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Poker in a Dangerous Online World

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The internet has been very good to the sport of poker. Where it not for cyberspace, Phil Hellmuth would still be relevant, the words “Would you like some fries with that” would probably define Tom Dwan’s career, and we would have to we would have to wait a full 30 days between Maxim issues to see what Lacey Jones isn’t wearing this month. There have been some annoyances, such as the entire US government trying to shut down this industry because they don’t know how to tax it, but it is a big world, and most people have access to internet poker. So it’s all good, right? Wrong. While mainstreaming things like Texas Holdem, the internet has also opened up brand new forms of communication. In many cases these are very dangerous forms of communication. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table
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When we talk about dangerous communications, we don’t mean opinions. I think we are all sick of people scanning the internet looking for any post they can call racist, sexist, or any other “ist” that they can get righteously offended by. We are talking about Facebook, Twitter, and every other form of social networking that tempts people into saying way too much about their personal lives. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table
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In a past article I had mentioned how players can scan the MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook accounts of potential opponents, and in many cases they will give up their entire game right there. All you need to do is read their posts to know their tendencies. This is actionable intelligence, and anybody who gives away all the secrets to how they play the game in a social networking setting deserves to lose their bankroll. The danger comes when you decide to tell the world how good things are going with your game. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table
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I have an acquaintance who managed to win a ton of money playing poker in Vegas one weekend. He crowed about this on a public Facebook page, and announced the party he was having in his room. He also gave out the room number. While this story only ended with a hangover, and not some sort of disaster, in my opinion, this gentleman simply painted the target and was lucky nobody decided to take advantage of the information he put out there. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table
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When we do things like bragging about how much we have won playing poker, we are telling the world that we have money to steal. In todays world our addresses are not nearly as secure as they used to be. With a little general information about somebody, a criminal can go on to any number of sites that make your addresses a matter of public record, and figure out where you live. At that point they just monitor a potential victims Facebook or twitter sites…looking for posts that announce where the person is at that moment (the store, Burger King, Wal-Mart, Starbucks…etc. People seem to like to tell the world where they are at any given moment). The jackpot is when somebody twitters from their vacation. This tells everyone that the house is empty. After that, the crook can case the neighborhood using Google Earth, and soon after that the person who was bragging about their winnings is suddenly the victim of a break-in. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table
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What you have just read in the above sections may sound sort of paranoid, but it does happen more often than most people should be comfortable with. Be wise with your social networking accounts. Don’t let them be open doors and windows for the world. A good idea is to set them to be as private as humanly possible. Don’t accept a friend request if you have no connection to that person, and don’t put enough information out there where somebody can piece together your activity throughout the day. This will help keep you safe in a world of really dangerous communication. texas hold em instructions, poker tips, play holdem games, texas hold em how to, poker table

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Confidence can Kill in Poker

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Search this site: HomeNewsPoker RoomsPoker RulesPoker Tips Holdem RulesHoldem StrategyHoldem TipsPoker SchoolLive Tournaments Confidence can Kill in Poker Published by Brian Cherry on Sep 16, 2010

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Today’s poker tips are about confidence and what it can do for poker players during hands of Texas Holdem. To be completely honest, while confidence is a wonderful thing, whether you are playing live poker or online poker, confidence can kill you. To be more specific, misplaced confidence can whittle a poker players bankroll down to nothing extremely fast.

There is nothing wrong with poker players having a healthy sense of self worth, but Texas Holdem is not like football, or most physical sports. These sports are muscle against muscle, speed against speed, agility against agility, etc. Confidence in one’s self is mandatory in these cases. Poker players playing live poker, online poker, or Texas holdem under just about any condition will find themselves facing many more x-factors than the aforementioned athletes. If you are a linebacker, you are going to care whether or not the running back to run a 4.3 forty, if you are in an online poker room or playing live poker at a casino, the deck won’t care about a poker players pedigree, their accomplishments, or what they think they can do during a Texas Holdem game. It will still stubbornly deal you bad hole cards. This is where, from a poker tips perspective, confidence can get you in trouble. Too many poker players get dealt bad cards and believe by the sheer power of their personal awesomeness, they can thread the needle and still win. This may work occasionally, but an over confident player who tries to play too often with bad cards eventually gets figured out by their opponents, and winds up losing money.

Where confidence for the Texas Holdem player should be is in their ability to read other players. This is obviously easier in live poker then it is when playing online poker, but the ability to read folks in cyberspace is something that can be learned, but those are poker tips for another day. While confidence can help the live poker and online poker player when it comes down to a decision about whether or not you perceive an opponent is bluffing, poker players who are more introspective about their game and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate their game will be more successful in the long run. A player who thinks they have reached their top form, and stop developing are headed for a fall.

This is just drive-by poker tips that have no real world examples, anyone who has watched the decline of Phil Hellmuth over the past few years will see what can happen to a player who thinks too much of themselves. He is a name in the sport because of his past, but he is no longer truly relevant as a competitor, and is not considered a threat to win any major titles. If Phil Hellmuth’s ego and over confidence can take a champion of his caliber to the land of mediocrity, it can happen to anyone.

That is the poker tips for today.