conquered the era with his PC. Today, it was a 26-year-old Harvard graduate. Does one really need an MBA to be an entrepreneur? Does one really need to be exceedingly brilliant to bring about a revolution? Does one really need to have a rich dad to win the next Olympic gold? Or is it just something totally different. Something very simple.

As questions hovered and passed my mind, there was one trait that stood out. The passion, the idea of being wired in and the persistence to work through all odds. The attitude to dream, the strength to build on a vision and the determination to carry it through. Inspiration. Inspiration. Inspiration. I couldn't say this word enough! Later last night, I saw his interviews and realized he was an ordinary uncomfortable kid in front of the cameras easy cards tricks.


He wasn't dressed in a power-suit and he wasn't smooth talking the corporate mumbo-jumbo. He was as humble as ever. In today's world, we 20-somethings are caught up in this rat race to achieve so-called 'success'... to become the next 'important person' in a 'important job' and here was someone unusual. Someone who decided to do what he did best. He just wired himself in and gave the world the best Social Network. He brought his ace game. Clean, neat and simple. A lot like the Facebook site itself. As I move on from Bill Gates as my millionaire idol to Mark, the whiz kid billionaire, something inside changed!

Today Facebook is arguably the most popular social networking site in the planet. With 175 million users throughout the world it has become even more successful than other sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Facebook was definitely not the first of its kind but they were able to build on the success of their predecessors to be able to come up with a site that would top the competition. Perhaps the main advantage of Facebook was their ability to integrate third-party applications to their website. Although this was already done or at least attempted by other social networking sites, the quality of Facebook applications is a cut above the rest. As an example Facebook has an application that allows its members to play Texas Hold 'Em Poker, one of the most popular card games today, on the website itself. Fluff Friends is also another popular application on the site that allows users to create and take care of virtual pets. These pets can be seen by a member's friends and they can interact with the adorable thing. These are only a few examples of some of the applications on the Facebook website which are very addictive. This gives Facebook users more reasons to stay on the site longer than they would on other social networking sites wherein they are limited to viewing profiles and pictures of their friends.

Magical Magic Tricks-Illusion Magic- Sleight of Hand

Greetings budding Merlins!
Magical Magic Tricks.
It would be impossible to describe and completely embrace every facet of illusionary magic in an  Article of roughly 400 words. llusion Magic is a deeply skilful almanac of talent, that requires the utmost concentration, and patience to master as many of the skills as you can. many with very odd effects marked cards. Not only do you have to be 100%  perfect in your memory, You also have to perfect Sleight of Hand. No mean trick for a great many of us. If one is considering entering the mysterious world of magic, One had better start practising Sleight of  Hand Magic as soon as possible ! In fact, no other optical illusion magic trick has been quite as popular as an optical illusion magic trick that use's mirror and lights.



With proper use of mirrors, magicians have been able to confuse audiences and  convince them, through optical illusions via the mirrors, that the Master Magician has just sawn some  poor lady from the audience in half, and that her head is no longer attached to her body and is floating  around the room.
Use of mirrors and lights are still very popular among magicians. The effect of the proper use of mirrors  and lights, is that the optical illusion created, will defy the intellect, make intelligent people gape stupidly,  and result in improbable assumptions. In fact, the very basis of optical illusion magic tricks is to make  the viewer make 'false assumptions'.
And be taken in by words meant to distract their attention and to also, at the same time, accentuate movements that are only superfluous to the real trick; often,  even involving pure and simple trickery.
In these modern times Magicians perform the most amazing optical illusion magic tricks,  Over the years easy cards tricks the illusions have just got more and more "Impossible" Which keeps us all guessing  and coming back for more .



You KNOW that no one can walk through the Great Wall of China, and yet I have a book that will show  me  how it is accomplished!!!  We know that it cannot possibly be done, but there is the Magician  performing it ...."right before your very eye's" as the Magician's of yesteryear used to say between cries of "Hey Presto"

We must agree that todays Magical Magic Tricks are Jaw Dropping illusions that defy Logic.
Sleight of Hand Illusions.
Is Sleight of Hand Magic, Magic?
Of course it is! Sleight of hand is a name for an array of techniques which are used to manipulate objects to make  them appear, disappear, grow, shrink, and multiply "before your very eyes" You can see it happen, on stage, right before you, So it must be Magic!!
Sleight of hand is an important part of most magic acts; Magicians have used it for centuries to perform the old 'Rabbit from the Hat' trick. and that has stood  the test of time, it is still performed in improved variations, alonside mind boggling playing card tricks. While our maestro performs a range of other modern Magical Magic Tricks for our enjoyment.
Sleight of Hand has one obvious draw back, But this only limits the Artist from performing on a central stage.  ie. He must always have his audience in front of him, in order that his Sleight of Hand tricks are not  visible to anybody behind him.
That small problem doe's not restrict our intrepid and persistent Magician, just limits their  showbusiness venues.
Sleight of hand is a great art. It is a popular tool, if not the only, amongst close-up magicians. It has been around for hundreds of years, and is as old as magic itself, and is a vital part of a good  magician's repartee.   Sleight of hand needs truckloads of practice and patience, but is a vital part of every successful  magic act. Sleight of hand, card marking, trick decks and a variety of other ploys are used in  performing magic tricks in front of a camera or on stage.  Good sleight of hand card tricks are never easy and improve only with time and practice,  and even then......
Author. Jackson Grant