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October 18th, 2008

How To Get A Big Fat Bankroll

One of the questions I’m asked all the time is “How can I build a bankroll so I can play high stakes poker?”

How To Grow Your Bankroll

Many players simply play in a tournament and get lucky. Win one of those and you have a large bankroll. Unfortunatly, you need to be extremely lucky. With hundreds, if not thousands of players fighting for the prize money, it is not as easy as it looks on television.

So how does the average player like you or I do it? To find the answer I decided to ask many of the high stakes players how they built their bankroll, and most importantly, how they kept their bankroll intact. Nobody wants to be a railbird (a person who has lost their bankroll and is now forced to watch the action from the rail).

After many interviews, I began to see a common thread. Many of the answers were similar. I then took twenty of the most common ways to build and maintain a bankroll and put it all together in an easy to read and follow ebook.

Now you have no excuse. I’ve laid out all the secrets you need to build a bankroll of $50,000 or more. To download a copy of this informative report, simply CLICK HERE NOW!

October 3rd, 2008

Superstitions And The Luck Factor While Playing Poker

I have two superstitions at poker. Whenever I make change at the table, I seem to start losing. My other superstition has to do with the first hand I play. If I win the first hand, I never seem to win another hand again.Maybe you have these same superstitions. Superstitions can be fun and harmless. However, they could also make you go broke.For example, maybe you hit a jackpot once with J-3 offsuit so now you believe it to be lucky and play it every time. Playing a hand for this reason is not good enough. Your criteria for playing a hand should be because of its quality, not because you made a big score with it once.Another superstition to avoid is the lucky seat. How many times have you picked a seat at a table only because it was the same seat you won in yesterday? Luck comes and goes. What was lucky yesterday is not always lucky the next day. You should choose a seat based on the players. I personally like tight players on my right and loose players on my left. I can make a lot more moves in this arrangement.

The worst superstition of all is blaming the poker dealer for your lack of skill. I have seen losing players cuss at the dealer, say things like, “I never win with you”, “You are bad luck”, and “Change the dealer”. Of course they eventually do change the dealer and that player keeps on losing. Obviously it wasn’t the dealer.

Gambling involves luck. While luck tends to even itself out over the long run, people naturally focus on the short run and on their fluctuations. You can not change luck it will even itself out over the long run. Concentrate on playing well and you will win over the long run.

If you believe in superstitions and luck, and would like to harness the power of luck to accelerate your winnings, I recommend you visit Luckalyzer for a look into the future. Here you will find your lucky days for playing poker, and most importantly, the days to avoid poker playing.

September 16th, 2008

Free Poker Tools

CardPlayer Magazine has a couple of free calculators players can
use to help improve their game:

Hold ‘Em Calculator
Omaha Hi-Lo

July 9th, 2008

Roy Rounder Joins Up With PokerTools.com

At PokerTools.com we are proud to welcome Roy Rounder to our lineup of professionals.

“Couch Rounder” as he is affectionately known around the training camp has agreed to offer 52 weeks of personalized mentoring to anyone who wants it. You can do it on your own schedule at your own pace (you do have a full year). You just submit your latest hand histories to Coach Rounder. Within 48 hours you receive a seven-page report displaying a detailed breakdown of your game, based on the submitted hand histories.

This is an absolute first on the internet! Seeing that you can get a full year of coaching for free, it is hard to think of a reason why you wouldn’t want to give Coach Rounder a chance. Possibly the only reason would be if you decided not to play any more poker. But then again, such a drastic decision could be modified if you saw your game suddenly improve by several levels.

To get a full year of personalized poker advice from professional Coach Rounder at no cost, you just have to open a new account with one of their partner online poker rooms. It’s usually all the big names. So if you have been thinking of opening a new account at a new online casino why not do it through here and Get Your Free Year Of Personalized Poker Advice Now

If you do use the link above to visit Coach Rounder’s website you will see how much detail goes into these reports. It’s just too much for me to post here. Everyone enjoy and welcome Coach Rounder!