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		<title>How To Take Advantage Of Bad Players</title>
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The increase of poker popularity has led to a flood of fish who are just WAITING for you to take their money.
Seriously.
These fish are untalented, undisciplined, and lack the fundamental skills to succeed in Texas Holdem. These players think that since they have seen a few episodes of the [...]]]></description>
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<p align="justify">The increase of poker popularity has led to a flood of fish who are just WAITING for you to take their money.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Seriously.</strong></p>
<p align="justify">These fish are untalented, undisciplined, and lack the fundamental skills to succeed in Texas Holdem. These players think that since they have seen a few episodes of the World Poker Tour, they are poker pros.<span id="more-57"></span></p>
<p align="justify">If you want to make money playing Texas Holdem, you need to learn to take all the money from these novices before they give it to someone else.</p>
<p align="justify">There are many ways that you can bankrupt the bad players at your table. These methods are tested and proven and can give you an advantage over everyone else at the table.</p>
<p align="justify">These methods include&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>1. Fake Weakness </strong></p>
<p align="justify">It seems that everyone over-estimates their own poker ability. Bad players usually think they are one of the best players at any given table.</p>
<p align="justify">This false sense of ability will lead bad players to attempt to buy virtually EVERY pot.</p>
<p align="justify">This over-aggression makes weak players especially vulnerable to check-raises and slow playing good cards. When you have the nuts, DON&#8217;T lead out with a big bet (like you should against a good player), instead slow play the hand and let the novice try to buy the pot.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>2. Destroy Their Game Plan</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Usually a novice&#8217;s plan will depend on his ability to bluff effectively. If you are able to remove a significant section of their stack, you will destroy their game plan and put yourself on the fast track to the chip lead.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>3. Show No Respect For Weak Bets</strong></p>
<p align="justify">A bad player will fear losing all their chips on a mediocre hand. This means they will often make small bets on the turn and river. Show ZERO respect for these bets. Making a large raise over these weak bets will often scare away bad players leaving you with the pot.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>4. Face Bad Players &#8220;Heads Up&#8221;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Since good players and bad players require different strategies, try to force other players out of hand before clashing with a weak player.</p>
<p align="justify">Eliminating other players will reduce the amount of possibilities you have to consider. This will allow you to focus more on how to scare away weak players.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>5. Always Have A Decent Hand </strong></p>
<p align="justify">Even if you play your hand flawlessly, a bad player may call all your bets with nothing but an Ace high.</p>
<p align="justify">This is very frustrating, but very common. In fact, I know many poker professionals who will not play against novices because they are so difficult to bluff.</p>
<p align="justify">So, before you enter into a high-cost hand with a bad player, make sure that you have at least a decent hand and you are confident that they don&#8217;t have anything better.</p>
<p align="justify">These are just a few of the quick, more simple ways to take advantage of bad poker players&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">To become a serious SHARK, you need the right TOOLS to use at the poker room.</p>
<p align="justify">You need a program that gives you the CONSISTENT edge over your opponents&#8230; so that you can quickly &#8220;clean up&#8221; the competition&#8211; any day, any night.</p>
<p align="justify">The software program you&#8217;re looking for is called &#8220;Calculatem Pro&#8221;. This amazing tool will help you win more money at online poker by giving you the exact odds and data you need as you play. It&#8217;s the most sophisticated poker software online.</p>
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		<title>Losing with honor or winning with ease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Do you prefer playing poker with the best players, or do you prefer to win? Poker Usher helps you stay away from strong players so you can win more money, it&#8217;s as simple as that.
