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For The Ladies
If you are dealt pocket queens in a cash game and end up with another two queens on the table, giving you four of a kind, Nuts Poker will credit your account with $25!

For The Gentlemen
The same goes for you, but in your case it has to be pocket kings and made quad kings!

This promotion is only valid for real money Texas hold’em cash games – tournaments and play money games do not count.

Our male players cannot claim for four queens and our female players cannot claim for four kings.

To receive your bonus you must email your claim with the correct hand number, found in the top left corner of the screen, to russ@nutspoker.com. After the claim has been checked the $25 will be credited to your poker account.

A maximum of two claims can be paid per player per calendar month.

Get A Royal Flush And Win $50

You’ve just flopped the stone cold nuts?

A Royal Flush is a reason for celebration – and Nuts Poker will acknowledge it by crediting your account with $50!

This promotion is only valid for real money Texas hold’em cash games – tournaments and play money games do not count.

The Royal Flush must be a combination of your pocket cards and the cards on the table – five cards on the board making a Royal Flush do not count.

To receive your bonus you must email your claim with the correct hand number, found in the top left corner of the screen, to russ@nutspoker.com. After the claim has been checked the $50 will be credited to your poker account.

Nuts Poker Bad Beat Blues

Bad beats: the poker player’s scourge – we all end up on the wrong end of them and we all dish them out.

If you suffer a particularly bad beat while playing at NutsPoker and send your hand number to russ@nutspoker.com, they’ll report it in the Featured Nuts section of the Nuthouse and share your pain with the entire NutsPoker community.

NutsPoker will also credit one player with a $25 bonus by way of consolation.

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Poker can be played in two forms: cash games and tournaments.

In a cash game you choose how much to buy-in for, and can always buy more chips at any time. However, tournaments are different.

Types Of Tournaments

There are two basic types of tournaments : Multi Table Tournaments (often referred to as MTT’s) and Sit and Go Tournaments (SNG”s). Both tournaments are basically identical, the only difference being that MTT’s are scheduled tournaments and have an advertised start time and SNG’s are tournaments that start when the required number of players are registered.

Because of their definite start times MTT’s often have much larger fields than SNG’s for one reason. You know when it will start - it could take anything from a few hours to a few days to get enough players to play a 300 player SNG. Often SNG’s will be single table tournements and only two or three table tournements where you are only playing against a relatively small number of players.

Every player in a tournament pays the same entry fee and receives the same number of chips in exchange. Thus if it is a $2 tournament every player might receive 1500 chips in exchange for their $20. In fact the entry fee is more likely to be $2+$2where ‘+$2 represents the registration fee, a $2charge for the cardroom.

Styles Of Tournemnet

There are two main types of tournaments: freeze-out and re-buy events.

In a freeze-outyou only receive your initial chips, 1500 in our example, and there is no option to buy any more. Once you lose these chips you are completely eliminated from the competition.

In a re-buy event, however, players who have lost their chips are allowed to re-enter for a certain amount of time, usually one hour. They can choose to purchase replacement chips for an additional $20 and keep playing. Even if they lose these chips as well, they can still re-buy, as long as they are still in the designated re-buy period.

At the end of the re-buy period every player remaining in the competition is usually entitled to purchase one add-on, i.e. to buy an additional 1500 chips for $20 in our example. Once the re-buy period is over the tournament reverts to a freeze-out format. Anyone who loses their chips is eliminated and cannot buy any more chips.

Table Balancing

As players are eliminated in the freeze-out period tables are consolidated in such a way that the number of players on each table is balanced. Eventually enough players will have been knocked out to consolidate the remaining nine or ten players onto a single table, the final table.

Winning

The winner is the player who ultimately ends up with all the chips in play. However, usually the prizes are structured in such a way that several players receive a prize. For example, first place might be 50% of the prize fund, second place 30% and third place 20%. In large tournaments with 40 or more runners often everyone at the final table will receive a prize, and the winner’s share of the prize fund may go down to 30-35%.

Blind Structures

The other key difference between tournaments and cash games relates to the blinds. In a cash game the blind levels do not change during a game. However, in tournaments the blinds are always raised periodically in order to speed up the action. For example, the blinds might be 25-50 for the first 20 minutes, 50-100 for the next 20 minutes, 75-150 for the next 20 minutes, then 100-200, then 150-300, then 200-300 etc. This blind structure accelerates the game because there is always pressure on the low stacks to take a stand or risk simply being ‘blinded away’.

Beginners Guide To Checking, Betting, Folding, Calling and Raising

In poker there are only five different betting actions to remember, depending on whether or not anyone has already made a bet on this round. Let’s start with your options when someone has already placed a bet (known as opening the betting).

If you do not like your hand you can fold, relinquishing your cards and taking no further part in the hand. Any money that you have already contributed to the pot is lost. Once you have folded your hand it is placed in a pile of other discarded hands (known as the muck) by the dealer. Having touched the muck, your hand is now dead. It cannot be retrieved even if you were to realise that your hand had been discarded by accident.

However, let’s assume that you do want to continue in the hand after someone else has bet. In that case you may either call or raise. A call involves matching the amount already bet in order to see the next card (or to see the showdown, if the last card dealt was the river card). However, if you particularly like your hand you may also raise, forcing the original bettor to match your raise if he wants to continue in the hand.

Of course, whenever you raise, the original bettor has the option to reraise, putting the onus back on you to match his bet to stay in the hand. Most cardrooms have a limit on the number of bets and raises allowed. Usually only a bet and three raises (or four raises) are allowed on each round of betting. However, when there are only two players left in the hand some cardrooms allow unlimited bets and raises.

