Don’t listen to conspiracy theorists

I get a little bit sick and tired of listening to people harp on about how online poker cannot be beaten. If this were true then there wouldn’t be such things as online professionals who do it for a living would they? But no, wait a minute……I must be making that up! After all here I am working for 777 which obviously has an interest in promoting gambling and poker. Well let me make one thing absolutely clear, if you trawl back through my blogs then you will see that I have only been blogging on here for a relatively short while and I have been a poker writer for six years. So in that time I have met, spoken with, interviewed and seen many players who have or do play the game for a living. I mys Read full post…

Mummys Gold Online Casino Offering Blackjack Tourneys

Online players will find some interesting blackjack tournaments at Mummys Gold Casino at the moment.

Players who are new to blackjack or online tournaments will appreciate the Free-roll Blackjack tournament that is taking place at the casino as it will assist them in getting familiar with the concepts of the game without having to pay an entry fee. As this is a Free-roll event the prize pool is very small and an amount of $50 will be shared by the top four players on the leader board with $20 going to the top winner and the following three winners receiving $15, $10 and $5 respecively.

The Freeroll Blackjack tournament at Mummys Gold online casino is played over three rounds.

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Poker as a career is closer than what you think

You certainly do not need to be Tom Dwan or Phil Ivey to make money playing poker and to turn it into a career. My most successful periods have come during the past twelve months when I stopped trying to be some sort of big shot and started concentrating on the forms of poker which I liked the best and felt that I could control. Thus my main level these days is NL100 full ring of which I multi-table them. I sometimes stray into NL200 games but because my main game is full ring then there is far less action at these games than in six max games. However you as the player have certain advantages at your disposal in your quest to play poker for a living. Firstly the sites themselves offer new players sign up bonuses and rakeback. Read full post…

Blackjack Player Takes Casino for Nearly $6 Million

High-stakes games are risky. That is why they have the name “high stakes.” They are risky for the player, who has a chance of losing a great deal of money. They are also risky for the casino, who stands to lose a lot of money if the player wins. Generally speaking, there is more risk on the player because of the house edge, but sometimes they come out on top. For an Atlantic City casino, a risky business strategy recently backfired, with one blackjack player taking them for almost $6 million.

The Tropicana Casino and Resort was looking for a way to boost business. CEO Mark Giannantonio came up with the idea of offering high-stakes blackjack games and heavily promoting those games. For

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Raising with a Drawing Hand

Your average, run-of-the-mill poker strategy suggests that you see cards as cheaply as possible with drawing hands. The obvious thinking behind this strategy is that you don’t want to waste money on a non-made hand. But if you’ve ever seen some of the aggressive  high stakes players like Viktor “Isildur1” Blom  and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies play, they don’t exactly stick to pot odds with drawing hands.

Instead, players like Blom and Sahamies raise quite frequently with drawing hands in hopes of adding more money to the pot and/or making opponents fold. Of course, you

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