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<p>Do you prefer playing poker with the best players, or do you prefer to win? Poker Usher helps you stay away from strong players so you can win more money, it&#8217;s as simple as that.<br />
In the Poker Usher database, all players you have ever played against are listed along with all their actions at the poker tables when they bet and how much, when they folded, what cards they showed down and so on.</p>
<p><strong>Hunting down the bad players</strong></p>
<p>Parting from this valuable information, Poker Usher helps you find the poker tables that contain the most passive players and the biggest losers. It is easy to appreciate how this knowledge will make your win so much more straightforward. The software is very easy to use.<br />
When you find a player you play really well against, you can put him or her up on your Poker Usher buddy list, and from then on you will know instantly if that player is online, so you can join the game and continue building your bankroll.</p>
<p><strong>Finding the good poker tables</strong></p>
<p>A central feature of Poker Usher is the softness rating of poker tables. This means that, using the game statistics in your Poker Usher database, the program assigns a rating value to each poker table within the stakes that you specify. The rating shows how hard or soft the resistance will be at the table, judging by which players are seated and their previous results.<br />
Once youâ€™ve found a good table, you can join the games from within Poker Usher. No need to navigate the clustered online poker room lobby.</p>
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		<title>Odds Calculator Mistakes</title>
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Mistakes Made When Using An Odds Calculator
People always say that &#8220;Practice makes perfect.&#8221; 
I disagree.
The truth is that &#8220;PERFECT practice makes perfect.&#8221;
Using an odds calculator at online poker is a crucial way to develop your skills and become a better player&#8230; 
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<h2 align="center">Mistakes Made When Using An Odds Calculator</h2>
<p align="justify">People always say that &#8220;Practice makes perfect.&#8221; </p>
<p align="justify">I disagree.</p>
<p align="justify">The truth is that &#8220;PERFECT practice makes perfect.&#8221;</p>
<p align="justify">Using an odds calculator at online poker is a crucial way to develop your skills and become a better player&#8230; </p>
<p align="justify">But I&#8217;ve noticed that even though the popularity of programs like Texas Calculatem is booming, many players AREN&#8217;T USING THESE TOOLS CORRECTLY.</p>
<p align="justify">This &#8220;bad practice&#8221; can easily cause lost profits, a frustrating learning curve, and unnecessary confusion&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">So let&#8217;s discuss the seven most costly mistakes players make when using an odds calculator&#8211; and how YOU can avoid them.</p>
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<p align="justify">(If you don&#8217;t own an odds calculator yet, now is the time. Click this link to download the best:)</p>
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<p align="justify">OK, let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #1: Not Bluffing Enough</h2>
<p align="justify">Poker is a game of ODDS and SKILL&#8230; but it&#8217;s also a game of PSYCHOLOGY and LUCK.</p>
<p align="justify">If you listen to the advice of an odds calculator 100% of the time, yes, you&#8217;ll come out ahead. But you don&#8217;t want to become a predictable &#8220;robot&#8221; who only plays favorable odds and never bluffs.</p>
<p align="justify">Get my drift?</p>
<p align="justify">There are times in every poker game when you&#8217;ll want to buy the blinds because you sense weakness, over bet the pot to give off a certain table image, or &#8220;bully&#8221; the table with your huge chip stack.</p>
<p align="justify">Odds calculators don&#8217;t bluff. </p>
<p align="justify">And they don&#8217;t tell you when to bluff. </p>
<p align="justify">That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ve got to stay alert and make these types of decisions based on your own intuition&#8230;</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #2: Not Paying Enough Attention To Your Opponents</h2>
<p align="justify">The right odds calculator can quickly become addictive. It&#8217;s easy to get in a bad habit of just listening to its &#8220;advice&#8221; without paying attention to the game.</p>
<p align="justify">This allows you to save time, save energy, and play multiple games at once. </p>
<p align="justify">BUT&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Just like bluffing, blindly listening to an odds calculator can be detrimental. It can prevent you from catching important TELLS at the table.</p>
<p align="justify">Pay close attention to your opponents so that you spot someone on &#8220;tilt&#8221;, identify an amateur, and pick up betting patterns.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #3: Not Considering &#8220;Likely Odds&#8221;</h2>
<p align="justify">Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve got pocket Queens. You make a pre-flop raise of 3x the big blind and get four callers (at an 8-man table).</p>
<p align="justify">The flop hits: A-A-K</p>
<p align="justify">What a TERRIBLE flop, right? You figure one of your four opponents MUST have an Ace&#8230; or at least a King. And that means all you can hope for on the turn or river is a Queen.</p>
<p align="justify">If someone throws out a sizeable bet in this situation, you would fold&#8230; because you know you&#8217;re beat.</p>
<p align="justify">What&#8217;s interesting is that a &#8220;primitive&#8221; odds calculator would tell you that you have a STRONG hand: two pair with a great kicker. And it would probably tell you to call any bets&#8230; or even raise.</p>
