Online poker training with Pros from Full Tilt Poker Academy
Take advantage of the Online Poker Training with the Pros from Full Tilt Poker Academy!
One very important aspect of poker is education. In order to win (more) in playing online or live poker cash games or tournaments, it is important for you to keep working on and improving your poker skills. That is why I want to encourage you to take advantage of the online poker lessons and trainings available at Full Tilt Poker Academy.
The imporance of good poker training or education just cant be emphasised enough. As you know, poker is a game of skill, which simply means the following thing:
Winning poker players wins money from losing players in the long run. Yes, losing players can still get lucky in the short run, but that luck even itself out eventually. When that happens, losing players are left only with their bad decisions and leaks in their poker game.
Losing player’s game is not profitable and the longer they play, more money they lose to winning players. These winning players make less mistakes, which is especially important in times when lady luck turns her back on them. In those times, winning players will lose much less money than weaker players.
Your primary goal in poker should therefore be to become one of the winning poker players. And this is exactly where poker education (such as training videos or audio poker books for example) comes handy:
It helps you become a winning poker player (or in case you already are a winning player: it helps you win more)!
Poker training is especially crucial in case you are just starting out with online or live poker games (like No-limit Texas Hold’em for example)! Same goes in case you are already playing poker for some time now, but are losing money in the long term.
This is simply because education is the only way you will become a winning poker player or get from losing to winning player. That is why I suggest you to visit Full Tilt Poker Academy and start working on your game as soon as possible!
You can learn anything from NL Texas Holdem to Omaha poker games from Thirty-two (32) different professional poker players, who share their winning poker strategies and tactics with you in forms of videos and podcasts!
The Poker Academy is free to join, all you need is FTP account and some time to invest in your poker education. That is it for now. If you have something to add, then please leave it in the comments below!
Online poker is not the only form of online gambling
It has been a while since poker has become very popular online. Much has happened and changed since the online poker boom that occured between 2001 and 2005. For instance, more and more people have become part of the online poker show and as a result, more online poker sites have opened their virtual rooms to fill the need and give players the opportunity to play poker online, in the comfort of their own homes.
Obviously, online poker is not the only form of online gambling. There are many other ways that you can gamble online. Most probably, you have heard of at least some of them. Perhaps you have already tried them out too. If so, then you can tell me about your experience in the comments below if you wish.
Before I go and tell you about some of the gambling forms that are available on the internet, let me get back to online poker for a second.
Back then when I started with online poker (it was somewhere in year 2006), the poker was still on horizon. The number of online poker players was much lower than it is today. Ofcourse, some of them have already been playing as professional back then, but that number was much lower than it is today.
The same goes for online poker rooms. Some of them have been alive and kicking already. As I can recall, the biggest and most popular among them in that time was PartyPoker. The rest of the poker sites were very small in terms of market share and the number of online poker players that they attracted.
But as the time went on, the big PartyPoker lost its market share to other competitors such as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Perhaps cutting off players from United States of America had something to do with it?
To get back to other forms of online gambling: Online gambling sites have also been involved in a boom of their own. They have grown in number as well as in popularity among the players. This trend was noticed by many poker rooms as well. Many of them have complemented their online poker tables with online casino tables (PartyPoker is one example of that).In addition, poker players (and others) were now given an opportunity to try games like slots machines, blackjack, roullete, craps and video poker that were previously only available offline or in the real world.
I am going to let you decide for your yourself whether online gambling is a good thing or not, whether it is profitable or not (I can only tell you about poker: It is profitable if you have the necessary skills).
Me personally, I do not gamble a lot. Perhaps once or twice a year, so I am not really experienced in such things. But I did find a nice online casino gambling guide, which has lots of interesting information on online gambling in case you need it.
As always, make sure to stay in touch with me and good luck at the poker tables!
High Stakes Poker TV Poker Show: Season 6
In case you like to watch high stakes NL Texas Holdem cash games on TV (like I do, for instance), then this will definitely be something of interest to you: TV Poker show High Stakes Poker season 6 is being broadcasted on GSN on February the 14th!
