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Playing online poker is serious stuff. A stern poker player does not play at the first poker site that he stumbles upon. He has to look for more and scout harder to get into exclusive online poker sites. These sites, although not entirely popular, can give you extra bucks. But where to find ‘em? Here are some pointers to get that perfect poker sites and knead fake ones:

1. If you want to gain an edge in playing online poker, go for reputed online poker sites. These sites, more often than not, offers astounding bonuses and incentives, simply for enrolling with them. This allows their clients to coddle in a couple of hands in poker, especially in complimentary gambles. Rarely will find sites that will offer you $500 worth of free gambles during the enrolling process so if you do, grab it.

2. Other poker websites interests potential poker players with low deposits during the initial stage.

3. If you want to know how a particular site plays, download the free software first and play for a limited period. This way, you can test the interface and know if it is user friendly or not. See if you will enjoy playing in that site or not. Sometimes, poker software offered by certain sites have its own system requirements and it should match your own.

4. Double check the amount of poker versions being presented by different online poker websites. You need to check the site entirely and have it evaluated before you invest your hard earned money. Browse around the website and while doing so, verify that their payment options and yours are compatible. It is also wise to confirm the time assured for customer support.

5. Read and understand the rules of online poker sites to ensure that everything is authentic and legal. Legislation does offer loopholes which allows everybody to engage in online poker. Reputed online poker sites typically invite all players to join irrespective of their location. Read the rest of this entry »

With the rise in popularity of Facebook texas holdem poker games for social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Tagged and Hi5 also came the unfortunate accompanying rise in reports of players accounts being broken into and having their Facebook poker chips stolen. The forums on these social networking gaming sites are littered with hundreds if not thousands of such reports. As Facebook poker chips become more and more valuable these reports are set to continue to rise. There are, however, some steps you can take to avoid letting these hackers and phishers get their hands on your hard earned poker chips.

Never give out your password: This seems like common sense but you would be surprised at how many people lose their chips because they gave their passwords to a friend or family member or girlfriend/boyfriend. Are you 100% sure that you wont ever get in a fight with this person in the future and to get back at you they won’t log into your account and empty every last Facebook poker chip? Or maybe one day they ask you for some free chips as a loan and you turn them down, and so they decide they’re going to log into your account and help themselves. Just make it a habit to never give out your login information to anyone, his way if something ever does happen and your account is hacked into, you won’t have to suspect any of your friends or family of doing it and cause any hard feelings.

Don’t fall for the phishing scams: A popular method of stealing player’s Facebook poker chips recently has been to send them a seemingly official message to their Facebook inboxes pretending to be from Facebook security or an “official” Facebook representative, or even from the game creaters themselves. These fake messages usually accuse the player of violating the games terms of service or Facebook’s own rules and then instruct them to click on a link and login in order to save their accounts from deletion or suspension. In reality these links open websites designed to look like Facebook or MySpace’s login pages in order to trick users into entering their emails and passwords. Then while the fake website redirects or distracts them, hackers are busy logging into their texas holdem poker account and transferring out their Facebook poker chips into other accounts. Read the rest of this entry »

As the name of the game suggests, this form of poker is played with 7 cards in the hand of each of the player. A player has to make a hand of 5 cards. Most of the players in this game don’t survive till the last round of the game as with most of the cards being face up, it is not difficult for player to realize that he is in a weak position. A very important thing to know in this game is the way to choose the right starting hands. If you know that, you can surely make much more than the worth of your bets.

As in most forms of poker, a pair of aces is a wonderful set of hands to have in the hand. However, a pair of aces is definitely not unbeatable and there are combinations with which your opponent may just topple your hopes of winning the pot. If you have more than 2 aces, you are in a lovely position and should be aggressive with the betting for sure. In case, you cant go for making pairs but can make a straight, do it. Even straight are a great option and can make for a winning hand. But while playing for the straights you have to remember that you winning chances will only materialize if you have 5 cards making up the straight. If you only have 3 or 4 cards making it up, then you should be careful in making the bets.

In both of the above cases, we see that if we don’t have strong cards, we should be careful with our betting. The more aggressively we bet, the harder we loose. However, people say that it is not right to fold either, because in that case you are eliminating your winning chances with your own hands. The right thing to do, you think that your hand is no good and is not going to be any good at any point in the game is to fold. Be sensible. Sensible designs can make you a lot more money in the long term.

In case you are playing 7 card stud hi-low, then you still have a chance to get a share of the pot, even if you don’t have the best hand. But to really have a share of the pot what you should is the worst hand. So, it’s either got to be the highest hand or the lowest. In such a case, a pair of 2’s is very good. All the 5 cards of you hand should be below 8. So, if you are not matching those criteria in the earlier part of the game, you can opt to wait longer to get the right combinations.

But don’t opt to wait in case you just ‘feel’ that the right cards are going to be dealt to you. Take all the events in the game into consideration before you make the decision to survive further in the game. Try to keep a track of the cards that have been dealt and those, which must still be in the deck. If you do that, decision-making will be easier and better. And better decision making will make your odds better.