<p align="justify">Crazy, huh?</p>
<p align="justify">You see, here&#8217;s the thing: Most odds calculators only lookat YOUR hand&#8230; and don&#8217;t try to &#8220;deduce&#8221; what your opponents might have. They don&#8217;t look at what&#8217;s &#8220;likely&#8221;.</p>
<p align="justify">You and I both know that the only way someone would call a pre-flop raise of 3x the big blind is if they have something good&#8230; like an Ace. But an odds calculator that just pays attention to your cards has no idea.</p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem is different. Texas Calculatem DOES look at what&#8217;s &#8220;likely&#8221; and what&#8217;s not. It takes a look at those four players who stayed in the pot and calculates the likelihood that one of them is holding an Ace or a King&#8230; given all the possible conditions.</p>
<p align="justify">Don&#8217;t download an odds calculator that doesn&#8217;t do &#8220;likely odds&#8221;, otherwise you&#8217;re just asking for trouble.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #4: Relying Too Much On Odds During &#8220;All-In&#8221; Plays</h2>
<p align="justify">In no limit Texas Holdem there is no restriction to how much you can bet. This makes the use of an odds calculator more tricky in this game type.</p>
<p align="justify">For instance, let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s $20 in the pot and your opponent decides to go all-in for his entire stack of $480. </p>
<p align="justify">You have to make a decision to call or fold.</p>
<p align="justify">The &#8220;pot odds&#8221; in a situation like this aren&#8217;t very good. The reason is because there&#8217;s such a small amount in the pot.</p>
<p align="justify">In this situation, however, pot odds don&#8217;t mean much. Your decision shouldn&#8217;t be based on &#8220;math&#8221;&#8230; it should be based on WHETHER YOU THINK YOUR OPPONENT HAS A BETTER HAND.</p>
<p align="justify">An all-in situation is so &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; that odds aren&#8217;t really relevant&#8230; so don&#8217;t get too caught up in them.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #5: Mis-Interpreting Odds Information When Playing </h2>
<p align="justify">Heads-Up (Or Short-Handed)</p>
<p align="justify">With just 2-3 players at the table, chances are NO ONE will get good cards. At this stage in the game, winning is more about bluffs and reading opponents. </p>
<p align="justify">Proof of this is the fact that most heads-up hands never get to &#8220;show down&#8221;. Someone almost always folds BEFORE the river.</p>
<p align="justify">Therefore, the odds of &#8220;winning by river&#8221; aren&#8217;t as relevant in this type of situation. Who cares if you have 7-2 offsuit? All that REALLY matters is what your opponent THINKS you have.</p>
<p align="justify">When I get heads-up, I don&#8217;t pay attention to the &#8220;hand strength&#8221; percentage or &#8220;odds by river&#8221; on my odds calculator.</p>
<p align="justify">Instead, I pay attention to the &#8220;odds on next card&#8221; feature, because that&#8217;s what is IMMEDIATELY relevant.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #6: Not Adjusting The Odds To Your Personal Style</h2>
<p align="justify">When you download an odds calculator, make sure it fits your personal &#8220;style&#8221; of play. If you&#8217;re a loose pre-flop player, you don&#8217;t want your odds calculator constantly telling you to &#8220;play tight and fold&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Instead, you want your odds calculator to be &#8220;loose&#8221; and simply show you when you&#8217;re deviating in the wrong manner.</p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem features &#8220;play settings&#8221; that you can customize for your own needs and preference. </p>
<p align="justify">(These settings apply both to pre-flop and post-flop play.)</p>
<p align="justify">This is also very useful depending on your game type. For instance, I set my pre-flop settings to be extremely tight in large multi-table tournaments&#8230; because my strategy is to sit back and be very patient.</p>
<p align="justify">But in a shorthanded Sit and Go, I do exactly the opposite, because &#8220;loose&#8221; hand selection is required to avoid getting blinded out.</p>
<h2 align="center">MISTAKE #7: Using The Wrong Odds Calculator</h2>
<p align="justify">An odds calculator is only useful if it has the FEATURES YOU NEED and if you USE IT RIGHT.</p>
<p align="justify">Avoid the common mistakes we&#8217;ve just discussed and you&#8217;ll be well on your way to maximizing your online poker profits. </p>
<p align="justify">The next step is to simply get the BEST odds calculator possible.</p>
<p align="justify">My highest recommendation goes to &#8220;Texas Calculatem&#8221;. It has all the features we&#8217;ve just discussed&#8230; and dozens more.</p>
<p align="justify">It&#8217;s by far the easiest-to-use and most useful odds calculator on the market&#8230; and it&#8217;s proven to help players like you make more money at online poker.</p>
<p align="justify">You can download Texas Calculatem now for FREE (by joining a partner casino).</p>
<p align="justify">Just click here to get started:</p>
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It is with poker as with so many other fields of knowledge, no matter how proficient you are, a master will always have something to teach you even if you&#8217;re a master yourself. And so much more if you&#8217;re not a master already, obviously.</p>
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		<title>Make a KILLING at Online Poker&#8230;.</title>
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“The Fastest And Easiest Way To Make A
KILLING At Online Poker Tournaments”
Everyone knows the surest way to make money at online poker is by WINNING TOURNAMENTS. The reason is because you can win large multiples of your buy-in&#8230; 200%, 500%, 1000%, or even higher.