Hopefully the episodes will soon be available on the internet as well (for those of us who cant watch NBC TV channel)! According to the information in the video interview below (CPTV Poker Buzz) the season 6 is going to be worth watching for sure! Here is why:
The poker players involved in High stakes Season 6
This season’s lineup of poker players that will be playing in the show is pretty amazing (as usual I would say)! Lots of players have already participated in High Stakes Poker TV Show before. This includes professional poker players and celebrities like Daniel Negreanu, Phill Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Tom Dwan, Patrick Antonius, Mike Matusow and Gus Hansen.
We are going to see italian poker player Dario Minieri that has already played before (season 5 of High Stakes Poker). According to Wikipedia he is pretty much an online poker heads up specialists that plays online under the nickname »Dariominieri« and is also part of the Team PokerStars as well.
The blinds and the buy-ins
All players are going to be playing with their own money. Blinds are the same as in season 5 I think ($300/$600, antes: $200). This means big pots happening almost for sure and some of the players are going to get stacked pretty certainly.
In case Phill Hellmuth gets sucked out badly at least once, I am pretty much sure he will end up among the losing players. But ofcourse, lets wait and see. What about you, who do you think will be this season’s winners and losers?
Anyways, the minimum buyin is $200,000, but there is no limit to how much certain player can buyin for from that point up.
Other things worth mentioning
There has been some changes regarding commentators in the show. As you know, in previous seasons of High Stakes Poker, the hosts were Gabe Caplan and A.J. Benza. In this season though, Gabe Caplan co-host will be Kara Scott.
She will be interviewing players away from the tables through out the whole show with the intention to provide viewers insights into what strategies certain players are using and why. I do not know her from before, but obviously she is well known in the poker world as a professional poker player as well as poker commentator.
To sum it up: The show is by my opinion surely going to be very interesting to watch as well as learn new NL Texas Holdem things from the best players in the world! Do not forget to watch the below video interview about High stakes poker season 6 for more information about this TV Poker Show, which includes some interesting interviews with producers of High Stakes Poker and co-host Kara Scott:
So, what do you think, who is going to win money this year and who is going to lose it? I am really eager to know, so please leave it in the comments below : )
Online Poker Freeroll Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker
A couple of days ago I involved myself in my own Chris Ferguson bankroll challenge with a goal to build myself a nice bankroll of $10,000 starting with no money at all. So far I have already played a couple of online poker freeroll tournaments and will continue to do so until I win some money.
From then on my goal is to grind my way up by playing micro & low stakes online poker games. Hopefully getting into the money in the freerolls will happen soon, even though I had no success by now.
As you know, the online poker room I started to play freerolls on is Full Tilt Poker. This is mainly because I feel comfortable with the poker site and it attracts lots of online poker players as well, which means more weak players for me to beat once I get my bankroll rolling. To give you a better feel: at peak time there are over 100,000 players are logged in.
I have actually been playing poker on Full Tilt before, but it was never freerolls. So the first thing I had to do in terms of my Ferguson’s poker challenge was to make a research on what freeroll poker tournaments are available for me to join in. Here is what I discovered:
Full Tilt Poker Freeroll tournaments
Full Tilt Poker has lots of freerolls for me to join. Their website states that they have over 900 freerolls per month with a total prize pol of $85,000. That simply means I will have no problems with finding myself online freeroll to play (and win hopefully).
Daily online poker freeroll tournaments
Especially interesting for me are FTP’s daily freeroll tournaments. Full Tilt has twenty-four (24) daily freeroll poker tournaments open for every one to join. That means new freeroll tournament every hour! I think this is great because it provides me with lots of attempts.
If I get kicked out of the tournament quickly, I can still join another one if I want to and thus increase my chances of getting into the money as well.
The prize pools for these daily online poker freerolls stay pretty much the same throughout the whole day. You can:
- win a ticket or entry to Weekly Freeroll (where the prizepool is $1,000) hour in 12 tournaments per day or/and
- get yourself a share of $150 prizepool in 12 tournaments per day as well.
