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ONLINE RESOURCES

You will find that the Internet has many quality poker related Web sites and much of the content would be free. Here are locations and descriptions of selected sites that would be particularly useful and rich in content.

General Information

http://www.ilelligentpoker.com would be the companion Website for this book.

Changes that will occur after this book has been published will be posted on the Web site. Availability and offerings for online poker cardrooms would be particularly time sensitive and will be updated. You will find included links to join online cardrooms, links to purchase books, and links to the home pages of most of the public cardrooms you find listed in Chapter 10. http://www.pokerpages.com has been one of the top-ranked poker portals on the Web. It contains comprehensive and up-to-date information for poker worldwide. The site will offer: a database of poker establishments, daily-updated events and results, tips, seminars, and poker player profiles. You could listen to live-audio broadcasts.

You could practice in free play-money tournaments.

You could communicate globally via forum and chat rooms.

There would even be a section for women in poker.

http://www.pokerschoolonline.com is an online school for poker (presented by PokerPages described above). For $14.95 per month membership, you will receive instructions beginner through advanced levels from poker professionals. You could also compete in play-money Multi-Table Tournament, Satellites, and Ring Games, where over $100,000 worth of sponsorship points would be available. Poker players who would accumulate enough sponsorship points at the play-money games would be awarded seats in real-money tournaments.

The Poker games have been among the closest to the real world with the safety of play-money. This would be a great way to learn tournament play without having to open a real-money account.

poker1 would be the site for Mike Caro University of Poker, a school for poker that has been affiliated with Hollywood Park Casino (see Southern California Cardrooms on Page 147). Mike Caro, the legendary ‘Mad Genius’ of poker, has had many articles, columns, and lectures posted at this Web site. Also affiliated with Caro’s site would be the United Poker Forum, which would be an online message board for discussing any question, opinion, or issue related to poker. Sources for Articles and News on Poker Commitment to poker excellence would require continued reading and analysis of what others have written. Here are some sites that have free articles on poker. http://www.cardplayer.com will have several articles by the most influential writers on poker. The site will also be a great source for poker news and current events, including extensive coverage of tournaments in the United States. http://www.playwinningpoker.com Poker professional Steve Badger has maintained a large site with dozens of articles on strategy and online poker.

His many subjects have included Omaha Strategy (see Appendix I for an explanation of Omahas), and the differences between online poker and in-person cardrooms. Selected articles have been posted in multiple languages (Spanish, German, French, etc.). http://www.poker.net has been an attractive site with articles, news, discussion forums, and links. They have had a comprehensive directory of online cardrooms with ratings and profiles of each. http://www.pokersearch.com contains online articles and a discussion forum.

The site has listed the locations and contact information for hundreds of poker cardrooms throughout the United States and will assist in travel planning, including air and hotel reservations. http://www.seriouspoker.com is the companion web site for Dan Kimberg’s book, Serious Poker. You should go here to learn more about his book and read his articles that have been written for Card Player magazine. He has maintained an extensive site with several useful links. Links for: book reviews, tournament information; shopping for poker-related products, news,discussion groups, and articles by well-known writers have been included.

Publishers

Several publishers of books on poker have maintained informative, interactive, and entertaining Web sites. Some of major sites have been:

http://www.cardozapub.com has published over hundred titles on poker, gaming, bridge, backgammon, and chess. You will find books appropriate for every level of play, from novice to advanced. http://www.conjelco.com - has published books, newsletters, software, and videos on poker and gambling-related products. Conjelco has operated a large online poker store that has sold products from other publishers at discounted prices.

You should check out their ‘Gamblers Corner’ for free information and links. http://www.teoplustwo.com has published many of the most widely known and influential books on poker and on gambling in general. Their web site has provided information on book titles and original essays by several authors. An online forum on poker topics has been operated through their web site. Anyone with a valid e-mail address could register and participate in the discussions.

Statistical Information

https://www.pokerroom.com/evstats Take note of the ‘s’ after the http. You could also access this site via http://www.pokerroom.com and click on statistics. This has been an interactive page that would allow you to explore how some of the decision factors would affect game results. The statistics presented have been updated regularly because they have been based on real money Internet play and not a computer simulation. You could use the pull-down menu to select a starting hand, a position to play from, the number of poker players competing, the monetary stakes.

You could click on view statistics and the expected dollar amount won (expressed in number of big bets) will be displayed. This will be an instructive site for learning the strength of various starting cards and how that strength would vary with position and number of poker players. As of this writing only forty-four of the hundred and sixty-nine possible starting hands would produce positive results for the players. All others would have negative expectation, which would mean players would lose money.

Some notable hands with negative expectations would be a pair of twos, a pair of threes, a pair of fours, and any hand containing an. Ace with an unsuited card below a ten, In other words, those hands would tend to lose money.