In this strategy article we&#8217;ll discuss step-by-step exactly how I [...]]]></description>
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<h2>“The Fastest And Easiest Way To Make A<br />
KILLING At Online Poker Tournaments”</h2>
<p align="justify">Everyone knows the surest way to make money at online poker is by WINNING TOURNAMENTS. The reason is because you can win large multiples of your buy-in&#8230; 200%, 500%, 1000%, or even higher.</p>
<p align="justify">In this strategy article we&#8217;ll discuss step-by-step exactly how I consistently make a &#8220;killing&#8221; at online poker by beating Sit and Go tournaments. Read on to learn this amazingly simple method&#8230;<span id="more-21"></span></p>
<h2>What Is A Sit And Go?</h2>
<p align="justify">A Sit and Go is an online poker tournament. The name &#8220;Sit and Go&#8221; comes from the fact that these games are fast&#8211; with a clear beginning and end. Each Sit and Go has a pre-determined number of players&#8230; so once the spots are filled, the game starts.</p>
<p align="justify">Everyone in a Sit and Go must buy-in for the same amount of money and starts with the same number of chips.The blinds gradually go up in &#8220;levels&#8221; or &#8220;stages&#8221; until one player is left standing.</p>
<p align="justify">The payouts are determined before the game and are displayed when you buy-in.</p>
<h2>How Many Players Are In A Sit And Go?</h2>
<p align="justify">Sit and Go&#8217;s can have as many as 50 players or as few as 2. It really just depends on which casino you&#8217;re playing at and which type YOU CHOOSE.</p>
<p align="justify">A majority of Sit and Go&#8217;s are single table games with 10 players. In a game like this, the top 3 finishers would place &#8220;in the money&#8221;. (&#8221;Single Table Tournament&#8221; is abbreviated STT.)</p>
<p align="justify">For instance, let&#8217;s say you want to play a $10 Sit and Go. You buy-in for $10 and pay an &#8220;entry fee&#8221; to the casino&#8211; probably a buck. All 10 players would start with the same number of chips&#8211; let&#8217;s say 800. The blinds would start low, probably 5-10. As the game progresses, the blinds will keep increasing to force action. The buy-ins on a game like this would total $100. That money would get split between the top three finishers. First place would be $50, second place would get $30, and third place would get $20&#8230;</p>
<h2>How Long Do Sit And Go&#8217;s Last?</h2>
<p align="justify">A 10-player Sit and Go will usually last between 30-60 minutes. Some casinos have &#8220;turbo&#8221; Sit and Go&#8217;s where the blinds go up faster. Turbo games finish more quickly.</p>
<p align="justify">A 2-player Sit and Go&#8211; which is really just a &#8220;heads-up&#8221; match&#8211; will often last a FEW MINUTES before ending.</p>
<p align="justify">There are also Sit and Go&#8217;s with 5 players, 8 players, 20 players, 30 players, and so on. (A Sit and Go with more than 10 players will be played on more than one table. These are known as &#8220;Multi-Table Tournaments&#8221;, abbreviated MTT.)</p>
<p align="justify">No limit Texas Holdem Sit and Go&#8217;s are generally faster than limit Sit And Go&#8217;s&#8230; because the ability to move &#8220;all-in&#8221; gets things moving.</p>
<h2>How Do Sit And Go&#8217;s And Ring Games Differ?</h2>
<p align="justify">The easiest way to understand the distinction is to understand that Sit and Go&#8217;s are simply TOURNAMENTS. Ring games are like &#8220;cash games&#8221;. Here are some of the key differences:</p>
<p align="justify">* You can buy-in or leave anytime during a ring game, whereas you must enter the beginning of a Sit and Go to play.</p>
<p align="justify">* Sit and Go&#8217;s have a clear start (when everyone is ready) and end (when only one player is left). Ring games are ongoing.</p>
<p align="justify">* The blinds go up during Sit and Go&#8217;s, so in the later stages you&#8217;re forced to loosen your starting hand selection and take risks. In ring games, the blinds stay the same.</p>
<p align="justify">* Winning a Sit and Go requires a completely different set of strategies and techniques than winning a ring game&#8230;</p>
<h2>Why Sit And Go&#8217;s Are So Popular</h2>
<p align="justify">Sit and Go&#8217;s are HOT right now. I personally love to play Sit and Go&#8217;s, because I can often make MORE money and have MORE fun than in ring games.</p>
