Author: Shirley Bassler

Omaha Poker, or Omaha Hi, is a variation of Hold ’em played with four hole cards instead of two. At showdown, the best five-card hand using exactly two of your hole cards and three cards from the board wins. Unlike Hold ’em, you may not use more than three cards from the board. The betting and blinds are exactly the same as in Hold ’em.

At the beginning of each hand, each player is dealt four hole cards. There is a small blind, a big blind, and a round of betting.

In Pot Limit, a player can bet any amount from the minimum bet to the size of the pot. In a $5/$10 pot-limit game, the small blind is $5 and the big blind is $10. The first player can call toto hk  the big blind (in this case, $10), or raise to any amount up to the size of the pot. A raise must either equal or exceed the previous bet or raise. In this case, a pot-sized raise would be $25 ($5 small blind + $10 big blind + $10 call), meaning that, in total, player three can bet up $35. Supposing player three makes a toto hk -sized raise, the total pot is now $50.

If the next player wants into the hand, they must call $35, which is the size of player three’s bet. If they want to raise the maximum, they would bet $120, which equals the size of the pot ($50) plus a $70 raise ($35 call + $35 raise).

Omaha Your Hole Cards

Once the first round of betting is complete, the dealer then puts out a three card flop, just as in Hold ’em. There is a round of betting. In the above example, the minimum bet …

Phrases like “player privacy” and “opt-in” not in this vocabulary

Doing the rounds of casinos and portals this week was an offer to buy or trade player databases which clearly illustrates the need for a tougher official stance on the spam-merchants who create and sell these lists to email marketers, often without asking whether the players want to be “traded” or “bought”.

Daniel Bratt of Global Max Media.com is just one of a legion of salesmen working at getting as many online gamblers on their lists as possible. And it is clear from the content of the circular that although “opt-ins” (folks who agree to receive this stuff) are at a premium, the marketers are more concerned with incorrect email addresses than they are about sending out unsolicited marketing emails.

A recent US consumer survey carried out by the respected eMarketer company showed that 73 percent of American consumers are angry and frustrated at the continual bombardment of unsolicited marketing emails, and would like to see significantly tougher anti-spam measures.

The list-hunters described here, who boast an online gambler list of 4 million names are a good example of why they feel this way.

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International Gaming & Entertainment Expo – IGE

There’s a new game in town and it is the IGE Expo, International Gaming & Entertainment. In an era when conferences dot the industry landscape and are held in venues from Toronto to Singapore professing to continuously inform and educate attendees, complemented by the latest technology and advancements on display by exhibitors, too many have become destinations for networking with a repetitive theme. That has led to a new and exciting partnership between one of the most sought after speakers for these conferences internationally and his organization with …