There are a lot of bad beat stories of online poker. These stories tell how a few bad cards ruined an otherwise successful run at the table. We have all seen these same circumstances play out in live play. An otherwise well playing person hits a few bad hands and all of a sudden spiral […]
Ace nine is popularly known as the Rounders hand, a reference to the now classic poker movie starring Matt Damon, Ed Norton, and John Malkovich, which has come to take a near Godfather like role in the continuum of gaming cinema. It is a poker online hand that Matt Damon’s […]
Average online poker players today know more than a few party facts about their favorite game. They often know the ins and outs of good poker strategies, the names of the most popular poker players, and the rules for a wide variety of games. Before you start thinking that all of this poker education is […]
The greatest moment of any poker player’s day is when they get to cash out. There are few things that beat the thrill of counting your winnings. If you play online poker, however, you don’t actually get to touch your winnings in a tangible way. You need to cash out in […]
Here Comes Summer! Time to slack up with pairs and relish some tasty solid food and extensive music. Throw a barbeque this summer that will be the enviousness of your allies with these helpful tips from the Team Wish Lantern Crew.. Here is four must have’s to help you make the most of the weather […]
For the past week almost, Cake Poker has been having server problems. They sent out an email alerting that they had pinpointed the problem to some internal issue. To work on it, Cake stopped running poker tournaments altogether for nearly a week. This included Sit and Go’s as […]
Perhaps you’re a part-time bowler willing to approach the game of bowling competitively for the first time. If that’s your situation, you’ve stumbled upon a crucial cross-roads in growing as a true bowling competitor. Read carefuly, ’cause our bowling pro shop’s “Next Steps” handbook to bowling stand as essential reading. Professionals from a nearby bowling […]
I used to hate playing online poker with tight players. They’d fold hand after hand, and I kept finding myself with great cards that wouldn’t pay off the way I wanted them to. On top of that, whenever they would play a hand, I was convinced that they held a monster […]
Sometimes, poker success can come from the most unlikliest of starting hands. When playing a game of Texas Hold em, we all hate to look down at a starting hand and see a 3-9 offsuit, but every so often it’s the hands like that that can win us a big pot. […]
If you’re playing in an online poker tournament rather than a cash game, keep in mind that you don’t have to knock everyone else out in order to win. You may be a fantastic poker player, but the odds are that you won’t get the cards that you’d need to knock everyone else out […]