Other freeroll tournaments on Full Tilt Poker
Ofcourse, there are many other freerolls as well going on at Full Tilt Poker. Some of them are restricted and thus limited to only certain players (country specific freerolls, poker magazine freerolls and so on), but there are other interesting freerolls available as well, especially around big events, such as FTOPS XV.
For instance, I just registered to a freeroll named »FTOPS Warm up Freeroll«, where the first 200 players (so far 41,000 players are registered out of 60,000 possible) get an entry or ticket to the »FTOPS Turbo Warm up« (buy-in for tournament is $5.5).
The total prizepool for »FTOPS Turbo Warm up«, which btw starts on Sunday, February 7th at 13:45 ET, is $250,000 guaranteed and is limited to 50,000 players. Very good tournament I would say, especially if you manage to win it. On top of that, the winner also gets an entry to the FTOPS XV Main Event, worth $535!
As you can see, the Full Tilt Poker has a big selection of freeroll online poker tournaments as well! The only problem I see is the number of players that register to this freerolls. They get filled up to 10,000 players pretty quickly, which means I will have to be very persistent and willing to play a freeroll for three hours and more to get into the money.
That is it for now. Have fun and see ya around! : )
How to play Rush Poker: Basics and Tips from Howard Lederer
Find out about the basics of Rush Poker and read the Tips on how to play Rush Poker from Howard Lederer!
As you know, Full Tilt Poker has just recently launched a new way of playing online poker. It is called Rush Poker and I have already mentioned a couple of things about it in my previous post. Since this kind of online poker games are becoming more and more popular every day, more and more players are interested in how to play Rush Poker profitably.
If this is the case with you as well, then you should definitely read this blog post as it will provide you with some general guidelines or tips for playing Rush poker. It also includes a link to Howard Lederer’s article about this new way of playing online poker.
Anyways, because of its novelty, not much has been said, written and published about how to play these online poker games yet. So far, the only poker player who has written a couple of useful tips for Rush Poker is Howard Lederer (The Poker Professor).
You can read Howard Lederer’s tips by clicking on the following link: The Basics of Rush Poker
To continue with the basics: Before you rush out and involve yourself in these kind of online poker games, you should know that Rush Poker is different from standard online or live poker games in the following aspects:
You are up against large pool of players
Your opponents will be selected from the pool of up to 2000 players. This means you are not playing just against 6 or 9 players like in standard ring games, but instead you are facing new poker players basically every new hand.
The importance of table image is thus reduces significantly, but it is still advisable to observe your opponents and how they play online poker.
Time waiting for new hand is reduced massively
Whenever you fold a hand, you are instantly moved to another table and you instantly get dealt another hand. That means no waiting for the table to finish the current hand.
You get to play a lot more hands in the same period of time. According to Howard Lederer’s article, Rush poker allows you to play 300 hands per hour instead of 80 as in normal online poker games.
In the past, you could only achieve this with multitabling (playing more than one table at the same time), but not any more obviously. Ofcourse, you can still multitable on two different limits and play 600 hands per hour with just two tables!
You still pay for the blinds
Perhaps you are thinking something like this: I will only play big hands (like AA and KK) and will fold anything else. Well, you can do that ofcourse, but do not forget that you will still be paying for the blinds.
Do not relly only on the monsters pre-flop. Go out there and steal some blinds in Rush Poker as well, especially when you are in middle and late positions.
Get more Rush Poker Tips from Howard Lederer
To get more Tips about how to play and adjust yourself to Rush Poker games, make sure to read the article from Howard Lederer that I already mentioned above. Here is the link: The Basics of Rush Poker
With that said, I am really interested in what you think about Rush Poker. What is your experience with this game format? What do you like about it and what you dont like about it? Do you make more money with it or this game is not profitable for you?
Please, leave your reply in the comments below. Thanks and good luck at the poker tables!
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