Playing Online Poker Game with your Siblings

“A family that plays together stays together” So does that mean, if you want your family to stay close to you, then you should convince them to play together?, well no not exactly, but what does it matter any way, playing with your family gives you an ample amount of time to spend with your family. Basically Parents don’t play regularly, once in a blue moon, they get convinced to have a game with their children. But what need to call Mommy and Daddy, when you have your partner right in front of you, yes, absolutely your sibling.

If your sibling is younger to you then you can teach them, and ultimately could make little tricks to show them, how good you are as a Poker player, and if you have an elder one to play with, who already knows the game better than you, then dude better play it according to rules.

Playing Online Poker games with siblings is quite a tasty treat in itself,

–          You can be yourself while playing the game, no need of pretending any etiquette while playing.

–          Can have your favorite snacks any time.

–          Can fight with your opponent without any reason, and at a time can call your parents, for no issues, just for complaining about each other.

–          Can pretend falling sick, just because you are about to lose the match.

–          The best point, simultaneously can listen both of your mutually decided favorite tracks, while playing the game. (If I would have been in your place, would have chosen the recent favorite track world-wide “Because I am happy”, and yes playing online Poker with your sibling, is definitely going to give you lots of happiness.

Many siblings are known world-wide for their poker games strategy, some of them are:

–          Howard Lederer and Annie Duke

–          Michael, Robert, and Eric Mizrachi

–          Alex, Eric and Humberto Brenes

–          Grant and Blair Hinkle

–          Di “Urindanger” and Hac “trex313” Dang

–          Barny and Ross Boatman

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Odd Rules in Poker

“Odd”, a single word but have different meanings, For example: “Looking different from the rest as in looking “Odd”, “Odd Numbers, [1, 3, 5, 7, etc]”, “Odd is also used as a name in Norway”, etc.

But having so different meanings also, It does have a great saying “Every odd style is a new fashion”, so if every case includes “odd things”, then why not our very own “Poker Game”?

Well, yes our poker game also includes a lot of Odd rules, and as Pharrell Williams latest song says “Because I am HAPPY”, we all should be happy to find something odd in everything.

In the game of poker, there are hundreds of odd situation that can occur, and normal rules at time may or may not apply to them. But when money is on the line, there need to be fair odd play for all of those anomalies. Some of those Odd Rules are:

–          Balancing Tables

If you’re running a tournament with two tables, and table 1 loses two players while table 2 is still full, you’re going to have to move one player from table 2 to keep the tables balanced, the moves is done by moving the player who is in (or closest to) the same position relative to the button. So if the open seat is in the cut-off on table 1, you want to move the player from the cut-off on table 2.

This keeps players from having to pay blinds twice, or not at all.

–          Breaking a Table

If you lose enough players to be able to merge one table with another (or multiple others), it’s time to break the table. How to choose who sits where is done by drawing for the open seats.

If you’re moving everyone onto one final table, typically all players, including those already seated at the table, draw for their seat. If you don’t have seat cards, just use the deck counting lowest from highest, starting left of the dealer.

–          Multiple players all-in: When multiple players are all-in, you must make multiple side pots. Make a main pot as described above. After you’ve done that, repeat the process with the next-smallest stack.

–          Two players all-in for different amounts: In this scenario, you take the amount of the smaller stack from the big stack into the pot, returning the difference to the big-stack player.

–          Dealer Deals an Extra Hand or a Hand to a Seat with No Player:In this scenario, as long as no one looks at the extra hand, it’s folded as a dead hand, and play continues as usual.

–          Turn is dealt without burning: When the dealer deals the turn card without burning, that card is simply treated as a flash card. The dealer makes sure all players see the card before turning it face down as the burn card, dealing the real turn as normal.

–          Two burn cards dealt when dealing the turn: In the case of a dealer burning two cards, and turning over a third as the turn, that third card is treated as a flashed card, and is returned to the top of the deck as the burn for the river. The second burn card is turned face up, since it is the valid turn card.

