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Online Poker 101: First Lesson, Understanding The Importance Of Time In Online Poker Tournaments (Page 1 of 4)
This is the first lesson in a series of poker technique articles designed to improve online poker players. This article focuses on time as it relates to online poker tournament play. It also explains why taking appropriate actions based on time, is the key for long term success, and increased online poker tournament winnings.
The phenomenon of online poker continues to baffle media experts who continue to expect poker play in general to be a passing fad. For those millions of people worldwide who have played poker or discovered poker within the last decade, it comes as no surprise that this game continues to build explosive and long term stable growth. The reasons are actually quite simple. The game of poker is fun, exciting, challenging and the basic concepts are easy for anyone to learn. These fundamental concepts build the basis for growth, but it’s the extremely lucrative aspect of tournament poker that continues to fuel poker’s explosive growth. With online poker sites offering tournaments ranging in size from $100 to One Million Dollar Guarantees, anyone anywhere can earn a life changing amount of money from a strong finish in only a single tournament. A first place finish in some of the largest online tournaments today can pay upwards of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars or more. While people who place in tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth place, for example can still earn $5,000 to $50,000 for their success. Buy ins for these tournaments can start from as little as $2 for some satellites. It’s the access to this income, and the knowledge that anyone can master this game, that draws millions of people worldwide to online poker. For more information on the Full Tilt Poker One Million Dollar Guaranteed Tournament, or $600 Free Full Tilt Poker Bonus Cash, visit FullTiltGlobal.com.
In order to have the greatest success in terms of wins, and winnings, players need to commit to learning the concepts of tournament play. Reading poker articles like these can improve your poker skills over time, as you master and utilize one concept at a time.
Lesson One: Understanding Time During Tournament Play & Acting Accordingly
Online poker tournaments transpire very similarly to life in general. When we are born, it is very important to protect a newborn child to it’s surroundings. Many times babies are kept at the hospital for several days before being allowed to go home with their families. Over the first few years of life, the routine is quite simple. Focus on the basics. Proper nutrition, sleeping, and protection. After a few years of protection, the newborn has grown into a child who must begin to learn routines. Parents begin to give up control and protection, allowing the child to go to school, camps, church – generally the child begins to participate in activities designed to build equity in the child – helping it to grow. Parents still preach protection – “Don’t talk to strangers,” “Look both ways before you cross the street”. The idea is to allow the child to begin to take small risks, as inevitably life is full of risks. But parents continue to protect, and preach use of good judgement. By the time several more years pass, the child has grown into an adult capable of making decisions, and taking larger risks in life. Those larger decisions could be when to get married, what career to follow, and others. Eventually as adulthood years continue, income increases, and ideally, an adult creates equity in themselves, building a substancial and healthy life for their retiring age. During the earning years it is important to take intelligent risks, where income is the result. Whether through education, investing, or through business startups, it is the sum of these risk taking decisions that determine our financial health in life. Additionally, timing of these decisions can be the key to everything. Once a sufficient sum can be counted on for retirement, it is safe to move this sum to less risky investments long term. Taking risks are avoided early in life, and late in life, while encouraged and necessary, in the middle.
Slot Machines: Deuces Wild & Deuces Wild Strategy | Slotland
If you like poker and slot games you are going to love Deuces Wild, one of the most popular slots!
Deuces Wild video poker is the all time favorite card game played in video format on slot machines.
Read this article to learn about Deuces Wild, the rules for Deuces Wild, and Deuces wild playing strategy.
How to Play Deuces Wild Video Poker
Deuces Wild begins like all poker games as in you must place an initial bet. Most video poker games share the general betting limits, which is a usually a minimum of 25c and the maximum bet of $10 per wager. The player also has the option of using a multiplier of five coins per bet.
Once the initial bet has been placed, the player is given five cards which are face up. The computer automatically will hold all winning hands. It is the players sole responsibility to build his/her own hand. The player should always keep the deuces (twos) being as these are the wild cards. From the five initial cards, the player selects the cards he wants to keep and will discard the unwanted cards. Once the player discards, the computer will deal new cards that will replace the players unwanted cards. After all cards have been dealt for the second time, the best possible hand is selected and the player is paid out accordingly.
With every win, the player receives a bonus round giving them the chance to double their money. In the bonus round the player is dealt five cards, four facing down and one facing up. From the cards facing down, the player must select a card that is higher than the card that is face up. In the event that the card selected is higher than the face up card, the player has another chance to double the money. If the player is unsuccessful in picking a higher card, the bet is lost and the bonus round will end. At the end of the bonus game, the Deuces Wild game will resume.
Deuces Wild Strategy
The name of the game says it all, Deuces are Wild. Therefore you should always keep your deuces in the initial deal. Below is a list of optional hand builders.
1. There is no need to discard if you receive any of the following; a royal flush, a straight flush, four of a kind, or a full house.
2. If you are dealt a possible straight with four of the five cards, discard the unwanted card and attempt to get a straight or royal flush.
3. If you have a possible straight with three cards, discard the two unwanted cards and get two new ones.
4. If you are dealt two pair, discard the smaller pair to build on the higher pair.
5. If you have a possible straight or flush, discard the unwanted card and build on your straight or flush.
6. If you are dealt a queen-king, queen-jack, or jack-ten of the same color, keep these and discard the unwanted cards and build on your royal flush.
7. If you have a possible deuce royal flush with four cards, discard the unwanted card and build on the deuce royal flush.
8. If you have a possible straight using a deuce to build with, keep the four usable cards, discard the unwanted card and go for the deuce straight.
9. If you have three deuces and two odd cards, discard the odd cards (unmatched) and draw two new ones and build on your deuces.
10.If you are dealt a deuce and four cards of no hand value, discard the four cards, keeping the deuce and draw four new cards.
Using this strategy when playing Deuces Wild, players have done well and built on these strategies to create their own spin on the game.