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Texas Holdem Poker - Today
September 29th, 2012
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The Texas Hold’em poker phenomenon has taken the country by storm. There are over 100 million active players around the world of poker. The popularity of poker is largely a byproduct of the technique and some recent trends: 1) online games, engage in the players and to make contacts and screens created in real time via the Internet, and 2) the general high level of television, such as the World Series of Poker (WSOP Poker Tour) and global (WPT).
With all the poker-mania, there is a “gold rush” modern courses today. Analysts’ estimates are a bit vague, but some believe that people spend up to U.S. $ 4.5 billion in 2005 to articles related to poker of all kinds, including:
* The game of online poker room
* Poker Tournaments
* The agents of financial online poker room (eg, Firepay, Neteller, Citadel and others)
* Casino poker rooms
* Units of the game to your TV
* Units of poker chips and dealer buttons (you can even “collector” edition dealer buttons signed by professionals, has some as Christmas gifts this year!)
* The poker tables and instructions on how to build poker tables
* The poker software (poker odds calculator, poker games, tournament organizers house teams in the tournament director)
* Texas Hold’em poker rules cards from the hand
* Schools and courses poker
* The poker books and strategy e-books
* Poker hats, shirts and other garments
* Local poker clubs
* Free Texas Holdem poker every conceivable type material
To give you an idea of ??how many people are playing for real money online, check out PokerPulse.com. Poker Pulse keeps an eye on the best online poker rooms and number of tracks to play poker with real money will run at any time. Some estimates on the basis of these statistics suggest that transactions online poker rooms, they become more than $ 110 million every 24 hours, with hundreds of thousands of players online every active every night.
Therefore, the inertia in the world that poker is now, how’s going? A flash in the pan, and suddenly - poof, it will be like the CB radio! Is it just another way of memory and, with occasional reminders like Smokey and the Bandit? Hard to say, of course, but driven, advertising and many young people, many of them teenagers and children play on the Internet, it may be that the Big Bang and the expansion began in poker began to appear …
How many new and controversial phenomenon such as poker, there is the aspect of social and moral question: Is the poker game? Is it really just a game of skill? Whether poker rooms are as much about the game that the traditional casino games and online trading sports betting is certainly one that is shaping some industries and the creation of others. Before looking for answers to these questions, we will examine what actions could lead to certain parts believe.
For example, decided to traditional credit card processors (MC, VISA, American Express, PayPal and others) to finance the use of its services credit card accounts online poker players. Today it has an entire industry to the high demand for transferring funds between bank accounts and accounts of online poker rooms, the processing of millions of dollars that have been created to fill a day.
Try advertising a poker product on Google AdWords or equivalent Yahoo / MSN (Overture) and you’ll quickly discover that they have a category known as “Play URL” that come into play, each site could be online rooms Poker is known as “game” of the site and advertising services refused. So what happens next? Well, besides these companies are losing advertising revenue, is forced to the poker industry in the fierce competition for poker-related search “namespaces”. Try searching for something using keywords such as “Texas Hold’em Poker” and see what you find.
It’s amazing how obstructed the search engine namespace has become, with all of search engine optimization (SEO) technology and trick known to man by the owners of the poker sites in an attempt to use the visibility, page ranking and traffic routing more traffic to your winning hand.
I think the answer to the question “Is the game of poker?” - Depends, depends on the skill level of player, if you are a very experienced player, .. then in my humble opinion, this is not the game - he plays a complex game like chess, in which defeat the enemies only to have it, but you have to win the game of strategy and prospects.
She beat the odds just for certain hands from given positions on the table, adjusting your game to win based on the game situation, understanding of the styles of other players and the development of a launch strategy weight (battery) with good times, and sit on other occasions. No, far from the game for many of us. But for those who do not have the required skills, which makes the game usually is not because the quality is much less of a factor as players. Since the basic rules are deceptively simple, people often have no idea why they are beaten.
What makes it different from traditional casino games is that you’re not playing against the house. The online poker room has a “rake” a percentage of money is at stake (eg, 10% or more), which generates revenue that online poker room. In reality, no matter who wins or loses, there’s always poker operators to pay for hosting the game
I’m popular online poker rooms in a future agreement in more detail, but suffice to say, there is gold in the hills and the claims were the market leaders in providing capital calculation are rethinking their online services to millions of people sophisticated business world, gaming enthusiasts.
Since these companies are not authorized to operate within the limits of the United States, are virtually unregulated (at least by American standards) and new continue to appear each month. Now I do not sound like someone playing online casino games for real money - quite the opposite. There are a number of players who simply “Play for money” and have a blast playing and socialization through the use of instant messaging and interactions through the side of the poker room online.
So this is the poker phenomenon a trend or just another mode, which intends to take its place in our library, beside Smokey and the Bandit and that CB radio wave that crested in the early 1970? Hard to say for sure. One thing is certain. Many people have fun playing in poker rooms, casinos and traditional in their own home games - while a lot of supply than demand, and make a boatload of money in the process.
Until next time - good luck!
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