How to learn about Poker Greece ?

Dated: 14 Oct 2011
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If you have been preparing to play poker Greece, it is definitely a wise decision.

Poker Greece casino, is much appreciated and is considered to be an excellent source of entertainment. This is widely available on the internet encouraging many players to participate in it. Since this is a very interesting game, there is a growing demand for this game and many new players are quite active in learning about the game.

Further poker Greece news will update you frequently about the game and you can receive updates as you play the game. Learning and playing the game is quite easy and is much preferred to win the game and to start earning money from betting and also by applying different strategies.

Poker is now popular throughout the world and it is still growing in its popularity as the new players show more enthusiasm in learning about the game. Therefore learning skills to play the game more efficiently is definitely an important guide that will surely give you quite an in-depth knowledge about poker.

With plenty of access to learn poker, you can practice on a regular basis through online and gain wonderful insight about poker and quickly become an expert or practice and learn slowly.
As there are several other areas that require you to learn about the game, you need to understand and learn about the game properly. Playing regularly will also make you perfect and will give you the best access to the basics of the game.

The fact is, the more you play the better will be your results and in this point of view, you can grow steadily and enjoy all the fruits and profits of playing the game and earning from the game.

Further you also have a great opportunity to access the game freely until you gain good expertise about the game.

Although there are many online games, poker has given lot of money earning opportunity for many players and in this aspect, it can be stated that it is a wonderful game for many reasons whereas it is also considered as luck based game if you really do not know about betting strategies. But you can surely more become successful as you take interest and practice it on a regular basis to become a professional player and start earning money from the poker. This will definitely give you a very good success as you take a good analysis and practice of the game.

Places to play

Dated: 9 Oct 2010
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There are various games that you can play online. All what you need is to choose from thousands games the one you are most interested in then to complete achievements to win badges. Today you don’t have to go to Vegas to challenge the competition anymore but you’re a mouse-click away from a hot game.

If you love to play Poker you know pretty well that right now there are great number of Internet poker rooms offering people to playing at the same time during peak playing hours. Just do an Internet search for poker or take a look at some of the online poker-related sites, and you will quickly find many places to play and thousands upon thousands of pages of information. One of the most popular ways to play poker today is the free poker tournaments online.

This is such kind of a poker game where the players all play until one has all the chips and is declared the winner. Unless the tournament is winner take all, the top 10 percent receive some kind of prize, with the winner receiving the largest share and each player after receiving successively less. Online poker tournaments have the same structure, but are played over the Internet rather than in a live casino. There are lots of sites offering online poker in the form of tournaments. One of the oldest, the site Poker Room is well known for good and exciting tournaments.

The following games, and others, are readily available online:

Texas Hold’em
Omaha/8
Omaha High
Seven-Card Stud
Pineapple
Razz
Five-Card Draw
Triple Draw
The Benefits of Internet Play

How to Play Texas Hold’em Poker

Dated: 10 Jun 2010
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With his brand-new license to kill in hand, Bond tracks the infamous Le Chiffre, a man suspected to be the world’s biggest banker for terrorist organizations. With back-up from MI:6, Bond takes on Le Chiffre in an ultra-high stakes game of Texas Hold’Em Poker, hoping to win his money and coerce him into escaping the terrorists – who will undoubtedly seek Le Chiffre’s head for losing their money – by seeking protection from MI:6 in exchange for information. The game turns deadly as Le Chiffre and Bond go head to head in and out of the game, with the stakes becoming more than just money.

Texas Hold’em is a version of the game of Poker, the card game. It is played with a standard 52 card deck. It is also played in every country around the world, in private homes, in casinos, in cardrooms and also online. Hold’em can be played with as few as two players (going “heads up”), up to a maximum of eleven players. Regular poker hand rankings apply to this game.

