Four card poker is a game of cards involving a hand made up of four cards as the name suggests. The game is similar to a poker card game called the three card poker the only difference is the number of cards involved. Also, the dealer is not allowed to have a qualifying hand.

The game has rules just like all the poker games. The game also has bonuses for the players. Gaming strategy is very important and is essential that all players have some strategy if they want to win.

As a player and when you play poker you need to know when to lift and fold. Four card poker usually begins when the player starts making his own independent wagers. It uses a minimum of fifty two card decks. The card decks however, don�t normally exceed this amount.

A four card poker game requires a player to deal in a minimum of five cards in order to provide an excellent choice for the four card hand. A dealer need not qualify, as in other poker games, f... more.

The really good players of poker will tell you that one of the must haves for being a good poker player is patience. Patience is required to hang around in a game until you get just the hand you were waiting for. A good player also needs to be disciplined enough to know which games he can play and which he should quit early. A disciplined player will quickly realise when the edge is lacking, would bother to take notes of how each hand transpired and would take steps to ensure mistakes are not repeated. When you have both of these almost half the skills required to be play poker is acquired.

When you are playing poker for money and there is lot of it involved it is imperative that your mind is sharp and thinking is lightning fast. Learn to think on your feet, take mental notes, and use the data in a statistical sense to make each hand as effective as possible. One another very important aspect or skill that is required in a poker player is the ability to keep emotions under... more.

Nine Finalists Emerge for the World Poker Series

In Las Vegas the World Series of poker is down to the final nine and it will take another 117 days to find a winner. For those of you who don't know how far that is, the final will be in November.

It is going to be interesting because there are only a couple of well known names in the line up. One of those is Kelly Kim a professional poker player from Whittier California. Kim acknowledges the good fortune of making it into the final nine. "I get to play another day. Anything could happen. It's truly amazing," said an overjoyed Kim. The professional player managed to make it to the final nine holding 2.6 million chips, a whooping 23 million chips behind the leader. Incidentally 2.6 million only makes up 1.9 percent of the chips in play.

On Tuesday tournament officials gave out $900,670 to each of the finalists. This would have been followed up by an official meeting with the new finalists of no-lim... more.

In the poker player rankings Bluff magazine and ESPN name J.C Tran as 1st , David (Dragon) Pham 2nd, David Singer 3rd, Michael Binger as 4th and Danny Wong as 5th in their poker player rankings.

It is interesting to note that Bluff and ESPN have different results for the 2008 player of the year. That shows you the magnitude of Live world championship poker. Unlike tennis this isn’t a game you win over and over. Michael Binger is 1st in the player of the year rankings, Men (The Master) Nguyen 2nd, Erik Seidel 3rd and Glen Chorny 4th and John “Razor” Phan is 5th in the POY rankings.

Micheal Binger

Bluff magazine and ESPNs number one player of the year Micheal Binger is 32 years old is has earnings of $5,558,685. He’s a University Ph.D in Theoretical Particle Physics at Stanford U... more.

The World Poker Tour is a series of Poker championships held across the world, but, mainly in the United States. The games are mainly that of Texas Hold ‘em pokers but there are other variants as well. The World Poker Tour gained popularity after it was broadcast round the world and began to be televised internationally. The World Poker Tour attracts the best of the poker players from across the Untied States and other countries as well.

The rules of participation in the World Poker Tour are fairly simple and the tour is open to any player who can buy-in for an amount that is in the slab of $2,500 to $25,000. The other condition is that the player must win one of the satellite tournaments. The World Poker Tour is a big hit among the players due to the innovativeness of the tournament and the absence of too much technical detail among the games. The fans like it especially well because they can see the cards of the players by means of a small camera that is placed behind the players.

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