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Aiming For A Poker Tournament
Poker to me has always been a little bit of luck and a whole lot of information. An Online Poker Tournament has been proven achievable but the first disadvantage I see is my “whole lot of information” is going to be next to nil.
Im only going to see other players and myself as caricatures on my screen. Facial expressions, hand gestures, body motions will all be absent, as well as eye squinting, blinking or twitching those giveaways on TV and why many use sunglasses. Add to this the screen names: how do I know that Tiny Tina isnt some card shark from Vegas alluding to be female and harmless?
Im going to have to compensate for this not-so-small handicap. Basically anybodys poker actions are six — whether you play online or off betting, folding, calling, raising, re-raising, or check-raising. So thats a given. My observations are going to fall in the realm of a good site selection, a game selection (there are many tables), careful note-taking and money management.
And while all players are indeed in caricature-form, they still have behavior that can be noted. I can put their screen names under one of two lists: “tight players” or “loose players”. It will help to observe a few hands and label them before I decide to sit in. Too many tight players and I might look at another table.
Tight players are strong opponents. Even as a novice they will fold a poor deal and play a good one. When they raise, more often than not they have the cards to back it up with. I think it would benefit me to keep them to my right that way, I get to act after they do. Loose players are often called maniacs because they love to bet and raise with very little in hand to back it up.
As I see it, they are best if kept to my left in playing online poker. Advantages are: I get to see how the other players react to his/her betting before its my turn. And, at times if I check to the maniac who bets of course, this allows everyone else to call before I raise the bet and collect the additional monies. Get it?
Of course a table can also be tight or loose. Ideally I believe a loose table is better and the first sign of this would be how many players see the flop; the more the better if many are playing to the flop, the pots are healthier. I read where 30% of the table playing all the way to the flop is a good measure. Anything less is not worthwhile sitting in.
So, its time now to choose a fictitious name and sign up for the best poker school where I can (as they say) become a professional in a matter of months rather than years by playing the game with “fun” money until I declare I am ready for a real investment.
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2006 Esther Smith
Cocoa Casino Review
Cocoa Casino is a downloadable online casino running Rival Software. I read the Cocoa Casino Review at Gambling Gazette and thought I would give it a try.
Going to Cocoa Casino with a cable modem, the software can be downloaded in a minute and setup is as simple as one mouse click. Installation does change the font sizes on your computer screen when it runs so be prepared for large fonts. Nicely, however, it returns the screen size to its old setting upon exit. The software is easy to navigate and intuitive and there is help on every screen.
The games can be played for fun money or for real money and the $10 bonus offer just for downloading and signing up is a real enticement, but there are also numerous welcome bonuses as well.
There are 5 game categories to choose from: Slots, iSlots, Table Games, Video Poker, and Specialty Games. Each category has many types of games to choose from. I played for fun and started out with $2000 pretend money, which is twice the amount of fun money other casinos offer.
I played a few of the slots and found them pretty boring. The video slots were definitely more challenging than the 3-reel slots, thought the graphics on all of them are remarkable. The iSlots take quite a while to download when starting a new one, but the images are excellent and the games very enjoyable.
Moving on to table games, I tried playing blackjack which is actually something I know about and won a few fun bucks. There are a lot of table games and the graphics again are wonderful. Personally, I found this part of the casino the most fun, but it is all individual taste. I think I liked it best because I felt like I was playing with another person
After playing video poker and then Sudoku in the specialty games I decided I had seen enough. The bets can be very small if you want, allowing you to play for a long time. When done, the software can be removed in only a few seconds.
Compared to the casinos that use the Real Time Gaming software I found this software to be slow when downloading the iSlots and video poker games and it took up too much of my computer screen.