Are You Serious?

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:02:48 +0000

Now I’m sure every aspiring poker player is screaming that if they were to follow the above advice they’ll practically be throwing in every hand. And my response is: Absolutely! If you’re playing more than 1 out of every 4 hands, you’re playing way too many.
Of course, we’ve all seen people who play a lot of hands, and sometimes they get lucky. Some people’s hold-’em strategy is “any two will do,” meaning that no one knows how good their hand really is until after the flop. But that’s financial suicide. Sure, those people will win with garbage once in a while. But these same people always, always, always give their money back eventually. You just have to be patient and wait for their luck to turn.
Now, you all know I’m not a big fan of math nerds and their relentless calculations, but in this case my experience shows that they know what they’re talking about. Having run billions of computer simulations, they’ve proven which starting hands consistently win against other starting hands. This is reality, and you ignore it at your own peril.
Poker? Of course not. These starting hands are for beginners (or losers who think they know what they’re doing but just keep losing), before you discover the subtleties of the game. There’s only so much you can read from sites, and without real-world experience, you’ll never get any better. Stick with these starting hands until you’ve got at least 200 hours under your belt. And even then, you should consider playing more hands only on very rare occasions.

Doubling And Splitting

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:59:39 +0000

Here’s some advice to keep in mind as you calculate the progression in casino: Regardless of whether you double, split, or push, increase or decrease your bet based on the net win or net loss on each hand.
If you split your pair, then win one but lose the other, you broke even for a push, so you keep the next bet the same. If you lost both splits, you revert back to your base bet. If you split, double, and split some more and you end up ahead, you step up the bet. If you lost money, you revert to the base bet. Obviously, if you get a blackjack, you’re ahead, so you increase your bet. If you surrender, it’s a loss, so you go back to the beginning.
And don’t forget: If you lose three hands in a row, get up and find another table!
Back during the “good ol’ days” of Vegas, when the Rat Pack was in full swing
blackjack game, roulette wheel, or craps table that wasn’t fixed in some way. And if you nevertheless walked out with a nice chunk of change, the pit boss would often send some of his goons to “escort you to your car.”
But ever since Uncle Sam swaggered into Vegas and busted Mafia chops, casinos went corporate, then legitimate, and Vegas’s cheating ways became a thing of the past. Nowadays, casinos from here to hoedown have all figured out tricks for taking your money that are entirely legal. Watch out for these common tactics.

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Are You Serious?

Doubling And Splitting