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Poker Stars adds 8 new Games - Triple Draw & More

jason — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:28:41 +0000

Just got word that Poker Stars has added eight new games to their lineup and even has Badugi on the backburner as coming soon. Here are the new games you can now play online at PokerStars.

5 Card Draw
2-7 Triple Draw
2-7 Single Draw
HORSE
HOSE
Hold’em Mixed
Omaha H/L Mixed
8-Game Mix
Badugi is coming soon

I watched a bit of the 2-7 Triple draw and wow that looks like a pretty fun and loose game to play in. The object of the game is to have the best low hand. I am going to try this game out for sure as it looks like a lot of fun. Check out this screen grab of this $100/$200 game of 2-7 Triple Draw I caught.

If you are tired of playing holdem or omaha and want to try something different, read through this how to play 2-7 Triple Draw information provided by PStars. These new draw games look to really add up an interesting mix of action available at the largest online poker site in the world, and hopefully continue to bring more and more players online.

I honestly haven’t played many of the draw games lately, like 5 card draw since you couldn’t play them online, and most of the games I play live are holdem. It’s going to be very interesting trying out some of these new games and learning a new form of poker. To play many of the games well is key to being a champion in almost any one form of poker, many people say.

Give 2-7 Triple Draw a try and see what you think - visit PokerStars.com and play!

Playing a Draw in Limit Holdem

jason — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:28:55 +0000

Playing A Post Flop Draw In Limit Hold Em
Drawing hands can be some of the most profitable hands you experience while playing Limit Hold Em. Especially in the loose games at FullTiltPoker.com. A drawing hand is when you are 4 cards to either a straight or a flush, and is usually made most reference to after the flop.

When you are involved in a hand on Full Tilt Poker in which you are in a drawing situation, there are some key factors you want to take into consideration. The things you want to think about are:

your pot odds
what you are drawing to (nut draw vs. non-nut draw)
if your opponents are on a draw as well

Pot Odds
When you are playing your drawing hand on Full Tilt Poker, you want to know what your odds are. When you are involved in a hand where you have either a open ended straight draw, or a flush draw, your odds are a little less than four to one to make your hand.

What this means is you want to be able to win about four times the size of what you have to call to make the hand profitable to play. These are your pot odds. Your pot odds will often be skewed a little one way or the other depending on your hand strength. Obviously you want to always be drawing to the nuts, and using good starting hand selection will let you do that.

If You Do Hit, Are You Guaranteed A Win?
This really ties in with if your opponent is drawing as well. You will get involved in a lot of drawing hands on Full Tilt Poker, and will want to know where you stand. If you are drawing to the low end of a straight and hit, what are your chances that you are going to win the hand? You need to look at the specific situation of the hand to figure this out. Are there a lot of people in the hand who were smooth calling raises? These players will often be on a draw as well. If you can break your opponent down, then you should not have much trouble throwing your hand away if you are beat. There will be times when even if you hit you are dead in the water.

You also need to be concerned with paired boards.
Players on Full Tilt Poker often play a full house very crafty, so be aware of that. You can still go after your draw on these boards, just be well aware of where you are at and your opponent. You will only really want to be on a nut draw in this type of situation meaning that if you are drawing to a flush on a paired board you should be drawing to the nut flush. If there is a lot of action in the hand, laying your draw down is not a bad idea.

One other gotcha you always want to be aware of is your straight being counterfeited by a card, giving them the one card nut straight. As an example, if you hold 8s-9s and the board is 10s-Jc-2s, you have straight and flush draw possibilities. If a Queen of diamonds hits the turn, you have a straight to the queen, but are easily counterfeited by A-K which is probably calling a bet on the flop almost every time, especially online.

Playing a draw properly is crucial to making money in Limit Hold Em on Full Tilt Poker. Use this as a basic guide, but remember, you have to trust your instincts and always strive to make the best play for the situation!

