Advanced Tips For Horse Tournaments

Category: H.O.R.S.E

If you can play poker games besides no limit hold’em, you can play H.O.R.S.E. If you can’t, you can always learn. Many of today’s players are looking for interesting new poker tournament opportunities and H.O.R.S.E. tournaments can provide them. In H.O.R.S.E., players play five different games in rotation over the course of the tournament, giving them a chance to showcase all of their poker skills.

Advanced Tips to Know in H.O.R.S.E.: Game Proficiency

Some people may think that if they are very good in a couple of the games, they can excel in H.O.R.S.E. They think that if they are good at hold’em, they can just hold on until the hold’em portion and collect chips. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work that way. For one, these are limit games, so it’s not as if you can double your stack every time hold’em comes around. For another, with the blinds rising with every change of game, you cannot afford to just wait around for your game. The reality is it is probably better to have average proficiency in all the games than to excel at just one.

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Basic Texas Hold’em Strategy

Category: Texas Hold em

You’re all ready to take the world of Texas hold’em by storm, but you’re not quite sure what separates the superstars from the donkeys. Just learning the basics won’t necessarily make you the world champion of poker, but it might. Here is what you need to know about basic Texas hold’em strategy.

Hand Selection and Texas Hold’em Basic Strategy

A key mistake that many new Texas hold’em players make is playing too many hands. This tendency is not helped by televised poker, where many strong players play an extremely wide variety of hands, and win big pots with them. While experienced players can afford to play unusual hands, new players should not. Get in the habit of playing only the top-level hands. At the lower levels, you should find this to be a successful strategy. Once you gain a stronger understanding of post-flop play, you can consider widening your starting hand range.

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Playing Draws In 7 Card Stud

Category: 7 Card Stud

A draw in poker is a hand that needs an additional card or cards to complete. Draws most commonly refer to straights or flushes, as other hands are already made hands in some way (i.e. at least a pair). When facing a bet in poker, the question of whether to proceed with a draw is one that arises commonly.

Pot Odds and Draws

In Hold’em as Opposed to Stud

Typically, the decision regarding whether or not to pursue a draw depends on the pot odds. If your odds of hitting a flush or straight are shorter than the odds the pot is laying you, you have a correct call. In a game like Texas hold’em, this calculation is fairly straightforward. If you have four to a flush on the flop, you have about a 2-to-1 chance of making your flush by the river, a roughly 4-to-1 chance of making it on the next card. For an open-ended or double gutshot straight, it’s a little longer, close to 2.5-to-1 and 5-to-1.

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Five Card Stud

Category: 5 Card Stud

When your friends are bored and looking for a new poker game, you want to be ready. Your “new” poker game can be one of the oldest poker games ever invented. It’s time to learn how to play five card stud.

Five Card Stud Explained

Poker games are generally draw games, stud games and community card, or “flop” games. Community card games like hold’em and Omaha involve shared cards that are exposed and can be used by all players.

Draw games like five card draw and lowball allow players to replace cards in their hand with new cards. Stud games have certain cards exposed. In seven card stud, players get extra cards. In five card stud, players get only five to make their hands.

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Introduction To Badugi

Category: Badugi

Some card players think Badugi may be the game of the future. What is unique about Badugi is that it is unlike any other card game, even though it pulls some elements from a few different games. If you can master Badugi, you can get a real edge in Badugi games.

Understanding Badugi

The most important thing to understand about Badugi is that matching cards and suits kill. Any cards that match another rank or suit in your hand are counterfeited. You start with four cards, but if you have two of the same suit or rank you have a three card hand, if you have only two cards that are unmatched in either suit or rank you have a two card hand and if all your cards match in either rank or suit you have a one card hand. For example if you hold 8s 4s 2h 2c, you have a two card 4-2, because one of your spades and one of your 2s is counterfeited. Your goal is to get the lowest hand possible, with aces being low and straights not counting, so 4 3 2 A would be the best hand, providing they are of mixed suits. All two card hands beat all one card hands, all three card hands beat two and one card hands, and four card hands are the strongest.

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Introduction To Horse

Category: H.O.R.S.E

H.O.R.S.E. is a game that every poker player should get involved in at least once. No limit hold’em gets tiring eventually and it’s good to mix it up with an assortment of poker games. In addition, more and more tournament series are featuring H.O.R.S.E. events so if it’s a tournament victory you are after, it behooves you to take a shot at this game.

Playing H.O.R.S.E.

H.O.R.S.E. requires proficiency at five different games: Hold’em, Omaha hi/lo, Razz, Stud and Stud Eight or Better (hence, H.O.R.S.E.). If you already know how to play hold’em and stud, the rest of the games will come easily because they are all variations of those two, although they each require their own distinct strategies. If you’re only familiar with hold’em, take some time to learn these other games before jumping into the H.O.R.S.E. action.

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Introduction To Omaha

Category: Omaha

While many players get their start in online poker playing Texas hold’em, online Omaha is another great way to get your virtual poker feet wet. Omaha has many of the elements of Texas hold’em, but some additional challenges as well.

Playing Omaha

In Omaha, each player gets four cards and must make his best five card hand using exactly two of the four cards plus three and only three of five community cards that go in the middle. Players who are not coming to the game from Texas hold’em may have a slight advantage here, as hold’em players are used to being able to use four or even all five cards on the board to make their hand.

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Introduction To Razz

Category: Razz

RazzWhat is Razz? If you’re looking for a new poker game, this is one to consider. If you aren’t, you may still want to learn Razz, as it may appear in any mixed poker game you happen to be playing. In fact, it is one of the standard five rotation games in the ever popular and growing H.O.R.S.E. version of poker. Here is what you need to know about Razz.

Seven Card Razz

If you play seven card stud, you already know how to play Razz, since Razz is simply a lowball version of stud. If you don’t play stud, it’s simple to learn. Each player gets two down cards and one upcard. There is a betting round, and then players get three more upcards and one downcard at the end, with betting after each round and after the final card is dealt. In Razz, the player who then has the worst five-card hand wins the pot.

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