The typical hold’em game is broken down into five stages of play as follows:
The Preflop:
Starting with the dealer button, each person is dealt one card. Then a second card. Both cards are dealt face down. After everyone receives their ‘pocket’ or ‘hole’ cards, i.e. the two face down cards just dealt, then the first round of betting takes place.
The Flop:
The dealer turns over three cards (called “the flop”) in the middle of the table. These are community cards that each player may use to build himself the best possible hand. Now a round of betting takes place.
The Turn:
The dealer turns over another card and places it on the table, making four community cards. This fourth card is called “the turn”. A round of betting follows.
The River:
The dealer turns over the fifth and last community card. This is called “the river”. The last round of betting takes place.
The Showdown:
The remaining players in the hand show their cards, starting with the player who bet first. Each player uses his two cards and the five community cards to create the best 5 card hand he can. A player can use any combination so even if one card is from his pocket cards and four are from the community cards in order to create the best hand, it is fine. If all five of the cards of the community cards make the best hand, then everyone splits the pot. This is called “the board plays”.

A player can fold and get out of the hand at any time in the hand. All his bets will be lost at that point.

The player with the best cards wins. One can see this clearly on the television airings of the poker championships. The games played are always Texas Hold’em and in the final seconds of a hand, the camera hardly focuses on the winning hand, presumably because it is so obvious that the best hand will win.

The James Bond le Chiffre game
Scene 1 – First Blood
The first scene features Bond against Le Chiffre in heads up play. Bond hints at seeing Le Chiffre’s tell and eventually mucks (folds) on the river card. As you can see, Bond mucks his hand whilst Le Chiffre reveals a Full House of 2′s and 9′s. Bond lost $50,000 on this hand.

Scene 2 – Lucky Le Chiffre
In the next scene, Bond uses Le Chiffre’s “tell” to his advantage and thinks he has him beat. Unfortunately for Bond, prior to the hand, Mathis double-crosses him and tells Le Chiffre that Bond is on to his tell. Le Chiffre uses this to his advantage by faking a bluff and winning the hand. Bond’s Full House (Aces and Kings) cannot compete with Le Chiffre’s four Jacks – a rare and superb hand in poker. Bond loses over $14 million dollars from this hand, and eventually gets CIA Agent Felix Leiter to stake him another $5 million to buy back in the game.

Scene 3 – Bond Wins
The final and decisive hand may be the most outlandish of them all. A rare occurrence for any player.

After calls of “all-in” by a total of four players at the table, Le Chiffre’s hand is the superior up until Bond reveals his. Le Chiffre’s Full House of Aces and Sixes seems to be the ultimate hand. However, Bond slyly reveals that he has Le Chiffre beat – with a straight flush! Bond’s 4-5-6-7-8 of Spades finishes Le Chiffre, and wins Bond a cool $120 million, much to the relief of the British and American governments.

Poker Books

Dated: 14 Mar 2010
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Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em – T.J. Cloutier and Tom McEvoy
World Series of Poker champion and former Canadian Football League tight end T.J. Cloutier’s writings on poker strategy are highly accessible and easy to understand—and also a little bit folksy. This book is considered one of the top manuals on No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em—probably the most difficult forms of poker to study. Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em includes advice on both tournaments and cash games, and in addition to the poker wisdom, you’ll find at the end an interview with Cloutier as well as some brief stories like “A Very Unlucky Day in Odessa” and “The Worst Decision in the History of Poker.” Well worth the price of admission.

Poker Wisdom of a Champion – Doyle Brunson
Like a true Southerner, Doyle Brunson knows how to tell a good story. Originally published in 1984, Brunson’s Poker Wisdom of a Champion—formerly known as According to Doyle—is a collection of two-or-three-page tales from this legend of poker’s days as a Texas road gambler. Poker Wisdom of a Champion isn’t necessarily a how-to-play-poker book that will help you break into the Big Game, but it will give you some insight into the stranger aspects of human nature that emerge at the poker table—as well as some helpful cardplaying advice.

Winning Low Limit Hold’em – Lee Jones
It would be tough to find a poker book as effectively constructed as Winning Low Limit Hold’em. The chapters are brief but thorough and include quizzes to make sure you’re really thinking about the concepts. Lee Jones covers dozens of topics ranging from how to play flush draws to how to manage your bankroll. The book is tailored towards hold’em games ranging from $2-4 to $5-10 limit, but some of the advice holds true for other limits as well. Mr. Jones also does a great job as the cardroom manager for PokerStars, and as such, the recently released third edition of WLLHE contains advice on internet poker. This is one of three books (along with Cloutier’s Championship Omaha and Sklansky’s Theory of Poker) that I can conclusively say has made me a handsome wad of cash, and I would recommend it to anyone trying to master the game of hold’em.

