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Next to playing from home, the single biggest advantage to playing Internet poker on FullTiltPoker is that players can play poker on multiple tables at once. Multi tabling is something that cannot physically be done when playing poker in live venues. When playing poker on the internet, a player can be seated on numerous poker tables on a single poker site or they can choose to multi table across more than one online poker room at the same time. For the best poker players, multi tabling allows them to see more hands in an hour than they could by playing only one poker table, which theoretically translates to an increase in their hourly win rate. While playing multi-table poker can result in a higher win rate, one should organize themselves when multi tabling, so that they can do so efficiently.

When playing internet poker on numerous tables simultaneously, a poker player should adjust the Internet poker table settings to allow them to play as easy as possible. A multi tabler should set their poker tables so that they are on auto muck, which means that they do not show any hands they are not required to show. This not only provides the opposition with less information about their play, but also allows the player to move on to the next table or hand without having to choose whether to show or muck.

Additionally, poker players should take advantage of the four-color deck that most poker sites provide. By using a four-color deck, a multi-tabler is better able to see a flushed board, which means they do not have to stare at one of their numerous tables as long to see how coordinated the board might be. This additionally minimizes the amount of thought a player has to put into obtaining information that will influence their decision making process.

Finally, a multi tabling poker player is well served in utilizing a poker tracking program such as poker tracker that displays or overlays statistics about their opposition’s play right on the table. This allows the multi tabling poker player to see how loose, tight, aggressive, or passive their opposing players are, without having to look elsewhere for the information. Additionally, a poker tracking program helps players determine things like hand range and betting trends, as the information is set right on the poker tables.

By using poker tracking software and adjusting the poker site configurations, a poker player will make his life as easy as possible when multi tabling on internet poker sites. By adjusting the settings and using poker-tracking software, a player will give himself the best chance to turn a profit when playing poker across multiple tables on the Internet.

While many of us do not give much thought to which hand is the weakest hand in poker, I would like to open this up for debate. Many hands can be up for consideration as poker’s weakest hand. We will look at each of these hands and discuss which hand is in fact the weakest hand in poker.

When thinking of weak hands that can be played on Full Tilt, the first hand I think of is the 2-7 offsuit (known around the poker blogging community as “the hammer.” Very often, I hear announcers on television bill this hand as the worst starting hand in poker. When crunching the numbers, the two seven not suited stands up against one random hand 35% of the time. Against two random hands, the seven deuce is a winner less than 20% of the time based on the starting hand strength.

The hammer is the subject of prop games on poker television shows, such as High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. The theory is that this hand is the weakest hand in poker, and if someone wins with it, everyone at the table pays. This makes for a compelling argument that the 2-7 might hammer the field in being poker’s weakest hand.

The two-three stands up against a lone hand 32% of the time heads up. This would be weaker than the 2-7, as the 2-7 wins 35% of the time, according to the poker statistics. When up against two random hands, the 2-3 prevails roughly 15% of the time. This further suggests that the three-deuce is perhaps the weakest or worst hand in poker.

In reality, we can crunch numbers all we want. The fact of the matter is the worst hand in poker is the hand that we are unable to lay down even though we know we are beat. Such a hand has not a name, nor does it have a face. There is not even a number associated with it. The worst or weakest hands in poker are the hands we cannot just get away from. For some people, it may be big slick, when the board falls low, and we continue pounding at the pot, getting call after call, only to have a river trap sprung upon us.

Maybe that weakest hand for us on Full Tilt Poker is pocket jacks, where we cannot help but bet the ace and call all the way down, knowing the ace helped the villain. The fact of the matter is, the weakest hand in poker is the hand you cannot get away from – even though you know for certain you are beat. Lose the weakest link from your game now and watch your bottom line climb.

A move that is not available in every online casino is the surrender. Prominent mostly in online black jack games, the surrender allows you to give up – plead “no contest” in exchange for a lesser penalty, f you will. The surrender is taken when conditions are not favorable to the player. For this reason, many casinos do not offer the surrender as an option.

Types of Surrender

The two types of surrenders offered in black jack are the early surrender and the late surrender. The early surrender calls for the player to surrender before the dealer checks for black jack. The late surrender forces the player to wait until blackjack is verified before making a decision on whether or not to throw in the towel. Either way, surrender must be declared prior to the player acting on their hand.

Why Surrender?

When you surrender, you are booking a loss. The cost of surrender is one-half of your original bet. If you have a bet of $50, and decide to surrender, the dealer takes half your bet or $25 and pushes the remaining $25 to you as a refund. When you surrender, you forfeit interest in the rest of the hand. This means if the dealer goes bust, drawing over 21 – you are entitled to nothing money-wise.

