Video Poker Software - Best Way To Find It

Fortunately, video poker software is on almost every online casino you can find on the Internet today. If you are looking for a fast form of entertainment you might be interested in the pleasure a few rounds can afford. If you've played poker before you will quickly get to know the basics on a video terminal. However, in many ways the video version of poker is quite different than playing a real life game.
Where to find video poker software
For three decades, the only places to find video poker games were licensed gaming facilities. There was a relatively wide range of bingo halls, casinos, and even convenience stores and pubs throughout North America that offered the opportunity to play to their customers. The most popular option for those who wanted to play was to go to a nearby land-based casino or in many cases their neighborhood pub. But with the onset of the internet you can now download the software to your PC at home and play the game at your own pace. Not to mention you can win real money, in some cases.
A great way to find video poker software is to visit some of the online casinos and try their free version to see if their game appeals to you. Some offer flash versions that you can try without having to download to your computer. If you are satisfied with a software version you can go one step further and download the casino version on your computer, if you so choose. This may be a convenient and fast way to get to the action. For U.S. Players, Rushmore Casino offers an excellent gaming platform with entertaining graphics and sound, and premium support. Another online casino that has existed for many years and has one of the best reputations in the industry is River Belle Casino, although they do not accept U.S. Players. But almost all other countries are eligible to play.
The Internet: New opportunities for video poker junkies!
One of the great things about playing video poker online is that you do not necessarily have to play for real money. Online casinos and other places where you can find these games often offer free versions of their software for download, either as experiments or to play as often as you want. This is a good way to get used to playing poker in a video format without losing a lot of money along the way!
Like all forms of gambling, the video version of poker can be addictive, so if you choose to play for real money, always be sure that you do not risk more than you can afford to lose. This is especially difficult to keep under control when all you do is press a button, but do not get caught up in the heat of the moment, and forget the bottom line! In any event, it does not hurt to try a video poker software download from one of our recommended online casinos to see if it works for you. If it's not your cup of tea a simple 'uninstall' will remove it.

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Free Online Poker Guide to How to Play a Big Hand Preflop

What do you do with a big hand preflop when you have a big stack, like K-K? And how might the other players react? Regardless of if you simply play free poker online for pennies or are at the final table in WSOP this is a core situation that you must know how to exploit to the full.
For our example we will look at an example from a World Series of Poker game:
BLINDS 40,000/80,000 A has As-10c moves all-in (Pot 1.296m)
B has K-K reraises to 5m (Pot 6.296m)

B has two options here. He can just call and then wait for someone to move all-in after him, but that would make him do some thinking...
Could it be A-A? Or Q-Q? If it was Q-Q there is a slight chance he might fold K-K, and regret it. But a big reraise can drive Q-Q or lower out, like what happened to another player:
C has Jd-Jc
(C's comments on B's hand were: "Why did you make it so much?... You like your hand that much?")
If C calls, it's for all of his chips.
C may think that B has A-K, but there are two all-ins in front of him, and one of them might be A-X (and with A-X he is still not safe) or a pair, but a suspiciously heavy raise to about 60 times the big blind is almost always a signal for A-A or K-K. So C could wait for a better opportunity than now.
C folds (Pot 2.39m)
C's fold was brilliant, after the reraise, but it will still be brilliant even if B did not reraise. B might bet again on the Flop and C may not continue and just let go of the chips.
B's reraise will work if he has A-A or K-K, but I doubt it if he will do the same with A-K or Q-Q, but it may have the same effect of making C fold. As for A, let us wish for his good health. B won the hand later.
In summary
It takes time to learn how to play poker online even free online poker or offline at a level above the unthinking, uneducated "chip flinging" seen at many tables. Learning to play different hand scenarios is just one of the facets of the game you need to master and ones such as big hands preflop are crucial. Hopefully this has helped you, and remember, when you learn this you will automatically become a cut above average as most players don't bother!

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7 Party Ideas and Ways to Entertain Your Guests For a House Party Or Card Party

1) Try inviting your friends or family over for a reason such as asking them to come play a few card games. It sets the mood for how long you intend to invite them for and also prepares you and your friends for the party setting. Your friends might even show up with a couple of bags of chips and sodas. It will also create a great conversation piece and help with laughter, fun and competition.
2) Plan something! It seems like everyone tries to wing it. Plan a few games that you think would be fun or corny because people will be joking and laughing so much they won't know what happened to the last four hours.
3) How about a few actual party games you can play? Make sure you have a pen and paper for each person. Pick a word such as PARTY and have a 30 second race to come up with as many smaller words inside PARTY (art, tar, tap, pay, rat etc). Whoever comes up with the least amount is out and the game continues until there's only one player left.
4) Stop the balloon! Everyone has to blow up a balloon, tie a string to it and tie it to their foot. Then everyone's in one room and you have to pop each others balloon. The last one with a balloon that hasn't popped is the winner! I played this at a family party of all ages and it was a HIT!
5) Try a casino games night. If you want to go rich you can hire a dealer and set up a real game of blackjack or roulette. Or you can go for just fun and have everyone change in $1.00 for chips worth pennies. You could even set up a mini poker tournament of the card game Texas hold em. Play solitaire until someone wins.
6) Scavenger hunts are always a lot of fun! No one likes to plan one, but when you're involved in one at a party it's a very good time.
7) If it's a family party, try putting everyone's baby/toddler picture on a wall and having everyone guess who's who. It'll be funny to see who picks who because of certain features. The stories to go along with the pictures will be funny as well.

