Archive for: February 2008

The first step in your quest to become a world famous poker star is to learn the rules. A hold ‘em hand can be broken up into 6 distinct steps:

Setup
Preflop
Flop
Turn
River
Showdown

Setup
This step is just getting everything set up to play the hand. The dealer is different every hand - the responsibility moves clockwise around the table from player to player. The dealer of each hand doesn’t usually deal the cards himself; it’s just a position that’s marked by a disc that says “dealer’s button” on it. The players can pass the deck around each hand and deal from it, but usually there’s a full time dealer who takes care of that. From now on, when I refer to the “dealer” I mean the guy who has the dealer’s button that hand, not actually the card handler.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series has returned. Wednesday Feb. 6th marks the beginning of the seventh installment of Full Tilt’s huge series …

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Last week after a software upgrade, online poker players at Betfair Poker discovered a glitch that allowed a few players to get very rich playing Betfair’s Six …