Odd is a single soul, peculiar, with no mate, sometimes have a positive sense, and sometimes have a negative sense, and having it in our favour, it means we have the ability to win the world.

So guys, just chill out and sing it “Because I am happy”.

 

 

What makes a great POKER PLAYER?

Well it is a question, right? But I feel like every player who plays poker is great in himself/herself, (Girls also do play poker, so let not be so biased). Though every game makes their own “KING” (Here, in the context king is addressed to the one who is an expert). Players are not usually born talented, they also make their journey from being a “NOVICE” to getting the throne as a “KING”. So like every other game, poker games also have their own “KING”.

Now let’s just check out little tips to understand what makes a normal player to be a good player:

1. Don’t keep on bluffing every then and now – You should bluff, but not always. You should remember, you are playing this game to be a “Great Poker Player”, not a “Bluff master”, and just to bluff for the sake of bluffing is not done. Because bluffing don’t always help you, though sometimes it is necessary to bluff, depending on the co-players, and the situation in which you are in.
2. Don’t get drunk, while playing – Well earlier you might have heard about a saying, “Don’t drink and drive”, of course, if u drink while driving, it may cause you a life risk. Similarly if you drink while playing a poker game, it may cause you a risk for your property. Well drinking while playing a poker game in casinos, no doubt is a sign of STATUS, but you should always remember, if you continue drinking at certain intervals in a match, it might hamper your same STATUS.
3. Don’t play every hand/Do fold more – It’s better to take risk, but not always. You should not play every hand, better to drop your game once or twice a while.
4. Do pay attention towards other players – Never underestimate your opponents, they might pretend to be novice, or mad or drunk, but you should always remember, that if they are playing poker with you, then they must be good enough. If you know if one player always raises in a certain position, & another has a poker tell when he bluffs, & a 3rd folds to every re-raise, you can use that information to help you decide how to play against them.
5. Don’t play when Mad, Sad, or generally in Bad mood – In movies it does shows, the way mad or sad people come to play the poker match, and at the end they win the game, and become the hero, but never think that it would happen in your real life, those are just a kind of mirage. Because fellow member might be in an advantage for your mood.

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Is bluffing a necessary factor in a winning strategy of Poker Game

Poker game is a game of skill, luck, and sometimes a little bluffing way around. Here the word “sometimes” actually means “sometimes” only, not “always” at all. Though Bluffing is a necessary object in a winning strategy, but just for the sake of bluffing, some one shouldn’t bluff. In the game of poker, a bluff is a bet or raise made with a hand which is not thought to be the best hand

There are two types of bluff, done while playing the poker game:

• Pure Bluff – is a bet or raise with an inferior hand that has a little or no chance of improving.
• Semi Bluff – to bluff on one round with an inferior or drawing hand that might improve in a later round.

Bluff is kind of a magical wand in the Poker game, but the irony is, it has some limited powers, you can’t use it every then and now, thus it should be used in specific situations against a specific type of player.

One of the most important points of the Bluffing Part is:

• You shouldn’t at all bluff, if you are with a poor player
• You should try on bluffing, if you are playing against decent competitors.
• Bluffing is a complex concept, you shouldn’t attempt, if you are a novice player.

Bluffing injects unpredictability into your strategy – if you never bluff, your opponents will know you only bet aggressively when you have a strong hand, and will fold before putting any sizeable amount into the pot. Bluffing allows you to gain value with a hand that had none and is an especially useful tool against weak players.

But before trying to bluff, you should learn to observe the competitors carefully. Bluffing provides less favorable pot odds to opponents for a call.

So do Bluff, but to a minimal range, to make your own game a bit too exciting to resist, and if you are unable to resist, and want another poker game, so just login to our website www.pokabunga.com

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How is “Poker” Similar to “Life”?

“Life”: The first thing that comes to our mind for this term is “ups and downs”.

Isn’t it?