For more strategy articles, visit our poker strategy section for free strategy videos, articles and reviews of poker training programs. For more tips specific to beating the games at Full Tilt Poker, check out this new site packed full of Full Tilt Poker Tips!

Biggest Bodog Poker Tournament Oct 5th

jason — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:36:20 +0000

Dubbed the Bodog Poker Open, this $300,000 guaranteed prize pool tournament is one that is on the radar as one to qualify for. This tournament has a fairly steep buyin but there opportunities to satellite in to the event are really pretty strong.

This online poker tournament series is sure to bring many of the online pro’s and average joe’s over to Bodog Poker in the coming months. Playing on their badboy Image, Bodog wishes that we mention that this series is even bigger and badder than the first Bodog Poker open back in March 08.

Crack ze whip sire and we shall respond!

Check Out The Bodog Poker Open II

This bigger and badder bodog poker tournament series is back for another installment after a successful round one back in March 2008. The Bodog Poker Open II Main Event buy-in amount is $500 bucks with $470 going into the prize pool and $30 as tourney fee’s.

The Bodog Poker Open Structure is solid with 10,000 starting chips and 20 minute rounds. It gives plenty of playing time and is nice and deep stacked poker. 20 minute rounds online are solid considering it takes 1 second for the dealer to ’shuffle’ at the end of each hand.

Tons of satellites to the Bodog Poker Open

If anyone from the Wednesday Night Bodog League (the Kick Ass Poker League) qualifies for this event let us know in the forums!

Poker Stars Black

jason — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:39:56 +0000

With the recent update of their software, somewhere in Early August, Poker Stars.com made a major theme change to their lobby interface. Normally the gold colors they were so well known for were gone, and a Poker Stars black poker lobby was born.

Compare these screenshots of the new Poker Stars black lobby design compared to the old / traditional poker stars lobby design and vote for which one you like better.

New Poker Stars Black Lobby

Here is a screenshot of the new PokerStars.com black lobby.

PokerStars Traditional Lobby

As you can see, these new designs retain much of the classic Poker Stars feel and style but have a completely different look to them. I’ve been using the PokerStars black since it came out and it is pretty cool. It gets a thumbs up vote from me, but I’m interested to see what some of the rest of you think. I don’t believe any of the other functionality has been diminished or anything taken away, or added that we didn’t have before but I haven’t gone through it with a fine tooth comb either.

If you are yet to download Poker Stars, give it a try. I’m confident that you will find PokerStars.com to be one of the best places to play online poker, and the reason that they are the number one ranked online poker room here at Kick Ass Poker. New players get a 100% bonus when signing up at PokerStars.com that is really easy to release.

WSOP Pictures - Tiffany Michelle & Poker Pros 2008

jason — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:48:55 +0000

Let’s take a look at some of the pictures and photo’s from KickAssPoker.com’s trip to Las Vegas during the 2008 World Series of Poker. We’ll start with who is going to arguably one of the most popular entrants in the 2008 WSOP, Tiffany Michelle. KAP co-founder and photographer Fuller snapped this picture of her during one of the earlier WSOP events, unbeknownst to him at the time would be her incredible run in the WSOP Main event, he just thought she was hot.

Tiffany Michelle at 2008 WSOP

Tiffany Michelle made an incredible run in the WSOP main event finishing 17th for a six figure score. Her popularity is no doubt to explode as ESPN begins covering the 2008 World Series of Poker. You can check out this post about Tiffany Michelle and Tony G and visit what I believe to be her own website at tiffanymichelle.com

David the Dragon Pham and more WSOP 2008 Photos

The 2008 WSOP Final table is set and scheduled to be played in November, after a four month break. ESPN has started airing the shows and it’s about time! I’m ready for some new quality poker tv.

More pictures coming soon including some lovely Atlanta Poker Club ladies with all sorts of pro’s and some more sights, sounds and beautiful ladies from the WSOP 2008!

