Since CardMafia opened the Chips Shop, membership and participation has exploded! Why? Well, because the CardMafia team has made it possible to spend the chips earned for posting and participating worth something more than a little icon or for freeroll buyins.
Now you can buy real money tickets in the shop! They are offering $1 worth of real money on Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker for every 1000 chips. Right now there are $5 packages for FTP funds, but it has been announced soon that Pokerstars funds are not far behind.
Talk about a good deal, you can't beat money for almost nothing :)
Monday, January 26, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Online Poker Freeroll Success
Last nights freeroll was a blast! So many people playing and some real money quality play. Congratulations to everyone that cashed!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Poker - What is a Bad Beat?
In most cases where a person claims Bad Beat while playing poker, it is more than likely it is due to poor play than to bad luck.
A bad beat is, by definition, where a player puts their money in good and gets called down by a player with an inferior hand for a loss.
A bad beat is not where you call into a raised pot with J6 and the flop comes JK6 and you lose to a set of kings. When evaluating weather you just experienced a bad beat, ask yourself if you should have been in the hand to start with.
In turn, If you are holding KK and you limp into the pot only to lose to someone flopping nuts with J6, then this also is not a bad beat, because you let this happen.
Look at your hand, if the loss can be contributed to poor play on your part, it is not a bad beat.
Additionally, rarely can someone claim a bad beat by losing a hand all-in preflop. Leaving the hand to chance and battling blind is often a very poor means of handling your cards. I know this is inevitable because unless you are on an unbelievable rush and move on for the win, you will at some point in every poker tournament be all-in, but in many cases, short of being the short stack, this can be avoided.
All in all, instead of meditating on a bad beat and proclaiming it to the world. Look at your hand, evaluate how you played it and not the person who beat it. If you can confidently say you played this hand the best possible way it could be played in the situation, then maybe it was a bad beat.
(Hint: we've all had them, so we rarely feel sorry for yours. Try to keep your game positive and you may just see positive results)
A bad beat is, by definition, where a player puts their money in good and gets called down by a player with an inferior hand for a loss.
A bad beat is not where you call into a raised pot with J6 and the flop comes JK6 and you lose to a set of kings. When evaluating weather you just experienced a bad beat, ask yourself if you should have been in the hand to start with.
In turn, If you are holding KK and you limp into the pot only to lose to someone flopping nuts with J6, then this also is not a bad beat, because you let this happen.
Look at your hand, if the loss can be contributed to poor play on your part, it is not a bad beat.
Additionally, rarely can someone claim a bad beat by losing a hand all-in preflop. Leaving the hand to chance and battling blind is often a very poor means of handling your cards. I know this is inevitable because unless you are on an unbelievable rush and move on for the win, you will at some point in every poker tournament be all-in, but in many cases, short of being the short stack, this can be avoided.
All in all, instead of meditating on a bad beat and proclaiming it to the world. Look at your hand, evaluate how you played it and not the person who beat it. If you can confidently say you played this hand the best possible way it could be played in the situation, then maybe it was a bad beat.
(Hint: we've all had them, so we rarely feel sorry for yours. Try to keep your game positive and you may just see positive results)
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