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This is certainly not good news for the near future of online poker rooms returning to the US, hopefully the US will legalise the transactions for online gambling within the new year.

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The series has finally come to an end, not to much action in this epside, Negreanu lost a few hands. I did like the HSP awards at the end of the show.

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Not much happening in this episode, however it did feature the return of the mighty Daniel Negreanu and no more Jamie Gold

However that was pretty much the highlight apart from the hand involving benyamine who went all in with a flush draw on the flop, only to be called with 2 pair, at one point their was over 1.2 million in the pot but benyamine somehow managed to get out of it by forefiting what was in the pot before he went allin (about 76k)

Pretty poor epside, lets hope next week will see some more action from Negreanu

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Poker Giant ‘Pokerstars.com’ have apparantly sent a Cease and Desist letter to all the major poker database sites (such as pokerdb.com)

These sites gathers peoples play from all major tournaments across all major poker rooms and displays them in an easy to read format, thus making it easier for your competitors to see your past tournament history. So really this should be a good thing, especially for the inexperienced player.

Only time will tell if this will actually come in to effect.

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Recently I have found myself drifting away from solely playing Holdem online, I have tried other variations of poker such as 5 Card Stud, Razz and 7 Card Studd. However the easiest game I found converting to has to be Pot Limit Omaha.

How to Play Omaha.
This is played in pretty much they same way as hold’em but with several diferences, the main and most obvious diference being that the player is dealt 4 hole cards with which to make the best hand,. You can use any of your 2 hole cards and any 3 of the boards 5 cards to make the best hand. Hands are ranked in the same way as Hold’em (Royal Flush being best down to High Card being worse)

Omaha is not Hold’em
This is the most important thing to remember when converting from Hold’em. Being dealt 4 cards doesn’t give you 2 extra hands it gives you 6. Omaha is much more variant and bad beats can be a very common occurance, Just because you are ahead on the flop and you know it there will still be many outs for your opponents. Also being Dealt AAKK doesn’t necessarily mean you are powering ahead of your opponents preflop. Imagine you have Ac Ad Ks Kd and you hit the flop of 3c 4d 7c you may think you have the nuts, but really there are so many potential hands out their such as flush and straight drawns, 3oak and 2 pair even hitting an A on the river will only give you 30ak against so many more powerful hands. Also an important thing to remember is if a pair appear on the board their is a very high chance of someone hitting a fullhouse or 4oak. Straight flushes are also a very high possibility in Omaha games.

Other Versions of Omaha
Hi/Lo - Two separate pots are available to win . The lo pot is where you have the five lowest cards made from 2 of your cards and 3 on the board (the best hand being A2345) flushes, straights, pairs etc don’t count for the lo pot. Assuming the other player can beat the lo pot winner with his 5 best cards he will win the high pot.

I recommend playing at 32red poker for Omaha games, especially High/Lo variations as it attracts a lot of new players who have yet to understand the lo pot concept. Just play around on the low chip games to get a feel for it.

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Finally we had a really good episode of High Stakes Poker with some huge pots.

Doyle Brunson won over $800k to take the biggest win of the series.

Benyamine and Farha got in to a pot the turn gave Benyamine a straight flush, Farha had trip deuces. they both go in for another 100k, unfortunately the board didn’t pair to give Farha a full house or 4OAK otherwise he would surely have called Benyamines $250k or gone all in to make the 3rd huge pot of the episode.

Best moments of the episode:
benyamine calling 10k on river against Gold with bottom pair against gold and saying ‘i have the nuts’.
Doyle referencing Sammys check with AA against Golds KK when he was obviously ahead, doyle commented: “I don’t know, are you sleeping with him or what?”
Doyle prooving he truely is a remarkable player after taking the biggest pot of the Series and super cool while doing it.

And finally Negreanu made an appearance at the end so we can only hope he makes an appearance in the next episode!

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Anyone that has watched thie episode will know the main pot of the show was the first pot, between Jamie Gold and Sammy Farha. Jamie Gold shouted ‘I call’ over 30 times, surely he know Farha had AA, everyone else at the table knew, Farha for some reason checked on the river probably partly out of confusion to Gold constant ranting and shouting but partly because ‘I like you’. There is no doubt Farha knew he had Gold beat so why didn’t he go all in on the river if he know Gold would call, it’s poker after all!

Hopefully they will get rid of Gold next season, sure he makes Good TV but it’s getting repetitive, Bring back Negreanu! Hell I would rather they brang back the poker brat Hellmuth!

Hopefully next week will be an improvement and we might even see some action from Brunson!

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