I freaken love Patrik Antonius, he’d be one of my favourite poker pro’s, but this video series of Luigi and IDreamOfJenna playing 300/600 no limit holdem on Full Tilt is some of the sickest heads up action you’ll find floating online.  Check out our man Antonius (playing as Luigi) getting rheemed by IDreamOfJenna for a good half a mil in the space of 17 minutes.

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Pokerroom was one of the first online poker rooms which was offering the degenerate gamblers among us a chance to get 24 hour access to the felt.  They upgraded from play tables to the real deal in 2001.  Whilst PokerRoom certainly has tenure, it’s longivity in the poker community still bears some consideration.  Let’s take a look at the pro’s and con’s.

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Pokerstars is essentially the online poker gaming mecca.  It’s currently the largest poker room on the planet which sports huge, constant action in all stakes and across a wide variety of tournament and cash game poker.  It’s software is some of the sexiest in the industry, and forms the backbone of a poker site sponsoring some of the worlds best players, including Greg Raymer, and two of my personal favourites…Daniel Negreanu and Joe Hachem.  Is everything good at Pokerstars?  Let’s take a look at a detailed breakdown.

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Full Tilt Poker is one of the heavy hitters in online poker.  With high volume traffic it boasts a team of over 40 world-class poker pros, including big names such as Phil Ivey, Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson,  Erik Seidel, and Jennifer Harmon.  If you’ve made any foray into the world of online poker, you’d practically have to be living under a rock not to have heard about Full Tilt.  Is the hype deserved…

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So now we know what a poker table looks like, what position is, and how the flow of play occurs.  Obviously, we can’t win a showdown of Texas HoldEm without the best hand, and it helps to have a poker hand rank graph to make things a little easier.  In other words, it helps to know in texas holdem what beats what!

Let’s take a look at the hold em hand rank: 

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It’s only natural for any new card player to ask how to play hold em poker.  What most people really want to know however, is how do you play texas holdem well!  Don’t feel silly for asking either question, at some point all players had to learn the rules of poker.  We’re going to cover the basics in this post, and then I’ll show you some of the quickest ways to go from poker newbie to holding your own at the tables. 

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There’s a maxim that says in HoldEm Position is everything.  It holds true though for all forms of poker.  As a new player I remember not paying nearly enough attention to the difference position made in poker…I was too interested in the cards I held in my hand.  But eventually, if you’re going to make a go of hold em you’re going to want to understand poker table position.  For the moment, let’s take a brief look at how a poker table is set up, where you are in the action, and why it makes a difference.

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Welcome to Texas HoldEm Rules Poker!  This online blog is dedicated to the form of poker which has acted as the vehicle to bring our favourite card game (poker) into the spotlight and living rooms of people around the globe…that form has been Texas Holdem.  For those of us who appreciate all forms of poker, including Omaha, Stud, Razz, and other variants, this site will endeavour to cater to them all. Read the rest of this entry