Thursday, June 30, 2005

Top Professional Poker Players - Howard Lederer

Howard Lederer From USA.

Howard is known as the Poker Professor. He has one of the best DVD series on poker for anyone starting out. A calm, quiet player who plays no limit hold 'em tournaments.

While not an agressive player Howard plays the odds, and will call or raise if he is getting the right odds. Howard has played in several WSOP events.

In season 1 of the World Poker Tour (WPT), Howard Lederer finished in the money three times with two wins. He also finished in third place at the season 1 Battle of Champions.

More information on the Poker Professor can be found here.

New Texas Hold-em Directories Added to WindsorPoker.com

I have searched and researched to find the best Texas Hold-em information sites on the Internet.

These three new directories have been added to WindsorPoker.com

Hold-em

Texas Hold-em

Texas Holdem

Also have you ever wanted to build your own Poker Table? Here are some places that canhelp you out: http://www.windsorpoker.com/hold-em/how-to-build-a-texas-hold-em-poker-table.html

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Top Professional Poker Players - Gus Hansen

Gus Hansen

From Denmark. Gus Hansen is an agressive player who can and will play almost any hand. Excellent at bluffing. He has played in the World Series Of Poker and reached the final table several times.

Be prepared to go all in when going head to head with Gus. Gus plays the player and if he senses that you are weak he will strike.

Some of his recent wins include Pokerstars Caribbean Poker Adventure and WPT's "The Bad Boys of Poker" in season 2.

More info about Gus Hansen can be found here:
http://www.windsorpoker.com/Gus-Hansen

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Las Vegas Advisor Update!

Las Vegas Advisor Online Membership
An online membership lets Internet users save $13 over the price of a full membership. It includes all benefits of Las Vegas Advisor full membership, except for mailed copies of the newsletter.

Las Vegas Advisor Full Membership
This is the whole Megillah. In addition to everything included in an online membership, you also get hard copies every month and the LVA Reference Guide. Hard copies often include additional coupons not in the Pocketbook of Values. For example, the February 2001 issue contained 2-for-1 tickets to Folies Bergere and the Rick Thomas show (magic) at the Tropicana.

Great Stuff 4 Gamblers

Telling Lies and Getting Paid
If you liked Man With The $100,000 Breasts, you'll love Telling Lies and Getting Paid, author Michael Konik's new book of gambling stories. Meet the Chicago nun who consistently out-handicaps the bookies with her football picks. Cruise around with the Line Mover, whose massive sports bets force bookies nationwide to alter the odds, and the High Roller, who gets whatever he wants - yes, whatever he wants - just by showing up in Las Vegas. Glimpse the wild scene at the casinos in Macao and visit the poshest casinos in the world. Get tips on how to set up a home poker game and how not to get ripped off by offshore sports books.

The Vegas Kid
Sam Durango is riding high. He's the star of the TV western "The Vegas Kid," he's married to a glamorous actress, and he lives in a beautiful home in the Hollywood Hills. And then everything goes to hell in a handbasket. When his show is cancelled and his wife leaves him (taking most of his money and the house, while she's at it), Sam finds he has to make his way out in the cold cruel world. Along with a ragtag cast of characters—Sam's archrival Buck Beaumont, a couple of escaped cons, a mystery woman, a good-old-boy casino owner, and the world's top poker players—Sam heads to Blackies Casino on Halloween looking to hit the jackpot.

The Little Book of Poker
This outstanding selection of writings from the first regular poker column in a daily newspaper anywhere in the world traverses the poker universe, with stories about poker's games, names, and claims to fame. You'll visit the world's greatest poker venues, feel the emotions of the annual World Series, and relive some of the greatest hands ever played.

Packed with information about the popular games-hold 'em, stud, Omaha, and high-low-The Little Book of Poker can improve your play whether you're an absolute beginner or a seasoned expert. You'll learn how to bet, when to bluff, when to drop, and when to pick up your chips and head for home.