<p align="justify">Playing a ring game requires &#8220;grinding it out&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Playing a Sit and Go is an exciting battle with ups and downs&#8211; with a &#8220;do or die&#8221; feeling to it.</p>
<p align="justify">And here&#8217;s the best part: When you learn how to master the STRATEGIES for Sit and Go&#8217;s, you can amass a FORTUNE in winnings! You can predictably and consistently log onto your computer and win tournament after tournament after tournament&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Here&#8217;s why: Since Sit and Go&#8217;s pay the top finishers, you don&#8217;t have to place first to always make money. You obviously WANT to win first&#8211; but it&#8217;s not necessary for making a profit. I&#8217;ve developed a system of tactics where I shoot for first, but &#8220;hedge my bets&#8221; to settle for 2nd or 3rd as a backup plan&#8230;</p>
<h2>How To Consistently Beat Sit And Go&#8217;s</h2>
<p align="justify">Because of their unique structure, there are SPECIFIC strategies you need to beat Sit and Go&#8217;s on a consistent basis.</p>
<p align="justify">It&#8217;s taken me YEARS to &#8220;crack the code&#8221; on this and figure it all out. But now that I have, I can easily log onto my online poker account and make money&#8230; just about every time.</p>
<p align="justify">It&#8217;s a great feeling. And I want to share it with you.</p>
<p align="justify">That&#8217;s why I developed Sit And Go Shark.</p>
<p align="justify">The concept for Sit And Go Shark is actually very simple. This easy-to-install poker software is like having your very own PERSONAL POKER COACH.</p>
<p align="justify">That &#8220;coach&#8221;, of course, is me.</p>
<p align="justify">When you use Sit And Go Shark, the program shares several pieces of IMPORTANT ADVICE that you need to be thinking about at the table&#8211; everything from your cards to blinds to positioning to pot odds and more&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">The advice&#8211; which took me over 6 MONTHS to write!&#8211; is drawn from a HUGE DATABASE of possible combinations and factors. It runs alongside your table while you play, so it requires ZERO extra work from you.</p>
<p align="justify">I should also point out that online casinos don&#8217;t mind if you use Sit And Go Shark. As you know, some software out there is banned and dangerous to use&#8230; and I would never, ever recommend you to any of these software programs. You can feel comfortable using anything I point you to.</p>
<p align="justify">Anyway, like I was saying, Sit And Go Shark is like having me sitting on your shoulder&#8230; telling you what to do each step of the way&#8230; and teaching you how to handle the situation.</p>
<p align="justify">You&#8217;ll get two main benefits from using it:</p>
<p align="justify">1. You&#8217;ll win more (a LOT more) money simply by following the advice.</p>
<p align="justify">2. You&#8217;ll learn more (a LOT more) about the game of Texas Holdem. You&#8217;ll even do better at offline tournaments and ring games, even though you won&#8217;t have the tool in front of you.</p>
<p align="justify">Pretty cool, huh?</p>
<p align="justify">OK, so that&#8217;s Sit And Go Shark in a nutshell. To get started now and check out the website, just click the link below:</p>
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I sure hope so. Odds calculators are a CRUCIAL part of winning money at online poker. Here are a just a few ways an odds calculator can QUICKLY and EASILY improve your game:

UNDERSTAND YOUR STARTING HAND STRENGTH&#8230;

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<p align="justify"><strong>Do you use a poker odds calculator?</strong></p>
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<p align="justify">I sure hope so. Odds calculators are a CRUCIAL part of winning money at online poker. Here are a just a few ways an odds calculator can QUICKLY and EASILY improve your game:</p>
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<p align="justify"><strong>UNDERSTAND YOUR STARTING HAND STRENGTH&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p align="justify">The biggest mistake made by most card players is playing TOO MANY HANDS. For example, tell me if this thought has ever crossed your mind&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">&#8220;It&#8217;s worth calling the flop even though I have bad cards&#8211; because who knows, I might catch three-of-a-kind&#8230; or two pair&#8230; or something really good!&#8221;</p>
