GO WITH WHAT MAKES SENSE You’ll see lots of different bonus offers from poker sites. Make sure you recognise the brand of the site as a major company and stick with the big boys or sites that are connected to big media groups you’ve come to know and trust. If bonus offers from small sites based in outer Mongolia seem too good to be true, they probably are. Once you’ve found a large site to be safe and secure you’re better off to stick with them and build mutual confidence. One of the most important ingredients for a good site, apart from reliable software, is the help you get if you have a particularIy well-founded beef or any of the basic problems that can come up when you’re playing dozens of online games in an evening.
LOOK FOR STRAIGHTFORWARD OFFERS I can remember as a twenty one year old being sold an overseas holiday package in the sun with the lines, “There’s a girl behind every tree!” (but there weren’t any trees). “You can make love to as many unmarried women as you like!” (The punishment turned out to be beheading. A passion killer discovered just in time). You’ve got the picture? Go with what makes sense.
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TIME FOR A BLUFF Using a bluff is always a tricky calculation. Usually I like to wait for a set of circumstances that seem to suggest I might well have the goods (when I don’t) and then go for the bluff. Let’s say you’re looking at a flop of King-Six-Seven and the turn and river produce a Two and a Three. You’re heads up for a good size pot and it’s your turn to act. This is the ideal time for a bluff if you feel from the previous betting pattern your opponent has no more than the King paired with a high kicker. Maybe you also have the King paired and had been hoping (like your opponent) for a triple on the turn or the river that didn’t show up. It’s a great opportunity to represent to him that you have the all important Four and Five. Go with a big bet and try to buy the pot. The odds are in your favour he won’t risk matching you with only Kings.
BINION’S BRILLIANCE So who do we have to thank for a $12,000,000 winner at this year’s World Series of Poker? Ultimately the credit goes all the way back to Benny Binion in 1970 when he launched the first ever event at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas. It’s hard to believe there were just seven players back then! This year there were nearly nine thousand. The whole concept of tournament poker really belongs to Benny. The turbo boost of TV and the Internet have done the rest in the last decade. The final of the WSOP is no longer held in the legendary Horsehsoe but poker players know where the credit and inspiration lies. Thanks a million, Benny (Twelve million actually).
