When playing poker at fulltiltpoker.com there will often be someone around a table who seems a lot more loose and wild with the calls and raises they make.

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There can be a fine line between extreme aggressive play, and suicidal non stop raising, you are going to get called by a hand eventually after all.

The thing is with poker at www.fulltiltpoker.com, you don’t have to play this way every single hand to create a loose image, you just need to do so visibly and at little cost to yourself. One way to do this is advertising bluffs. This is somthing I like to use, in live play particularly you can do it maybe once or twice before making sure you show a hand on the next occassion.

One of the verteran great players of poker at fulltiltpoker.com used to show loose tendancies in extreme forms. ‘Crazy’ Mike Caro, was known for sitting at five card draw tables, raising and standing pat with the worst cards imaginable, then checking and showing his cards.

With the right sort of demeanour about you, your opponents are going to either think you are drunk, mad, or incredibly foolish, but the point is, when you get dealt the next few strong hands, you will recoup that small loss many times over from the action you will get.

It is fair to say that playing online poker like this for a short spell early in a game will knock players out of their usual controlled styles, and get them making calls they wouldn’t normally dream of. The profit in such play should come when you suddenly tighten up and make sure you show people made hands when they decide to call you.

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There are many instances at pokerroom where you have to deal with a mediocre flop, an (A,J) or (A,Q) turning into middle pair on the flop for instance.

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If you are first to act then personally I would put in a strong raise. If your opponent can reraise you, then I would think there is a good chance you are beaten and I would be rather inclined to fold here. If your opponent flat calls then you have some thinking to do going to the turn at pokerroom.com.

You may make a set or two pair here if you are lucky, but if not it is a careful choice between checking then letting the hand go, or firing out again, but always trust your reads of course. If you are second to act on the flop and your opponent makes a small to middle sized bet then I think a reraise will tell you all you need to know about where you stand, and maybe win you the pot at www.pokerroom.com too.

Everyone plays online poker differently but I like to ask the question of my opponent about how strong their hand is, rather than get asked it yourself and have no answer. When it comes to middle pairs in the pocket preflop, I would certainly look to get involved but don’t think this is an extremely strong hand. If you end up all in preflop you are likely to be somewhere close to fifty fifty at best, and if your opponent has a pocket over pair you are in big trouble.

I would get into the pot fairly cheaply if possible and look to either make a set or fold the hand on the flop, read pending. If you are short stacked while playing at pokerroom and need to take a chance soon, then this is an ok hand to go all in with. 50% to win when the blinds are soon going to eat you up anyway isn’t terrible odds, but let your judgement guide as much as anything else.

If you really feel your opponent is strong preflop then you can still fold. Because going up against a bigger pocket pair really isn’t something you want to be doing, no matter how many chips you have left while playing at pokerroom.com.

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Having any sort of pkr.com game with 9 cards dealt to you is probably not something most are familiar with, but many different sub games of poker have been developed over time and I thought I would share this particular game with you, as it is one which is played and enjoyed locally by myself and others.

We simply refer to the game as "9 card" and it basically involves each player (5 maximum) throwing a small coin (10p in our case) into the pot, being dealt their 9 cards, and arranging them into the best possible, separate, 3 card hands.

The www.pkr.com hand rankings are as follows and run along the same lines as 3 card poker, the top hand is 3 of a kind followed by the straight flush, then the straight, then the flush, then a pair and highcard, interestingly though in our game if you are dealt 4 of a kind in your 9 cards, you win instantly unless someone has a higher 4 of a kind.

The 4 of a kind being dealt doesn’t happen often though and usually the poker players will arrange their cards into a best, a second best, and a worst 3 card hand, and lay them on the table face down, then the players take turns to show their pkr poker best hand.

Whoever wins the best hand then turns over their second best, they must win this also to have a chance at winning the pot, then if they win that second hand, they turn over their final and weakest hand. If they beat everyone on all 3 hands they take the money, if someone beats them on their second or third hand, they have been "blocked" and another coin goes into the pot from each pkr.com player, and another hand is played, with the online poker pot building up each hand until someone wins all 3 of their hands and the pot with it.

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When looking at the earliest origins of poker there are many different games to look at, some of which, only fragments or pieces of scriptures from hundreds of years ago remain to this day, so it is difficult to provide a definitive answer to the question of where poker began, we can however take a close look at the various influences which moulded poker into the game it is today.

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The earliest recordings of anything resembling poker are records of chinese emperor Mu Tsung playing ‘domino cards’ with his wife around 1,000 years ago and in Egypt fragments of painted tablets have been found which may have been used in some kind of game too.

To find any solid evidence of a game played with some sort of cards and hand rankings we have records of a game called ‘As Nas’ in the Persian empire being played with 25 cards in the deck and established hand rankings which characterises the game as having some strong poker elements involved.

Around the time of the 18th to 19th century games using cards had spread across europe with many different symbols depicting suits such as acorns and shields amongst others, but it was in France that the modern day suits of hearts,clubs,spades and diamonds were first used in a game called ‘Poche‘, and from France, settlers in Canada went on to bring the game over to the continent with them. French Canadian settlers some years later are said to have founded New Orleans and of course the game of Poche or, poker as it is now known came with them, from there on the game was played on a large scale on the riverboats travelling up and down the mississippi and spread from there across the rest of America.

These days poker has become a much loved game and is played across the world with many different variations we now know well like, Omaha and Stud, 5 card draw and Holdem, and it can be assumed that the game will develop other variations in the coming years too, but for now the most played game is Holdem, and from small beginnings in the Persian empire and it’s subsequent consolidation in France it has become one of the greatest games known to man.

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