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POKER News

How to manage your sessions?

If you are playing online poker and you are winning big, nothing will stop you. You’d feel the smartest person around and every decision would come easier. When you are loosing big, everything looks darker and you cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. Is it...

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4bet

The four-bet (4bet) is the ultimate aggressive move, right before the all in. You can perform a 4bet either for value or in bluff, but you have to be very careful because when it comes to 4betting, the amount of your chips stack committed into the pot is dangerously...

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Preflop Raise

Well known fact: aggressive style does pay off in poker. Loose passive players, the ones who always call the bets and never show active interests in the hands expect when they do feel they are holding the strongest score, tend to lose most of their money. If it’s that...

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3bet or Three-bet

The Three-bet (or 3bet) strategy is one of the most important basics in poker because most fofo the money you will earn will likely come from big 3betted pots. What does a 3bet is? Technically speaking, a preflop 3bet is a play where someone re-raises against a raise...

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Bet sizing

As you likely already know, the best approach to your poker games is playing adopting an aggressive style. It leads to commit into many hands and pots, having often to decide the amounts of your bets, considering the effective stacks and the size of the pot. Bet...

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Continuation bet

The continuation bet, or cbet, is a strong move that might allow you to scoop the pot straight after the flop, regardless the strength of your hand, after having raised preflop. Why should I make a continuation bet? If you raise preflop you are showing some kind of...

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Poker taxation in India

Despite the Indian online poker regulation is still a bit cloudy even after the Supreme Court ruling that declared the poker games based on skill legal in the Country, the tax topic is instead pretty clear to follow and apply to avoid unpleasant surprises. Is poker...

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Bad Beat!

“It was just a bad beat”. How often have you heard or said this sentence? Likely too many. It’s always harder than what you think decide whether a single hand lost was or was not a bad beat and in most of the cases, “bad beat” is just an excuse for a clear or subtle...

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Odds and Outs

Ok, you have been told many times that poker is a game based on math and quick thinking (have you read our poker strategies for beginners?), before any bluff skill is required. It is true, but how does this apply to a concrete match? To understand how the math in a...

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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.