Burning the Tables in Las Vegas 2nd Edition
In Burning the Tables in Las Vegas, Ian Andersen, author of the classic Turning the Tables on Las Vegas, and one of the most successful high-stakes blackjack players of all time, shares his personal program for success at blackjack, poker, and life. First published in 1999, this second edition contains three important new chapters: one on the use of the surrender option at blackjack as a camouflage technique, one on green-chip play for medium rollers; and one on understanding casino psychology. The "Crazy Surrender" chapter expands Andersen's Ultimate Gambit and adds another dimension to his technique of using elements of mathematics and psychology to remain below the casino radar. This new second edition also contains a Foreword by blackjack legend Stanford Wong.

Knock Out Blackjack
Now you can! The revolutionary new Knock-Out card-counting system eliminates the mountain of mental arithmetic necessary to win at blackjack. The scientifically devised Knock-Out count can be used profitably anywhere blackjack is played: Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Mississippi, riverboat casinos, Native American casinos, the Bahamas, and on cruise ships.

Blackjack Autumn
When Barry Meadow decided to take two months off from his everyday life to play blackjack in every Nevada casino, he had no idea what he would find. Leaving behind his business, his fiancee, and his son, he set out on the road with a suitcase, a tape recorder, and $8,000 on the trip of a lifetime.

He ran into cowboys and Indians, suffered the Stardust curse, split 10s in Winnemucca, and learned more about real-world gambling than anyone should have to know.

With wit and wisdom, Meadow takes you on an incredible journey—literally, figuratively, even spiritually—all within the context of a professional blackjack player’s remarkable way of life.

Gambling lessons, life’s lessons, Nevada geography lessons—this one’s got it all. One of the most highly acclaimed gambling books in the past half-decade.

Crushing the Internet Casinos
You can earn back the price of this report in one hour! It’s a fact. There’s profit potential in thousands of casinos on the Net, but you have to know how to exploit it. This report contains everything online gamblers need to know about advantage play at the Web-based casinos. It provides a detailed step-by-step on getting started, choosing the right casinos, setting up ac-counts, playing the games, analyzing the bonuses (which is where the advantage lies), avoiding pitfalls, solving problems, withdrawing money, keeping records, identifying the scam sites, even earning comp points and becoming an affiliate.

The Slot Expert's Guide to Playing Slots
The casino floors are jammed with new and different kinds of slot machines. In The Slot Expert’s Guide to Playing Slots, John Robison tells you what they are, how they work, and how you should play them.Formerly sold only in bulky report format, this new pocket-sized book can be easily carried into the casinos to be used as a reference. Contains graphics of slot and video poker pay schedules you’ll encounter, along with representative return percentages.

The Slot Expert’s Guide to Playing Slots also covers general practicalities of slot play, offering facts and tips on machine selection, payout percentages, slot myths, the value of systems, taxes on jackpots, and the use of slot clubs.

No Limit
No Limit provides a penetrating look at Bob Stupak, controversial casino owner and builder of the Stratosphere Tower. Between his early years as the son of a notorious gambling operator in Pittsburgh and the grand opening of the Stratosphere Tower, Stupak raced motorcycles, hustled coupons, and ran Vegas World-home of the infamous VIP Vacation Package, the longest running casino promotion in history.

Gambling Wizards
Get into the minds of the greatest gamblers of all time with the latest release from Huntington Press, Gambling Wizards by Richard W. Munchkin. Read in-depth interviews with eight masters of the games. Learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful.

The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).

Frugal Gambler
At first glance, Jean Scott appears to be what she is—your average 60-something retired English teacher from the Midwest. In her secret life, though, she’s the most successful casino low roller in the country. Dubbed the “Queen of Comps” by CBS’ “48 Hours,” Scott has developed a technique for getting everything she wants from casinos from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. How does this unlikely David turn the tables on the casino Goliaths? By using slot clubs, taking advantage of promotions and contests, gambling with coupons, and exploiting everything in the casino world that’s even remotely vulnerable. Many of her strategies for getting bumped off airplanes and staying long-term in Las Vegas have never been disclosed before.

Comp City-Second Edition
Every year, U.S. casinos give away more than a billion dollars worth of amenities to customers in return for their gambling action. The giveaways, known as “comps” (short for complimentaries), range from parking and drinks to gourmet meals and airfare-all free.

This impressive rebate, unique to the casino business, is what Comp City is all about. Originally published in 1994, this expose of the guarded world of the casino comp system, penned by a former casino executive, has shown tens of thousands of gamblers how to get free casino vacations.

