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You have had a rather good run of cards in online poker. When you and your buddies set up a weekend game in your den, you’ve also ruled the game. Now, you think that it is high time to try your hand in a game of casino poker. Problem is, the thought of sitting at a poker table with poker players who’re probably more experienced than you are fairly shakes you up. You’re understandably scared of making yourself the laughingstock of the game. Here are a few tips that can help set your mind at ease.

Show Your True Colors

So you are green and rightly so. You are new in the casino poker scene so why should you dread the thought of looking what you are – a casino poker newbie? If you don’t know what to do, ask. It’s as simple as that.

Of course, you may try learning more about casino etiquette before you actually sit at the poker table and play. It may be alright to show your inexperience, but it certainly isn’t alright to bug your opponents with your shamefaced questions and inevitable gaffes. There’s also the fact that newbie players are usually ‘lunch’ to poker game room sharks. Therefore, look inexperienced, but don’t be bothersome or stupid about it.

The best thing that you can do is go to the casino early and get some poker instruction with the casino in-house instructors and trainers. Most casinos have this value added service for newbies just like you. You should take advantage of this and use it as a learning experience before you go and get some serious playing done.

Use What You Can Afford to Lose

You’ve often enough heard the admonition that you should know your limits and stick to it. This is just a reiteration and it is strongly recommended that you heed this advice.

Before going out to play poker in the casino, set your limits and do not stray from it. Having a limit will give you a definite benchmark for saying when it’s time for you to quit. This is very important since you are new to the casino. You are more likely to be outmatched by your more experienced opponents so it pays to have a definitely set quitting point.

To ensure that you don’t find yourself at a great disadvantage, why don’t you choose to sit at tables with limits and with minimum stakes? At such tables, you know that your bankroll will go a longer way than it would ever do in a high-stakes, no limit game. Moreover, most players in such games are novices such as yourself so you won’t feel so obviously out of place.

Since gambling was first legalized in New Jersey in 1978, the casinos of Atlantic City have faced more than their fair share of obstacles. They have endured hurricanes, blizzards, and the collapse of a parking garage. Last year the casinos were even closed due to a State budget crisis, and more recently the city has been plagued by a serial killer targeting prostitutes. Despite all of this, gaming revenues at the casinos have always skyrocketed, increasing each year, until now.

Annual revenues for Atlantic City’s casinos is projected to decline in 2007, for the first time ever. A number of factors play into this expected decline in revenues. Atlantic City currently faces increased competition from slot parlors in neighboring states, such as Delaware and Pennsylvania, as well as the closing of one of the city’s casinos. It is also uncertain how much the new smoking ban will impact gaming revenues in Atlantic City.

Revenue figures released for the month of January are already down from 2006, triggering concerns that this could be the start of a trend that would carry forward through the rest of the year. If revenues do face a long-term decline, it would have negative consequences for both Atlantic City casinos and the State of New Jersey, which depends on taxes from casino revenues to support State budgets.

Carlos Tolosa, the Eastern Division President for Harrahs Entertainment said, “There will be an impact, no doubt. The Pennsylvania slots parlors will certainly cause competition. In the past, people just came to Atlantic City. That’s the part that always scares you. Atlantic City relies on high frequency customers.”

The new slot parlors in Pennsylvania have already begun to cut into Atlantic City’s casino revenues. Atlantic City went head-to-head against two new Philadelphia area slot parlors in January. Financial figures for this period showed Atlantic City’s overall revenues declining 2.9 percent from a year ago, with slot machine revenues specifically facing an even bigger 7.2 percent drop.

Philadelphia Park, located about 20 miles North of Philadelphia, opened it’s doors to the public on December 19. This was followed by the opening of Harrah’s Chester Casino and Racetrack on January 22. Both locations admitted that their target audience was comprised of customers who would have otherwise gone to Atlantic City.

While this may be bad news for Atlantic City Casinos and the taxes they generate for the State of New Jersey, it is not necessarily bad for the casino customers. Increased competition is generally good for consumers, and many industry insiders expect that the casinos will have to offer more financial incentives to keep players coming back. These incentives will likely result in a lot of free rooms, meals and show tickets up for grabs to anyone who will choose Atlantic City over the neighboring States’ alternatives. It is also likely to lead the city to expand revenues that are not associated with gambling.

“Clearly, Atlantic City recognizes that for its overall revenue to grow, it has to become less gaming-centric,” said Joseph Weinert, Vice President of Spectrum Gaming Group, a casino consulting firm. “A majority of Atlantic City’s customers will be able to play slots somewhere closer to home. Atlantic City has to give them a compelling reason to drive farther, stay longer and spend more.”

“It’s difficult to spend time on the gambling floor morning to night,” said Barbara Sieminski, a retiree from Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, who comes to the Borgata at least once a month for amenities like the manicure she treated herself to last week. “I come for the total package. Coming to Atlantic City is like a vacation for us.”

Even if revenues do continue to decline for 2007, it is not a trend that will be irreversible. Harrahs executives noted that the casinos shut down last July during a State budget crisis, which is an event that is not likely to repeat itself in the future. It should also be noted that Three new casinos will be adding more than 2,500 new hotel rooms to the city, which more than compensates for the closure of the Sands Casino and Hotel last November.

“I don’t think anybody doubts that long-term, Atlantic City is going to remain a powerhouse,” said Frank Fantini, publisher of The Gaming Morning Report.

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Texas holdem is taking over the world, but believe it or not there are many other poker games you can play. Most of them fall into one of three categories:

- Stud Games (for example 7 card stud)

- Draw Games (for example 5 card draw)

- Shared Hand Games (for example Texas Holdem)

There are also some other obscure games that don’t fit into these categories, some of the more popular of which are high/low pig, bid poker and guts. In almost all types of poker game the hand rankings are the same, with a very few minor exceptions which have become more or less “home-made�? rules.

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Party Poker has long been known as the place to go to catch unsuspecting poker “fish”. What are fish? Well they are the players who are just starting to learn to play poker or who have been around for a while but just aren’t very good. They are the prey of the poker “sharks” and the traditional hunting ground for the last while has been Party Poker.

Well the bad news for the sharks is that the fish pool seems to have dried up! It just isn’t as easy as it used to be to clean up at Party Poker.
There are a few possible reasons as to why this might have happened and they are outlined below.

More competition from other sites.

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by Ian McIntosh

The origins of the phrase “poker nuts” are uncertain although it is thought to have come from old slang meaning “delightful thing, practice or experience”. It is a “delightful thing” of course, because in Texas Holdem the poker nuts is the best possible hand that you can have at any point in the game.

If you have the nuts, you can’t be beaten…at that point in the hand. This is the crucial factor that a lot of inexperienced players fail to take account of, the nuts can move from one player to another and your hand which was the nuts earlier on can end up being crushed!

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