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The importance for the poker player to record data

Playing poker can be very difficult to craft. It is certainly not all fun and games and lots of hours must be spent to be better in this business, and to, sooner or later, become a pro. There are a lot of professional poker players out there and in order to be able to make a living playing this game, you must take some analytical approaches. Do not kid yourself, it's not all fun and games but more analytical you will be and more results you will get.

It is therefore vital for a poker player to keep an account that includes the data of past performance. The convenience of online poker is that this is done for you in your account if you use a trusted site.

For example, calculate the hourly rate in a job where you get paid at the same time of the week or month is a simple thing. But in poker, the more you play can become more difficult to calculate these rates. The reason for calculating the hourly rate for playing poker is to assess whether the management of your bankroll is adequate. Also this way you can know whether you are a player winning or losing.

To calculate your future income of poker you have to have tons of data. If you kept meticulous records of the last five years, on a spreadsheet, showing for example that you have been playing poker for thirty hours a week, six days a week, plus the exact wins and losses, you can likely to be able to predict future revenues for the next five years. However, if you have been playing three days a week for ten hours and you did not keep any records, you have no idea where you are, and if you can become a poker pro.

All records must be kept accurately about your winnings, losses, and hours spent playing; all the notes can be important. All the poker pros do this now. So do it, especially if you're a player who spends a lot of time on this game. There's also the question of the IRS and don’t even think you get away without paying the share of revenue.

Keeping records allows you to calculate the revenue, and it can also be used as an effective tool for learning. There is no better player than a player informed, no matter what the game is.

Playing online poker with a simple strategy

Playing online or live poker is not rocket science, although some players tend to make this strategy game more complex than necessary. Not everything is so complicated and most decisions are often simple. While there may be in different situations, most of the time, do not kid yourself, more than a poker player has won the Main Event WSOP twice with exactly the same hand!

When playing online poker what really matters is a good strategy to make your decision easier. If you're like me and if you do not take decisions easily, even on simple things, a good strategy will make playing poker much more enjoyable. A good strategic plan should be taken calmly, and with a focus on some tactical issues.

Your strategy may be something simple like a mantra, like "I want to win." This is also a strategy, no matter how simple it seems. The fact that it has planned to use this method makes it a strategy. The only problem is that if you let things be so, the strategy is a little too simple to be effective. A strategy should be a little more multi-dimensional.

In fact, it's like a road map, so you know where you are going. It's like taking a trip on a road if you know the road there are fewer decisions to make when you are already in the car. Although there are detours and roadblocks, you know that once you consulted the map, you are always moving in the right direction.

Same thing if you have just entered a car and you started to drive, with no idea which direction you're taking. If you think "I'll go to Florida," but if it is not the right direction, you end up in Canada. This is more or less what a poker strategy aims to do: to put you on the right track and there you always remain despite the presence of roadblocks and detours along the route.

Your strategy will be developed to play poker on related concepts:

The fact that you want to win;
The fact that you have a certain amount of dollars in your bankroll;
The fact that you have a limit;
The fact that your skill level is what it is

These issues may allow you to follow a simple strategy and make the game easier. You cannot think to anticipate everything in a poker game, and it is not necessary to make things more complex, because in reality you never know what will happen.

The last unlucky players

As everyone knows, it is the WSOP 2010 in Las Vegas. On the 13th of July, the atmosphere was quite electric. Indeed, 7319 players were present and only 747 could expect a reward from this tournament. On the 13th of July, before the dinner,there was just 751 players left. 4 players need to be eliminated to be one of the paid places of the tournament. The atmosphere is very stressful and the organisation at this moment decides to send everyone to a dinner break despite the discontent of the players.

One hour later, everyone was back for to expecting to be in the first 747 players of the tournament. The strategy was a little the same for everyone, fold until someone is eliminated on another table. The organisation decided to play every game at the same time on every table; better to get a fair game.

