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Odds Poker – Tour de Poker Weekly

2010 Jul 13

The race is on this month at OddsMaker, with our first ever Tour de Poker!

Pedal for points and earn your place in the weekly $5000 freeroll, and the Pedal for points leaderboard paying out over $35,000 in cash!.

You can even track your progress on your very own custom race-map as you make your way towards the Paris finish line!

Here’s the lowdown on how to get your share of the prizes:

Weekly $5000 freerolls

Earn 1000 points in the week leading up to the start of the freeroll and you get free entry. Look for the Tour de Poker tournament in the tournament listings, and click the Register button once you have achieved eligibility.

Weekly $5000 Freeroll 1: Sunday 11 July, 13:00 poker lobby time.
To Enter: Earn 1000 VIP points between Saturday 3rd July 00:00 and Saturday 10th July 00:00

Weekly $5000 Freeroll 2: Sunday 18 July, 13:00 poker lobby time.
To Enter: Earn 1000 VIP points between Saturday 10th July 00:00 and Saturday 17th July 00:00

Weekly $5000 Freeroll 3: Sunday 25 July, 13:00 poker lobby time.
To Enter: Earn 1000 VIP points between Saturday 17th July 00:00 and Saturday 24th July 00:00

Best of luck on the poker table… see you inside Odds Poker…

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PKR Poker World Series Experience

2010 Mar 9

Experience the planet’s biggest poker event in true PKR style.

In March they are running ‘World Series experience’ satellites where you’ll spend 5-days at the WSOP including hotel, parties, nights out, your buy-in to a bracelet event and a whole lot more.

If you are interested in this, maybe we will see our selfs at a poker table in PKR.

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Poker Rookie – Dealing With Maniacs

2009 Jul 16

I came across this great poker article, writen by David Harrison.

I’m posting this here because it explains, in a clear way how to deal with all those rookies that enter the poker rooms…

So read a long… enjoy…

One of the hardest things to deal with at the poker table is the play of a “maniac”.
A poker maniac will play any hand, and dump raise after raise on the table even when the cards call for a fold.
Going up against a maniac can be frustrating becayse they’re so dificult to read, and it can be impossible to know if they’re holding pocket Aces or 7-2.

Poker maniacs usually fall into one of two categories.
They’re either a brilliant tactician who actually knows exactly what they’re doing and plays ultra-aggressive, but still very smart.
Then there’s the idiot maniac who flies by the seat of his pants and might as well be flipping a coin to make his decisions.
If you’re playing at low liimits, most of the maniacs you’ll come across will more likely fall into the idiot category.

Many inexperienced poker players end up getting beat up by a maniac because they don’t know how to deal with them.

The wrong approach to take is to go after the maniac with their own game.
Unless you can be even more aggressive than the maniac, or get lucky over and over, butting heads with a maniac head-on isn’t smart poker because you’re not always playing with the odds in your favor.

If your opponent is going into a hand with junk and you’re going after him with more junk, you’re not giving yourself any kind of advantage to stick it to him like you really want.
Don’t even bother attempting a bluff with a maniac.
If they’re willing to make or call a raise with a hand you don’t even feel comfortable checking with, then why would you expect them to run from whatever large bet you make?

Toppling a maniac takes patience to wait for hands that you can bet with confidence, and we mean bet big.

To successfully battle a maniac you need to be very aggressive when you’ve got good cards.
You need to bleed out as many chips as you can when you make a hand, so throw in large bets and hope that the maniac continues to play crazy, either he calls you, or if you’re real lucky he will throw in a raise.
Even if you do somehow force the psycho into folding, at least the chips are going your way.

The most important thing to remember when confronting a poker maniac is to avoid going on tilt at all costs.
Putting other players on tilt, and causing them to make bad plays and bad bets, is how the maniac makes money at the poker tables.
Maniacs are going to get lucky sometimes, and a lot of the time it seems like they get cards more than everyone else at the table, even though they probably aren’t.

Even if a poker maniac flops a 7 and turns over a 2 when he’s holding 7-2 versus your pocket Aces (yes this actually happens!), you still have to keep your cool or you’d be better off handling over your entire stack without playing another hand.
Don’t chase down improbable draws just because you have a chance to bust a maniac if you hit it.

Remember keep you cool, keep your head on straight, and use the poker maniac’s outlandish play again them.

Good Luck! © by David Harrison

Hope this information was of good value to you, and that you learn something about this type of poker player… the poker maniac type…
So, if you also want to know of a great place to get some fine poker experience, you should give a drop by the best and most innovative online poker room that offers great poker action to their players, checkout OddsMaker Online Poker Room!…

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