Top 5 Online Poker Rooms, Online Casinos & Online Sportsbooks

Here is my list of the Top 5 Online Poker.

#1 - FullTiltPoker WDIAV Readers Choice Award
#2 - Ultimate Bet One poker room you know you can trust.
#3 - Bodog Calvin Ayre - need we say more?
#4 - Poker Stars Largest online poker room in the world.
#5 - Cake Poker Up and comer that we really like.

Top 5 Online Casinos

#1`Golden Casino Great Software
#2 BodogLife Casino Calvin strikes again.
#3 Spin Palace One of the oldest online casinos
#4 7 Sultans Casino Part of the Fortune Group
#5 Vegas Slots Casino JUST for the slots players

Top 5 Online Sportsbooks

#1 SportsBook.com One of the biggest and great bonuses.
#2 Bodog Sports Calvin for the 3rd time?
#3 WagerWeb If you want to bet it, they have it.
#4 BetUS Canadian company that has been around a long time.
#5 Diamond Sports Great sportsbook to work with.

These are IMHO the best of the best. Hope the list helped you.

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Playing Advice for Beginning and Advanced players.

Always remember to be patient and play solid hands. You have most likely heard the miracle stories about sheep sensing stuff before it happens, or animals acting weird or behaving weird before major events happen. Your gut feeling or intuition can be your best friend if you trust in it, trust it and listen to it.

If you are a player that doesn't get caught in bluffs early on, it makes it that much easier to bluff a win once the pot is larger in the later rounds.

HOW TO WIN TEXAS HOLDEM POKER ....minutes to learn, life time to master. If I told you every critical decision in casino poker was actually an easy decision would you believe me? For the majority of people they will never be able to tap into there gut feeling or will never be able to know when they hear it or feel it, this is because in order to hear and listen your gut feeling you need to have balance in your mind and body, you need to have emotional control over yourself, you need to be in touch with your feelings. Bluffing, this is a big part of the game.

The more players at the table, the riskier it is to go all-in. Your mind is a powerful database more powerful then any computer and has a hard drive that stores every hand you play, every bet that people make, every situation that happens. Otherwise with your raise, a tight player will put you on a higher hand, fold and wait until their hand comes along. Most people that are unsuccessful are the ones that like to play every hand and chase cards.

This is not to say that you shouldn't think about decisions or problems and should just do what your first 6th sense is, because evaluation is an important and critical part of the decision making process. Going over all the variables presented to you to come up with a conclusion. Get an understanding of how the other players at the table are playing, loose.tight?

Your intuition isn't the solution to all your problems and your gut feeling isn't always right, just because your gut feeling isn't always right it's not correct to stop listening to it, you need to understand that your gut feeling is the best tool that will help your more times then not, so listen to it unconditionally. This is important to know because the person playing loose is very hard to bet out of a hand and the players that are tight usually only play when they have a monster hand. Being able to hear and listen to your gut feeling can become a very powerful tool in your texas holdem playing, you have to listen to your gut though, the first instinct or thought you have is usually always the correct decision. Watch how players are betting and remember that, so if it comes to a show down and cards are turned over, you'll get a good read on their betting style. Your 6th sense is that first feeling you get, the majority of people never believe or trust in there 6th sense and dismiss the feeling as just a thought and then think more and end up with no real confident answer or decision. Probably not, but if you believe in your inner self and have inner balance and control then you can hear and listen to your gut feeling and follow through with your gut feeling.

Here again, you need to get a feel on others texas holdem playing styles in order to get a read on them to determine if it is a bluff or strong hand. Be cautious to what the board gives you, does it give other players an opportunity at a straight or flush? So practice listening to your self, identify when your gut tells you something and believe in it and use it in life, use it on the Online+Poker tables.

a couple things I suggest, if its early in a game wait to see a flop.

A Thought to play by; it's always better to rake a small pot than to lose a big poker pot. He's probably laid back, never really worried or never panics just always seems so sure. Later in the game and with less players, pocket pairs increase in strength, because you are not on a draw, unless someone else has a pocket pair that is higher than yours.

Did they bet on the flop, turn and river, or slow play their hand? So your gut feeling is usually what the mind feels based on your database of similar poker online situations. Be selective on the hands you play and you will increase your odds greatly. Stand up for a minute, sit out a hand, get your thoughts together, put it behind you and get re-focused. We all take bad beats or fold a winning hand, it's a part of the game, but if you get upset or go on tilt, you will not win! Wait until you see the flop and then if you pocket pair is higher than the board, bet aggressively and see how others react. If you do get caught early and often, texas holdemplayers are more than likely to call your bets and get tells that you may not know you have. They don't have time to thoroughly think things through or contemplate, they feel there gut trust it and react on it.

What I mean here is; did they have a made hand or were they on a draw? A tight player generally only plays the "nuts" early on, but then they know you have a read on them and their style of play, so in the later rounds they try stealing the pot with a big bet. So evaluation is important and should be done, but you should be able to feel your first natural instinct and let it play a major role in your decision making process. This is because animals rely on intuition, they trust and rely on instinct for survival.