<p align="justify">Every poker player has had this thought from time to time. Even the pros.</p>
<p align="justify">But the problem is, thinking like this will cause you to LOSE MONEY in the long run. And the reason is because of the ODDS. Even though you might make a &#8220;great hand&#8221; once in every twenty flops, those other nineteen hands will cause you to lose MORE money than you won.</p>
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<p align="justify">But here&#8217;s the thing:</p>
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<p align="justify">The right odds calculator will show you EXACTLY how strong or weak your starting hand is&#8230; based on a PERCENTAGE and will show you the appropriate &#8220;Sklansky Starting Hand Group&#8221;. What this means is you will IMMEDIATELY know how good your hand is, as soon as the cards come out.</p>
<p align="justify">For example, at a 10-man table pocket Aces has a hand rank of 100% and is GROUP 1. Pocket two&#8217;s has a hand rank of 63.3%, which is in GROUP 7. (This is for hands to the river.)</p>
<p align="justify">But let&#8217;s be honest&#8230; understanding how &#8220;good&#8221; those hands are is EASY. You don&#8217;t need an odds calculator for that.</p>
<p align="justify">But let me ask you, which of THESE hands do you think has the highest &#8220;Hand Rank&#8221;?</p>
<p align="justify">a.) Queen-9 suited<br />
b.) Ace-5 suited<br />
c.) Jack-10 suited<br />
d.) Ace-Queen offsuit</p>
<p align="justify">(Here&#8217;s a hint&#8230; the strongest hand is NOT options &#8220;b&#8221; or &#8220;d&#8221;&#8230;)</p>
<p align="justify">Give up? Are you surprised that A-Q wasn&#8217;t the strongest? Well, that&#8217;s just ONE of the ways an odds calculator can be incredibly useful&#8230; you&#8217;ll know the exact hand strength right away and can make a more educated (translation = MORE PROFITABLE) decision before the flop.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>KNOW YOUR CHANCES OF HITTING AN &#8220;OUT&#8221;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">As you probably know, &#8220;outs&#8221; are cards that will help you improve your existing hand.</p>
<p align="justify">For example, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re holding 5-6 and the flop comes out 3-4-Q. That means you need either a two or a seven to make a straight&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Since there are four two&#8217;s and four seven&#8217;s in the deck, you have EIGHT OUTS.</p>
<p align="justify">Odds calculators will show you how many outs you have at any given time&#8230; and also give you the PERCENTAGE chance you have of getting them. In addition, a REALLY good odds calculator will &#8220;break it down&#8221; by each hand&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">For example, in the scenario above with the straight draw, let&#8217;s say you ALSO had a spade flush draw. That means you have more than eight outs, since one more spade will help you.</p>
<p align="justify">Premium odds calculators will show you the exact percentage chance you have of making the straight, the exact percentage chance of making the flush, and the TOTAL percentage for the two&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">This is a huge time-saver for you. Online poker is fast-paced&#8230; and it&#8217;s not practical to sit there and do advanced calculations and long division while you&#8217;re trying to make a decision.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>PLAY YOUR POSITION MORE EFFECTIVELY&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">In Texas Holdem poker, positioning is everything. You want to play MORE hands with good positioning and FEWER hands with bad positioning. It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
<p align="justify">The odds calculator I recommend allows you to ADJUST your starting hand settings depending on where you&#8217;re sitting at the table. For instance, if you&#8217;re on the button (the dealer position, which is the best position to be), the program will automatically set the &#8220;Hand Rank Requirement&#8221; to 50%&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">&#8230;So if you pick up a hand that has a Hand Rank LOWER than 50%, it will recommend that you fold.</p>
<p align="justify">But if you&#8217;re UNDER THE GUN (the player to the left of the big blind, which is the worst position to be), the program will automatically set the &#8220;Hand Rank Requirement&#8221; to 85%&#8230; so the software will make &#8220;tighter&#8221; recommendations while you&#8217;re in this position.</p>
