Seven-Deuce No Limit Hold’em Tables implemented at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker
One of the hottest variants of Texas Hold’em in the last years will be available on the sister sites of the Cereus network – Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker. The Seven-Deuce tables should start operating at 5:00pm ET on Sunday, August 2nd.
7-2 as hole cards is basically the worst hand in the book, but it also represents a great challenge for the poker player. The innovative tables at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will have every player contribute a side bet between 1.5 and 2x the big blind (depending on the size of the table). This side bet will be paid out to the player who wins a hand holding the infamous 7-2.
Ultimate Bet spokesman and pro Phil Hellmuth really likes this Hold’em variant. He enthused saying that: “The 7-2 side pot adds an adrenaline-pumping element to Hold’em that you need to experience to believe. I once bluffed Mike Matusow off of two kings with 7-2 as my hole cards. Everyone at the table was floored, but I was on top of the world after collecting $500 a man for pulling it off with the worst hand in poker. Now this awesome side pot game is available online at Ultimate Bet, and Hold’em will never be the same again.”
Why is Texas Hold ‘Em so Popular?
Poker has been around for hundreds of years. We all know that “Wild Bill” Hickock died at the poker table in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota), all the way back in the 1800s. What poker has never been, however, is nearly as popular as it is today with Texas Hold ‘Em. Even though the basic poker principals are the same, there are few styles of poker as exciting or engaging as Texas Hold ‘Em; why is that?
It’s simple, really: the fact that the majority of the cards are public, rather than private, information for the table is what makes the game of poker so unique. When the flop comes and three cards are up, it adds another psychological dimension entirely to an already psychologically complex game. Not only do you have to guess at what cards your opponents have, you also have to figure how the public cards relate to your hand and the opponent’s hand. Once the turn and the river come, the mathematics go completely wild and even more psychological complexity is added to the game. In addition, the public nature of the cards makes the game a very natural spectator sport, and since the game’s been on ESPN and all of the sports channels, its attendance has gone even higher.
It’s still a little inexplicable, though; the pros play Texas Hold ‘Em, but they also play all of the other styles of poker. The fact is, it may just be an accident of history. When the pioneers of online poker started the first real-money poker websites, they had absolutely no idea it would become so popular with not only the poker community, but also with mainstream sports fans. Now it’s a worldwide phenomenon, with millions of people playing online and in card rooms.
The United States government has even taken steps to shut down online poker, which should give you a hint at just how popular it is. Don’t worry, though, online poker companies have taken serious steps to make sure you can always online poker tournaments whenever and wherever you want. It’s extremely difficult to shut off the flow of money, and most online poker companies are protected by the laws of other countries outside of the United States. Various websites now offer free poker games to attract more players and give them some hands on experience before they start playing in real money tournaments. You can play Texas Hold ‘Em for as long as your heart desires as long as it stays popular, which it gives every indication of doing.
Goldman Sachs bets on legalization and regulation of online gambling industry in US
The reason? …
In a recent note to its investors the firm shows how, by using statistics from PartyGaming, it can be estimated that the existing poker market alone is capable of generating over $1.5 billion. Goldman Sachs says the total possible stake for the US, by maximizing gaming and revenue created, may be as high as $12 billion or more annually.
Can US really miss such a good pot?
Suited Connectors in SNGs
Suited connectors are usually highly playable hands in deep stacked cash games. As a matter of fact, suited connectors, together with small pocket pairs and suited one-gappers are some of the best implied odds starting hands. How do these implied-odds hands retain their value in SNGs though?
The answer to that is in short-stacked cash games. Since SNGs seldom give players the possibility to enjoy the advantages of a large stack, suited connectors will have the same value in them as in short-stacked cash games: not nearly as playable as in a deep stacked cash game.
The value in suited connectors is in the possibility of making either a flush or a straight. Such hands don’t come about nearly as often as one would like to, which means that you’ll have to invest a serious amount of chips into them, before you do make a good hand and get an opponent all-in to recover all your losses and to make some profit too.
Think like a pro
I always say: to win like a pro you must think like a pro, to think like a pro you must know what a pro thinks 🙂 … and what can you learn if the pro is also a legend? Let’s discover Doyle Brunson.
Here is an article published today on the hosted google news and written by Tim Dahlberg, a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg@ap.org if you like.
Poker legend Doyle Brunson comes from another era
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Being a poker legend in Las Vegas at this time of year means having your picture taken with a lot of different people. A lot of them have the same question for Doyle Brunson just before the click of the camera.
“People ask, `Did you ever have your picture taken in the old days?'” Brunson says. “I said, `Yeah I did, but they usually fingerprinted me afterward.'” |
Nobody’s looking to put Brunson behind bars these days. Quite the opposite.
He’s poker royalty at a time when poker defies economic chaos and keeps booming. He’s also somewhat of a poker conglomerate, with his own poker web site, a couple of how-to books, and even a virtual casino.
He was a star before television ever discovered the game, winning back-to-back World Series of Poker titles in the 1970s. He’s also one of the last remaining links to the roots of Texas Hold ‘Em as the 40th WSOP gets underway just off the Vegas Strip.
Most of all, though, the 75-year-old who got his start hustling cards in towns across Texas, is still a player.
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