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Gambling Strategy Poker Strategy
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
Nov 28, 2006
About the game of poker:
The game of poker is on of the most popular card games
in gambling. It is categorized in the vying games in
which all the players make the wagers in a central pot.
The players have either fully or partially concealed
cards during the course of a hand. The players holding
the best hand at the end of the betting is the winner.
During a given betting round, each remaining player in
turn may check, bet or raise, call or fold. The betting
process usually proceeds in a circle until each player
has either called all bets or folded. However the number
of betting rounds in a game depends upon the nature of
the game, as different poker games have various numbers
of betting rounds interspersed with the receipt or
replacement of cards. The game is usually played with a
standard 4 suit 52-card deck with an addition of a joker
or a wild card in rare cases. Poker has in general 9
types of hands for showdown namely the straight flush
also called a royal flush, Four of a kind, full house,
flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair and
high card.
Poker gambling strategies:
The rules for most of the popular poker games like Texas
Holdem, Omaha Hold'em, 7 Card Stud, Omaha High Low,
Seven Stud Hi Lo, & 5 Card Stud are more or less the
same. The winning strategies are those that are being
employed by the champion players and the experts on each
of the games. A very big advantage of poker is that the
game offers good players a way to consistently
win in public casinos and poker rooms. This is mainly
due to the fact that poker is the only game of all the
gambling card games where the player does not have to
compete against the house. In this game the house makes
the profit through the rakes, which is a small
percentage of the bets. One important thing to consider
in the winning strategy of poker is the relationship
between the pot odds and the odds of winning. This means
that a player should be aware of the pot odds that are
the ratio
of the size of the bet required to stay in the pot to
the size of the pot.
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