More Frugal Gambling
It's been nearly six years since Jean Scott took the gambling world by storm with the release of The Frugal Gambler. Now she's back with a veritable truckload of new frugal advice for recreational and low-rolling gamblers who want to make their money stretch and the fun last longer. Jean covers all the hot spots of enlightened casino play, including the ins and outs of slot clubs, bounce-back, and comps; finding and participating in promotions and tournaments; developing hosts; using coupons; and the A to Zs of playing video poker. Special sections from Jean's daughter, Angela, provide tips for beginners and low rollers.

Million Dollar Video Poker
Bob Dancer is the best known video poker player and writer in the world. In just six years, after coming to Las Vegas with a $6,000 bankroll, Dancer won more than $1 million playing beatable machines. Million Dollar Video Poker recounts the events of those six years, with stories about his meteoric ups and downs, and lessons for players of all skill levels. Video poker is one of those rare casino games that can be beaten by a talented and informed player, and Dancer explains how it’s done. Never before has a top video poker professional shared so many of his winning secrets.

Bob Dancer's Video Poker Strategy Cards Set of Six
These video poker strategy cards were developed by everybody’s favorite video poker authority-Bob Dancer-along with strategist extraordinaire Liam W. Daily, and may be the best strategy cards ever devised for any game. Four strategy levels take you from beginner to advanced, all on one six-panel tri-fold pocket-sized card. The “Beginner” strategies alone will improve almost anyone’s play, while those who graduate to the “Advanced” strategies will be playing virtually as accurately as a computer.

Keeps
Castle Frazer is a 27-year-old gambler and "steering man." Rich Stillman is an 11-year-old poolshark. The two meet in Kentucky in the early 1940s and, under Castle's tutelage, little Rich quickly graduates from pool to poker (and later, money gin games), for which he has an exceptional aptitude.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

3 Great Tips To Make More Money Playing Online Poker

There are three very important things that you should have in mind before playing online poker. First you should know how to choose a table, second you should know were to sit at the table you choose and last but not least you should know when to live the table.
How to choose an online poker table.

First of all when you are choosing an online poker table you should think of choosing one with players who are of a lesser skill level than you. So when you select a table the statistics will appear. Usually you will be given the following info:hands per hour, percentage of players seeing the flop, and average pot size. An important thing is that hands per must be very high, because when the game is fast you can make more money.

The perfect table is a loose one. So you should carefully look at the of players seeing the flop. So if the percentage is at least 30 at a table with 10 players than it's good. You should look for lower limits.

The next thing you should check before sitting at an online poker table is the pot size. You can tell by the pot size if it's an active or an passive table. Here are now rules, because you can win at a passive table as much as you can at an active table.

The last thing you can look at before choosing an online poker table is the stacks of the other players. If they are playing with much money usually means that they are serious players. But many great players sit down at the table with small stacks in order to remain inconspicuous. There are also many poor players with lot of money to spend.


Where to position yourself at an online poker table

The best thing for you is to have the stronger players on your right. This way you can act after they do. If you never saw those players playing you should try to watch them for a while. You should observe and take in mind if a player is loose or tight. After this try to position yourself in order to have the tight players on your right.

If you have the luck to find any maniacs at the online poker table on your left you dispose of many advantages. A maniac is a person who loves to raise with little to back up. So you can see how the other players react to his bets, if they have good hands to call him.


When to leave from an online poker table

Before every hand you have to questions in your mind: to leave or not to leave. It's important that you are the one that makes this choice not the other players at the table.

If you feel that you are loosing you should ask your self another two questions. Is this the best table for me? Am i in shape? So try too see if the reasons that made you choose that online poker table still exist. Check if any of the poor players have left or if any good players have arrived. Is everyone still playing as loose as they were when you began? Even after you decided that there are the same table conditions you should check the other tables. Maybe you can find a better one.

So in the end in order to make the right decision you must be honest with your self. You must be able to make the difference between a simple bad luck or the fact that you could be outmatched. You also might be tired or stressed. There are many factors that can lead you to a bad game. The most important thing is to stay calm so you can make the right decision. In conclusion this are the three most important matters that you should keep in mind when you want to play online poker.

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