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    Poker etiquette – Celebrations

    Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

    Last time I taught you guys something about slowrolling. This time, let’s talk about celebrating when winning a hand.

    When you won a pot, celebrating this should be done in a modest way. If you lose a hand and your opponent gets up, yells ‘YEAAH’ and high fives some of his friends you’re without doubt considerably irritated. Off course it’s all right to be happy when winning a hand, don’t get me wrong. You’re allowed to celebrate when winning an important hand in a tournament which doubles you up. You can for exemple say ‘Yes’ and make a fist, that way you keep it a bit discreet. If your aces stay up in an important hand or a big pot it’s normal there’s a certain amount of stress release. However, nobody is waiting for someone who gets on his chair en goes screaming. The rest of the room doesn’t care about you winning a hand !

    Not celebrating is especially important when winning an all in with a hand that goes in as the worst hand. If you win with {K-Spades}{K-Clubs} against {A-Spades}{A-Clubs}, both all in preflop, DO NOT stand up and start yelling you’re the best. You don’t want to point attention to the fact that you trew everything in the pot with the worst hand and just go lucky. So again, out of respect, you just stay calm. Saying sorry doesn’t work eather cause you absolutely have no regret winning the hand. When your opponent looks at you after a sick showdown, often a polite nod for saying you got lucky does the trick.

    Next time a final post about etiquette concerning Speeches!

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    Poker etiquette – The slowroll

    Friday, January 8th, 2010

    When you finish your meal in a restaurant, you put your knife and fork on the bottom right of your plate, with your fork left and and your knife right of it with the cutting side of the knife facing the fork. This is an example of etiquette in a restaurant. Something you do, or should do. The pokerworld has its own etiquette as well !

    A lot of people, especially recreative players, do not know there are quite some no-go’s in the pokerworld. You can’t really blame these players and you’ll have to crop up with these people in exchange for the action you get from these amateurs
    When playing with professionals, you can expect that everyone at the table will be treated with respect. Unfortunetely, this is more an exception than a rule. Quite often people don’t realise that certain actions at the table are low and impudent.

    In this post and a few to come, I will point out to you beginners out there some important poker etiquette issues.

    The slowroll

    A lot of people don’t know the true meaning of this word. After all, there’s a difference between Slowplaying and Slowrolling. Slowplaying simply means you hide the strength of your hand in an attempt to get more money in the pot.

    Slowrolling means you have the last action in a hand and you wait with calling while holding the nuts. E.g. someone goes all in and you’re holding {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}, while the board is {Q-Diamonds}{J-Spades}{10-Clubs}{5-Spades}{8-Diamonds}. More money can’t be put in the pot and still you’re waiting with your call while you know there’s no way you can lose. Doing so is extremely low, because you can give you opponent the idea he indeed has the winning hand. Why in godsname would you do such a thing?!

    You can’t lose the hand and your getting nothing out of waiting with showing your hand. Some people say it’s part of the psychological aspect of poker, but no, it’s the lowest you can do. It serves no purpose at all and you’ll lose all the respect off the other players.

    Next time I’ll be talking about Celebrations so be sure to tune in again!

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    Back to basics

    Monday, June 22nd, 2009

    This blog will provide you with all the info, tips and strategies to go from total poker noob to an average poker player. The game we are playing is No Limit Texas Hold’m.

    What better way to start of then by going completely back to basics !

    Play of the hand.

    The player who has the dealer marker, deals each player 2 cards face down – “Hole Cards”

    The first round of betting or “pre-flop bet” begins with the third player to the left of the dealer and continues around the table. In No Limit Holdem any player may bet up to as much as and including all their chips at anytime, this is known as going “all in”.

    The dealer then “burns” a card to the bottom of the deck and deals the three community cards or “The Flop” to the centre of the table face up.

    Now the second round of betting begins with the player to the left of the dealer. At this point a player will determine their bet based on a possible hand from their own two “hole cards” and the three community cards. The player may choose to bet, check or fold.

    After the second round of betting is completed, the dealer will burn another card to the bottom of the deck and deal the fourth community card, this card is referred to as “The Turn” card. Another round of betting will ensue, starting again with the player directly to the left of the dealer. This round of betting is typically double the first round of betting in Limit Texas Holdem game. Finally the last card is burned to the bottom of the deck and the dealer, rolls out the final community card, also know as “The River” card. There is a final round of betting which again begins with the player to the left of the dealer. After the final round of betting is completed, the remaining players will present their best 5 card poker hand from their “hole” cards and the “Community” cards. Highest poker hand wins the pot. If two or more players have the exact same high hands a tie is called and the pot is split between them equally.

    Poker Hands

    In poker, players construct hands of five cards according to predetermined rules, which vary according to the precise variant of poker being played. These hands are compared using a standard ranking system, and the player with the highest-ranking hand wins that particular deal. You can find a list of the different poker hands here.

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