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J Finney's Articles in Gambling

  • The Exciting World Of Poker Tournaments
    There are many times of poker tournaments, but the most popular and typical tournament type is the freezeout, meaning that once someone lost all chips he is eliminated. This tournament’s structure is quite simple: you place the buy-in, you start with the same amount as others, then the blinds begin to increase slowly and players get eliminated as they lose all their chips. The prices are given to the top winners, that means to less than 10% of the players in happy cases (some...
  • Poker Language: Understanding The Lingo
    Although poker is a game and not a culture, it has a language of its own that many people find confusing. And it might be, because this particular language is based on words that have different meanings and all of a sudden they become specific poker notions a beginner finds hard to understand and adapt to. So, to help prevent this problem before it even arises and to initiate you in the world of poker we will go over some basic words and phrases used frequently when at a poke...
  • Poker Pitfalls To Avoid
    Of course, no one plans on losing, there would be no point to do that, but still here are some things to do if you plan that. Or better said, things not to do ever in poker if you don’t want to lose a lot of hands.

    Select hands poorly – If you are playing too many hands and they are mostly played when they shouldn’t, then you have a big problem. Many players do this mistake and they should correct. Do not try and hold on to a hand that practically stands no change to a dra...
  • Making Money As A Poker Player
    When a common person that never entered the world of true poker thinks of it, the last thoughts that will pass through his mind will be strategies and discipline. Common persons see poker as a game for the rich, cigars smoking and pool sitting men, that have nothing else to do with their money. The concept couldn’t be more misunderstood than it usually is. The truth is that when talking of poker, online or offline, people think of it as a common casino game, like the roulette...
  • Poker Strategy System: How To Calculate Odds
    This can not be better illustrated than through an example and that is exactly what is going to be done here.

    Let’s say you are playing online hold’em and you have a hand of 8, 9 suited in a game with the small blind of $3 and the big blind of $6. Then you call the raise that came from one player and all the other players do that also. There are six players in total in the poker room. So the pot added up to $36 or more from now.

    In the flop, the cards you can see are J...
  • More Texas Hold'Em Poker Hands
    Another part of the hands that can occur while playing online poker is the part of middle and low hands. These hands basically have a medium or very low chance of winning the pot and they require a lot of luck in order to win just with them. Some of them, the very low hands are hands that can’t bring winnings at all.

    The flushes – these are medium poker hands. In a game with pot splitting they can bring you a large part of the pot, but they depend on the high cards of the ...
  • Poker Playing Strategy: How To Hide Your Skill Level And Fly Under The Radar
    If you intend to create for yourself an image of a bad player you can. The question in not why you can do that but it is mostly why you should do it and only then how you can accomplish this purpose. The idea is that at some point in your game you might get lost within the rules you have read about and learned about and because of this you will play tighter and tighter, not willing to risk money on hands that are just not worth it. After you learn a thing or two about poker y...
  • Poker Tournaments: Gap Concept
    Sometimes in tournaments there come times when a special situation arises. One of these situations that a player can encounter during a poker tournament is known under the name of “The gap concept”.

    The terminology of gap concept was first pioneered by an extraordinary poker writer named David Skylansky. This basically means that when you are playing poker you can find yourself in the situation when you just need a hand that is better than the one you are holding in order...
  • Texas Hold'em Poker Strategy: Hand Groupings
    In online Texas hold’em the hands you can hold will be usually grouped with the help of two different big categorizations.

    There was a need from the beginning of the poker game for some way to tell exactly which hands are weak and which are strong, which are weaker when comparing and which hands should be kept or thrown. This is why, sometime ago, there has been created a chart that explains and clarifies the hand rankings in hold’em. Each and every possible hand has been...

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