Online Poker News

May, 2005 PokerSecretsSchool.com Vol. 1 No. 2
CONTENTS
  • Poker Forum
  • Party Poker Review
  • Poker on Your Cell?
  • 5 Tourny Tips (cont.)

Party Poker Review

Party Poker is currently the largest online poker room. Right now they have over 60,000 active players! Party poker is also one of the best online poker rooms. With the most players you can expect to find alot of bad players as well as many pros. You will always be able to find a game running at almost any limit.

For awhile Party Poker lacked good promotions but now they offer, New player freerolls, a 20% deposit bonus, and a comp points program. They also on occasion have other loyaly promotions and re-deposit bonuses.

On party poker tournaments are running 24 hours with a few tournaments starting every hour. Most tournaments get quite a few players and some having over a thousand players! For people who dont like to spend 4 hours playing a tourmament they have speed tournaments where the blind go up every three minuets.


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Poker forum

Thanks to everyone who has been posting in the forum. The prizes will be given out on the first of june. Reamember that you have to make atleast 10 posts to win a prize. I hope somemore people come and start posting!

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Poker on your cell phone?
Online gaming is getting bigger and bigger. More people are playing at online casinos and poker rooms than ever before. You may not believe it but soon online gaming will make the move to your cell phones and PDA’s. CryptoLogic, a Toronto-based internet gambling software company, is now working on their first wireless gaming products. They hope to take a piece of the growing internet gambling market by introducing the first ever wireless gaming software.

They plan to first start out with wireless sports betting including horse races and wagering on team matches. Then lotteries wither government run or privately run. Soon other casino games will come in to play such as blackjack, slot machines, roulette and more. They hope to even bring in multi-player games such as poker and bingo were players play against each other. These game would be quite a bit harder to translate over to wireless platforms but are possible.

Soon while you are waiting at the airport for your flight you will be able to play live poker against real people all from your cell phone.

You can now play real poker on your cell phone, Visit Pokerroom to get the software.

5 Tips to Improve your Tournament Play!

6.When you have an opponent who is overly aggressive, use it against them. Let them think you have a weak hand when you really have a strong one. Check into them so they will bet. You will then have the option to check raise and take advantage of their aggressiveness. In the case of a real monster, check it a second time, and then pop it up!

7.Play Real Money games to practice for the early rounds of multi-table tournaments. The play here is very close to the same because you aren't under pressure from the blinds. So play real money games anytime you have the time to improve your play for the early rounds. Play solid poker.

8.Have a game plan for your tournament. Decide if you are going to start out playing tight in the early rounds, or if are you going to play fast and try to accumulate chips early. Consider adjustments you might make if you get short of chips, if you get a large stack, or how you might adjust to different types of opponents styles. Be prepared for everything!

9.When you are playing, always observe your opponents and pick out who will and who wont, defend the blinds. The higher the blinds get, the more valuable this information becomes. Remember the tight players are easier to rob. Be ready to take advantage of them.

10.Save the best for last. Play your own tournament! That's right, your own little event that starts and ends when you want. You are the tournament director and can play any form of poker you'd like.  Sit in the smallest game you can find. The rounds are 20, 30, 40 minutes, anything you want, so set an alarm clock. When the clock goes off, you must get up and move to the next highest game. Keep going and see how much you can accumulate and how far you can go. Get to the biggest game and you win the trophy. Of course, in this tournament, you can quit at any time and cash in your checkers. Good Luck! 

See you next month,
Nathan

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