History Of Poker: China to Texas Hold’em
Ancient Origins of Poker
The history of poker is an interesting matter for study, and a question for debate among card game historians. Over the last thousand years poker has evolved from numerous different games which incorporated such poker specific aspects as card rankings, bluffing your opponents, and betting. Legend has it that the card [...]
The Bubble
Poker Help: The Bubble
The bubble is a specific point in poker games, particularly hold em poker games, where the card game has become stagnated, and a player needs to bust out so that his poker chips can enter the pot and the other players can win some money. The “bursting the bubble” is a strategically [...]
The Button
Poker Help: The Button
The button is an essential tool for any poker table. It is a small, generally white, acrylic disk which indicates which poker player is the dealer. On a standard poker table the person who has the button in front of them is the player who has to deal the cards. During [...]
Crack
Poker Help: Crack
A poker slang term for breaking or “cracking through” a tough hand. You would most likely hear this term at poker tables when a relatively strong poker hand, like pocket Kings, is broken.
Bot
Poker Help: Bot
This is a term which is poker slang for a “robot.” In the online poker world, robots are computer programs that play poker online automatically as if they were a poker player. They play poker without any help from humans. Poker robots are considered illegal by most online poker website, and their presence [...]
Fish
Poker Help: Fish
A fish is a poker term for a poor card player who executes bad poker strategy and gives their money away. Generally, it is a bad idea to upset poor players because of the high likelihood that they will leave the game (meaning you can’t get any more of their money). This is [...]
Maniac
Poker Help: Maniac
A maniac is a poker player who is implements an extremely aggressive poker strategy, raising, betting and bluffing at whim. A poker player can be a maniac in varying degrees; however, at the extreme, a so called true manic, is a card player who is no longer playing poker, but rather gambling haphazardly. [...]
How Not to Get Kicked out of an Online Poker Room: Online Poker Etiquette and Poker Tips
People act differently in online poker rooms they would at a poker table. The anonymity of internet poker tables, and the fact that people are more comfortable writing than speaking, leads people to act in ways they would never act in the “real” world. Online poker is often the scene of conduct you won’t find [...]
Learn How To Play Poker-Online Poker and Live Poker Games
Learn How to Play Poker - Online Poker (Internet Poker) and live Poker Games
This is an online poker guide giving you a basic idea of how to play Texas Hold’em Poker.
The Button Position
Texas hold’em is unique in the poker world in that each of the poker players sitting at the table gets a turn to [...]
How to play Texas Hold’em Poker Online
Success and popularity of online poker
Online poker has become increasingly popular and highly successful.
In recent years Online poker, especially online versions of Texas Hold’em, has exponentially increased in popularity and success. Millions of dollars are made (and lost) in digital poker rooms around the world every day. The convenience of playing poker and making money [...]