Full Tilt Poker just launched a new campaign of well thought out ads. These commercials focus on the skills involved in poker and are clearly trying to combat the idea that poker is a game of luck.
The new Full Tilt commercials are a welcome addition, especially after the years of ‘ooooohhhh party poker!’ commercials we had to sit through during televised poker and sporting events. Who isn’t glad to see those gone? 
Without further ado, here is the [...]
Poker players are crazy. There’s so much trust in the game that it’s ridiculous, especially when the goal is to directly take the other players money. Unfortunately, there are a few bad apples looking to take advantage of these trusting players.
Here are some common scams I have encountered during my online poker poker venture.
Mild: The side-bet scam
Watch out for the players hovering around sit-and-go tables trying to make private side-bets on the results. For example, they’ll register for a [...]
Finally a major poker site is taking a step towards getting the masses involved in preserving online poker. Full Tilt poker is offering a freeroll for everyone who join the poker players alliance. Joining is free, but they also encourage you to donate to this non-profit organization by offering you bonuses equal to or larger then the amount you donate.
To join, you have to open up your full tilt poker client, go to your cashier and click ‘my [...]
Top online players, like Sbrugby (Brian Townsend), prepare for their poker sessions by working out.
Physically exercising will clear your mind, boost your energy, and make you feel better about yourself. Going into a poker game with a healthy positive mindset will drastically improve your game.
On the other hand, playing poker while stressing out about other things in your life can be recipe for disaster. You’ll be more likely to make poor decisions and tilt. [...]
Short stacks have little to lose and are eager to double up. They don’t have the luxury of waiting for premium hands like the big stacks, so they’re forced to gambling more often with marginal hands. You can use this to your advantage by raising somewhat marginal hands preflop, but only if you’d feel comfortable calling an all in.
An example of when having a short stack around can be beneficial is during the bubble of a tournament and sit&go. [...]
Literally out of nowhere, PartyPoker cut off support for their downloadable Mac software. Players who have it on their computer find it unusable after the latest update. They leave us to assume that they are abandoning the project by removing all mentions of it from their website.
A player that goes by the name of Pin left a comment in a previous post with PartyPoker’s reply to this issue:
Dear Player,
We would like to inform you that as of now we have [...]
Absolute poker just released a no download java version of their poker room. So if you’re on a computer, like a Mac, that you can’t download Absolute poker on, click the ‘instant play’ button on their site to load up the poker room in your web browser.
Unfortunately, at the moment, this is only good news for hold’em cash game players, because this is the only game the java software supports. There’s no tournaments, sit&go’s, omaha, stud, or blackjack availible. [...]
Although it’s not ready yet, the PokerStars developers have been hard at work on the Mac software. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the ‘alpha’ Mac version, which is an early stage of testing prior to beta.
The Mac Poker Stars software looks very good so far and the installation was as easy as downloading the file and opening it up. All of the features the PC version has are shown in the [...]
Poker isn’t a hard game and you don’t need years of experience to become good at it. You don’t even need to play that well to make a lot of money. You just need to understand what the winning players are doing and thinking.
A winning limit players should average about 1 big bet per 100 hands (about an hour playing 6max). With this basic formula, an average $5/10 grinder should be able to make more then $5000 per month, providing [...]
Fill Tilt Poker launched a new US accepted payment processor called MyWebATM. They describe it as, “a brand new deposit option which provides a fast and easy method to fund your Full Tilt Poker account using your personal bank account.”
When you register for a My web ATM account, they’ll send you an ATM card that you can use it at most ATM machines, retailers that accept ATM cards, and to fund and cash out [...]