100+ more 2008 WSOP Photos

Full Tilt FTOPS 2008

jason — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:32:12 +0000

With over 15 million in guaranteed prize money, the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS IX series kicks off on August 6th, 2008! The FTOPS consists of 24 events ranging in buy ins ranging from $200 + $16 up to the main event which is a $2500 + $120. The Full Tilt FTOPS tournaments brings out the biggest online poker players from around the globe to compete in what is one of the largest events of online poker. Kicking off the series of a $1,000,000 guaranteed NL Hold ‘Em with a $200 buy in. This event is sure to draw some of your favorite full tilt poker pro’s like Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and others. Click here to find the 2008 FTOPS Schedule.

Last year, the main event was hosted by Phil Ivey and guaranteed 1.5 million with a hefty $2500 buy in, but still pulled in 899 of the best online poker players in the world.

Full Tilt FTOPS Satellites

This year, FullTiltPoker.com is adding in a FTOPS IX Satellite challenge. If you win your first entry into any of their FTOPS IX events and Full Tilt will automatically register you for that event. For every additional satellite seat you win to the same event, they give you T$ (tourney credits). If you win the most satellite entries above ALL other players they will give you the T$ equivalent of two more buy-ins. They also give something to 2nd place. In my opinion this satellite challenge is pretty weak unless you are a serious full tilt poker satellite player.

$50 Daily Satellites - (7/10 - more available in lobby at lower buy-ins closer to start date)
Visit FullTiltPoker.com and Play

FTOPS 2008 Bonuses

Along with the great tournament structure, seven figure prize pool guarantees FullTilt is sweetening the pot with a few cool bonuses. According to their site, if you final table an event you win a pretty sweet Full Tilt Poker limited edition “FTOPS Jacket”. It actually looks pretty sweet, much better than the Top 10 Dumbest Full Tilt Poker Gear choices. Fulltilt.com also offers the bubble player in every FTOPS event a seat in a ‘bouncebackability freeroll’ on the 23rd of August that gives a seat into the FTOPS main event. I guess it makes being the bubble boy less painful eh?

Congrats KAP League Winners

jason — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:06:15 +0000

Congrats are in order for the top 10 in points for the Kick Ass Poker league held at bodog! TERRELLTXB took down the points championship and the coveted custom KickAssPoker.com Card Guard, not to mention the $200 bucks in tourney credits at bodog! Congrats TERRELTXB!

Click Here for Final Leaderboard and here is a screenshot from July 1, 2008. GG everyone!

SpeedBird, Brian Twizzler and WSOPJoe all battled for 2nd and 3rd place with WSOPJoe finishing just out of the $200 prize range. Congrats SpeedBird and Brian Twizzler for top three finishes and the $200 in tourney credits!

WSOPJoe did, however win a seat to the 2008 WSOP in a Bodog Satellite, so good luck WSOPJoe in the 2008 WSOP!

Congrats again to all our top 10 finishers and this season was the first for me (KAP) to not make the top ten… sorry i didn’t play as much as usual this go around guys, but I’ll be back in force next season!

Next Season details will be announced soon, but we are going to most likely try TURBO style tournaments for this next season. Stay tuned for more details.

Oh yeah, we’ve got WSOP 2008 Vegas Pictures, Kick Ass Poker Style! Coming soon. Check out the front page of KickAssPoker.com for more details.

New players - next season is starting soon. Join the Kick Ass Poker Online League.

Translations into German, French and Italian

jason — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:17:01 +0000

Some of our content is being translated into foreign languages to better cater to our growing worldwide kick ass poker audience. I will update this post with links to our poker content translations as they come online in the coming days and weeks.

If you have a website in Germany, France, Italy, or targeting western europe, please feel free to link directly to our PokerStars.de review and Poker Stars download, Deutsch translations from your website or blog. When we notice quality links to us we are likely to return the favor down the road! Thanks!

German, French and Italian Translated Poker Content

Scarica Poker Stars Gratuitamente

*more translations posted soon as available.

