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Professional poker players are not all about the money. They’re not selfish, egotistical narcissists despite what their table personas may be. In fact, the big winners are generally some of the most generous people you’ll ever meet.

In the spirit of the Holidays, professional online poker player Annie Duke, who finished 2nd in the Celebrity Apprentice, raising about 500,000 dollars for charity, has also started campaigning to raise more funds for a charity that donates to cancer research and patient care.

Phil Hellmuth, in the same spirit of giving, emceed four charity tournaments in November, raising over 250,000 dollars for children in need during the holiday season. Eat your heart out Operation Reach. I say that in jest, Operation Reach is a great organization that helps thousands in need every holiday season by providing much needed financial assistance so that the children of the families can get Christmas presents for the family.

And most recently, a week before the Christmas holiday, Hellmuth and a crew of about 40 other professionals attended a charity tournament in Phoenix that raised well over 500,000 for holdemforheroes.com, a group that supports families of officers killed in the line of duty.

I think it goes without saying, even though at the table the pros can be vicious, cocky, and every other derogatory term you can think of, off the felt, you’ll be hard pressed to find a harder working group of philanthropists. So respect people when you play poker online.

I always like a good poker related gift. Give me a WSOP themed shirt, a cool deck of cards, or some poker knickknack and I am happy. The one thing that you should never get me as a gift, however, is a set of chips. I don’t mean to be rude. Every gift should be evaluated on the basis of the thought behind it, not the actual present itself. online poker chips are really the grand exception. The thing about poker online chips is that every set is so different. There are cheap sets that you can buy at any decent store’s discount rack and there are the sets that are works of art in themselves. I like the ones that lie somewhere in the middle. The solid, hard working type of set that will hold up to a long online poker game late into the evening. The problem is that most people don’t know exactly want I want. They will get me something that I would not have chosen for myself. Then I would be forced to trot out a set that I don’t like every time that my so-called friends come over for poker night. Don’t inflict that on your friends. Let them choose the poker chips that they actually want.

If you’ve been playing Texas Hold ‘Em online poker for any period of time, you’ll probably have a decent idea of what a good starting poker online hand is. Your pocket pairs down to 10s if you’re under the gun. Suited Aces down to ATs. And of course you know that hand strength changes as you get position on players and depending on the other online poker player’s actions. But there’s one thing we haven’t covered. Hands that have potential. These potential bearing hands are hands you’d like to see the flop with, but aren’t considered premium hands. Online, these hands are hands that you’d not want to call a raise with, and in position are considered limpable. Hands like suited Aces or KQ suited, and other suited connectors and suited one gappers down to 74 suited. Again, you have to pay attention to the position and the previous action, but these hands have serious potential post flop and if you hit the flop hard, it’s nearly impossible to detect even from the most astute player. Let’s say you’re holding 74 suited and 56x of your suit comes up. You have a greatly disguised super drawing hand and an over to boot if the X is below a 7. You can treat your smaller pocket pairs the same way and play them for set value. And the best time to do this is when you get an AXY flop, the Y being your set card. Anyone playing an ace will be playing this pretty aggressively, and if you choose to smooth call or reraise, you’re going to be putting some doubt and confusion in his mind. To wrap it up, what you’ll be wanting to do is look for opportunities where you can limp these hands and hit the flop hard with them the same time someone else thinks they hit the flop hard. And trust me, when you do, you’ll be getting a pay off in the form of their chips in your pile.

The history of online poker is marked by key moments when the future of the poker game is decided. The WSOP in 2007 was one of those moments when Anette Obrestad won a bracelet in the main event. Her win signified many things for the history of online poker, notably that poker now belonged to a younger generation. Obrestad was only 18 when she won the WSOP, and the youngest winner in WSOP history. Her win signified that the entire style of poker had changed. She had learned how to play poker by practicing using online games. Her style was aggressive, often even characterized as fearless by her opponents. She did not fear the poker table with its old school connotations of an all male game. She was not one of the old guard that had learned in a smoky backroom or a kitchen table. She had learned in the modern poker culture that emphasizes strategy and skill as teachable attributes. She was raised on online strategy articles much like this one. Her win was a historical moment because it showed that the poker world was passing into new hands. She stood on the threshold of the poker past and showed where its future lied.

In a bit of good news, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank is pushing for the American government to repeal the awful Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) enacted during the Bush administration. For those of you not familiar with the law, it prohibits the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an Internet gambling site, however with the notable exceptions of fantasy sports, online lotteries, and horse/harness racing. Why is it ok to legally gamble on horse racing or fantasy sports and not poker?! It will always boggle my mind why online poker is deemed unlawful in the U.S. and some other countries around the world. The people who make these idiotic laws are absolute morons.

Thankfully, according to the Financial Times, in the next few weeks, Congressman Frank will reintroduce a bill to establish a licensing and regulatory framework for online gambling operators, which includes operators of online poker sites. Frank noted that the prospects for this bill were greater than before because the public is now more vocal about demanding the right to gamble online (damn right we are!) And, as I have said about million times, legalizing online poker will create significant new sources of tax revenue during what is a very trying economic time. I hope one day to look back on this dark time of not being able to play poker online and laugh, wondering how so many people could have been so stupid.

Thanks to the Minister of Justice Dermot Ahern of Ireland, the Irish have had their rights protected when it comes to internet gambling and the online casino

“It’s an international phenomenon,” said Ahern. And besides, they haven’t been able to ban pornography either.

Now I’m no fan of comparing pornography to gambling, as such a debate gets into the old apples and oranges adage, but the minster is right in this respect: the banning of any kind of private right of the people to do with what they wish in their personal time, especially from home.

“Try as we might…[such a ban] has not been possible,” Ahern added. And he acknowledges the fact that many people each day are taking up the sport either as a hobby or as a profession.

Perhaps the US and the UK should take note of this: that the liberalism shown here by the Irish hasn’t put the country in any worse position than countries that ban such activity.

Ahern, when presented with a report from 2006 about the success of the US and UK in successful regulation, he responded simply.

Internet online poker still goes on there, and really there’s nothing going on now that warrants the law (i.e. government) stepping in and prosecuting anyone.

Good man Ahern, good man. Whether he knows it or not, he’s supporting not only an industry, but a social group, and one with strong backing to boot. As technology evolves, so to does our perception of the social world.

Online poker is just another part of the new Web 2.0 landscape of the internet driven society.

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Poker tells are referred to the subtle changes in a poker player’s actions and body movements. They do exactly as the name implies, give you slight clues and hints about what the other player maybe thinking and feeling. Although you cannot rely on them one hundred percent, certain tells can give away whether a player has a strong hand or not.

A big red flag should come on when you see a player that looks a bit anxious. Some signs to look for are trembling hands, flexing muscles, dilated eye pupils, fidgeting, sweating and finger and heel tapping. To avoid some of these poker tells many players have been wearing sunglasses and pulled down baseball caps. When the face is less visible, it is harder to read it for any signs. Posture can also provide some information about the poker player’s hand. If a player is slouching, the chancing of him/her having a strong hand are less than if he/she was sitting upright with confidence.

Next time you find yourself sitting at a poker table, be conscious of your every action. Pay attention to where your eyes are wandering, avoid jittery movements and keep your hands and feet still. The last thing you want to do is accidentally give away your poker hand to the other players.