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Poker Strategy - Easy Proven Strategy To Win You Money!
If you just started playing online poker or your just new to the game you may believe this is a game of luck or chance. If this is the case you are sadly mistaken. Poker is a game of strategy, skill and the most important ODDS.
If you want to become a winning poker player you must realize and become familiar with the importance of knowing all the different types of odds involved in a typical hand. Figuring out pot odds, win odds, chance of hitting, ect.
This takes a lot of precise mathematics and you need to know how to do it quick. Fortunately at the end of the article I'm going to let you in on a little secret that will calculate all these odds instantly.
What can I use poker odds for and what are they? To keep it simple, the are used to determine the "value" of a poker player hand. Also, it is simply referred to as the win:loss ratio. Typically poker odds are referred to as a percentage or a ratio.
Once familiar with poker odds they will affect every action you take such as a check, fold, call,...
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Texas Holdem Poker Legends
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the greatest No Limit Texas Holdem Poker player ever.
The three times World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and began playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of 14 the little poker maestro had turned professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real talent for playing poker but despite his successes in Texas holdem poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might some day be a better No Limit Texas Holdem player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin player.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map...
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