I play tight-aggressive poker. Probably tighter than most. But I’m able to open up my game and play my position rather than my cards. Play my draws with the right odds. But there’s one guy I play online poker with, we’ll call him [...]

Prize draws have increasingly gotten very popular throughout the world. Their popularity can be seen by how the lottery draws are oftentimes on television during peak times just so everybody can sit in front of the TV and tick off their chosen numbers

I’ve been so focused on reading my opponents’ mannerisms-facial tics, speech patterns, and whatnot that lately I’ve neglected to read their bets. Unfortunately, the reminder wasn’t a friend who saw my potential weakness, but my utter failure at a recent Limit Hold ‘Em poker table. I had been riding [...]

The first time you hear about the part of the Euromillions Euro lotto that is the El Gordo Lottery, you’ll definitely want to learn more. With payouts between 84 million and 2.6 billion Euros, the El Gordo Lottery claims one of the richest jackpots on a global scale. Even that is not all that is special here. The lottery offers odds of winning something to the tune of an astonishing one in six, with more than thirteen thousand different amounts. That’s very good, actually, in comparison to the prizes offered by other lotteries

Though it seems much less popular now than it was before the poker boom, one popular variation of a fixed-limit poker game is the kill game. This variation includes a kill button, which is given to a player when he reaches a preset determination of what will initiate a kill handoften either win the player [...]

online poker pundits usually recommend playing a tight aggressive poker style, which means folding many hands pre-flop. But some players, especially new professional aspirants, can take this advice too seriously, and fold too frequently. You can’t win if you don’t enter pots. How often should one fold rather than enter a [...]

Texas Hold ‘Em online poker players love to get the Ace King combination known as Big Slick. Having the two top poker cards in the deck gives a good chance for flopping the top pair. Unless you are up against a player with pocket Aces or Kings, you’ve got about a [...]

In poker, a blocking bet is a defensive bet made by a player with a marginal hand that is intended to keep their opponent from making an even larger bet. Blocking bets are used often when a player thinks there is a reasonable chance he might have the best hand, and that if he [...]

When you play online poker often enough, you end up seeing a lot of weirdly played hands. The sheer speed of online means you can play more hands per minute than in a casino, and it often seems like a three hour session is really a six hour one. In the course of this [...]