Gambling Results With Jeff

Luck Doesn’t Last
Don’t start betting your mortgage because you have won 16 hands in a row (although you might want to go out and buy a lottery ticket), you cannot predict a lucky streak so don’t change your betting system because you are feeling lucky. The minute you overbet you can guarantee you’ll loose. Conversely, don’t get the hump because you have lost 16 in a row. You are not unlucky; you are just fortune challenged at present.

Avoid Distractions
Don’t drink while playing. We all know alcohol makes you do silly things. Some casinos will offer winning players drinks. This is not to be nice. The naughty casino people know if you drink you start to make mistakes. If you are playing online don’t sit and watch TV or the children whilst playing. You should be concentrating on what you are doing. If you are tired stop playing. You will only start making mistakes. Get some sleep, some exercise or some food or all three.

Use the Basic Strategy
Always use the basic strategy. Always. It is maths and you can’t argue with it. (Well you can but the maths will win) Even those times that you are dealt a bad hand, for example you have a 16 and want to stand when the dealer is showing a ten. By not using the strategy you increase the houses edge and we don’t want that!

In the end playing Blackjack is like anything else. Be disciplined and it will pay off.

Whatever your reason for playing poker, at some point you are going to want to benefit from your ever increasing bankroll. If you are a professional it will be to pay the bills and buy biscuits, for those more recreational players you might want a new pair of shoes. Or you might want to buy biscuits as well.

You can cash out your winnings from an online poker account any time you like, though some are much better than others. For instance bodog are very good, 888.com not so much. So you should look at how quickly you want to with draw and how much transfers back into your bank will cost.

Making regular withdrawals will make you feel better about the days when you lose and stop you blowing all your winnings on a crap shoot because ‘it’s there’. Obviously you want to be building your bankroll but you want to see some reward to.

]You can set yourself withdrawal goals in many different ways. Some set themselves a target, say $100, and cash it out when they have made it. Others, like me, like to cash out a percentage of their profit on a weekly basis. The benefit of the latter is you will be building your bankroll as well as seeing a reward.

How much did you make last month? Last week? Yesterday? If you don’t know then you are probably leaking cash faster than a sinking ship. If you want to be a profitable player then you should be keeping accurate records of your play. Keeping records makes you focus on whether you are actually losing. If you don’t keep them you may not notice you are not really winning until all your cash has gone. It will also give you an accurate reflection of how good you actually are.

Records you should be keeping include the following as a minimum;

Where: the site or casino. I would also think about adding days and dates. Knowing where you play best is important. Some sites will have players that you can crush easily. Other sites will have players that can crush you.

Type of game: This is important as not every type of game will suit you. Are you better at cash games or tournaments?

The profit: Not how much you won but the real profit. Winning $100 in a tournament sounds good but if you paid $99 to enter in reality it isn’t that good.

Time played: It is easy to while away the hours. If you made $50 dollars yesterday that is good but less impressive if it took you 16 hours to do it. Honestly you are better off working in Mc Donalds

You can record all your games/sessions/tournaments in a simple spreadsheet or you can a program like Poker Tracker or Hold’em Manager to help you.

Chinese Poker is a fascinating version of poker that’s very different to most other poker variants. It is rare to find, but when you do you might be pleasantly surprised. Chinese poker is fourhanded as a maximum as having been dealt 13 cards face down, you must separate them into 3 different hands. The first hand (a hand of five) must better then your second (another hand of five) and your second better then your last (three card hand).

You have one minute to arrange your hand then hands are scored. Yes that’s it just a minute.

The objective in Chinese Poker is the same as normal poker but you playing with 3 separate hands. As you can imagine there are a lot of different combinations in Chinese poker, which is what makes it so interesting.

After arranging the hands all players compare their hands to each other and the winner in each individual game receives a number of points, determined by how many hands they have won.

This is how you score points after each round:

• Player A vs. Player B
• Player A vs. Player C
• Player A vs. Player D
• Player B vs. Player C
• Player B vs. Player D
• Player C vs. Player D

A point for each winning player. Confused? There is actually a more popular method of scoring; ‘2-4 scoring’ where you win 2 points for beating two players and 4 points for beating all three.

With no draws, betting or bluffing Chinese Poker is more about the luck of the original hole cards, but with a minute to arrange them you can find that the speedier you are the better you are.