<p align="justify">Make sense?</p>
<p align="justify">Now here&#8217;s the real beauty of this:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS MORE QUICKLY&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Most poker players improve their skills over YEARS of hard work, practice, and study. This is the slow and painful way.</p>
<p align="justify">Using an odds calculator ACCELERATES the learning process dramatically. Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p align="justify">As you&#8217;re playing online poker, the odds calculator will automatically compute the odds, hand strength, percentage chance on outs, and so on. You&#8217;ll use this information, make better decisions, and win more money.</p>
<p align="justify">Then here&#8217;s what will happen&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">In a matter of months, you&#8217;ll find yourself &#8220;knowing&#8221; the odds and hand strength WITHOUT looking at the software! It will become &#8220;natural&#8221; to you&#8230; because you&#8217;ll be seeing the same types of hands so frequently.</p>
<p align="justify">Of course, you&#8217;ll still want to use the odds software for the more advanced calculations.</p>
<p align="justify">But you&#8217;ll be AMAZED when you sit down at the poker table with your buddies, see the flop, and then blurt out:</p>
<p align="justify">&#8220;He has an 19% chance of making the flush on the river.&#8221;</p>
<p align="justify">Your friends will think you&#8217;re a poker genius! Because the truth is, learning the odds ISN&#8217;T about learning the MATH&#8230; it&#8217;s about SEEING and PLAYING with the numbers in front of you frequently enough.</p>
<p align="justify">This is how the pros do it&#8230; and this is how YOU can do it with the right tool.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>GET &#8220;ODDS-BASED&#8221; RECOMMENDATIONS&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Ultimately, the point is to reach a conclusion about WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IN A GIVEN SITUATION&#8230; BASED ON THE ODDS.</p>
<p align="justify">You and I both know that &#8220;odds&#8221; are only a PART of the game. They may be a BIG part, but they&#8217;re still just a part. There&#8217;s bluffing strategies, betting patterns, and many other factors that will affect your decisions&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Now let me show you the odds calculator that I use when I play online poker. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Texas Calculatem&#8221;. One of the great things is that it gives you &#8220;odds-based&#8221; recommendations&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">In other words, it take the outs, percentages, ratios, number of players, starting hand strength, and everything else&#8230; compile it all together&#8230; and then spit out a &#8220;decision&#8221; about what you should do.</p>
<p align="justify">So while you&#8217;re playing online poker, this program will run near the bottom of your screen and say something like, &#8220;Check&#8221; or &#8220;Fold&#8221; or &#8220;Call Unraised Only&#8221; or &#8220;Raise and Re-Raise&#8221;&#8230; and so on.</p>
<p align="justify">And here&#8217;s another reason why I like Texas Calculatem so much:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>ADJUST YOUR PLAYING STYLE AUTOMATICALLY&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem lets you adjust your &#8220;style&#8221; according to your preferences and table strategy.</p>
<p align="justify">For instance, let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re playing a 10-player Sit and Go. Well, at the beginning you want to play extremely tight because you just want to SURVIVE as the other players start knocking themselves out (after all, Sit and Go&#8217;s pay out for the top three finishers, so there&#8217;s no need to risk many chips in the beginning).</p>
<p align="justify">So what I do is set the &#8220;Pre-Flop Slider&#8221; to a very tight setting.</p>
<p align="justify">BUT&#8230; when you DO play a hand in the early stages of a Sit and Go, you want to play it AGGRESSIVELY. Especially if it&#8217;s a really good hand like a high pocket pair. Because the reality is, there are a lot of &#8220;loose manics&#8221; at the Sit and Go&#8217;s who will call anything&#8230; so you want to increase your chip stack by taking advantage of them.</p>
