2006 was a roller coaster for Mac poker players. We had a slow start, then a bunch of great news, followed by some horrible news, and finally at the end of 06 we’re leveling out again.
The Good
Full tilt poker released mac software. - Full Tilt was the second major poker site to come out with a mac version. They were also the first one to make it a downloadable program (compared to pokerroom’s web browser version).
Party Poker released two [...]
Fancy Play Syndrome, AKA playing backwards, is a very serious condition among poker players. It causes you to have a high short-term variance while being -ev (negative expected value) in the long run.
Players with this condition can be found all over, but it primarily effects mid limit players who think they are gods gift to poker. They’re usually the ones playing every other hand at during a ring game or getting their chips in early on with marginal hands [...]
Tournaments have a lot of variance, so playing them will require a large bankroll. Most people throw out 4% (25 buy-ins) as a standard bankroll number, but serious players are going to need more.
A 4% tournament bankroll is fine for casual players. If you have $300 online that you can easily afford to lose, I wouldn’t expect you to play less then $5 tournaments. If you lose a few buy-ins though, you should be safe and drop down to [...]
Calculating poker odds is very easy. You don’t need to know a whole bunch of formulas or memorize all the possible situations. This one easy formula is all you need to know to calculate the odds of completing a draw or making a poker hand after the flop.
Step 1: Determine how many outs you have.
Step 2: Multiply your outs by two and add a % after the result.
Step 3 (optional): Double this number to see your odds with two [...]
The majority of the action in Pot limit omaha (PLO) should occur post flop. Even hands that look like gold, like AAxx and KKxx, might be even money or even behind against multiple players pre flop.
The best pot limit omaha players wait till the flop, turn, and river to out play their opponents. It’s easier to put players on a hand based on their betting in previous rounds, and you’ll have a better idea of the possibilities your hand can [...]
Full Tilt Poker is giving away $200,000 worth of christmas spirit this holiday season. Every day, for the rest of December, you’ll have a solid chance to win a share of $15,000 in the form of cash and prizes.
To participate in Full Tilt Poker’s 12 days of christmas promotion you simply need to earn points by playing hands. Just one point will get you a shot at the daily grand prize, [...]
When online poker first came about in the late 90’s, it made a lot of players uneasy. Not because they thought it would hurt their live games, but because they believed it wasn’t real poker.
Since those early days of online poker, many of the anti-online players have switched to playing almost exclusively online poker. Today, most professional players don’t even see the need to play live. So what makes online poker so much better then live poker? Here are [...]
Poker.com is a medium sized internet poker room. They run great promotions, give away a lot of money in freerolls, and have a responsive support team. Unfortunately, they’re missing one important element to make their poker room complete. Mac software!
I did a little investigating to see if, or when, Poker.com will release a Mac version. I sent them an email titled, ‘Poker.com for Mac?’, to which they quickly replied:
I dont know exactly what our development team [...]
It’s update time! Over the next few months there’s a few thing I plan to update to Poker on a Mac, to increase the quality and information. Most will involve content and organization.
One feature that needs to be redone is the Poker Strategy section. I haven’t been able to put up new articles or poker strategy, because if the current way it’s organized.
To fix this, I’ll split it up into two sections. One will be for poker strategy, [...]
Full Tilt Poker added a new tab to their lobby titled, ‘Mixed Games’, which making them the first Mac poker room to implement these. Mixed games are poker tables where you can play multiple variations of poker on a single table.
The titles for mixed games are names like Horse, Hose, and Ha. Odd sounding, yes, but they’re abbreviations for each poker game.
H - Hold’em
O - Omaha Hi/Lo
A - Omaha Hi
R - Razz
S - Seven Card Stud
E [...]
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