Month: March 2021

Poker is a game of discipline, strategy, intuition, skill, and like most other games, it requires a little bit of luck and a lot of patience. The poker game is usually played with a pack of four or ten players, although it can be played with as many people as you like. Usually no more than three or four players play a specific round. The first round of the game is called the pre-flop round. In this round each player can choose to discard from the top of his or her hand two cards in hopes of drawing a better card to improve the hand. After this round of betting the dealer deals three community cards face up on the table face up. This is known in poker lingo as…

Playing heads-up is the closest you'll ever get to feeling like you're playing Russian roulette with Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. There might not be a gun to your head, but going toe to toe at the poker table is a high pressure situation. And if you can't conquer this aspect of the game then there's no chance that you'll be able to pull off your dream win, like American Chris Moneymaker. Moneymaker busted opposition out through a number of online satellite tournaments on his way to winning the Las Vegas summer series Main Event in Vegas in 2003, scooping $3.6 million when he knocked out his last opponent on the final table. Neither Moneymaker nor this year's winner, Australian Joe Hachem, had played in major US tournaments before…