Online poker sites

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Online poker has flourished in the past few years. This is mainly due to the convenience that the internet provides to setup games using software and make payment transactions quickly via the internet. With the heavy increase in online poker players, several sites dedicated to free poker games as well as real ones have sprung up. It can be daunting to separate the legit and high quality sites from the rest because it is quite simple to setup an apparently professional site for a low price by virtually anyone. To make the task easier, here are 3 recommended sites to choose from to play poker online.

• Party Poker

Party Poker is one of the pioneers in online poker. Established almost a decade ago, Party Poker is known for its popularity hosting thousands of games at any one time. Due to Party Poker’s widespread popularity as well as reputation, the majority of its users are beginners and intermediates since this is pretty much the first service that any newbie hears of, however it also comprises of several, well established, experienced online poker players. The software used by Party Poker is also quite steady as anticipated. While sounds used in-game maybe a little annoying to some, it is feature-filled and barely contains any glitches.

• Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker is a much newer online poker client in comparison to the aforementioned Party Poker client but it can serve as quite a good competitor. The players in Full Tilt poker are known to be a little stubborn which has been an issue as it is harder to win games however as popularity of the service grows, so does the variety of the players. The software client is excellent available for both Windows and Mac platforms. It does not consume too much of system memory thus game play is smooth.

• Carbon Poker

Carbon Poker was previously under the poker.com domain name (which very much worked in their favor for type in traffic) and was later on re-branded to Carbon Poker. Carbon Poker is still in development in terms of popularity with around 2500 players online at the busiest times. The skill levels of players are best suited to new players in to the online poker world. The software is relatively weak as far as graphical appeal is concerned but it is feature filled. A unique user-friendly feature in the software is the tabbed navigation that makes it very easy to switch between the various features and areas of the room.

These are 3 of the most popular and reputed clients to play poker online, currently available. Your choice would depend on your reputation and skill level but on a general note, signing up with Party Poker would rarely end in disappointment irrespective of your skill level.

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Another lovely 72 bluff

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | 72, bluff | No Comments

This one is from the GSN show High Stakes Poker. Mike “The Mouth” Matusow picks up KK and Hellmuth decides to battle with Mike hoping to cash the 72 bounty.

“It’s a new game today boooooys” haha lovely

If you’re looking for something to spice up your home games, I can really recommend to play similar bounty hands. For example you could make an agreement with the other players that pots won with these hands will cost 4BB from every player at the table. It doesn’t have to be necessarily the 7-2 hand, it’s all up to you. At our game we even agreed multiple bounty hands on one evening, f.e. the 72 en T3 hands. Good luck!