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POKER News

Stealing the blinds

Most of the chips won a tournament surely do come from big pots and some lucky hands, but the amount of them gained in small pots or stealing the blinds is equally important…or even more! There’s not much skill required when it comes to talk about playing AA preflop,...

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Thinking in ranges

One of the most thrilling moment in poker is then you claim out loud that your opponent has a given hand and it turns out to be right. That’s great, isn’t it? Not really. Likely, it’s just luck with a small cut of gut feeling. One of the most common mistakes, in fact,...

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How to become a better player?

Playing poker is a marathon and not a sprint. You’ll win and lose money along the way and it will make you slowly become a better player, gaining experience, wisdom and a better understanding of the flow of the games. Is there a way to accelerate this process making...

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Final table’s strategy

There you go! Eventually, after hours of hard playing, you have reached the final table! This tournament’s outcome might influence heavily your bankroll and it does not happen that often to be in the last 9 players around, so make sure you are about to extract the...

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Bubble play

When you reach the “bubble zone”, you definitely can consider yourself satisfied, despite it’s not time to cheer up yet. The bubble is a stage of a tournament when only 1-2 players do separate you from winning money out of the game; you are almost in the money, but...

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Why (almost) always bet on the river

Poker is about extracting value of out the hands. That’s the main reason to bet, therefore you always need to be focused and try to get the most out of any circumstance you have a decent hand to play with. One of the most common mistake is do not get enough value with...

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How to win versus a tilted player

It has already been explored how to handle tilt and what you should do if it happens to find yourself in a situation where you are no longer playing at 100% of your capacities. The topic, this time, will be instead how to get the most out of a titled opponent....

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Trust your gut feeling

Intuition is a key factor in poker. The game is not solved and a solid amount of your winnings certainly does come from experience and analytical abilities, but a cut of the cake depends on how good you are in reading the situations and your opponents. There are...

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Best online poker room in India

POKERSTARS

Everybody knows PokerStars. It’s the biggest and most famous poker website worldwide and now you can join the party and give a shot to the best tournaments ever scheduled.

Since April 2018 and following the regulation of the Indian online poker system, it opened its gates to the Indian players and it promises to deliver the best experience possible to poker enthusiasts.

THE SPARTAN POKER

TheSpartanPoker feels like home for Indian poker players. It’s good to know that there’s a place made by Indian people for Indian people where to play one of the best poker experience possible. As soon as the Country started to show interests in online poker, TheSpartanPoker applied for license and started to deliver a clean, smooth and entertaining poker journey to all the enthusiast around.

ADDA52

Adda52.com is one of the most known indian poker website and, as their mantra states, “go play” is their easy approach with online poker games.

Founded in 2011 it can count nowadays on over 1,000,000 players and it’s surely a solid rock in the Indian online games scene.

Is Online Poker Legal in India?

Yes. It is 100% legal and safe if you live in Goa, Sikkim, Daman and Nagaland regions. On a general picture, India is not the most friendly country when it comes to talk about heavy gambling, but online poker enthusiasts are safe to play on licensed Indian websites and the whole country is slowly moving ahead to find a common licenses’ system.

The Supreme Court stated that games “based on skill rather than luck” are not illegal.

Following this ruling playing online skill games like Rummy and Poker is clear as long as the websites providing the services have obtained a regular license for operating in India or at least in some of its regions.

Casino and some types of poker games such as cash game are, with the current regulation, not allowed, while sports betting, daily fantasy sports and mostly poker tournaments – sit and go and multi table – are spreading thanks to new opening by international major websites

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Let’s Learn Poker Rules

Poker is easy to learn, but hard to master. Poker Strategies are straightforward but every hand has its story to tell and can make or break your tournament.

What we are about to learn here is how an online poker game usually runs, which are the options a poker player has every hand step by step and the value of the cards and points that determines who’s taking the chips home and who’s leaving empty handed.

HOW TO PLAY POKER?
The deck is a full one, 52 cards, but how many people join an online poker game? It depends on the game mode but the most commons consider:

  • 2 people (one vs one), also called heads-up
  • 6 people, also called short handed table or 6-max
  • 9/10 people, regular full ring table
HOW DOES A GAME START?
Assuming we are playing a regular 9 people table, each player receives a card and the one who got the higher face value will be the “dealer”. The two players sat on the left of the dealer will be the “small blind” and the “big blind.” Blinds are mandatory and the amount is always fixed; the small blind will always be half of the value of the big blind.
POKER HAND RANKING
  1. Royal Flush An ace-high straight flush
  2. Straight Flush Five cards of the same suit ranked sequentially in order
  3. Four-of-a-Kind Four cards of the same numerical value
  4. Full House Three cards of the same numerical rank combined with two other cards of the same numerical rank
  5. Flush Five cards of the same suit
  6. Straight Five cards ranked sequentially in order regardless of suit
  7. Three-of-a-kind Three cards of the same numerical rank
  8. Two Pair Two cards of the same numerical rank and two other cards of the same numerical rank
  9. Pair Two cards of the same numerical rank
  10. High Card The card with the higher numerical value e.g. A high
HOW TO MAKE A POKER HAND?
The winner will be the player with the highest score using one or both his hole cards, in combination with the 5 community cards on the board. After the first player revealed his hand, the second one can muck, which means toss his hand away and concede the pot, or reveal his hand and claim the pot with an higher score.
HOW TO WIN AT POKER?
Playing poker is pretty simple. It’s just a sequel of actions and reactions, based on the strength of the hand hold by the players involved. Check, bet, call or raise will be soon part of your skills, among many other aspects, but for now just focus on these three points:

  • the hand starts when all the players have the cards and they begin the preflop actions (fold, bet or raise)
  • postflop action is split between flop, turn and river
  • there are two ways for winning: either showing the highest score or betting and force your opponents to fold

Now that we made clear how a poker game works, we can move ahead and dig deeper in the poker strategy.