When there has not yet been any betting on this round, you have the option of either betting or checking. If you like your hand (or choose to bluff) and decide to bet out, you simply place your bet in front of you towards the centre of the table. The other players must now at least match your bet if they want to remain in the hand.

If you instead decide to check, you are deferring your betting rights for the time being. Another player may now bet, in which case you may fold your hand, call the bet or raise (the action of first checking and then raising when an opponent bets is known as a check-raise). If no-one bets on that round then the next card is dealt and again the first player has a choice whether to bet or check.

Poker can at times sound a lot more complicated than it really is. As you advance your knowledge and your ability many more factors come in to play in your decision making at the table, but at the heart of it, the basics don’t change regardless of the game you are playing.

At any one time you only ever have three of four options available to you - you may Check, Fold, Call or Bet (Raise).

If there are no bets to you (It is checked to you)

You have the option too :

Bet : You can put a bet into the pot. Now all the players must call that bet by also putting in the same amount of money, or they can raise your bet (re-raise). If they do not call or raise they must fold.

Check : You can choose not to put in any money into the pot. If no one bets, then the game continues and everyone is still in the hand. If someone else bets, then you will have another decision to make.

Fold : You can choose to fold your hand at any time although as it is not costing you anything to continue playing at this stage, this is not recomended.

If there is a bet to you

You have the option too :

Fold : You don’t put in any more money, but you are out of the hand and cannot win any money. Any money you have put into the pot up to this point is lost.

Call : You put in money equal to the amount bet so far. You can stay in the hand. Play continues and the next card is dealt, unless someone else raises. If there are no more cards, such as when you have called a bet on the river in texas hold’em, then there is a “showdown”.

Raise : You put more money into the pot equal to the amount bet so far, plus your raise. The amount of your raise will vary depending on whether you are playing limit, pot-limit or no-limit. Now, all the other players must call your raise or fold. They may also reraise you.

Showdown

If there is more than one player left after all the cards have been dealt, and everyone has called on the last round of betting after that card is dealt, then those players showdown their hands. Whoever is holding the best poker hand wins all the money in the pot. If there is a tie, then all tying hands split the pot in equal amounts.

Win by default

If everyone except one player folds, then that player gets all the money in the pot. He does not have to show his hand to the other players.

Poker Betting Techniques

Now let’s look and how those combinations work in practice and how we can form a strategy to use two of these actions to outplay our opponents and either maximise our winnings or minimise our losses.

The Re-Raise

Someone else raises you, but you feel that you have a better hand, and you want to make your opponent pay to stay in the hand. Then you can reraise him and force him to put in another bet to stay in. This is a very effective tactic and an “aggressive” move, just be sure you really do have the best hand or you think you can make your opponent fold in a later round of betting.

The Check-Raise

You hold a strong hand and you want your opponent to put money in the pot by feigning weakness in your hand. So you check, your opponent bets, and you now re-raise him. Now if he calls, and if your hand is as good as you think it is, you just won more from him than you otherwise would. Of course he may chose to fold outright at this stage in which case you win the hand without a showdown. Check-raising is a powerful tool, but it can be dangerous, because your opponent might also check behind you. You have effectively given your opponent a free card or if you have checked the river, you have a showdown you may have otherwise avoided.

The Check-Call

If you have a decent hand, but you think there is a good chance your opponent might have a better one, you may wish to avoid a raise. In this case, you can check-and-call which entails checking your hand and then calling your opponents bet. This is an effective way too play a draw or to keep a pot small when playing limit hold’em but is strongly not advised in no-limit games. You could find yourself in an unenviable position of having to call a very large bet or folding.

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Australia Open / PokerNews Cup

In just under 2 months Melbourne, Australia will play host to the inaugural PokerNews Cup. This series also known as the Australia Open. From October 20-29, 2007 some of the best aussie poker players and players from around the world will descend upon Crown Casino to compete against each other over 14 events and ultimately play off in the $3000 buy in PokerNews Cup Main Event starting Saturday October 27th.

Australia Open / PokerNews Cup Satellite Series

Nuts Poker is giving all its players a senstaional chance to be there amongst the action Down Under at Crown Casino with the Australia Open Super Satellite Series. Nuts Poker players are being offered a unique chance to snatch a $6,000 Prize Package and represent Nuts Poker at the Australian Open Main Event.

Win A $6000 Prize Package

The Australia Open Super Satellites winners will win a prize package which includes :

• Six Night hotel accommodation in the Crown Promenade Hotel
• An entry into a $3,000 Main Event, on Saturday October 27th.
• An entry into a $550 event on Wednesday, October 24th
• A Thursday tour for the whole group to Yarra Valley, including lunch at a winery and Healesville Sanctuary
• A cocktail party/ dinner on Thursday evening.
• A free roll on the Crown Poker Room
• A Melbourne Boat Cruise in the city, including lunch.
• plus $1500 for travel

Australia Open Super Satellite Series Tournament Schedule

All Nuts Poker Players can buy in directly to one of the Australian Open Super Satellites for $200 +$15 or they can play their way in through a series Sit-N-Go’s or Multi Table Tournament Qualifiers. The Super Satellite comprises 9 weekly events and the MTT and Sit-N-Go qualifiers are running every day, so everyone has an opportunity to join Australia’s and the world’s best poker players Down Under in October.

Super Satellite on: August 12th, 12:00
Super Satellite on: August 19th, 19:00
Super Satellite on: August 26th, 12:00
Super Satellite on: September 2nd, 19:00
Super Satellite on: September 9th, 12:00
Super Satellite on: September 16th, 19:00
Super Satellite on: September 23rd, 12:00
Super Satellite on: September 30th, 19:00
Super Satellite on: October 7th, 12:00