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The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced the profit numbers generated by the State’s freshly legalized online gambling and online poker industry over its first six weeks. According to the announcement, the total revenue was $8.4 million, of which 1.3 million went to the state as tax.

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Playing in online poker satellites is always an attractive proposition for a savvy online poker player. Qualifying through an online satellite will grant one access to poker tournament far outside the reach of his/her bankroll, and playing in such events is extremely beneficial for everyone, not only because of the potential prize one stands to win, but because of the valuable knowledge and experience one can amass this way.

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There is no shortage of poker and online poker players out there who simply hate Fixed Limit Holdem, especially the small-limit kind, and it is safe to say that – almost without exception – these haters are NL Holdem players. The reasons why these players hate Fixed Limit are numerous, and they can all be traced back to some sort of a myth that these players believe in and consequently fall victim to.

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The poker rake is the heart and soul of the online poker/poker industry. It is through the poker rake that players pay those who organize the games, and at the end of the day, it is the poker rake that makes the games possible. Just as the blinds can be considered the catalysts of action in every individual poker hand, the rake and the tournament fees are the catalysts of the entire industry.

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What is poker cashback? Poker cashback is a sort of loyalty reward which seeks to offer players extra value in direct proportion with the amount of action they put in at the site’s tables. Poker cashback is indeed poker rakeback re-branded. Since a number of online poker rooms have turned their backs on rakeback a while ago, citing its various shortcomings which hurt the sites and their player-base, poker cashback surfaced. Poker cashback is essentially the same as poker rakeback, it’s just that certain operators do not want to/are forbidden to call it that these days.

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Community card poker games as wildly positional games. Indeed, if one were to look down at the table from above, he/she could see the money quite literally following in the wake of the blinds. The blinds define the positions and thus, they do in fact define who gets to pick up the money at the end of the hand. Therefore, in games like Texas Holdem and Omaha, the blinds are much more than the catalysts of all action: they actually also define how much of that action will go down.

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In poker and online poker, there’s a sort of player called a “maniac”. Such “maniacs” will bet and raise with any hand, hoping to intimidate their opponents into folding or into committing a mistake, simply by keeping them under constant pressure. The reason why there are so many players out there practicing this “sport” is that it simply seems to work, especially at the real money tables, and especially with a NL betting structure.

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Poker tournament action, whether it’s online poker or live games we’re talking about, is where the big money is made by those who cannot otherwise afford to hang with the big boys. A tournament like PokerStars’ Sunday Million for instance, gives players the chance to play for 6-figure prizes for a $215 investment.

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Double or Nothing SNGs have become incresingly popular lately. To understand the strategy-mechanics of these games and why their draw on beginners seems so irresistible, one first needs to understands how they work.

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SNGs are extremely popular these days: the tournament format is indeed a very attractive one, because of the limited number of participants and because of the increased individual odds for each and every one of the players. There are special SNGs that pay out half the participants, so as bankroll-builders, the appeal of SNGs is indeed great.

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