A visitor to PokerTools recently asked:

“When a dealer deals a card to another player that accidently flips over. What is the ruling? Is the player dealt a new card, does he accept the card dealt, or is a new deal dealt?”

House rules will differ. If this was a private game, I would probably do a misdeal and redeal the hand.

In a licensed casino that makes money on every hand dealt, the last thing the casino wants is the hand to be redealt. Redealing slows the game down and they lose money. Instead, they usually have rules that say there is no misdeal, just fix the situation and continue on the same hand (which is quicker which increases revenue).

To fix the situation with the least minimal disruption to the hand, the following procedure is usually enforced:

Suppose everyone has received their first card. The first player to get his second card (let’s say seat 2) has it flip over on the deal. Then dealer should then continue with the deal as if the card was never shown. At the end, everyone has two cards. The same two cards they would have had anyways. The only difference is we’ve seen one of seat 2’s cards.

Now we don’t want to change the order of the flop, turn, or river, so how does Seat 2 get a replacement card to makeup for the exposed one, without changing the board to come?

Simple, you exchange the exposed card for the card on the top of the deck (the burn card).

In this manner evrything remains the same except one player has had one of his cards switched. This is the closest you can come to keeping everything the same.

Luckalyzer website claims this piece of software can actually predict a persons luck (both good and bad).

While Luckalyzer is not designed as a poker tool I can see many applications for it in the world of poker.

For example, two players go all in and there are still cards to come on the board. Since both players are all in, there is no more skill. No one can be bluffed out. All that is left is to see if the best hand holds up or not. Will the underdog get lucky if Luckalyzer predicts him to be lucky?

This is the test I decided to put Luckalyzer through. The testing ground was the 2010 WSOP Final Table. There were 9 contestants left who showed up in Las Vegas to battle it out for all the money and the title of World Champ.

At this event there would be hundreds of hands played over 14 grueling hours (total hands played until they got down to 2 players was actually 219 hands). I expected to see dozens of showdowns (actual number of showdowns seen was 30). Would the lucky players win these showdowns?

Here is Luckalyzer’s analysis of each players luck listed in order from best (top) to worst (bottom):

Of the 30 showdowns, the lucky player was the underdog in 11 of them (“underdog” means his chance of winning the hand is less than 30%). The chart below shows the complete list of 11 hands. Luckalyzer’s choice to win is circled. Those in light green signify a winning prediction, while those in light red signify a losing prediction.

If you take a look at the odds of each hand sucking out in the chart above, you will see the underdog has only a 17% chance (on average, according to the odds) of winning each hand.

Yet, because the player was lucky, he actually won 64% of the hands! Thats 4x better than the odds say that player should win!

In conclusion, Luckalyzer proved to us it really does increase your chances of sucking out if you play on lucky days!

In the world of poker, you could use this new tool to decrease the number of bad beats and increase your win rate.

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Poker bots are taking over online poker and they are profitable. Read this article about 10 players who were recently caught using poker bots:

http://www.examiner.com/online-poker-in-national/online-poker-scandal-poker-bots-caught-after-winning-58k-at-pokerstars

After reading that article, you’ll see that a few things tipped off the sites. Playing way too many hands. That would be the first clue. Try not runnning your poker bot for more than a couple hours at a time.

Predictable play was the next tip off. Try using a bot that mixes up it’s play and doesn’t do the same pattern over and over.

We did a quick search of Google and found the following bots:

http://www.pokerbot-online.com/
http://poker-bots.com/
http://www.pokerbot-smart.com/

We have not used these, we do not get paid to recommend these. Just a resource provided by us to help you find the latest and greatest poker tools.

As you saw in the above article, by using a poker bot you run the risk of getting your account cancelled and your winnings confiscated. Currently it is not illegal to use them so you can’t be prosecuted.

If you like to host a home poker game, or perhaps you go to one, there is one thing you should always be on the lookout for, the poker cheat.

