Unique Poker Chips

Unique poker chips are great fun to have when you play or when you host poker games. There are a variety of unique poker chips that you can purchase to fit different themes. In fact, you can buy sets that compliment your hobbies or your favorite actors, actresses, sports athletes and more.

Table Etiquette For Poker

If you want to enjoy the game of poker then you should learn the unwritten rules of this game. This is as important for success as the actual game plan and strategies of poker. If you play this game with the right kind of etiquette then other players will also respect you. Make sure that you follow the poker etiquettes and enjoy the game. Some of the etiquettes are:

Poker Chip Sets

Poker chip sets are part of the making of a poker player. While you can obtain your chips when you get to your game, it is often fun to bring your poker chip sets with you. Many times people hosting the games will allow you to use the chip sets that you brought instead of having to use the ones that they have at the game.

Personalized Poker Chips

One of the great features about personalized poker chips is that they have so many uses. They are great to use with private games. If the game allows you to take them with you, they're great to take to games. You can also give them as gifts to other people that are poker enthusiasts.

Paulson Clay Poker Chips

Paulson clay poker chips are very popular in the casinos. The quality of the play chips is superb and trusted by casinos from all over. They are very trusted by many of the Las Vegas casinos. For top quality poker chips the Paulson Clay poker chips are very well known in the poker industry.

1000% Deposit Bonus

Yes. One thousand percent!!!!!! I've been a member of GamesGrid for years -- first in the backgammon arena and now also in the poker arena. This morning I got an email telling me that for the next two days...until January 20, 2006, if you join GamesGrid Poker, you get a 1000% bonus deposit. As the email explained, "That's a $500 bonus for depositing $50. That's a FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR bonus for depositing $500."

Texas Hold'em - Understanding the Flop

After the first round of bidding, the dealer lays down three cards, known as the flop. These are available to all players to use along with their two hole cards. However, if you have played other forms of poker, it is important to adjust your thinking here. Whatever the flop is, it could very well suit anyone else's hand as well as your own. After all, three of a kind beats even two aces. You may have noticed in the pre-flop bidding that some people were bidding up a storm. They could have pairs and are counting on a third card to come up that will match their pair.

Basic Tips for Texas Hold’em - The Preflop

This blog is for the beginning player in Texas Hold’em and the first recommendation is that you play online at low-limit tables. This way you won’t get in over your head with the card sharks. There are many online table where the limits are $1.00 or less. These are the tables I am talking about when I say low-limit tables.

Texas Hold'Em Primer

I got this idea that I would streamline and improve my Texas Hold'Em game by going back, after the fact, and learning the tricks and techniques that will actually put me ahead in the game. I learned to play by the seat of my pants and maybe there are some great secrets out there just waiting for me to implement.

Online Poker: True Money Games

I recently revisited TrueMoneyGames which I had joined as a backgammon player a couple of years ago. It was exciting when it opened up its internet doors as an online site for playing backgammon.

Bots Bots and Bots

I don't know whether it's good news or not but not everyone is impressed with the poker bot program. The default bot programmng has limitations, some people tell me. One example is that the bot will raise when it has a good hand even if your human sense is that you have a better hand.

In order to customize the bot, you will need to have some serious math skills and feel comfortable about programming.

However, in response to this criticism, I believe that the good poker players have some serious math skills. One of my favorite poker buddies, whom I shall call Robbie, is a math whiz.

Playing with CptPokr

I am shocked. Shocked!! My son called last night to tell me about this article in the September issue of Wired where it was revealed that CptPokr is a bot!!! Okay, so this is a pseudonym for the purposes of the article. But the fact remains that WinHoldEm is an autoplaying poker software that allows the possibility of bot players at your very own online poker table.

Is nothing sacred?

My son summarized it well. "What," he asked, "is the point of having a bot play poker for you why you sleep?"

And Then There Was Poker

Welcome to my poker blog. I'm a games hound -- duplicate bridge, backgammon, poker.... I used to spend Wednesday nights with the boys playing vying games. Okay, bridge is not a vying game. Actually neither is backgammon. But poker definitely is.