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Ao contrário dos torneios de varias mesas o Sit & Go começa assim que há suficientes jogadores à mesa. Normalmente, um torneio consiste em nove ou dez jogadores ao redor de uma mesa única, mas também há opções para duas ou três mesas.
Sit & Go também é chamado de Torneio Sigle Table, apesar de os torneios Sit & Go ter mais de uma mesa, normalmente no máximo 5 mesas. A maior diferença mesmo é que ele começa quando se completa o número de jogadores, que são 10 em sigle table (uma mesa), 20 em duas mesas e assim por diante.
No SnG 7 perdem e 3 ganham, por isso o nome poker73. É aparentemente mais difíl de ganhar, mas é aonde você ganhará mais experiencia e maiores lucros (pense em rakeback).
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Also read about the history of Playing-Cards - Poker Chips - Texas Holdem.
Some historians believe that the history of poker derives from Chinese dominoes and was first played in China around 900 A.D.
Others believes that poker descends from the French "poque" which closely resembles a 17th century 25 card Persian game called "as nas" and that the game was taught by Persian sailors to the French settlers in New Orleans.
The game than made its way from New Orleans by steamboat up the Mississippi river and all the way by wagon and train to the west side of America.
The first written words on the history of poker comes from Jonathan H. Green in his chronicles from 1834.
He wrote about a very popular game amongst gamblers on the Mississippi riverboats called the "cheating game". The deck contained only 20 cards and was played by a maximum of 4 players.
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In the early 1900s all gambling including poker was declared illegal in the state of Nevada. This decision was later on changed since the Attorney General of California declared that draw poker was based upon skill and not solely on chance.
Stud poker on the other hand was looked upon as a game of pure luck and wasn't allowed played until the state of Nevada legalized gambling in 1931.
In 1970, Jack Binnion, the owner of the famous Binnion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas invited the best poker players in America to his casino for the first World Series of Poker championship event.
Johnny Moss won the main title. He lost to Puggy Pearson the following year and won it again in 1974.
By 1981, there were 12 separate events and 75 players participating.
In 2004 there were 2,576 entries for the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em WSOP Championship and the prize money had increased to more than $49 million.
The 36th WSOP event is scheduled to begin June 2, 2005 in Las Vegas and an estimated 5,000 players are expected to participate in the $10,000 buy-in, no-limit Texas hold 'em event.
Online Poker started in 1998 and the first online poker room ever was Planet Poker. The second room to open their doors for cyberspace poker players were Paradise Poker.
Paradise Poker is today one of the most popular and trusted poker rooms online with more than 100.000 active players.
Online tournament poker has become extremely popular in the recent years. Especially since the 2003 World Series of Poker Championship, when Chris Moneymaker, (yes it is his real name) won 2.5 million dollars after qualifying through a 40 dollar satellite tournament at PokerStars.com.
In 2004 Greg Raymer beat 2576 players to win the first price of 5 million dollars for a buy-in stake of $40 which also was won at Poker Stars.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS HOLDEM POKER
The history of Texas Holdem poker originated in Robstown - Texas, in the early 1900s. It was first played on ranches by cattlemen and the game derives from "seven card stud", the most popular poker game at the time.
Texas Holdem is a variation of seven card stud and is played for high only. The game was created to make the game go faster and to allow a maximum number of players to participate using a 52 card deck only.
Through all the different theories on the history of Texas Holdem poker, legend has it that almost all of the cattlemen on a ranch wanted to play seven card stud one night but there where not enough card decks available to let everyone participate.
They solved this problem by only dealing each player two pocket cards, instead of five, and all players had to share five cards dealt face up in the middle of the table (community cards).
Oldtimers playing Texas Holdem poker
Texas Holdem is today the most played and popular poker game in the world. From the beginning of the history of Texas Holdem and until today, the game has truly stood the test of time and has become the official game in the “World Series of Poker” and on the "World Poker Tour".
Texas Holdem appears at first to be a deceptively simple game to master, but in fact it is the most complex of all poker games.
The history of Texas Holdem will show that to you must take the game seriously at all times, maintaining your focus and always continue to study and learn if you want to become successful at it.
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Calculating Poker Odds and Pot Odds Without a Poker Odds Calculator
The #1 most commonly asked question I receive from my subscribers has to do with calculating poker odds properly. When I look at how my students do on their Poker Test scores (overall) when taking my poker test, the area that people clearly struggle with the most is in calculating odds.
You calculate "pot odds" as the current size of the pot vs. the amount of chips you'd be required to bet in order to stay in the hand.
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For example, let's say the pot has 1000 chips in it, and you can call a bet of 100. Your pots odds are 10 to 1, or 1000:100. These are the odds the pot is giving you to make that bet.