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More great WSOP Pictures from the past

Some like Red as their favorite color in the poker deck.

For others, nothing beats the Ace of Spades.

A Pair of 4's is one of my favorite starting hands.

And a Set of 7's.....Oh My!

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This is one of my all time favorites from the WSOP. This was taken outside of Binions in 2004.

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Confessions of a poker junkie.

I have been playing online poker for over 6 years now. Presently I play online poker every single day for at least 2 hours. I have tried almost every poker room and poker software provider. I have written reviews of most of the poker rooms in existence. I think all of that qualifies me as a total poker junkie.

After all this time playing on different rooms, I have picked what I believe is THE best poker room available.

Those that made my top 5 were easy to pick. From there, it got a little tougher. Here is my top 5.

fulltiltpoker.com
pokerstars.com
partypoker.com
pokerroom.com
ultimatebet.com

After taking a very hard look at all the rooms, I now know believe that FullTilt offers the best deal. The factors I considered were:

Deposit Bonus - FullTilt still has one of the top bonuses in poker and is the best among the top 5 with a 100% up to $600 Deposit Bonus.

Software - FullTilt ranks among the top 3 in software used to run their poker games along with PartyPoker and PokerStars. Fulltilt has some cool features that the other rooms don't like the ability to see your last hands in a graphic display that looks just like the table you are playing on.

Ability to Learn Poker - FullTilt takes an active interest in making their players better via their Tips from the Pros as well as their active forum on the site. These tools are invaluable and set FullTiltPoker.com apart from the other rooms.

Intangibles - The other rooms try and associate themselves with poker players. FullTilt takes it to a totally new level. They have MOST of the pros on their site where you can play with them and chat with them. They are available in the site chat and for you to talk to while they are at the tables playing.

I could list a lot more, but these are the highlights. FullTilt Poker is #1 in my book. See you there.

10 Tips for Poker Tournament Success

Here is a great read from a good friend of mine, Brad Daugherty. Brad, as many of you know, just might know a thing or 2 about winning poker tournaments as he won the 1991 World Series of Poker main event and has written 2 great poker books.

Here is Brad's tips on winning a poker tournament.

1. Want to improve your end game? Want to build your level of experience in playing final tables? Want to learn how to 'close the deal' and win an event? Play a single table satellite! And when you do, pretend you are at the final table of the World Championship. Remember, every chip is precious. Playing single-table tournaments is great practice for the end game of multi-table tournaments. The strategies are very similar; with the biggest difference being single-table tournaments usually take less than an hour to play, where the multi-table tournaments take over 4 hours to play.
2. A good basic strategy for the single-table tournaments is to play solid poker, playing only premium hands in the first three rounds. After that, open up and play more hands, becoming more aggressive the higher the blinds get, and the shorter handed the tournament becomes.
3. Be a bettor, not a caller. Remember, the bettor has two chances to win, the first being you might be able to show down the best hand, and secondly, if everyone folds, you win an uncontested pot!
4. When your chip stack gets less than five times the size of the big blind in a no-limit single-table tournament or a multi-table tournament, consider moving all in with any two cards as long as you are the first one in the pot. In these situations you are just betting that no one has a hand that they can call you with. If you do get called and have the worst hand, you might get lucky and draw out on them. If you aren't the first one in, you are joining a pot with automatic competition.
5. In the late stages when you have a large stack of chips and it's one or two spots from the money, it's easy to rob players that are desperately trying to make the money. Play more aggressive in that spot, reduce your starting requirements, and pick up some extra chips!

Like what Brad is saying? Read the bottom 5 for more info.

1. When you have an opponent who is overly aggressive, use it against them. Let them think you have a weak hand when you really have a strong one. Check into them so they will bet. You will then have the option to checkraise and take advantage of their aggressiveness. In the case of a real monster, check it a second time, and then pop it up!
2. Play Real Money poker games to practice for the early rounds of multi-table tournaments. The play here is very close to the same because you aren't under pressure from the blinds. So play real money games anytime you have the time to improve your play for the early rounds. Play solid poker.
3. Have a game plan for your tournament. Decide if you are going to start out playing tight in the early rounds, or if are you going to play fast and try to accumulate chips early. Consider adjustments you might make if you get short of chips, if you get a large stack, or how you might adjust to different types of opponents styles. Be prepared for everything!
4. When you are playing, always observe your opponents and pick out who will and who wont, defend the blinds. The higher the blinds get, the more valuable this information becomes. Remember the tight players are easier to rob. Be ready to take advantage of them.
5. Save the best for last. Play your own tournament! That's right, your own little event that starts and ends when you want. You are the tournament director and can play any form of poker you'd like. Sit in the smallest game you can find. The rounds are 20, 30, 40 minutes, anything you want, so set an alarm clock. When the clock goes off, you must get up and move to the next highest game. Keep going and see how much you can accumulate and how far you can go. Get to the biggest game and you win the trophy. Of course, in this tournament, you can quit at any time and cash in your checkers. Good Luck!

I think this solid advice from one of the games greats on poker.