Ace on the River – Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein isn’t as flashy or easily recognized as a lot of other players (can you imagine a Barry Greenstein video game?) but to me, he’s one of the more intriguing high-stakes gamblers—and he probably has a much higher level of success than some of his more self-promotional counterparts. It’s fitting, then, that Barry’s contribution to poker literature is intended for advanced players and doesn’t offer much pop-culture appeal. Ace on the River is more of a lifestyle guide for the professional player than an instructional tool for the tables. As such, the most common criticism of this book is that it’s pretty shallow in the strategy department, compared to, say, Harrington on Hold’em. However, the No-Limit Hold’em hand analyses at the end of the book definitely make Ace on the River worth reading. (It also has lots of colorful, glossy photographs, so it functions as a nice coffee-table book.)

Play Poker Like The Pros – Phil Hellmuth, Jr.
Phil Hellmuth’s stab at writing a poker manual is actually pretty decent in the sense that it covers quite a few different games—like Stud Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha—and is a bit more toned down than Phil’s infamously grating persona. This seems like a good book for introducing a novice player to the various forms and concepts of poker, but it’s not a text that’s going to significantly improve the game of an already solid player. (Nonetheless, you gotta love Phil’s line from a recent ESPN World Series Main Event broadcast: “I was supposed to go broke on that hand, but they forgot one thing: I can dodge bullets, baby!”)

Zen and the Art of Poker – Larry W. Phillips
One of the key components of playing successful poker is the ability to manage your emotions and prevent tilting. Zen and the Art of Poker focuses on this aspect, effectively applying the sage words of Zen masters like Dogen and Suzuki to a game played by Devilfish, Jesus, and Fossilman. Both Zen and poker require a heightened level of attention and detachment, so it’s no wonder players like Howard Lederer and Phil Hellmuth claim to have used Zen to improve their play. (Lederer was inspired by Zen and the Art of Archery.) One flaw with Phillips’ book, though, is that it starts to get repetitive—there’s really only so much you can say about Zen, being that it’s more of a direct practice than a set of ideas. However, you can definitely squeeze enough out of this book to earn a return on your $12.95 investment. And, hey, it might make you a better person.

Poker Nation – Andy Bellin
Andy Bellin is a Paris Review staffer and poker aficionado whose articles for Esquire led to the publication of Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country. This book takes a wide-ranging, journalistic view of the poker world circa 2001 (before the era of Chris Moneymaker, Party Poker, and lipstick cameras). In addition to explaining poker rules, history, and strategy, Bellin crafts first-person accounts of his experiences at underground poker clubs in NYC as well as at the World Series of Poker. He also weaves in interviews with professional grinders on topics like drug abuse and gender differences in poker. Poker Nation is an entertaining, informative, and insightful look at the card-playing subculture. Personally, I’m hoping for a sequel.

Poker Face – Katy Lederer
Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers is a concise, beautifully written memoir by poet Katy Lederer (Winter Sex) about growing up in an eccentric game-playing family with her siblings, world-class poker players Howard Lederer and Annie Duke. For more on Poker Face, click over to my interview with Katy for Identity Theory.

The Championship Table at the World Series of Poker – Dana Smith, Tom McEvoy, Ralph Wheeler
The Championship Table is an essential book for poker historians. It covers the Main Event of the World Series of Poker from 1970-2003, detailing the key hands, strategies, quotes from participants, payouts, and more. The main attraction of the book for me was the interviews with road gamblers and other poker greats like Doyle Brunson, Bobby Hoff, T.J. Cloutier, Barbara Enright, and Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, among others. Erik Seidel talks about his discomfort playing Johnny Chan in the final-table matchup shown in Rounders; the always colorful Amarillo Slim chats about Benny Binion and the old days of the World Series. The Championship Table is an excellent volume for players interested in the history of the game and in the World Series itself.

