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PAI GOW CHINESE POKER ONLINE. How to play the online game of Pai Gow or Chinese poker. Learn the rules, tips and strategies for playing this exciting alternative to Texas Hold'em.
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StrategyAll of it →
Pot odds and implied odds: when the second number changes the call
A flush draw needs 19.1 per cent and a third-pot bet asks for 20. What the missing fraction has to come from, and when it cannot come from anywhere.
Limping or raising from the small blind in a full-ring game
Completing costs half a blind to see a flop in a two-blind pot, which needs 25 per cent to break even. Why that price is worse than it looks.
Continuation bet or check back: choosing the line on a dry flop
A third-pot bet on a dry board has to work one time in four. What makes the board dry, what the small size buys, and the hands that are better off checking.
Poker Winners' Tips
Two big poker winners share their winning poker tips. Plus, what is the "cut off seat"?
What Sort of People Play Poker Online?
So who ARE you playing poker online against anyway -- see our unofficial survey. Plus your poker questions answered. Bet raise, steal raise, opener, the squeeze learn what these mean.
Games & RulesAll of it →
Reading a video poker paytable before you put a coin in
Two rows on a Jacks or Better machine carry most of the variation, and one row is not linear in the coins. What the numbers on the glass actually tell you.
Insurance, even money and surrender at blackjack
Insurance needs 33.3 per cent and the deck supplies 32.65. Even money gives up 4.08 per cent. Surrender is the one that is sometimes right.
Alternative Poker Games
Looking for some alternative poker games? Give Texas Hold'em and Omaha a rest, and try Indian poker, crisscross poker and Black Mariah poker for a change.
Video Poker versus Regular Online Poker
How does video poker compare to regular online poker? We give you a brief guide to the main differences and offer some winning tips.
Secrets of Texas Hold'em History
Read about the history of Texas Hold'em poker, what it means to you today and how you can profit from online poker without breaking the law!
Reading PlayersAll of it →
Tilt after a bad beat: a routine that stops the next three hands
The cooler costs one pot. The three hands after it cost the session. A five-step routine, and the arithmetic that shows what the leak is worth.
Six tells that survive the move from a live table to an online one
The hands, the eyes and the chip fumbling are gone. Six patterns remain readable through software, and one of them is corrupted by multi-tabling.
21st Century Poker Unpredictability
21st century poker requires more than just conservative play, more than aggressive poker play, it requires the ability to change gears and be unpredictable.
Getting Caught Bluffing
Worried about getting caught in a bluff? Here's how to turn getting caught bluffing to your advantage.
Beware of Poker Geeks
Why you should beware of poker geeks, the poker playing maths whizz who can make your game a misery.
Odds & EdgeAll of it →
Where a slot shows its volatility, and what the three bands mean
Low, medium and high describe the shape of a game’s results, not its generosity. Where the band is printed, and how to read it off the paytable.
What a stated return of 96.5 per cent gives back over 500 spins
Five hundred spins at fifty pence is a stake of two hundred and fifty pounds. The expected loss is under nine pounds — and the smallest number in the session.
The two roulette rules that halve the edge on even-money bets
La partage returns half the stake when zero lands; en prison gives the bet one more spin. Neither is a bonus, and they are not the same number.
The craps odds bet: the one wager on the table with no built-in edge
Behind a point, the odds bet pays exactly what the point is worth. Three derivations, and what adding it to a ten-pound pass line does to the real cost.
Megaways and cluster pays: what the mechanic changes about a spin
Variable reel heights and adjacency wins change how a stake is resolved, not how much it returns. What 117,649 ways is actually counting.
TournamentsAll of it →
The bubble in a tournament: how the pay jump changes correct play
Four left, three paid: the chip leader holds 48 per cent of the chips and 38 per cent of the money. The arithmetic of why a coin flip is a disaster.
No-Limit Poker Tournament Tips
As no-limit poker tournaments grow in popularity we thought we'd better offer you some timely poker tournament tips to help you succeed!
Playing Poker Tournaments
Learn the key skills YOU need to be successful playing poker tournaments. And how tournament poker play differs from regular online poker play.
Tournament Poker Tips
Are you making these mistakes in poker tournament play? Here are some tournament poker tips to guide you in your poker playing.
Playing Heads Up Poker
Playing heads up poker is the ultimate challenge for a poker player. When you come done to the one-on-one heads up, you are put to the test as a poker player. Plus, the poker terms "play the board" and "steaming" are explained.
Playing OnlineAll of it →
Why a withdrawal sits on pending, and what is happening to it
Pending is not one state. It is a queue of four separate checks, and knowing which one a request is sitting in tells you whether to wait or to write.
What decides how long a withdrawal takes, method by method
Two clocks run on every payout: the operator’s review and the payment rail. Only one of them depends on the method you chose, and it is the shorter one.
The wagering clause: how to read it before accepting a bonus
A ten-times requirement on fifty pounds is five hundred pounds of stakes. Four clauses decide whether that is a gift or a cost, and only one is the multiple.
The max bet rule: the bonus clause that voids winnings, not bonuses
A five pound cap turns five hundred pounds of wagering into a hundred spins instead of five, and the spread falls four and a half times. That is the point.
The deposit left your account and the balance did not move
Most of these are an authorisation that never became a payment. How to tell which of five cases you are in, and the order to ask in.
Law & LicensingAll of it →
What GAMSTOP covers, and the gaps it was never built to cover
One registration reaches every online operator licensed for Britain, and stops at the edge of that licence. Where the boundary falls, and what sits outside it.
The advertising rules a gambling review page has to follow
An affiliate page is advertising, and the licensee answers for it. What that means for the words on the page, including the ones on this site.
Checking a licence number yourself, without taking anyone’s word
The Gambling Commission publishes its register as four downloadable files. The order to match them in, and the two mistakes that give confident wrong answers.
Age and residence: who may hold an account in Britain and Ireland
Britain settled this in 2005 and Ireland is settling it now, in phases. What each side of the Irish Sea currently permits, and from when.
LegendsAll of it →
The Poker Gods
Amongst the poker gods, there is one man standing out as the Tiger Woods of Poker, and that's Phil Ivey who wll be one of six gods of poker playing a $60,000,000 pot in a special poker tournament later this year.
The Taxman Folds Against WSOP Winner
Read how WSOP winner Joseph Hachem got to keep all $7.5 million of his WSOP 2005 winnings, without having to give a penny of it to the Australian taxman. Plus, poker terms: 'big slick', 'to bump' and 'calling station' explained.
Man United Casino Scuppered
Why hopefully the football team will benefit from the Manchester United casino idea being scuppered.
Millionaire Poker Stakes
Billionaire Texas banker Andy Beal and his high stakes poker games challenge to the poker elite.
Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier one of the aggressive new breed of female poker players
Is this the A-poker-lips, the end of the world of poker as we know it? With women like Isabelle Mercier spearheading the agressive new breed of female poker players, male poker players should be feeling very nervous now. Hear her tips
NewsroomAll of it →
Right now, New Jersey is on the way toward participating in a multi-state gambling self-exclusion registry, a move that joins a growing trend of interstate coordination on gaming responsibility.
RTP and House Edge: How They Shape Long-Term Results
Online betting surge raises alarm over gambling harm
Mobile Dominates as the Sport Betting Market Explodes
Gambling Myths: Busting Common Misconceptions
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