Archive for May, 2009

May
20

It is very interesting to compare online casinos to land based casinos these days. With technology changing and advancing at rapid speeds online casinos are giving land based casinos quite a run for their money- literally.

While there will always be people that enjoy the fact that they have to travel to land based casino and actually have the physical element of sitting at table with cards handed to you or those that enjoy pulling the arm of a slot machine. There will always be those that simply do not have the time to make the trip and would much rather gamble from the comforts of their own home at an internet casino.

Other than travelling to casinos there are other elements to compare as well. Online casinos offer people the chance to experience all games without any wait at all. Because of the advances in technology people that want to play at a certain game at an online casino can do so instantly.

Online casinos also have the opportunity to launch new games much more often than that of land based casinos. If the games that are new are popular the casino will keep them, if they do not experience as much traffic they can simply be replaced with others.

There will always be an element of planning a trip to Las Vegas and enjoying those land based casinos and all the other attractions that they have to offer but online casinos are really picking up and win over land based casinos in the eyes of many avid gamblers. The online casino promotions are often far more visible than at land based casinos which helps to make internet gaming much more fun and exciting.

May
14

Stop wasting time searching for the best tournament around, read this review and you will know exactly what to do. First of all, there are 2 types of poker tournaments, considering the players that participate to the event.

Some poker tournaments have quite big entry fees; those are for big players, people that can afford to loose a lot of money, or people who earn their leaving by playing poker. For this type of players all we can do is provide some links to updated lists of tournaments, allowing them to choose the tournament that best suits them. It is quite hard to offer this kind of player new info since they pretty much know all the theories that exist so far. All they need now is a little bit of luck.

Then we have the fresh players, that have little or no experience at all. Some of the most important things these players have to know are written in the previous posts. For a short review of the advices:

  1. Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose.
  2. Divide your betting money into at least 20 bets, you don’t want your game to stop in just a few minutes.
  3. Before winning, think of minimising the losses, more than 50% of the hands will be lost, make sure you have the winning hand before you start raising. If your not sure, just drop, will get other chances.
  4. Use a poker odds calculator, but before trusting the software you should learn it, test it well so you can understand how good does that software simulate the real possibilities of a poker hand.
  5. When playing online make sure you have chosen the best payout rate, we have an earlier review about high payout rate casinos.
  6. Try to take advantage of the casinos promotions, we provided a list of no deposit bonus offers.

There are many orther things we could add up to the list but this review about something else. It is about the best online poker tournament. You can choose the best tournament considering two different criteria:

  • considering the zero buy-in tournaments, choose the one that has the biggest prizes. Zero buy-in tournament means you dont have to pay anything to participate, this way you get a chance to the real money prizes, at no risk. Be careful though, the bigger the prize the more experienced your opponents will be. The easiest tournament is the one that has the smallest final prize. Dont neglect it, it’s free money after all.
  • considering the final prize, you cand find special tournaments where only beginners can enter, with very small entry fees, under 5$, with important prizes, meaning tousands of $ in return. All you have to do is beat everyone…

Our choyces about the sites that give you information on new tournaments are:

Tournament Monitor

Poker Stars

Poker Junkie

Poker Listings