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3 Reasons You SUCK at Poker

February 1st, 2012

Ya, I said it. You suck at poker. Don’t worry, though, as most everyone else does too. Did you know that 85% of online poker players lose money? That means less than 15% of players are actually making money. It’s staggering really. At any given time on the most popular poker room online, there can be around 100,000 people logged into the site. 15,000 players are basically taking money from the other 85,000 players. Here’s 3 reasons why.

The first one is the biggest and it trickles down to the next one. You’ve seen ESPN’s converage of the World Series of Poker on tv. You think to yourself, hey, it doesn’t look that hard. I could do that. Wrong! It’s called the World Series of Poker where the best players in the world get together to hash it out on the felt. The majority of players you see on tv are professionals.

Do you know how long it takes to be a professional at something? The answer…A LONG TIME! Professional baseball, basketball and football players all work their way through the ranks to get to the professional level. Pro card players have played thousand upon thousand of hands, in both online and live games. It takes big time to make big money.

It’s the same concept if you’re, say, an accountant. You do that for a living and if so, you’re probably pretty good at it. If a professional poker player tried to do your job, he’d probably suck it up too. It’d take time for him to learn how to do it properly.

Next, you probably bluff too much. This goes back to watching poker on tv. We’ve all seen guys playing crappy hands like 68 offsuit and winning. What you don’t see are the 100 or more hands prior to that hand which tells that player it may be profitable to play a 6-8 offsuit in that certain situation.

Things like position, how many people are in the pot and what the others’ playing styles are like all are taken into account by the guy playing that 68 off. Unless you know what you’re doing, fold the 68 next time.

And finally, it’s what else you’re doing while you play. Do you have a tv on watching Law and Order or a football game? It’s distracting and even having music on is distracting too. Are you tired or depressed about something? You just can’t play right if you’re not focused. » Read more: 3 Reasons You SUCK at Poker

Shooting Games – Fun Shooting Games at Their Best

January 19th, 2012

If you are an individual that enjoys playing video games, than you might like to check out some of the best fun shooting games available to date. Lately their has been a lot of discussion regarding gamers that enjoy playing shooting games and the type of games that are available and being developed but the fact is, people enjoy playing these type of games as they are an ultimate way to relieve a lot of stress and not to mention let out your anger in a safe environment that really can’t hurt anyone at all. Besides, fun shooting games keep you out of trouble as you will notice you may get addicted to the various levels in the game, the maps, and of course the challenges available.

Typically we see two variations of shooters, that is the first person and the third person shooting games.

A first person shooter is when you are playing in the eye of the game, meaning your viewing perspective is exactly what your character in the game is seeing. This type of game makes you feel like you are actually their in the levels and playing the game yourself. Every action you take in these type of games, such as turning and crouching so that you can get a different look at things are the same actions you would take if you were actually trying to look around in real life environments. In first person type of games, these are as close as you can actually get to really being in the environment that you are playing in.

Now when we look at third person shooting experience, you are actually playing as the character where you can see the character running around in the game and also see the environment they are playing in. Think of it as a birds eye view, or you can also think of it as being a monkey on the back of your character watching his every move. » Read more: Shooting Games – Fun Shooting Games at Their Best