Two Players are eliminated quickly after the dinner break, and then something interesting happens. One of the 749 players left received pocket ACES. Awesome! So he decided to go all in. Against him, a guy called with pocket Jacks. The probability to win with a pocket of ACES is 20% and of course on the flop the first card was a jack. Unlucky, but this face to face eliminated another player and at this time, just 1 player needed to be eliminated to be in the 747 paid places. Everyone was just so stressed and everyone was hoping that someone else will go all in before them.

The last played who decided to go online was called Tim McDonald. In his hands a pocket of Queens. He raised. But unfortunately, someone raised on his bet and raised him to "All in". Tim was confident and decided to go all in. The opponent got an Ace and a 2. It is quite tight; Both of them had a good game.

Legal online poker licences in France

If you have read the first article, you probably know that we tried to detail the French market regarding the online poker. Since 2010, the ARJEL authorise French poker player to play online but under certain conditions. After giving more details about Winamax, Betclic, poker Everest, Poker Bwin, poker SAjOO, Poker Eurosport, Poker, Le PMU poker, and Pokerstar. I will keep detailing the list of the online poker competitors in France. To get a French licence, you have to respect a few rules: setting a limit on the wager, setting a limit on the amount of each account, automatic transfer on an account after a certain amount on it, indicate the time that the player is playing for (a clock), indication of the loss during at the end of the game, possibility to exclude a player and auto exclusion by the player...

Partouche poker: The website has just received its licence and they try to get customer through their reputation. The group is the second most important group of casino in France, so the clientele would be probably classier than another website.

Party poker: It was the last leader of poker in France; the website has signed different partnerships with different competitors: a way to propose better tournaments.
Chilipoker: this website is generated by a professional poker player: Alexandre Dreyfus, contractor of online marketing create his own online poker website. In 2002, the benefits were 2 million dollars and in 2008, it was 8 millions. The French business man hopes to increase his benefits through the French market.

Luckyjeux.fr: the information about this website is quite rare. The only thing we know is that the site uses the network of Party poker.

ACF poker: The famous poker room of the Champs Elysées is ready to open its market on Internet. The club enjoys a great reputation in the poker sphere and expect to improve it through its website.

888poker: one of the leaders of poker. It just got the licence.

Poker Xtrem: It is a new poker website. The website will probably signed a partnership with the magazine Live Poker.

Barrière poker/FDJ: The biggest casino in France and its partner the Française des jeux (70% owned by the government) decided to be associated for creating a poker website. The association can be a big competitor.

PKR: the only poker website which offers to lay at the poker in 3 D.

Fult tilt Poker: the biggest poker website in the world just got its licence with already a lot of French players on it.

Then, it is 19 licences that the ARJEL has delivered on the French market. A big contest competition has just started and players can observe it by the number of offers that the online poker websites are offering. It’s time to enjoy them and get a maximum of bonuses.

Avoiding The Poker Tilt Demon

You read about it all the time when you read poker articles, it is called "Tilt" and we are not referring to the site Full Tilt Poker, we are referring to the state of being which is "tilt".

Basically if you "tilt", you are losing it, and for many players this means many different things. The general cause for this state of being is loss of control over circumstances you should generally have control over when you play poker. Players have to learn to recognize that they are not in control of the hand they are dealt, but they are in control of basically everything else that happens when they play poker, so tilting is not cool. Remember poker is a game for cool customers; players who can keep their cool under any circumstances, because if you go tilt, so too does your game!

Tilt is the poker demon, it turns online poker players into mouse mashers, keyboard crashers and undercurrents of simmering rage. No coach can straighten this out, only the player can. Flinging a mouse at the wall in violent enragement after that undercurrent of percolating insanity hits you on a bad beat or other loss is not such a bad thing however, but it can't really be done in a live WSOP final table event.

Essentially when you are able to get rid of the anger quickly (by mashing your mouse) this is a good thing – so its not actually tilt. It could save you the game, because if you play while still swimming against an undercurrent of rage, you will play like crap and likely lose your bankroll and your shirt, and this is actually what tilt is.