June 29, 2009

Chasing a Hand

It’s risky to chase a poker online hand, but there are times when it makes sense. If you have lots of outs or if the cost of chasing is minimal, chasing might be your best, ahem, bet. Say you have an 8-9 of clubs and the flop comes out 3 of clubs, jack of hearts, and 10 of clubs. The table checks to you, and you are left wondering whether or not it’s worth it to chase your casino hand. You don’t have a hand yet, but count your outs-you have four 7’s and four Queens that can make your straight, but wait, there’s more! You’ve also got ten other clubs in the deck that can make your flush as well. That gives you eighteen cards that can make your hand, and you have two draws (the turn and the river) to get any of them.

Once you’ve decided to chase your hand, you’ve got to defend it. If the turn doesn’t make your poker online hand, nothing will weaken your resolve to make your hand more than having an opponent bet on the turn. A raise after the flop will have your opponents putting you on a hand and will make them a lot less likely to bet after the turn, giving you a free look at the river.

June 19, 2009

The Maturity of Web Sports Betting

The ability to put a wager on a sporting event has never been more accessible thanks to the Web. Seeking the very best odds or maybe spreads, as we have the adaptability to wager during a sporting event has turned Online sports betting into a multi-billion dollar empire. Web betting sites are based all over the world & wagers can be made on each and every sporting event regardless of where & when it is played.

Wagering on sports has been going on for hundreds of years. The Historic Romans & Greeks as well as the Chinese, would put bets on various activities such as horse racing & endurance clashes of every kinds. The art of wagering became commonplace through out the European region and the Asian region. Horse racing as well as other sporting games opened the door for bookmakers, who became marketeers for sports wagers. Internet sports wagering websites are the bookmakers of the 21st century.

There are some different types of internet bets based on the sporting event. The proposition bet is a stake on the outcome of the competition. Rugby, basketball and tennis clashes are fine examples. The web proposition bet can also involve how the amount of hits each player might get in a sporting event or how many yards a wide receiver will net, or how many goals a soccer player will get in one match. Internet parlay bets are multifarious bets where a bet is placed on various types of events at the same time. If all the selections win, the winnings is greater; if one or more lose, the entire wager is lost.

Teasers are web bets that allow a punter to combine wagers on more than one game. The point spread can be adjusted for the games, but the return on the stakes is lower. Goal line, puck line & run line wagers are also offered in hockey, baseball & football. When an online wager is placed in this style there is a steady point spread, which has a larger payout for the winner & a lower payout for the under dog. The amount of the Internet wager is based around whether the bettor picks the favorite or the underdog. Future wagers can also be made before a football, soccer or baseball season. Odds are fixed on which team can win the Super Bowl, World Series or World Cup & if the picked team wins, the payoff is generally a big one. Head-to Head stakes are popular in sports like Formula One races as well as horseracing. A stake is placed on a driver or a jockey and the winnings is based on how they finish. Internet betting is here to stay and should continue to grow for the reason that the world is constantly betting on something.

April 24, 2009

Poker Fiction: Drunk Baller

The guy next to me at the poker online high stakes no limit table would not stop drinking Bud Select and eating loaded nachos at the casino. His breath had begun to make me ill, not to mention his drooling on the green felt and the nudging my ribs to try to get me to have a bite of his cheese and jalapenos, which I politely declined.

The guy had more chips at the poker table than anyone, which he continued giving away hand after hand, more interested in slugging down the free booze and feeding his already enormous cheese gut from the casino’s endless troughs. I had already made $5,800 off of him by his pushing an 8 5 offsuit into my overpair on two different hands. The chips he passed were sticky and covered in spit, but would still spend when I cashed them in.

The rest of the table was hunkering in and waiting for the right spots to take more of his cash, not suffering so much as I having to hear the guy grovel over the chips and salsa, knocking more than three beers into my lap in the course of an hour. He kept calling me by his wife’s name, or some other woman, and asking me to rub his greasy back.

Though he’d paid my mortgage three times over, and likely would three times again, it was a job like any otherbabysitting the sucker hand by hand.

July 24, 2008

Poker Theater, Plays and Musicals

What would the perfect poker show entail? Not a poker game, or a “pokern” tournament, as the Germans would say, but a good old fashioned poker play or musical, preferably in Las Vegas, Reno, or Atlantic City (Monte Carlo would be nice too).

You have your usual brand of musical numbers, and some speaking parts, but how would you integrate the game itself into the act?

Here’s my idea: You have two plays in one going on at the same time. The play begins with a few guys and gals playing poker on stage. That’s the anchor. That’s the main event. But sporadically throughout the scene, the something would happen at the table to trigger a flashback event. Since this is a play, on stage in real time, you would have the table lighting go down low, and then a new scene would unfold on another part of the stage.

Say one of the players has something on their mind. The second area of the stage would be where their “thoughts” are played out for the audience. Meanwhile, the poker game continues on the side, in real time, until the secondary scene is completed. Them we return to the table and play that out until the next thought or scene comes to light.

Voila! A poker play!