PLAYING POKER

Playing poker tournaments at home can be fun and enjoyable for everyone. This simple easy to follow guide will get you on your way.

The closing of online poker sites to American players not only locked up players accounts and deprived them from their funds, it also stopped a form of entertainment. If our government were smart, they would make it legal and tax it.

Playing cards are probably the thing that gets the least attention in home games. Why would you want to skimp on the one item that defines the game you're playing? Poker is a game of cards, and choice in playing cards should be of utmost importance.

The Levels of Winning Hands; Advice to the Poker Novice

Tom McEvoy started playing poker at the age of 5 and turned to the game professionally in his 30s.

Among the trendiest poker rooms in all of Las Vegas, the Flamingo poker room is something of a tourist haven. For first time visitors to Las Vegas, this place is the perfect site to hone your poker skills in an environment that's relatively low pressure.

Of all of the places that I have visited on my trips to Las Vegas, there are only a few that I regret heading into. Most of the time, I find the poker play in Las Vegas casinos to fit my liking. This, however, was not the case when I visited the Riviera poker room.

Most people who enjoy poker have seen the movie Rounders, starring Matt Damon as the enthralling Matt McDermott and Edward Norton as the engaging best friend, Worm. In that movie, Damon's quest for poker greatness constantly revolved around getting to one place.

Much attention is given to the quality of play in Las Vegas poker rooms. These rooms, which hide in conspicuous enclaves of big time casinos, have long been home to some of the world's finest players. These days, the overall level of play has dropped dramatically.

When Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem won their respective WSOP titles Online poker enjoyed a massive run of unbelievable increases in players, profits and prestige.....

For those who partake in the never-ending expansion of online poker, here are a few of the more noticeable tells regardless of a player's chip stack.

Many different types of poker have different rules and styles of play, but they all have one thing in common. The hands you can get in poker will never change, as well as which hands beat other hands, so here you can check how the hands work.

Daniel Negreanu, known as the Poker Kid, was once the youngest bracelet holder in the World Series of Poker history. Since then, Negreanu has gone on to win millions in prizes, write pieces for poker magazines, and launch his own poker website.

Phil Ivey has been gambling since he was 16, so it's no wonder he took home his first World Series of Poker bracelet when he was only 24. Phil is only 30 years old and already considered the greatest poker player of all time.