However, we cannot set aside the fact that gambling, even online casino gambling is risky. Most of the time, real land and online casino gamblers tend to be addicted and totally hooked into gambling. As a result, they lose a lot of money, to such extent that they no longer have sufficient amount for sustenance or a spare. Online casino gambling and even the real ones have good effects. For one, you will get the chance to mingle with a lot of people. Real land and online casino are often visited for purposes of gaming and at the same time talking out business. In occasions as this, investors may meet and incidentally make a deal.

Also, gambling is ideal for relaxation. If you had been to indulged in work for the past days or weeks, gambling could be a remedy to relieve yourself from stress. Online casino gambling and real land gambling can also be a means in which family members can bond. Online casino gambling and real land casino gambling can also be a means through which you can increase or even double the amount of your deposit. However, when it comes to gambling, be it in a real or online casino, it requires great skill, strategy, and luck in order to win.

Conversely, real land and online gambling can have its downsides. This is precisely the reason why in some countries, especially in Islam nations, gambling and other forms of betting are strictly proscribed. However, countries as these are too small in number. Countries where real land and online casino operates are still greater in number. In a real land and online casino, you can either win a lot of cash or lose them all. True enough there are a lot of advantages which can be derived from playing real land or online casino gambling. In reality though, it appears that the drawback of gambling is far greater than the benefits that it can give. Most businesses and persons lose money and credibility due to gambling. On the process you might lose your home, properties, business, and even relationships. Realizing this, it seems that gamblers have greater to lose than to win.

For the foregoing reasons, real land and online casino gaming is still subjected to prohibition, or severe governmental regulation and interference. Also, it is a strict policy for most real land and online casinos that minors are not allowed to engage in gambling. Before one can gamble or bet, he or she will have to satisfy strict requirements. Severe as it may seems, however we must understand that this is the only means through which the governments cross countries can regulate and lessen the risks and disadvantages brought about by gambling at large.

Answer 1:

No. aces usually can play both high or low, played low as in A-2-3-4-5 for a straight. Seven card draw is probably not a game you have played. Perhaps you are thinking of seven card stud, which has no draw phase. The hand you transcribe is technically a pair of aces. “Ace”, “A” and/or “1″ are all the same card in this notation (an Ace), although generally people taking notes like this would not mix the three forms. Perhaps a pair of Aces won that pot? Or maybe you mistyped, meaning to type Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, for a straight? In any case, i hope this was of some help. Feel free to “Search” your newsreader for the terms: “poker faq” (for Frequently Asked Questions) and i am sure many other questions you may have about poker will be answered. And finally, try to ignore that court jester (Paul P) who answered you first in another part of this thread. There is one in every crowd. Thankfully (and unfortunately), he is unique.

Answer 2:

When making a straight, you can use the ace high as in A-K-Q-J-10 or as a “1″ to go with 2-3-4-5. You cannot wrap around a straight as in Q-K-A-2-3. In a Hi-low game where the pot is divided between the best hand and the worst hand, the A-2-3-4-5 is a great hand because it is a nice little straight and also the lowest hand possible and thus allows you to win both the high and the low hand.  People call it a “wheel” or sometimes “bicycle wheel”.

Answer 3:

While we’re on the subject, a pair of Aces is commonly mistaken in home games as simply a high pair. A pair of Aces, however, can also be used as a low pair. If you were playing 5-card stud hi/lo, your pair of Aces might win you both halves of the pot, played high for one hand and low for the other.

Answer 1:
That’s probably a big part of the problem, as processing speed affects this directly… I don’t think that “upgrade” and “Celeron” belong in the same sentence…
Answer 2:
That’s not an up-grade. As far as I understand, the Celeron has no cache on the chip. It’s a totally cheap design, and terrible for cpu-intensive tasks. As i recall, they marketed it as a real performer when they should have marketed it as an inexpensive alternative for those who just use their computer to surf the net and don’t need high speed computing. As with all things, try to shut down all other applications before playing 7-stud. This might help.

Answer 3:
It depends what you mean by “Pentium”. There is the Pentium, the Pentium II, and the Pentium III. The Celerons are considerably faster than any Pentium and most if not all Pentium IIs. An upgrade from a Pentium 90 to
a Celeron 450 would be a huge performance gain. In any case, it’s almost certainly NOT a processor problem. The first suspect whenever you have these symptoms on a Windows/Intel box is a bug in the video driver. The original poster should check the computer and/or video card manufacturer’s web sites to see if there’s an upgrade available for the video driver.