How to Use the Surrender

The surrender, when offered is a valuable weapon in the strategic online blackjack player’s arsenal. We use the surrender when conditions are not suitable to continue. Generally, we utilize the surrender when our expected return is less than half a bet.

When the black jack rules state the dealer stands on soft seventeen, it is advantageous to surrender when we hold sixteen (without the presence of an ace), regardless of the combination of cards when the dealer shows an ace, a ten or nine. The cost of continuing in the hand results in an expectation less than half our bet, so we are best served surrendering, as that is the most profitable option available.

In addition, when we have a hand valuing fifteen (again without the presence of an ace), we are correct in surrendering when the dealer shows ten. This is because the upside expectation of continuing is less than half a bet.

When we surrender in black jack, we give up in the hand because the results over time suggest we will lose more than one-half our bet. By surrendering, we limit our losses to merely a half bet, which gets us out of an unfavorable match-up at the blackjack table.

Live poker tournaments and events such as the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tour are some of the most exciting places to play poker. In addition to being exciting, winning a tournament such as the WSOP Main Event or even finishing in the money is quite a feat. A big win in one of these large, live tourneys will not only line your pockets with gold, but also will give you a place in poker history.

Big events like the WSOP and WPT are quite popular, and entry to them comes at a high price. The buy-in for World Series Main Events and WPT main events cost $10K. While poker players can choose to buy-in to these events directly, there are other ways a player can secure their spot in these live poker tournaments. Players can enter special satellite tournaments on the internet to win their way into these events at a fraction of the cost.

Each prestigious live online poker tournament has a ton of satellites at most online poker rooms, where the player can try to win their entry. The satellites typically cost around $500 and the winner or winners are rewarded with a full $10K buy-in to the live poker tournament they are competing for. Often, the satellites will provide extra money for travel and accommodations in addition to the buy-in. This allows poker players to attempt to win their way into these live tourneys in a far more efficient way than buying in directly.

If a poker player wants to go an even cheaper route to get into a tournament like the WSOP main event, they can also play in satellites to the main event satellite. These mini-satellites of sorts allow a poker player to enter the satellite scheme at a variety of levels. Some of these mini-satellite tournaments are free or even cost a few dollars to join at the lower levels. The mini-satellites are set up in stages and depending on how the mini-satellite is configured, the winner or winners move on to the next step or stage. The winners continue to move through to the next rounds until they have reached the final satellite tournament, which is known as the super satellite. These steps or series of satellites allow poker players to enter the satellite pathway at a variety of levels so that they can try to win a seat in a big event at a cost that is comfortable to them and well below the price tag of the full price buy-in.

Playing in mini-satellites and super satellites is a great way for online poker players to compete for WSOP and WPT seats over the internet without shelling out the full cost of the seat. Well-known poker players like Chris Moneymaker have put themselves on the map by finding their way to the WSOP main event via satellite entry. Will you be the next Moneymaker?

There are many everest poker players on many different online poker sites who watch television and hear a sound bite that suggests, “You have to raise Ace-King preflop.” Or a player will read a blog post stating that the only way to play is tight aggressive poker. Both of the statements are flawed in that there is no absolute way to play poker. Every hand, every situation is different and unique. These players go on to think that they should raise, but never come to understand why. As a result, they begin raising just for the sake of raising. There are far more reasons to raise than just doing so because you can or you should when you have a decent hand. Here are some of the many reasons to raise the pot with a big hand in a cash game

Isolation

Raising the pot is going to weed out many of the marginal hands that may play for the minimum. For someone to call you when you raise with your big hands, they are going to need something solid as well, or they are going to pay you off. The reason you want to be heads up before the flop is that your monster, like Pocket Jacks will hold against one pocket pair most of the time. The more hands you face going to the flop, the better chance someone will flop two pair or a flush draw. You want your odds of winning the pot to be as high as possible.

Build a Big Pot

The rule of thumb is “Small pot, small hand; Big Pot, big hand.” When you have a big hand in pkr poker, you want to gain commitment to the pot as early as possible for both you and the opposing players. The benefit of building a big pot is that you are committing to the pot, staking claim to it – telling the world you cannot be bluffed. Big hands are meant to play around big pots.

Fold Equity:

When players see that you are making raises with big hands, you are going to get respect. When you are putting in a raise, you are signaling that you have a big hand. Whether or not you improve your hand on the flop, you have already let them know you are strong and another bet will often get them to lay it down.

Understanding when to raise is just as important as comprehending why we raise.