Well I guess all of your answers matches mine. Yeah, Life is full of ups and downs, and it does have some villains in the scene as well. Poker is also the same, it does have some ups and downs as well, whenever you perform well in the game, those are your “up” times, and whenever you lose a bet in the game, that is your “down” time. And Poker game does have a villain, who tries to defeat you. Let’s check a table of similarities between “Poker” and “Life”.

Similarities
Points	Poker	Life
Happiness/Celebrations	Whenever you win a match	Whenever you get something you desired.
Sorrow	Whenever you lose a match	Whenever you don’t get the thing you desired for.
Saviours	Someone who teaches you the trick and strategies to win the game	Someone who saves you from an ugly situation.
Villains	Who tries to defeat you in the game	For whom you get trapped into ugly situation.
Grudge/Revenge	Who have taken all your money by defeating you.	Who have made you suffer bad situations
Partner	The one who plays with/for you.	Your spouse or beloved.
Bad times	Getting hands, you dint wish for.	Getting situations, you dint wish for.

Some of the other similarities are pots, hands, flops, rivers, turns and etc. That goes both for poker as well as life.

The concept of life that has been shown in movies is quite different than the real life, every time the happy ending is not guaranteed. The same thing goes for the poker game as well, the concepts that has been shown in Movies, are like, People goes to casinos, to play poker games with some guy wearing a black hoodie, and who turns out to be a villain, beside whom the dancers keep on dancing, but at the end the hero wins, and the dancers shift towards him, to dedicate a dance for him, and then there starts a fighting, hero wins it again and he gets the heroin, and then live happily ever after. But it is too different then the real life poker games, neither the hero wins every time, nor the dancers dance for him. So, this concludes to a new saying: “Life is a game of Poker”

Both in Poker and Life, sometimes you got to deal with some nuts, maniacs, geeks, novice, experts, villains, and the heroes. And every time if you just know the way to deal with those persons tactfully, then you are a winner. And one thing that goes for both of them very well is, “If you can’t beat them, then bluff them”.

About POKABUNGA Themes & Game Play

What do you all mean about the “Themes” & the “Game Play”?

Yes, exactly as you all must be knowing “Themes” can be addressed as either a “topic of discussion” or a “subject of artistic representation”. And “Game Play” can be defined as a “Specific way in which players interact with a Game”, I know, most of you must be having more knowledge than me, and the rest who thinks, they don’t know much about “Game Play”, don’t worry, why am I here for? Well “Game Play” is the basic theme about the game, it is also called the game dynamics. For example: In a game of Super Mario, (the character running and jumping through the obstacle, and collecting points, and coins to save the queen) is the basic “Game play” of this particular game.

Bored? Might be thinking that, why am I writing about the normal “Themes” and “Game Play”, actually before starting, I just wanted to throw some light on the part on which we shall discuss. So now let’s just jump on our topic, don’t worry I promise, I am not going to take much time of yours. So now about our very own POKABUNGA, actually I wanted to ask all of our readers, what they think about the site, about its “Theme” and “Game Play”?

Well, our site www.pokabunga.com uses a user friendly site for all of our players and a combination of Black and red colour. The colour of Power and Emotion, these two are very distinct colours though opposite to each other, but that is what we want to achieve, through making our site the most powerful of all the other sites, and at a time understanding the emotions of our customers, players, readers and building our site according to that. Our website also gives you two types of playing experience, one is a beach theme, where you can experience the serenity under the blue sky and the calm blue sea beside your table, and the Standard theme, where you will be getting a Casino feeling, with an exceptionally well designed casino background. We offer a single platform to play both the game rummy and poker, it might be you private tables, playing with your close friends, or might be the normal pools, where not only you can play with experts in tournaments, but also can practice a match if you are new player, with the novice players. Our site gives you a chance to earn real money just by playing it with fun and enthusiasm. And yes last but not the least, our site also provides our esteem players with different offers, whether it is the 15^th of August “the independence day” or “the normal welcome bonus” to our new players to give them further encouragement.

WOMEN in Online Poker

Now days People are talking about “Women Empowerment”, Women are in every field, walking equally with the Men. Either it be in Movies, Education or Crime, than why not the Games?