Answer 1:

It depends. In general, you want to follow your own advice, play them with lots of callers, play them in late position. More specifically. You probably want to be getting at least 4:1 on your action if you are playing in late position. You want better action the further from the button you are, which means that you probably won’t be playing them from any position except the button, one off the button and two off the button, under normal circumstances. (Game conditions may dictate that you raise UTG with A5s, but forget these kind of plays normally). The only time you are going to be playing Axs (and Kxs) with few players is from the blinds. Again you’re still looking to get action on your money, from the blinds you probably want better action than 4:1 action since you’ll be acting early. On the other hand if only one person has limped in and you’re in the small blind, you’ll be getting 5:1 action, assuming that you are in a 1/2 small blind. The key to remember that this is a flop or drop hand (which hand isn’t?), so if you don’t hit a flush draw, or 2 split pair (or better), you are almost always going to bail on the hand. The trickiest thing is playing a flopped top pair. Now you have to make a decision. Are you ahead, or are you behind. If you are ahead, you should bet. If you are behind you should check/fold. Making this determination is the hardest part about playing these hands, and if you don’t have confidence that you’ll be able to make this decision correctly, then you should ALWAYS check/fold. Being wrong here is very costly. Things that you should consider when you flop top pair with Axs (and Kxs):
* How many players you are facing?
* Whether the pot was raised pre-flop?
* What their limping/raising requirements are?
* How tricky your opponents are?
* Your position?
Again let me emphasize, if you have any doubt that you can determine whether you are ahead or behind, check/fold and save yourself money in the long run. Sometimes you’ll fold a winner, but most of the time you won’t.
Answer 2:
These hands are attractive but easily dominated when the flush doesn’t it. They’re simply not as good as they look. In a relatively loose-passive game (not many raises pre-flop, usually 3-6 see the flop) Axs is playable (for me) with at least 2 callers before me and no raise. This can’t happen in early position and rarely in middle position. Kxs I routinely throw away with the possible exception of having the button and 4+ callers in front without a raise. In a game where pre-flop raises are common, dump these hands without a second thought unless you’re late enough to have an idea that there won’t be a raise behind you. I don’t open-call with Axs. I MIGHT open-raise from late position if I thought I could steal the blinds or at least isolate a weak blind. This opportunity is rare in the games I play but happens in tourneys fairly often. In most cases, fold to any action if you don’t have a flush draw or 2 pair.
Answer 3:
I have Ad6d in late position. One raise by a madman so I call to see the flop. The flop comes Kd Qd 9d and I have a made flush. I raise and everyone is ut but the madman. I figure him for trips or two pair (he had trips) so I raise his bet and he calls. The turn is Jd and I am a happy camper until the river comes with Kh. He re-raises and I figure he’s got the boat. Nope, quad Kings. This guy was crazy and once he had trips there was nothing on God’s Green Earth that would have kept him from staying until the river. Thus: The only variable I would add to the previous posters is knowing your opponent.

Answer 2:
This is an interesting debate, and I think both sides have merits. I think it is clear that the simulated numbers alone don’t fully describe the hands, but find them very useful as one benchmark of a hand’s value. In the case of JTs vs KTs, I more clearly see David’s point. Maybe in a simulation KTs had the same equity as JTs, but the actual, live play of the hand would radically affect those numbers. In the simulation, KTs does best against the lower pairs, making up for the domination by the higher pairs. However, intuitively, this doesn’t hold true to me. When the flop comes K95, KT will have a difficult time folding vs the aces, and may even be tempted to throw in some raises. However, against the QQ’s, or JJ’s, the KT might not get the action that
it wants. In other words, it seems a classic case of winning a small pot while losing a larger pot.

Answer 3:

The chart was NOT posted merely as a fact. Rather it was posted to the best of my recollection as an argument for the superiority of KT. This in spite of the fact that everyone knows that KT is better head up against most hands hot and cold and therefore anyone who argues for JT would clearly be taking it at least somewhat into account. Anyway you were the one who resurrected this argument.

Answer 3:
I’d like to think I’d have played the hand exactly like you did. Can’t lay it down after you both put so much in before the flop and he is apt to show you anything( but unlikely a Q.) Take a chance to double up rather than be crippled the rest of the way.

Answer 1:

I just called the Empress and asked for the Poker room. The operator’s answer was that the room was closed down yesterday.  She had no further information. A call directly to their room (888-83-POKER) yielded a full voicemail box.

Answer 2:

I just played there on Friday night, and there was no mention at all about them closing the room. On top of that most of the times I’ve been there the room has been full or close to full. Is this a permanent thing?? I’ve always liked there games better than the ones out at Harrah’s or down inJoliet.  Also on a side tangent does anyone know about the status of poker out in the new Rosemont casino? I had heard from a player at the Empress that there would be a quite extensive poker facility (o.k. maybe not that lavish, but as good as it can get out here in theMidwest).

Answer 3:

I have heard just the opposite from many people (players) from theChicagoarea that play here in AZ, AND a couple folks involved in the poker scene in theMidwest. IF that property opens…the odds of a poker rooms being included are slim to none. Just what i have heard, but you know how that is. Don’t know till it happens.

Answer 3:
It’s a 2-6 game. The min bet is 2. The 1 is 1/2 that. 1/2 the min bet is a bet and can be raised. The raise stands, make it 7. The error the dealer made was in thinking that the bet size on the flop was 6 (I’m guessing everybody always bets 6 on the flop). The bet size was 2-6.