Archive for July, 2020
No Joke, millions and millions of people are trying to be the next "star" in poker, but here is a short rundown on four of the more famous "charming pros" of poker. Granted "nice" is associated with their names when you are at a poker table it is "no more Mr. Nice guy" up until they have removed you out of the game!
Daniel Negreanu
In Two Thousand and Four, his tourney winnings amounted to more than $4.4 million and he captured 2 immensely admired awards in the World Series of Poker Player of the Year and Cardplayer Magazine’s Tourney Player of the Year. In Feb Two Thousand and Six he was named Card Player’s Preferred Poker Player. Daniel still has the decency to talk to his fans about how they can improve their own game.
Howard Lederer
Referred to as "The Professor" and sibling of fellow poker pro Annie Duke. His success has allowed him to make an educational video named "Secrets of No Limit Hold’em" and co holding a tournament poker show for Fox. As of Two Thousand and Five, his complete life time earnings surpass $2.7 million.
Scotty Nguyen
Scott is one of the most active players in professional poker and between Two Thousand to 2004 he ranked in the money in excess of 100 competitions. He is notorious for saying "yeah baby" throughout poker games and also coined the phrase "that’s poker baby" when alluding to a particularly bad loss. As of 2006, his career winnings are almost 6 million dollars.
Chris Ferguson
Chris has earned 5 WSOP titles with two of his wins coming in 2003. Has the nickname "Jesus" because of his characteristic long hair and beard, along with his ability to throw playing cards fast enough to cut through pickles and bananas. As of 2005 his total poker tournament earnings exceeded 5 million dollars.
Poker has become globally celebrated as of late, with televised championships and celebrity poker game events. The games universal appeal, though, stretches back quite a bit further than its TV scores. Over the years many variants on the original poker game have been created, including some games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of the above-mentioned games. Regardless of the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely resembling chemin de fer than traditional poker, in that the gamblers bet against the dealer instead of the other players. The succeeding hands, are the established poker hands. There is little concealment or different kinds of deceptiveness. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to ante up before the dealer declares "No more bets." At that moment, both you and the bank and of course all of the different players are given 5 cards each. After you have observed your hand and the dealer’s initial card, you have to in turn make a call wager or surrender. The call wager’s amount is equal to your original ante, meaning that the stakes will have doubled. Abandoning means that your wager goes immediately to the bank. After the wager comes the face off. If the casino doesn’t have ace/king or greater, your wager is returned, with a figure in accordance with the original bet. If the house has a hand with ace/king or greater, you succeed if your hand is greater than the dealer’s hand. The casino pays money even with your ante and fixed expectations on your call wager. These expectations are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for 2 pairs
- 3-1 for 3 of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- twenty to one for a four of a kind
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush
Internet poker has blown up over the last number of years and it is not disappearing anytime soon. Most of the well-known professionals are staying at residence to participate in web poker rather than at the casino. On any given evening you can find Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, or Gus Hansen playing net poker at Full Tilt. Patrik Antonius who uses the screen name of Luigi66369 rules the high stakes money games online. He will often sit with $60, 000 at the three hundred/six hundredNL games waiting for a person to compete with him. Usually Phil Ivey or some better known internet professional will compete against Antonius one on one for some cold hard cash. Antonius and Ivey have defeated any competition that has stepped up to them in the last couple of months. Pots in excess of one hundred thousand dollars are a regular occurrence and the pots are only growing biggerare not getting any smaller.
John Juanda can usually be found participating in the fifty/one hundred No Limit tables with a maximum buy-in of $10, 000. Juanda might just be one of the more consistent players at the tables. He consistently appears to be ahead twenty to thirty thousand by the time the game ends. If you enjoy a good show, make sure to stop by and observe Mike "The Mouth" Matusow up to his normal buffoonery. Mike makes sure to talk to fansand will regularly inform his opponents how awesome he is at poker. Mike is known for displaying large $10, 000 bluffs on the river holding seven high. Gus Hansen also makes frequent appearances on the higher limit Omaha games. Web poker has brought the great game right onto your computer. Now you do not need to wait for poker tournaments to appear on tv. Every day, there is a big cash game being played on the web. These guys are betting houses on every turn of the card. Watching these players play will improve your poker skills.