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How to Sharpen Your Poker Skills
Fans of the game insist that poker is the perfect combination of skill and luck. However, you can play for years and find that you still have a lot to learn. Heed the advice below if you seem to be making the same mistakes over and over, or if you are a novice just getting into the game. These steps are geared toward five-card draw, but the general strategy and psychology apply to any version of poker.
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Know the ranking and probabilities of possible poker hands (while keeping in mind the psychology of the game--see steps below). The best hand is a straight flush, comprised of five consecutive cards of the same suit. The best possible straight flush, a royal flush, is 10 through ace of any one suit. In descending order, the remaining hands are: four of a kind, full house (three matching cards combined with a pair), flush (cards of all one suit), straight (five consecutive cards), three of a kind, two pair and one pair. There are roughly 2.5 million possible poker hands. The likelihood of a hand containing a pair is about 42 percent. The likelihood of a straight flush is about .0015 percent.
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Improve Your Poker Game Book Review |
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Review From: The Poker Forum
 Anyone who thinks they could read a few books, learn some general strategies, and then be able to go out and regularly beat a mid-limit casino poker game will be disappointed. Beating the games populated by the better players requires a more complex strategy than a few rote generalities can provide. It is necessary to have a deep understanding of this game, an understanding that can come only from experience and careful thought expended about the game away from the table. There is no "get smart quick" scheme, but the fastest and surest path to expertise is to learn what the best players do and to understand why.
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Star Trek Character Amalgam Makes Practically Perfect Poker Player
written by Andrew N.S. Glazer, the Poker Pundit
If you're a Star Trek fan, you're going to love this column. If you aren't, don't quit on me: you're going to learn a lot about the skills and personality traits necessary to become a successful poker player, and I promise not to require any prior Star Trek knowledge for the reader to benefit from this analysis.
The original Star Trek show eventually spawned several follow-up series: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and now the prequel Enterprise. As the number of different Star Trek shows grew, so did the number of alien races we encountered.
It turns out that not only do the later Star Trek series frequently involve poker scenes (usually involving illegal or silly game rules, but don't get me started, that's a whole 'nother story), but the traits that characterize many of the alien races would, if combined into one person, make that person a practically perfect poker player.
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