A great way to build your bankroll is to take advantage of the many offers poker rooms give players to play at their poker room. Building a bankroll is quite a difficult task, so it is important for any player to use all help that they can obtain in order to increase their bankroll. Whatever your target is for your bankroll, this money that you can earn from simply playing poker is a welcome boost for any player.
By Carl “The Dean” Sampson of PokerSharkPool.com
Psychologists always tell us that to achieve true expert status usually takes around ten years of continuous study along with practical experience. Fortunately for us, learning how to make money from poker doesn’t take anywhere near that length of time!
Event 49 is hotting up with 19 of the 95 runners still remaining. Last years champ Scotty Nguyen is out, leaving some of the hot players of 2009 WSOP fighting for the coveted bracelet. 16 get paid, so the bubble is fast approaching as day 3 begins.
Financial management is a key part of life in general. Applied to poker, this is known as “Bankroll Management”. Poker players are not known for their application of sound money management theory, they are often dismissed by non poker players as simply gamblers, but many poker players are hiding a hidden skill, which is the ability to pick out games that are both profitable and exposing only a controlled percentage of their overall cash dedicated to their poker playing each time they play poker.
Steve Wills – the new co-host of the weekly show joins us to discuss poker and many things related to it. Listen or download now!
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We feel that a weekly podcast about poker is something that we lack here at itsawinner. So we are sorting that out straight away! After the success of Gary Hurst’s pokercast, we have decided to bring you a weekly downloadable podcast featuring Mal Clarke (owner of itsawinner), Gary Hurst, and local player Steve Wills who as a former poker mc, and regular player will help us make the show excellent as you download each week (which of course you MUST do!)
We will be discussing all things poker, from our own play to news from the poker world. Hopefully it will be a good laugh and we will be able to entertain you directly on your Ipod or through your computer.
If you would like to be interviewed or call into the show, then please contact us and we can arrange to skype you during the show. Make sure you check back soon where the first show will be available for downloading. Until then, keep an eye open for new articles and video from our normal updates.
For those interested, I have found an interview with Steve conducted at a recent tournament where he finished 6th. I’m sure he’ll be an excellent addition to the podcast and we welcome him to the team.
A lot of people simply do not gamble online just because it may seem confusing, or totally different from a real casino. This is simply not true.
When going through an online casino, it’s much easier to access the games without real-life hassles. You don’t have to bother with people, you don’t have to make the drive, and all you have to do is login. There are tons of games: video poker, roulette, slots; probably more games than your local casino has. So, what is the difference between a poker room and an online poker room?
First of all, playing online is much easier. There are no unnecessary waits, no old people, and you can win much faster. The casino games you would play by yourself can go much faster, and in the case ok poker or other card games that you play with other participants, you can keep a mean poker face.
Or you can just try online casinos, and figure out for yourself why the virtual poker room is better than the real one. They’re always there, and you can play whenever you want. You don’t have to plan a trip; you can just get to an online casino in a matter of seconds.
But you shouldn’t let someone decide for you; go ahead and try both online poker rooms and real-life ones. Online casinos try to cater to the gambler better than real-life ones, though. They have sped-up games, and you can always find a table with players, no matter what time of night it is.
So it ends up on personal preference. Try out both, online poker and real-life, and decide for yourself. The best casinos are the ones that appeal the most to you, and that is something that no one can change.
Jeffrey Lisandro has got three World Series of Poker bracelets, all of which have come in the discipline of Stud! An amazing record for Jeffrey who has had four cashes in the 2009 WSOP and is enjoying a brilliant run. Read on for details of his dominance of the Stud tournaments at this years WSOP.
Here at itawinner we like to research the various poker and gaming websites out there and give my thoughts on them. I do not encourage people to gamble, that decision is yours. 888.com offer a user-friendly place to play, and are a reputable and safe website to wager at.
What impresses me about the way 888 work is that they are really diversifying their products, despite being a massive poker room.
888 are pushing the envelope by targeting overseas markets like the Australian market, sponsoring high profile former cricketer Shane Warne to help their online poker presence. 888.com is a well-established poker room, offering plenty of games like Stud, Omaha and of course everyone’s favourte game, Texas Holdem You can always find a game at this poker room.
If you are interested in sports betting, then check out 888sport.com which may be right up your street. They have a large range of betting options for many sports.
20,647 of 50,000 have been played with a monster session being logged at the World Series of Poker (which was quite unexpected).
Durrr overturned a $-500,000 hole to move $+726,546.50 into the lead, giving Antonius a massive loss himself to overturn. As we move closer to the final hands, things are sure to heat up in this challenge with the action definitely going to be insane.
Durrr is proving himself one of the best players in the world, with even Phil Hellmuth recently commenting on how he has massive respect for him in a recent interview.
Stay tuned for further Durrr Challenge updates.
There is a growing rumour that the large website pokerroad is about to close.
The website was the brainchild of a collection of pros headed (and I believe bankrolled to a large degree) by Barry Greenstein and his step-son Joe Sebok. The site has got a load of excellent podcasts, and home to the excellent red pro discussion forum, which limits posting only to well-known and successful professionals. It is a great read, but unfortunately updates are rare as all the players are battling for bracelets in Vegas.
Barry was quoted as saying that if pokerroad does not improve it’s financial performance then he would be reviewing things after the WSOP. Considering there has not been one pro post in the red pro forum, and podcasts are becoming sporadic, things certainly does not look good for the sites future. Hopefully this will change as it would be a shame to see a good site like this fold.
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