High Stakes Poker Episodes

Dated: 14 Mar 2010
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EPT Berlin Robbery

Dated: 8 Mar 2010
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The European Poker Tour became the victim of a robbery Saturday when as many as six armed men stormed the Grand Hyatt Berlin where EPT Berlin is being held.Panic struck at the event when four masked men reportedly armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and hand grenades raided the hotel with two others standing guard outside just after 2 p.m. local time.Berlin tabloid B.Z. has reported as much as €800,000 was stolen before the culprits took off across the Marlene-Dietrich-Platz in front of the hotel blending into the crowd at the nearby Potsdamer Platz Arcades.Although none were seriously hurt, the newspaper claims as many as eight security personnel suffered minor injuries, including one security officer who briefly detained one of the men before being pistol whipped.PokerStars released the following statement.”An armed robbery by 5-6 men took place today at EPT Berlin.” The statement reads. “Nobody was seriously injured. We hope to restart all events at 4 p.m. local time. A police investigation is underway. If you have video footage or photographs that could help the police, please contact the EPT organizers as soon as possible.”A stampede of players and floor staff running for safety was seen on the EPT Live broadcast before play was suspended.According to B.Z., mass hysteria ensued when one of the gunmen shouted that he had a bomb.There were approximately 22 players left in the event when the incident occurred.Tournament staff was in the process of verifying chip counts in attempt to restart the event just before 6 p.m.
You can be sure in casino online that’s couldn’t happen.

Famous Poker Quotations

Dated: 27 Feb 2010
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“The guy who invented poker was bright, but the guy who invented the chip was a genius.” (Big Julie)
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned” (Paul Newman as Fast Eddie in The Color of Money”)
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.” (Charles Lamb)
“Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare, an art form or indeed a way of life – but it is also merely a game, in which money is simply the means of keeping score.” (Anthony Holden)
“Limit poker is a science, but no-limit is an art. In limit, you are shooting at a target. In no-limit, the target comes alive and shoots back at you.” (Jack Strauss)
The strong point in poker is never to lose your temper, either with those you are playing with or, more particularly, with the cards. There is no sympathy in poker. Always keep cool. If you lose your head you will lose all your chips. (William J. Florence)
“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.” (Amarillo Slim)
“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don’t know who the sucker at the table is, it’s you.”
“Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.” (Mike Caro)
It’s not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” (Gore Vidal)
“I’ve always had confidence, but I never let my ego get to the point that I think I’m the superstar, because I know.
That ego has destroyed many a poker career.” (Jim Boyd)
[Poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. (Wlter Matthau)
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead. (Jackie Robinson)
My Kings are a coin flip aginst your Aces. (A fish on FTP)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; thou the way you play it is free will.(Jawaharlal Nehru)
Well, I’ll just pretend I was playin’ with someone else’s money. (Annabelle in the movie Maverick)
My old pappy always used to say, there is no more deeply satisfying religious experience… than cheatin’ on a cheater. (Maverick in the movie Maverick)
“Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn’t play poker.” (Amarillo Slim)
“Stop cheating!” the dealer told the card player.
“I’m not!” claimed the player.
“You must be,” said the dealer. “That is not the hand that I dealt you.”
“Let me tell you, there’s no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.” (Paul Auster, The Music of Chance – 1990)
“I hope to break even this week. I need the money.” (VETERAN GAMBLER)
“A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.” (American Proverb)
“At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” (Ian Fleming Casino Royale – 1953)
“Neither I nor anyone else can guarantee you will win. If someone tells you they can, do not believe them. Run making sure you have a death grip on your wallet.” (Ken Pearlman)
“Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom”
“The smarter you play, the luckier you’ll be.” (Mark Pilarski)
“No wife can endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.” (Lord Dewar)
“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.” (Mark Twain)
Gambling Quotes
“Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.” (Timothy L. O’Brien, Bad Bet – 1998)
“Luck never gives; it only lends.” (Wwedish Proverb)
“Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.” (French Proverb)
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.” (Wilson Mizner)
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
“Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom”.
“For the true gambler, money is never an end in itself. It’s a tool, like language or thought.” (Lancey, The Cincinnati Kid)
“Never bet on baseball.” (Pete Rose)
“If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.” (Chico Marx)
“They gambled in the Garden of Eden, and they will again if there’s another one.” (Richard Albert Canfield)