Whether it is Cricket, or Football, or any Outdoor games, Women have started playing all the games. If they can easily play the outdoor games, than why stay behind in indoor games, and since we have started talking about indoor games, the first thing that comes to our mind now is the game of “Poker”. Poker a game which is played in casinos very enthusiastically, betting and shouting every then and now. You might have seen women playing poker games in casinos, betting hard, and playing equally with men, and winning as well. If they can play the game in casinos, then for sure they would love the online games.

Yes, absolutely they love playing poker games online, because it’s the place where they can be with their families, and they could play it without any tension of house-hold chores. Atleast every time they would not get a phone call from their homes asking “It’s already late, when you would be getting home?”

People usually behave like a stereotype, when they think about Women playing poker games that to in online mode, because they think Women can’t easily operate computer. But let me tell one thing, if we see now days, more and more women are entering to the IT industry, if they are not good in computer, then why are they hired as Developers, or Analyst?

There might be a slim number of Women playing the games as compared to Men, but it is still believed, that Women players are far better than half of the Men players in a team.

There are lots of Women Poker Player, whom the whole world knows, they are:

1. Vanessa Selbst – Bagged over more than $9 million in tournament matches.
2. Jennifer Harman – Jennifer Harman was the first female player to win two WSOP gold bracelets: the No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball event in 2000 and the $5,000 Limit Hold’em event in 2002.
3. Kathy Liebert – Kathy Liebert has been on the poker scene since 1994, but she is still a regular at the major poker tournaments. She has amassed almost $6 million in prize money, with many of her wins taking place in the first decade of the millennium.
4. Annette Obrestad – She became the youngest person to win a WSOP bracelet in the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe Main Event in 2007, where she pocketed £1,000,000 the day before her 19th birthday.

Some other Women Poker Players are – Maria Ho, Xuan Liu, Liv Boeree, Allyn Shullman, Victoria Coren, Vanessa Rousso.

The only reason, I had mentioned those names because to prove one point, that if those ladies can play and win the game in Casinos, beating their fellow Male opponents, then for sure they can easily  to beat any one, not only those notable players, but also the normal novice Women players can also play the online poker games quite easily, beating their fellow opponents.

 

Online poker (in India)

Online poker in India

Online poker in India is Online Texas Hold’em, a variant of world famous card game-Poker. Online Texas Hold’em is used and not just Texas Hold’em because Texas Hold’em is of 2 types-Online and Offline (Live). Although rules of the game are same, strategy differs. There are already a number of people in India sticking to bee-hive of Online poker and there are many expected to join. Thanks to genuine Play online poker India guys, poker is becoming more and more famous.

Many consider

live poker to be

1. loose,
2. passive and
3. inelastic

and online poker to be

1. tight,
2. aggressive and
3. elastic

Remember it is strategy that differs in live and online poker.

A brief history of Texas Hold’em

History of Texas Hold’em is rich and interesting.

It started out in Robstown, Texas during early part of 20^th century. Exact story of how it actually originated is’nt available but it was simply known as Hold’em up until 1967, when it was introduced to Las Vegas.

The game took off probably because Crandell Addington, one of the men who took poker to Vegas described it as a “thinking man’s game” (due to opportunities it gives you to play strategically).

You could only pay Texas Hold’em at one casino-The Golden Nugget in first few years in Vegas. It was located in Downtown Las Vegas and was a bit of a seedy joint. It did’nt get many high-stake players coming in. Game remained in relative obscurity until 1969 when a Texas Hold’em tournament was held in lobby of Dune casino. The tournament proved to be financially rewarding for a number of high rollers due to prominence of location and popularity of the game increased exponentially-Start of the Texas Hold’em poker’s rise to fame.

Advent of World Series of Poker in 1970 was another big milestone in the history of Texas Hold’em. Benny and Jack Binion, Father and Son, changed name of Gambling Fraternity Convention to World Series of Poker after buying its rights and chose to host it at Binion’s Horseshoe, the casino they owned. Main event of this tournament has been no-limit game of Texas Hold’em ever since 1971, second year of the series. Now, thousands of people compete in the main event of the World Series of Poker each year although amount of entrants were small at first.

