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A few days back I introduced you into the wonderful world of Pot Limit Omaha.
Today I’ll teach you how to play 7 Card Stud.

Texas Holdem and Omaha are some kind of similar games, with 5 community cards on the table. Only big difference is that instead of 2 cards in your hand, you’ll be holding 4 cards.

In stud, you’ll don’t get any community cards, but you can see 4 cards of your opponents 7 hand cards. Best 5 of these cards win, just like in Texas Holdem.
The game starts with 3 cards dealt to each player. These 2 cards will be dealt, face down, 1 face up, also starts the first betting round.
The next 3 cards will be dealt face up, so every other player can see them and between every face card, there will be a betting round also. The final card will be dealt face down again and includes the last bets.

After all betting rounds are completed, the players can put them into the showdown.

As said before, variation of games is good for the continuous growing process you’ll need to becom a top notch poker player. Maybe 7 Card stud is the game for you to try?

A Royal Flush is the best you can get in poker. With this hand you got the NUTS for sure.
I’m one of those players, that never got a Royal Flush so far, but today I received something far more better than a Royal Flush.

My girlfriend just gave birth to our second child, a son called Tristen. A Royal Flush doesn’t even come near to the value of what I got today.
Everything went allright, son is in good shape, with 3180gr and 48,5cm, starting to eat well. Also my girlfriend is fine also, she did a hell of job getting him out.

You’ll never hear me say that giving birth to a baby is easy, I’m so proud of her and Tristen.

So in the next couple of days, private life is priority nr1 and we’ll see how it goes with playing online again. Hope to be in time for the SCOOP Event, still have a ticket won with the WCOOP that has to be cashed

Goodnight all!

The most played poker game still is Texas Holdem, but it’s fun to play other poker games also. I found out that it will actually improve your regular poker game.

Sometimes you’ll be playing and playing and playing, that you’ll get tired of playing and this will infect your game in the bad sense. So what do I do if I feel this is coming up, I’m switching card games.
One of them is Omaha, limited or not.

How to Play Pot Limit Omaha?
First of all, Omaha is almost the same as Texas Holdem, except you’ll be getting 4 handcards instead of 2 and 2 cards in your hand will be counted into your 5 best cards after the river.

What’s the big difference with Texas Holdem I hear you ask? Well Omaha is more a drawing game. You can have the best startinghands possible, but with the many possibilities of draws that can be made after the flop, this can change in just a draw. I can have the worst hand after the flop and on the Turn I could be in the lead, so fast it can change.

So with Pot Limit Omaha, if you’re holding good starting hands, always raise to the max you can pre-flop. Scare off others as soon as possible.
After the flop, you can take a look what everyone is doing and decide to bet or not. If you made your hand even better, again bet, don’t just call, raise instead. The lesser people on the river the more chance you’ll have to win. Three Aces are losing from a straight if you play against 359K with AJ2Q4 on the table, you don’t want your opponent to hit the nuts at the river.

On the other hand, if you’re having bad starting hands, they could be very profitable for you after the flop. So try to see the flop as much as possible if you can, who knows what shows up.

Since a few months, Full Tilt poker introduced a new revolution in poker with Rush Poker.

For those who don’t know what Rush Poker is, here’s a short explanation.
Instead of a normal ring game, you’re playing against more than 100 opponents. In the low stakes a Rush Poker game can exist of 400 to 600 users.
Don’t get me wrong, it isn’t a tournament, but you’ll be seated at a table together with others and as soon as you quick fold, fold or end the hand, you’ll be seated at another table with other opponents waiting for cards.

The name Rush Poker is the right name for this kind of game. The first time I played it I was thinking what the hell??? This game’s so freaking fast. You’ll be playing around 250 hands an hour which is much more than a normal ring game.
This also implicates that you could win or lose your money faster.

So what tactics should you apply in this kind of game?

With the fact that you’re playing so many hands per hour, you should be aware that just calling isn’t the right move. 4 times out of 5 there’s always one player that will raise the BB. So if you’re going to enter in the pot, make a raise instead of just a call.
This also means that if you want to be successful in Rush Poker, you’ll won’t be playing hands like 7 2 of 8 4, …
Don’t get me wrong, you can play them occasionally, but mostly you’ll be playing tight.
My experience is that everyone that enters the pot is having a decent hand to play, so with a bad flop for good hands you can take a swing for the pot. You should only have to watch out for the blinds if there was no pre-flop raise. They could hold any cards for nothing.

So whenever you’re holding good cards, make a raise. I prefer to raise 3x the BB and mostly play just against 1 other player, which raises my chance of winning the pot. Depending on the flop I always make another raise to see what my opponent will do. Only if the flop is really in my disadvantage, I check.

I also try to get as much out of the pot as possible, no matter if I get the ‘nuts’ on the flop or not. It hurts to see everybody fold if you’re holding one of the best hands at the time, but when someone does decide to gamble, you’ll be winning big. This is why I also find it necessary to play tight.

If I’m on the blinds I mostly call a small raise, even when I’m holding deuce seven. I only do this for seeing the flop, if I hit big, I can wheel in a lot more cash and I won’t be hitting my head at the time I folded 4J for a few cents, with a J4J flop.

I only can say, try Rush Poker on Full Tilt, see if it’s a game for you, because I can imagine that the fastness of the game isn’t playable for everyone. I can only say that I really like it and that I find it much easier to win money then in normal ring games.

In normal ring games, 70% of the times I leave the table with more cash than entering. In Rush Poker I currently have a 85% winning percentage. Also, I win more at a time than when I’m playing a normal ring game.

There’s only 1 important rule I learned not to ignore: Whenever I’m under half my initial stack, I leave the game to cut my losses and keeping me on my bankroll management.
This could be overly careful of me, but it’s a rule I pushed myself into after a few losses that where completely my own fault. I saw that when I lost more than the half of my stack, I played too loose en was making stupid calls. I was under the impression that I could bluff out my opponents, but got hit in the face. So to avoid this I told myself to stop at 50% of my initial stack.

For leaving the table with winnings, I have an almost identical rule, whenever I win 50% of my stack, I prefer to leave the game. But it happens often that I don’t do it, because I’m keep getting big hands and keep on winning. This is risky, because you could again be playing much looser and could make wrong calls as being one of the big stacks and try to fold you’re opponent with big raises. If they don’t, you’re losing that precious earned cash. So quit while you can then

See you at the Rusk Poker tables on Full Tilt!!!