While you play poker and sit around the table I’m sure you have heard other players make the following remarks (perhaps even you have made these)

• Luck beats skill everytime
• I’d rather be lucky than skillful
• Why is my luck so bad?

I’ve noticed that my own lucky streaks come and go. Maybe you have had the same experience.

So one day I thought to myself, what if I knew in advance, when I will attract good luck so I can use it to dominate my opponent. I would also love to know when my luck would go bad so I could avoid playing for awhile and the bad beats associated with bad luck.

So I set out on a quest to find the answers to my questions. Any edge I can get to beat the best players in the world is always welcomed.

My quest led me to discovering Biorythms. Perhaps you are familiar with them. Researchers have found that our body does move in cycles and that these cycles can be calculated to determine when we attract good luck and what days brings bad luck.

I was very skeptical about such a thing and set about to test if I could calculate, with a fair amount of accuracy, if it was actually possible to determine the days I will win at poker or suffer bad beats.

The first step was in actually developing a software program that will do the calculations and tell me which days are lucky and which are unlucky.

Once the software was written the next step was in testing. Now every one should keep logs of their playing sessions. It’s the only way you’ll know if you are a winner or loser at poker. I grabbed my logs and sat down with the luck analyzing program.

Normally I play $9-$18 Holdem. My hourly average profit is about $18 per hour. This hourly profit is in line with what many pros claim you should make, “one big bet an hour”. It appears my playing is right on target.

I ran the luck analyzing software and it pinpointed my lucky and unlucky days. I then grabbed my logs of my playing sessions and eliminated the profit and/or losses from all those days marked as “bad luck”.

When the smoked cleared and the final total was added up, my hourly average income went from $18 per hour to $25 per hour. Analyzing my luck and playing ONLY on the good days, earned me a 50% payday raise!

I was really surprised. Enthused with what I have discovered, I quickly packaged up the software and called it, Luckalyzer. I’ve brought the program online so others can increase their hourly win rate also.

You can discover more about the amazing Luckalyzer.. by watching this video. In the video (about 10 minutes) I’ll reveal what the report looks like and how a poker player can read it to determine lucky days for playing poker and the unlucky days for poker (about halfway into video).

Watch the video and learn how to attract good luck and remove bad luck from your life and from your poker..

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What do you do with $4 million?

In the case of two time WPT winner Jonathan Little, you start sharing your knowledge and experience with others so that can succeed too.

To that end, Jonathan Little’s has released a poker tool called “Jonathan Little Secrets”. Over the past couple days I have had the chance to try it out and see if I can be the next $4 million winner.

Click here to see the Jonathan Little Secrets website.

Before I reveal my results with this training program I do want to say up front that I have played maybe one hundred online tournaments over the last couple years and have never made it to the final table.

However I’m not all that bad. I usually can make it to the top 1/3 finishers but have just never had the ability to get to the money positions. I could definately need some help in improving my game.

I recently came across the Jonathan Little Secrets training program

I was skeptical at first, but I walked away amazed and impressed.

Jonathan claims he started out grinding it out in small $2-$4 SNG tournaments. he would play 20 tables at a time and would usually play 8-10 hours a day. By following this strategy he claims to have made $500,000 online.

My strategy was a little different. I would also play in $2-$3 SNG's, but now wanting to be overwhelmed, I played only 3-4 tables at a time. I also decided not to play all day with this but to simply play until I won or got knocked out of the 3-4 SNG's I was playing.

The rest of the time I implemented the ideas and strategy I discovered in Jonathan's course.

The results were simply amazing. I showed a profit every day and I made the final table every day!

Jonathan’s training course really does work. On the first day I played in four $3 SNGs. My total cost was $12 and I ended up getting back $15. This profit was made because one of the SNGs was a 9 handed SNG and I took first place and the $15 prize.

The second day I played in two $3 SNGs and a $3 SNG. My total cost that day was $7 and I scored $11 in prize money by making the final table of a 180 player SNG (see the below video of me winning 8th place).

As you see I was able to grind out small profits playing online SNGs just like Jonathan did when he first started out. Now I know those profits are small but I was averaging $1 profit per SNG. Now imagine playing 100 of those a day = $100 a day profit.

Once the bankroll grows (and Jonathan will even tell you how to manage that) I will move up to bigger SNGs and increase my daily profits.

Now if I can do this course and win than anyone can do this and become a winner. Go here now and watch the free video and signup for the rest of the training. There is a money back guarantee if you are not happy so it’s really a no brainer.

Click here to see the Jonathan Little Secrets website.

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Go to any poker site online and you’ll find a tab or link that says “Poker Tool” on it. Do a search on Google for the term “Poker Tool” and you get 23 million results.

How did the poker tool take over the poker world?