<p align="justify">So in that situation, I set the &#8220;Post-Flop Slider&#8221; to a more aggressive setting.</p>
<p align="justify">You see, with Texas Calculatem you can adjust each of these settings without affecting the other. And you can adjust them mid-game or any time you want (I adjust mine back to more normal levels when it gets down to six players in the Sit and Go).</p>
<p align="justify">Of course, it&#8217;s the same way with Ring Games and other tournaments. In a four player ring game I like to play lots of starting hands and aggressively &#8220;bully&#8221; my opponents&#8230; so I adjust the sliders to the looser and more aggressive settings and &#8220;Bam!&#8221;&#8230; the program adjusts its computations automatically.</p>
<p align="justify">AND&#8230; get this&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem instantly adjusts all of the odds and recommendations based on HOW MANY PLAYERS are at the table. In ring games people are constantly getting up, sitting out, coming in, etc&#8230; and in Sit and Go&#8217;s players are continuously being eliminated. All of this makes it confusing to figure out which hands to play and how to play them.</p>
<p align="justify">Calculatem adjusts everything AUTOMATICALLY. You don&#8217;t have to input anything, either. It &#8220;detects&#8221; everything by itself.</p>
<p align="justify">Speaking of detection&#8230; that&#8217;s something else you need to be aware of:</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY AN ODDS CALCULATOR WITHOUT THESE FEATURES&#8230;</strong></p>
<p align="justify">There are some KEY FEATURES that make an odds calculator a very effective tool. But ironically, MOST ODDS CALCULATORS don&#8217;t have these features!</p>
<p align="justify">For instance, most odds calculators make you &#8220;manually&#8221; type in what your cards are&#8230; what the flop cards are&#8230; and so on.</p>
<p align="justify">This makes no sense. After all, you can do the math faster than that!</p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem was designed in a way that requires NONE of your time or effort. It automatically &#8220;attaches&#8221; to your poker game and detects your cards and the cards on the table (from the flop, turn, and river). You just sit back and focus on the game.</p>
<p align="justify">Obviously Texas Calculatem doesn&#8217;t read your OPPONENTS cards, though&#8230; since that information is completely secured by the casino. (That sure would make things easier, huh?)</p>
<p align="justify">Another great feature that Calculatem has is called &#8220;Fold Depth&#8221;. This basically uses &#8220;human logic&#8221; to make the odds computations more accurate. For instance, let&#8217;s say the flop came out 7-7-3 and two players folded.</p>
<p align="justify">Texas Calculatem &#8220;knows&#8221; that neither of those two players folded the seven. (Duh!)</p>
<p align="justify">The reason this is important is because it affects all of the ADVANCED calculations from that point forward. Using the &#8220;human logic&#8221;, Texas Calculatem knows a more accurate percentage of WHERE the other two sevens are&#8230; as well as all the other cards in the deck.</p>
<p align="justify">The result is a program that is far superior and more useful than any other on the market. In fact, I&#8217;ve really only &#8220;scratched the surface&#8221; of all the features that Texas Calculatem has&#8230; and all the ways it can help you win more money at online poker.</p>
<p align="justify">Honestly, the question isn&#8217;t whether or not you need an odds calculator&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">The question is: How can you afford NOT to use one?</p>
<p align="justify">The cold hard truth is that many of your opponents WILL be using Texas Calculatem&#8230; which gives them the IMMEDIATE ADVANTAGE at the tables.</p>
<p align="justify">If you&#8217;re only going to play poker for &#8220;play money&#8221;, then I guess it&#8217;s OK. But if you&#8217;re playing for REAL MONEY, then you need to download Texas Calculatem to your computer TODAY. Without it, you&#8217;re just another fish.</p>
<p align="justify">The best part is, Texas Calculatem is FREE when you setup a new account at one of the partner poker rooms&#8230;</p>
<p align="justify">So click this link, setup your account, and download Texas Calculatem for FREE. You&#8217;ll be winning more money at online poker within the next five minutes&#8230;</p>
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