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How to win in Sit N Go tournaments

Written by HoldemChips Saturday, 17 December 2011 12:31

Sit N Go tournaments are very popular for quite some while now.If you get a hold on how to play in this tournament, instead of doing like 90% of the players that join them which is going All In on every hand and loosing your poker chips, you can increase by a long shot your chances of winning the match and a big stack of poker chips along with it.
As there is no “sure thing” tutorial or tip that someone could say, I will only point out some main hints that will help you in making better decisions and hold on to your poker chips with a higher chance of winning the pot. Of course any addition that you feel necessary you can post it as a comment, and I will make sure it gets added in the post as an update.

First off, you should play fewer but stronger hands in early position. For example if someone(most probably will) would go all in at the first hand, in addition before the flop, you should be better off folding and wait for a hand where you can calculate your odds.
In late positions you can loosen up and play more hands because you are among last to act. It’s definitely much better to be in a later position because you get a chance to see your opponents reactions, and thus giving you an idea of how strong their hands could be comparing with how strong your hand is.

Look at the others players cards when you fold and the turn ends, figure out which player was bluffing, or how strong his hand had to be to play aggressive or bluff, always keep an eye out and see what kind of opponent you’re facing. Poker doesn’t have the same difficulty on each match, the players at the table make that match hard or easy. Weak players will give away chips in the face of raises and aggressive players will force you to make hard decisions, figuring out your opponent is one of the hardest, but best methods to catch them with a big pot and win their poker chips over.

If you keep raising when you have a big hand you definitely need to mix up your game, change your play style (call the bet instead of reraise),and sometimes make a bluff to confuse your opponents. You don’t have to bluff with high amounts of poker chips to confuse the other players,so just in case you get busted you won’t loose that much, but you’ll induce them to believe you’re the noob that bluffs . With a next strong hand they’ll think the same and call or raise you even more, in the end making you a winner with a lot of poker chips.

Play tight against loose players and loose against tight players. Let me know if you have any tip to add, just leave a comment, and I will make sure to add it to this post -with you mentioned as author.

Facebook Poker App loosing private data

Written by HoldemChips Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:29

Does anyone remember when Facebook officials said they were going to stop the leaking of private data about users? We do!The Wall Street Journal report has found a new problem now. It looks like every single one of the 10 most popular applications on Facebook, including several Texas Hold’Em Poker games, have been transmitting user private information about them to several 3rd party marketing companies.

No Privacy?

The social networking website has of course given a response to this report, specifying they are working to “dramatically limit” the leaking of private info about users. A spokesman for the company admitted: “A Facebook User ID may be inadvertently shared by a user’s internet browser or by an application.” Adding that knowledge that ID number “does not permit access to anyone’s private information on Facebook.”
The Wall Street Journal’s investigation led them to discover that applications were sending users Facebook ID numbers to at least 25 advertising and data-mining firms – mostly for use in statistical graphs and reports. And it’s been happening even to people that set their privacy settings to the highest possible level. Several applications that were mentioned in the Wall Street Journal have since then become unavailable on Facebook, but nobody is saying their absence might or not be directly linked to the report.

FB has maintained (true fact) that any info it might sell about its users is anonymous and that they may tell those companies what a user’s interests are, but they do not reveal who that user really is. And this is where this latest problem lies. In fact, many of their biggest and top rated applications have been sharing users’ unique FB User ID number. Practically if someone knows an User ID number, you can just open the site and check out their name and, in many cases, the names of all their friends depending on the level of Privacy that user has set to the account. This issue is said to affect literally millions of users of Facebook applications. If during the end of 2009 only 15 to 20 percent of Facebook’s 350 million users had ever modified their settings, now with over 800 million users  the interest in having more privacy has increased enormous and most users especially the more active ones are extremely strict about their privacy settings.

A good strategy in facebook poker games?

Written by HoldemChips Saturday, 12 November 2011 11:07

A very good strategy in facebook poker game is called ”bluffing”, and with this strategy you can win milions of poker chips.