Further cemented on the world’s stage was Texas Hold’em with a couple of books released in 70s and 80s. Super System, a Doyle Brunson’s poker strategy book (1978), revolutionized way people viewed and played the game. A documentary account of 1981’s World Series of Poker-The biggest game in town, was written by Al Alvarez. It is credited with starting genre of poker literature and it brought Texas Hold’em and world of professional poker players into public eye.

Texas Hold’em can definitely be seen as a world renowned and mainstream game years on. People from across the world play it for money or for recreation and professional tournaments are broadcast on TV to wide audiences.

Texas Hold’em has had a humble beginning, is flourishing and will continue to flourish.

Texas Hold’em has travelled from west to east, to India and Play online poker India has become a mantra.

General Texas Hold’em poker rules

1. With a standard deck of 52 cards, the game is played. Players are dealt with five “up” cards and two “down” cards. Community cards are five “up” cards. They are shared by all players. 2-11 players can play the game.
2. A person acts as a dealer. He is responsible for shuffling the cards, distributing the cards and controlling game flow.
3. Blind bets are made by two players on left of dealer and the game starts. Now 2 “down” cards are given to each player (“hole” cards). This round is “pre-flop” round.
4. Three cards in middle of table are turned over by dealer. Second betting round starts. Starts to player on left of dealer and continues to left. A player can call, raise or fold, if there is a bet on table in this round. A player can make bet or check if there is no bet on the table.
5. Dealer distributes another “up” card (turn) as the second betting round ends. To form a five card poker hand, players can use this sixth card now. Player to left of dealer starts the betting round (Bet amount becomes equal to the maximum table bet in this round).
6. Final betting round starts now. River, a final card is distributed by dealer. Any combination of cards to make the hand can be used by players.

A hand may be

1. 1 pocket card and 4 community cards or
2. 2 pocket cards and 3 community cards
3. All the players which are in the hand show their cards now. Best hand wins the pot. During the game, a player can fold and get out of the hand in any time however.

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POKER GAMES: Online over Offline

First thing or the “CONCEPT” that comes to our mind while playing Poker games is earning MORE by losing LESS.

Now days from choosing Life Partner to shopping vegetables, everything is available Online, then why taking more stress for a game?

Earlier, the first thing that comes to our mind while deciding to play a Poker game is a Casino full of people betting at and for everything, and singers singing. But those are actually a kind of movie concept, which usually show the cities like Las Vegas or Goa. So does that mean people residing in other cities are not allowed to play those games?

Well the answer is NO, absolutely not, not only people residing in other places but aliens also have the right to play the games, though they don’t usually play poker games. And for the rest people we have the provision of online games, which not only includes Music, but also members from other places with whom we can socialize. The concept of earning more and loosing less, actually came through the Online based games. Here we are not asked to pay any money, but if by skills and luck we win the game, then definitely we could get assured that we are winning something.

So isn’t it a wonderful “CONCEPT” for playing online poker games?

Well, I guess all of you would answer with a big YES.

The basic advantages of online poker over offline poker are as follows:

1. Online Poker offers far more better game selection than offline poker – well absolutely if a game offers good genre music and different types of game, in a same place, without moving from one place to another in search of “your type of poker game”, whether it be ‘Texas Hold ’Em’ or ‘Omaha’, ‘Follow the Queen’ or ‘7 card stud’ or if you wish for ‘5 card draw’ or a ‘High/low Chicago’. Anything and everything you can easily play in a single click. Isn’t it just awesome?
2. Online Poker provides an good opportunity to win more, as compared to Offline Poker – Of course, I don’t think you need further explanations for this, since it is already written there at the top about the “CONCEPT”.
3. And last but not the least in Online Poker games, if someone looses the game, you are saved by his cursing and vulgar words, cause for sure he is not going to search for your face book profile to use those pre-designed slangs in your wall or inbox.