Sit N Go Strategy Video at Full Tilt Poker

jason — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:56:04 +0000

This is a video of KAP Co-Founder Spry playing a $10+1 Sit N Go online at Full Tilt Poker. FTP is home of some of the best structure for their sit-n-go’s and all of most of their tournaments for that matter. This sit n go strategy article will take a look at a style of play explained in detail in the online sit n go training guide, called “Sit-N-Go Pro” which gives advice from a pro sit n go poker player who makes thousands of dollars playing a high volume of sit n go poker tournaments. The sit n go pro course is a paid course, but my poker videos are always free. Sit n go strategy changes at all levels and all situations, so the best thing to do is get started within your bankroll.

This video shows rational of using your reads to make calls at the table and taking the opportunity to accumulate chips when they are presented to you.

Part I: SNG Strategy Video

I’m not positive my call there with 99 early in the tournament is right, but I went with my reads and figured that not only could overs be a possibility but so could smaller pairs. If he had much bigger pairs I would expect him to slow down some and try and trap…

Quick Sit n Go Tips

tight is usually right at first
blinds don’t become worth stealing until $100/$200 usually
Don’t let yourself blind off if your stack is getting low in relation to the blinds.
Play within your bankroll
Bet large enough to give those drawing the improper odds to call
have a reason to bluff

What is a Sit N Go Poker Tournament?

A sit n go, or SNG, is typically a 1 table tournament with a fixed buy-in (no re-buys), everyone starts with the same number of chips, and the top of the field gets paid. Typically the top 3 players get paid in a 1 table SNG. Sit n go’s are offered from 1 table up to 180 person events at the larger poker sites like Poker Stars. The most common sit n go nl holdem tournaments are the low stakes, down to the $1.00 buy in, although I’ve seen thousand dollar plus sit n go’s kick off at FTP and PokerStars.

Part 2: Sit N Go Tips Video

Download Full Tilt Poker and try a SNG yourself!

Good luck and I’ll see you at the tables!

Online Casinos that Accept All U.S. Players

jason — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:53:27 +0000

Top Online Casinos That Accept All U.S. Players

Finding out which online casinos that accept all us players is sometimes like finding a needle in a haystack. There are so many different online casinos being advertised across the internet that it is hard to know which are the best and that will accept all U.S. players, and which online casinos with best bonuses for USA players. On top of that, you want to make sure you avoid the less than desirable casinos and stick to one of the more reputable online gambling casinos listed here to make sure that when you hit it big, you get paid and paid in a timely manner. There are 11 states in the USA that do not allow online gambling, so we do not recommend becoming a play at any of these sites if you are in those eleven states, be sure and check your local laws before playing.

Top Ranked USA Online Casinos

Bodog Casino - The Bodog Casino accepts all USA players and offers an extensive selection of different casino games like blackjack, roulette, craps, slots, video poker, three card poker and more. There is also extensive betting options to wager on sports, yes, you can even wager on tennis at the Bodog sportsbook. They will have Kentucky Derby odds posted nearly before anyone as well with. We are going to write a full review of the Bodog Casino soon to compliment our in depth review of the bodog poker client in the short term. For now, just know that all USA players are allowed, they have a 10% Instant Bonus and offers an “instant play” as well as a downloadable option. Mac Users can gamble in the Bodog Casino with the instant play options.

RushmoreCasino.com - The Rushmore Casino uses Real Time Gaming software and offers a fully interactive online casino experience. They boast excellent customer service and 24/7 gaming with your choice of over eighty immersive online casino games. You can play for free or for real money and these accept all USA poker players. This is also our pick for one of the online casinos with best bonuses for usa players, with an $888 player deposit bonus. Most credit cards accepted and quality slot selection.

River Belle - A top Micro Gaming online casino offering service to USA players within 39 states. Not quite accepting of all usa online casino players but still a top online gambling location for most of the US population, plus they offer the very popular Tomb Raider slots. 100% deposit bonus up to $100 for new players.