Poker Tells Used in Live games

This article describes the poker tells that helps you in playing the poker in casinos. If you do not want the opponents to read you then you have to know how to hide your poker tells.
If the opponent stares at flop then it means that he is not strong and he is taking some time to go through the potential hands in his mind. If a player stares at flop for a millisecond then it is understood that the bet making is very easy for him. If a player stares at another player then it tells that he is nervous that the other player may call him or bet. Reading the emotions in eyes is another poker tell. If a player immediately call for a bet, it tells that he is trying to show his strength even after having a weak hand. Reverse psychology should also be taken into consideration. A player may look disappointed if he has a bad hand. It has to decided whether that disappointment is an intentional feeling or the original. This lets you know in practice. A player who is unusually showing his strength means he is bluffing. When a player stares at chips of his, it means he is planning for betting.   

How to Play Poker Online

A beginner to the online poker play may not understand or know how to play poker online. There are a few steps to play the poker tournament online. First a table has to be selected by a click in the lobby or by a click on "Go to this table" button in lobby. When table window opens you have to click on the available seat to sit. Now enter the amount of money you like to bring to table and click OK button.
Click on SIT IN button when you want to dealt. Before the first hand is dealt at new table, you have to decide about the dealer. This can be decided by distributed a face up card to each player. The player with highest card is made as a dealer.

Features of Poker Clients

Poker clients have many features in playing poker tournaments. Additional features are added frequently. Some of the features are playing multiple tables, raise or fold tables, lobby chat, different poker games, betting structures, wash out abusive players.
A player can play at multiple tables at the same time. The raise/fold table option is also available in the lobby.
The chatting facility with other players is also available. All the logged in players can use the chat function. Several games are available to choose from like Texas Holdem, 7-card stud, Omaha Hi/Lo, Omaha, 7-card stud Hi/Lo. The betting structures like limit, no-limit and pot-limit are available. The players at the table can vote out players that are abusive.

How to play a private table

The poker table is important in poker rules. The two versions of private tables are private, unrestricted. A player has to send request to the owner of private table to join the table. The unrestricted version is like a regular table. You have to send a message for the owner of private table to accept your request. If you are accepted, then you can sit at the table. The game speeds are of 3 types.
Normal: This is same as standard table.
Adaptive: Dynamic thinking is needed depending on the people played before.
Turbo: These tables have shorter time for thinking. It is suitable for the players who like to play fast games and
           having constant internet connection.

Betting structures in poker

There are three different betting structures in poker tournament. Using these betting structures  the player plays the poker in different variants. The available betting structures are Limit, No-Limit, Pot-Limit.

Limit Poker:
      In limit structured game, the only valid bet or raise is the current limit. For example 5$ is the bet in the first two rounds in a 5$-10$ Holdem game. There can be a max of four bet raises in betting round. This include bet, re-raise, cap, and raise.

No-Limit Poker:
      In no-limit structured game, the bet raise must be atleast higher than the current limit or the last bet. Higher limit is not available. There is no limit for number of raises.

Pot-Limit Poker:
     In pot-limit, the bet raise must be higher than the current limit. A pot limit bet or raise can be the highest to the value of pot and all the bets at table. There is no limit for number of raises. 

RAZZ Game Rules

RAZZ game is almost similar to seven card stud high. The poker rules in RAZZ, the lower hand wins the pot. The high card (aces are lower) requires to make the bet on the first round and the lower hand acts first on the next rounds. The best hand is 5-4-3-2-A. Open pair doesn't affect the betting limit.
Rules of RAZZ

1. All the razz rules are same as seven-card stud rules. 
2. The weakest hand wins the pot. Ace are low. 
3. The highest card starts the action. If lower hand is tied the first player starts the action. 
4. Fixed limit games uses lower-limit on third, fourth streets, upper-limit on next streets. 
5. The dealer announces all the pairs for the first time they occur, except face cards.
   

Poker Rules for Showdown

In poker tournament a beginner has to learn the key aspects for winning the game. The following are the rules for showdown.

1. All the losing hands are killed by dealer before the pot is awarded. 
2. Before winning any part of pot, all the players show their cards face up.
3. Any participant in the game who sees an indiscretion must report the error.
4. Once deal has occurred, each player at table can see the cards of another player. 
5. When everyone is all-in at last round of betting, the player acted first will be first to display the hand.