Unlike a casino where you have a dealer who looks out for you (you do tip the dealer whether you win or lose, correct?) at a home game all you have is yourself and your friends. You have probably played with your friends many time so you can trust them, but what about that guy your friend invited? Is he on the up and up?

One way to protect yourself is to buy a book or DVD on Poker Cheats or Card Cheats. learn the methods the cheats use.

Marked cards is one of the most popular ways. If you are playing at someone else’s home, make sure to riffle the deck while looking at the back of the cards. If you see dots, or parts of the background jump around while doing a riffle, you have a marked deck.

Sometimes the markings are invisible and can only be seen with the aid of sunglasses or contact lenses. Look for strangers in the game that wear sunglasses. Comment on how nice they are and ask if you can try them on. While trying them, look at the back of the cards to see if you can spot anything.

Another popular way to cheat is to switch decks. Most games use the red and blue bicycle cards. A poker cheat could easily set up a deck in his favor and then switch it when it is his time to shuffle. The poker cheat then does a “false shuffle” to look like he is shuffling but the cards stay in order. Now he deals out the set up deck with big hands and scores a big pot for himself. Just this one pot could make his night and then he never has to cheat again that night, watch for such a hand.

If you see something like this occur, you could always ask the player to empty their pockets to see if they are carrying a deck of the same color.

Sometimes they may have an excuse for carrying the deck. To thwart that, and if you are the host of the game, you could mark your Ace of Spades on the face. Take a photo of the marking with your cell phone. If a deck is found in the players pocket, check the Ace of Spades for the mark so you can prove the deck was switched. So the other players believe you, show them the photo of the mark and then see if the Ace in the deck has mark. This should get the others to believe you and back you when the poker cheat is thrown out.

Hopefully the tips above will help you avoid a poker cheat in your game. Please click the links below and share the knowledge with your friends, and don’t forget to leave a comment also.

Like all games of chance, playing poker has its ups and downs. Everybody who has ever played poker before in their lives would know that on some days, every hand falls your way and you rake in the winnings. On other days however, nothing goes right and you lose all your money. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a reliable, easy-to-use “secret formula” to help you out on those days?

Enter the Boyett Point Count System for Omaha Hi-Lo Poker.

I was recently introduced to this e-book when my editor emailed me a link and asked me to give it an honest review. I first visited the Boyett Point Count website where they published statistics showing the Boyett Point Count System in use and also described the system as way easier and simpler to use than any other pre-existing system. Intrigued, I started learning the system and giving it some trial runs.

The first time I used this system was in a trial run where I basically dealt cards to myself. Since the e-book recommended the system to be used with 7 or more players, I dealt out nine hands in a circle. Then, I looked at each hand, calculated the total score of each hand using the three given equations and recorded each score down. At the end, I took the hand with the best score and played through the game. True enough, the hand won. I tested the system again four more times, of these four, the system won twice. The total success rate for the Boyett Point Count System in the trial was 60%.

Not entirely convinced at how the Boyett Point Count System would fare in an actual field test, I tried it again the next day on a friendly game with 6 friends. Although I didn’t tell them of the system, I didn’t wager any money on it either as I was unsure if the system could hold up. Again, I calculated the total score of my hand and only entered the game if my score was 30 or higher. The e-book promised a 50% win rate with this strategy. Out of the 20 games I played, I won 8 of them, giving a 40% win rate. On the plus side, 40% isn’t that far off from 50%, however, it still meant that I lost most of the 20 games.

Finally, I decided to give the system one last chance. Figuring that the number of players could have accounted for the different success rates in the first and second tests, I called up 8 friends and challenged them to another friendly game. Following the system once more and only entering once my score was 30 and above, I managed to win 8 out of the 12 games I played. This gave a 67% win rate, well within the margin stated by the book.

So there you go, my experiences so far with the Boyett Point Count System have been positive overall. While it is definitely not infallible, it does work for most scenarios.

Things to take note of include: it works better with more players in the game and it only works for the Omaha Hi-Lo Variation.

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