Online Poker Guide

About Online Poker

If you want to learn poker, OnlinePoker.com will give you all the information you'll need to learn the game. We are a comprehensive resource for poker players, covering the rules for a selection of poker variations, how to bet and the all important poker hands. As well as the poker basics we'll also give you some useful tips to help improve your game - how to recognise a good hand and when to fold a bad one. We'll cover how and when to raise and the much misunderstood art of bluffing.

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Poker Tournaments

Date Time(GMT) Game Poker Room Buy-in
Mar 11 15:15 pm Regular Texas Hold'em Party Poker $10 + $1
Mar 11 15:20 pm Speed Omaha Hi/Lo Party Poker $2.4 + $.6
Mar 11 15:30 pm Speed Texas Hold'em Party Poker $50 + $5
Mar 11 15:55 pm WSOP Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy Texas Hold'em Party Poker $1.6 + $.4
Mar 11 17:30 pm $10K Gtd Speed Rebuy Texas Hold'em Party Poker $1.6 + $.4
Mar 11 17:40 pm WPT Sub Qualifier Speed Rebuy Texas Hold'em Party Poker $2.4 + $.6
Mar 11 18:05 pm Friday Special Qualifier Speed Texas Hold'em Party Poker $21.5 + $1.5
Mar 11 18:50 pm $6K Gtd Regular Texas Hold'em Party Poker $30 + $3
 

Online Poker - How to Play and Win

There are many variations of online poker, but all of them share some common characteristics. Players in all poker games have to use five cards in the best combination which is known as a 'hand', according to its strength this will determine their position in the game. Learning the relative strength of the hands is one of the first things that any aspirant poker player should do.

Betting on the strength of one's cards is central to all versions of poker - the worth of these bets is put into a pile or 'pot' in the middle of the table that all players vie for. Finally, all games finish with a winner being declared, who is either the player with the best hand or the only person who hasn't folded.

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