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Free Poker Hand Guide - What is a Big Hand & How Do You Play It?

In this free poker guide we're going to reconstruct a hand, specifically in this article the poker hand know as the big hand. The reason why you need to know this is you will simply learn to play poker so much better when you understand the way different hands can play out.

This can then be related to the context of play. You can start to get meaningful insight the motives of your opponents based on the cards, betting patterns, player profile types, stack sizes, pot size and other relevant factors.

The result I hope is that you can play that type of hand better in the future and win more money!
For this reconstruction lets look at the Big Hand.

BLINDS 1,000/2,000 - (Pot 5,400)
PREFLOP:
A has Js-9s, calls 2,000
 B has Ks-Kc, raises to 14,000
 A calls 12,000 (Pot 33,400)

A just initially calls, hoping that there will also be many callers because he has suited connectors and wants to get sufficient pot odds.

B, meanwhile, may interpret the call from early position as A-A or Q-Q, and because he has a big stack (the two are the biggest stacks in the table) he can afford to raise a little bit, because if the other player reraises and he thinks the other one has A-A, he can fold.

Also, K-K is a little bit unsafe if an Ace falls on the flop, so this may serve as a tester raise. A calls, because he has a big stack and can afford it.

FLOP: Kh-9d-Kd
A checks
 B checks (Pot 33,400)
Suddenly B has Quad Kings! A checks, because he has only a Nine, and can proceed carefully if B bets. B, hoping to conceal his unbeatable hand, checks too.

Paired boards are generally good bluffing situations. For example, a 8-8-3 board is good for bluffing because on a, say, J-7-3 board, you will find three cards which can pair one of them, and a bluff will be less effective.

But on the 8-8-3 board, bluffing has big benefits because there are only two cards which will conceivably help anyone, and also anyone there with a Three will be not as likely to call. (Only an Eight will do.)

However with a board with bigger cards like our Flop, B might have bet, but after that, A will be less likely to put him on a bluff (and more likely on a made hand) because he may have, say, K-10, and we play big cards more than small ones.

B doesn't want A to back out of the pot. So B just checks.

Also, with two Diamonds B should check in the hope that A will put him on a flush draw so that if the flush doesn't come, A will bet or raise to push B away, and B can gain extra chips.

TURN: Kh-9d-Kd-5h
A checks
 B bets 20,000
 A raises to 70,000
 B calls 50,000 (Pot 173,400)
B still has invincible Quads, A still has Two-Pair. B could have now put A on the Nine or a draw, so B bets 20,000 so that A will call.

But since during the flop B may have represented a Diamond flush draw in A's perspective, A raised to 70,000 so that B will move away.

B just calls, since there are two draws already, and B might want to represent one of them again so that A will try another bluff on the river.

RIVER: Kh-9d-Kd-5h-9h
A checks
 B moves all-in 106,000 (Pot 279,300)

 A folds
 B still has Quads, but A is now in trouble because he has a bottom Full House. A King can kill him.
What A is hoping, though, is that B back-doored a Heart Flush and just check it along with him.
But B moves all-in. That is a very intriguing move by B. A strong player would value-bet this (sat, 40,000 on a pot of 173,400) and A can just call it.

It is OK to represent a Flush here, because the board is double-paired, which can destroy Flushes because the board is just one card off a Full House.

So what I am thinking is: B moved all-in because (1) he wanted A to think that they have the same hand or that his hand is weaker, like a Flush. B's play on the Flop and the Turn was weak, so A might not have put B on a King but likely on the Flush draw we are talking about.

B wants a call. B now hopes that A backdoored a Flush too and also that he thinks his all-in is just a bluff, but A is in trouble because of the sudden strong play.
It was psychologically jarring.

Did B hide that King or not? A may think that better hands could come later, so he folds.
Also (2) B may not want a showdown; he did not want to show the two Kings; he wanted to trouble the minds of A and other opponents.

If they saw how he played K-K it will be added information. He wants to keep them guessing.
It is essential to play more unpredictably so you can gain chips later than to gain chips now, but be unable to get some later. I believe this is a brilliant reason.

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