Another example. The pot has 150 chips in it, and the blind is currently 50, and you're first to act. What's your pot odds? Simple. They're 3 to 1. Once you put your bet in there, the next person's pot odds will be 4 to 1, and so on.
So, the more people there are to act after you, the more likely it is that you're going to end up with BETTER odds than you're seeing from the pot right now. Make sense?
OK then. Now you understand "implied odds" - what your pot odds are likely to be after everyone acting behind you place their bets into the pot, too.
Simple enough - right? Well, sort of. Pot odds by themselves are good to understand and easy enough to calculate. What you also need to know are the odds of improving your hand to WIN this pot!
These are called your "hand odds" - the odds of you improving your hand (or holding the best hand already) to win.
So, let's say you have a flush draw. You're holding two spades and there's two spades showing on the board. You need to draw one more spade, on either the Turn or the River - right? So, what are your "hand odds" now?
The easiest way is to calculate your number of outs. An "out" is how many cards remain that could make your hand. If it's the flop now, then there are four spades showing that you can see. This means there's nine more spades remaining (13 total - 4 showing = 9 left).
So, there's nine (9) outs available that will make your flush. You can calculate your hand odds (roughly) as:
(OUTS times 2) plus 1 = % chance you'll win
So, you have 9 outs. 9 times 2 is 18, plus 1 = 19%
You have a 19% chance of drawing your flush. Now, 19% is basically a 1 in 5 chance of drawing it.
So, should you stay in this hand?
Let's see what your "expectation" would be...
Your expectation is POSITIVE if the pot odds are greater (better) than your hand odds.
In our example, your pots odds are 3 to 1, and your hand odds are only 1 in 5. Fortunately, if two players behind you also call, then your pot odds rise to 5 to 1 - making this a "break-even" kind of expectation (not real good), and that's assuming the other players act as you'd hope they do...
Let's look further, though. Let's say you also have a straight draw, in additon to that flush draw. Now we need to add the additional outs for the straight.
Let's say you need a 9 to make a straight. There are 4 Nines in the deck. Therefore, your total outs are now 9 + 4 = 13.
Our chances of winning just improved:
13 times 2 = 26 + 1 = 27%
So, now you have better than a 1 in 4 chance of winning!
As long as those two people who act after you do call the bet, you'll have a positive expectation and should play this hand (something you generally can't count on).
If they do not act, you'll have "negative expectation", since your odds of winning are 1 in 4, and if you win, you'll get 3 to 1 on your money.
Statistically, if you play with a negative expectation long enough - you lose. All casino games (craps, blackjack, roulette, etc.) have a negative expectation - which is how they build those amazing, expensive casinos and keep them running day in and day out consistently.
To make money in poker consistently, you must learn how to think through these odds. If that's too hard (it is for most of us, so don't feel bad), then go ahead and get a good poker odds calculator:
Calculating outs, pot odds, hand odds and expectation is time-consuming, error-prone and hard to do without a computer. That's why it makes so many people now rely on poker odds calculators.
On the othe hand, you won't have that odds calculator the next time you're playing in a regular, offline game, so be careful to practice doing it the good old-fashioned way.
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Calculating Poker Odds - The Easy Way!
To be successful at poker you should, at any time during the play of a hand, be able to calculate the odds of catching your hand to the odds the pot is giving you.
Knowing the probability of making a specific hand in poker can be done by calculating hand odds. Figuring out how many outs you have will give you the possibility of calculating the number of times you will hit your hand by the river.
Lets say your'e dealt A-9 of hearts in Texas Hold'em and the flop comes up showing two hearts. Your hand odds for hitting another heart by the river will be approximately 36% or 3 to 1. (you will hit your hand 1 out of 3 times)
You can figure this out by first finding the number of outs that you have. Outs are the number of cards remainig in the deck ( not visibe to you) that can help you make your hand.
So if we are using the hand above as an example and you hold A-9 of hearts and catch two hearts on the flop, than you have 9 more hearts in the deck that can help you complete your flush. 2 hearts in your hand + 2 hearts on the table minus 13 hearts in total = 9 outs.
If you multiply your number of outs by 4, than you will get an approximate percentage of hitting your hand by the river (9x4=36%).
Poker pot odds is the ratio between the size of the pot compared to how much it will cost you to call a bet from another player. The higher the ratio between the size of the pot and the cost of calling a bet, the better your poker pot odds are.
If there are $40 in the pot after the flop and a player bets $10 and two other players calls his bet then you are getting 7 to 1 in pot odds. If you are chasing the A-9 flush draw from the flop , than you are getting a 36% or 3 to 1 in hand odds to catch your card at the river, so calling or even raising this bet will be a correct decision to make.
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