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Odds Calculator

Every poker player wishes they could know what cards they are going to be dealt before putting their chips into the pot. An odds calculator can help you do just that. The calculator helps you to evaluate pot odds by determining the strength or weakness of all possible hands. In this article, we'll look at how calculators work and how they can help you become a poker winner.

There are separate odds calculators for poker available that include Texas Holdem, Heads up Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 7 Cards Stud Hi-Lo. Odds calculators can be especially helpful for Holdem novices. If you get a hand that you're not sure about, say pocket aces, then simply plug in several starting hands against pocket aces and the calculator will evaluate your advantage. Knowing the real odds can help you to determine what to do with the hand.

There's no reason to be intimidated by an odds calculator. They are as easy to use as typical mathematical calculators. The player simply inputs the necessary information about any particular hand into the calculator. The program will then determine the odds of winning the hand. The calculations are amazingly...
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Odds Calculator - pt2

An odds calculator can be like an ace up your sleeve. It helps you to calculate the odds of all possible hands so that you can make a better decision about what to do with your pocket cards. It can also direct your no limit Texas Holdem strategy during the all important flop. In this article, we explain how odds calculators work and how to use them effectively when playing Holdem.

There are separate odds calculators for poker available that include Texas Holdem, Heads up Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 7 Card Stud, and 7 Cards Stud Hi-Lo. Odds calculators can be especially helpful for Holdem novices. If you get a hand that you're not sure about, say pocket aces, then simply plug in several starting hands against pocket aces and the calculator will evaluate your advantage. Knowing the real odds can help you to determine what to do with the hand.

An odds calculator is very easy to use and there is no typing involved. Players simply drag the appropriate cards into place and click the "calculate" button. The calculator will then display both the percentage of hands won and the percentage of hands tied. Once you...
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The History of Boxer Dogs Playing Poker

Cassius Marcellus Clay, the wry commercial artist who gave the world dogs playing poker, was born in upstate New York in 1844. He was named after the abolitionist Quaker,Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, one of the most eloquent anti-slavery politicians of the antebellum South, Kentucky Sen.

Cash, as his friends and family would call him, had never received any formal art training. Though, by the time he was 20, he was a draftsman and frequently had his sketches featured in the local newspaper. A short time later, he had one of his drawings published in Harpers Weekly and subsequently came to be the inventor of "comic foregrounds", where tourists place their head through a hole in a painting, appearing to have a comical muscular body for photographs.

Coolidge caught the attention of the Brown & Bigelow Company in 1903. The commisioned him to create a series of comical paintings for their advertisin calendars. Dogs being one of his favorite subjects, Coolidge decided to create paintings of Mastiffs, Collies, Boxers, Great Danes, etc. participating in human activities. Dogs would smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and, most famously, sit around the table for a game of five-card draw.

To a dog,...
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World Series of Poker Mania

The popularity of the World Series of Poker gained tremendous
momentum from The Travel Channel's World Poker Tour showings.
Although the event had been showing for a number of years on
cable, when new technologies such as the table camera were used,
television watchers began getting involved in the hands as they
were being played.

Other advancements will also take place since the purchase of
the World Series of Poker (WSOP) from Binion's in 2004 by
Harrah's. They will need them because of the sheer increase in
the number of players entering the tournament. In 2003 when
Chris Moneymaker won the title and $2,500,000, there were 839
entrants. In 2004 Gregory Paul Raymer became champion after
defeating 2576 players and was rewarded with $5,000,000. For
2005, the WSOP will be estimated to have over 7500 players
hammering each other for a top prize of $6,000,000. And most
of these will come from Internet poker rooms. A significant
number of online poker rooms will host online tournaments to
sponsor seats to the WSOP main event with buy ins that are
far less than the $10,000 fee.

The Internet will be instrumental in tournament poker because of
the 24/7 availability to play large numbers of...
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The Main Attraction of the World Series of Poker
It is one thing to be playing cards in your neighbor's or friend's den but quite another to be involved in the World Series of Poker.

Tom Moore started the World Series of Poker in 1968 in Reno, Nevada.

Perhaps it is the money that is the key focus of the WSOP.

If you want to compete in the World Series of Poker, then you are going to have to hone your game skills.

He wanted to show other casinos and players that poker was a worthwhile venture. Up until this time, many casinos did not feature poker because they believed that it was too hard to control cheating. Perhaps it was but Benny Binion and his sons changed all that and helped catapult WSOP into the stratosphere of the elite gamers, with such games as Texas Hold Em and Five Card Stud.

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