It all started back in 1999 when I was working for Commerce Casino as their Satellite Director (person who oversees and runs the one-table satellites). In that position I was required to wear a suit and tie.

To enhance the players playing experience, to stand out in the crowd of hundreds, and to add a little personality to the tournament experience. I always wore a poker tie. I had dozens. I wore poker cufflinks and poker tie clips.

Players always commented on where they could get them for themselves. Back in 1999, poker hadn’t taken off yet so it was hard finding poker related items. So in 2000 I opened this website to provide poker clothing, poker card guards, and other hard to find poker items and put them all together on one website.

I needed a name for the site so I thought about it. There are plumber tools, there are carpenter tools, architect tools, and mechanic tools. Why can’t poker players have tools to help them in their proffession.

Sunglasses to hide the eyes, clothing to distract your opponent, card guards to protect your hand from being accidently mucked, and even poker books that help you play better. I coined this collection of weapons, as “poker tools” and named this site as such.

As the poker explosion took off, soon every store in the world was selling poker related items so the PokerTools.com website moved towards promoting the online software used for playing poker such as odds calculators, tournament software, player trackers, hand replayers, and more.

Soon other copycats started opening sites promoting online software as “poker tools“. The few poker sites already on the Internet ten years ago added a “poker tool” category.

Today many poker players associate the term to just the different varieties of software, but the original term encompasses all the tools you use for battle on the felt and was started right here, by me, Will Boyett, in May of 2000.

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Looking for a poker calculator to help play texas Holdem online? What about one that works with popular poker rooms? MagicHoldem recently updated their poker calculator. This new version is just what you need to play Texas Holdem. I recently tried MagicHoldem with FullTiltPoker.com. I easily installed it. Soon, I was back online at FullTiltPoker.com. This time, I was armored with the latest in odds technology.

When you enter an online poker room, MagicHoldem’s helper windows pop up beside the browser window. At first it didn’t report card information. I received an error pop-up message from MagicHoldem. It couldn’t work with my having changed the default window size. MagicHoldem’s application brought up a browser window. This window contained detailed help documents about this issue. A step-by-step guide walked me through what to do. I followed the directions with no problem.

MagicHoldem displayed and updated my odds of winning throughout the game. MagicHoldem uses mathematical algorithms to determine the probability of winning. The probabilities are updated when new cards are dealt. Stats are provided first after the hole cards are dealt. The stats are updated after the flop, the turn, and the river.

MagicHoldem has uncomplicated, intuitive interface. MagicHoldem’s easy-to-read display is streamlined. It doesn’t distract from game play. I could focus on my game and keep an eye on stats. MagicHoldem uses color to rank the player’s hand. After the hole cards are dealt, MagicHoldem gives out two scores. These two scores rank the hand with the dealt hole cards. After the flop, a win statistic looks at the likelihood of winning.

MagicHoldem is not a free poker calculator. You can, however, get one year’s free license if you make a deposit at a partner poker site.

Why pay for MagicHoldem when free poker calculators are available online? The disadvantage with free poker calculators online is putting the cards’ values into them. Free online poker calculators won’t grab card values for you. What does this mean? You might go inactive when updating card values during an online game. Free poker calculators are fine for study. Just you working through a hypothetical game. During an online game, you don’t have time to enter values. Using a free online calculator is confusing during a game. You’re on your own with technical difficulty and a free online calculator.

MagicHoldem only works out poker odds. MagicHoldem does not collect empirical data on other players during a session. Some people want to play Texas Holdem and not over analyze the game session. Instead of studying other player’s playing history while at the table, I can just play poker. Having odds laid in a simple format helps new and experienced players with poker.

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When involved in a jackpot, most players have no clue what to tip. In most cases the winners either over tip or under tip.

From my own experience as a poker dealer, I dealt many jackpots under $5,000. Back then they didn’t have the big jackpots as they do now at some of the big poker rooms. I usually received 8%.

If a jackpot was $3,000, my average tip was about $240 total. The player who got the biggest share might tip $160, the player who got beat would chip in about $50 and the ones who got table share would chip in about $5 each.

Now what about these jackpots that are $50,000 or more? I’ve seen some up to $150,000.

Tip 8% of a $50,000 jackpot to the dealer alone is $4,000. That is a bit extreme so I treat a big jackpot win the same a tournament win. Most casinos take 3% out of the prize pool for tips. Therefore 3% of a large jackpot would be fair.

Let’s see how that breaks down. $50,000 x 3% = $1,500. This is the total amount you should tip. I would distribute it as follows:

This person should get the most as they only get to share in a jackpot once every five years: Poker Dealer: $1,200

These people share in a jackpot all the time: Cashier $40, Chip runners/Floormen get the remaining $260.

For additional tips on tipping, here are two more posts in this three post series on tipping:

Poker Tipping 101
How Much To Tip A Dealer

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