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HORSE tournaments

Posted by pokerwinner | games | Sunday 20 June 2010 1:02 am

A new popular form of poker at online casinos is “mixed games”.

This form of poker lowers the advantage that a specialist in one type of poker may have and highlights the true ability of a player who can play multiple variations of poker. Many people think that the HORSE tournaments and other mixed games are the best criteria for judging the actual skills of a poker player.

HORSE tournaments have recently increased their popularity since their introduction at the 2006 WSOP. This is the biggest event in the $50,000 buy-in.

HORSE is a combination of five versions of poker. The variation player is changed after a certain period of time or a fixed number of hands played, according to the poker room and tournament structure. A HORSE game includes Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud and Stud Hi/Lo, in this order. To succeed in a HORSE tournament, you must be able to play skillfully at each of the five variations of poker tournaments included in HORSE.

HORSE tournaments have become a very popular game for professional high stakes players getting tired of only playing Texas hold’em. Most players know how to play Hold’em and Omaha. Razz and Seven Card Stud are less known, so we’ll take a quick look at them.

In Razz, the high value cards are not important. The lowest hand wins the pot. The format of play is similar to Seven Card Stud High. The Ace is considered a small-value card. Straights and flushes do not count. The 5-4-3-2-A is the best possible hand, called the wheel.

Seven Card Stud is a game with antes where the goal is to get the best possible hand from your seven cards. Of these, four are dealt face up and three face down. To start a hand, each player must pay the antes and then everyone gets three cards, two face down and one face up.

The player with the lowest face up card is the first to act. This player is first to start the betting, either paying half the lower limit or making a bet equal to that limit. After all players have made their bets, they receive another card face up and the player with the highest combination of cards face begins another round of betting.

During this round, the betting is still at the lower limit. The bets are followed by distribution of a third card face up and the game continues as in the previous round, except that the bets are now at the upper limit. This limit is maintained for the next two rounds, where they distribute a final card face up and one face down. In a show down, the player with the five highest cards wins the pot.

HORSE is a very interesting poker variation but do not start playing it until you understand at least one or two variations well. As HORSE is indeed a very complex game.

Cindy Margolis

Posted by pokerwinner | games | Tuesday 16 March 2010 8:04 pm

After conquering the World Wide Web, Cindy Margolis comes back with a vengeance.

A series of very fortunate events helped Cindy Margolis become one of the world’s most recognizable models. There were her modeling jobs for Reebok, Vidal Sasson, and Sunkist. Then there was her stint as one of Bob Barker’s beauties on The Price is Right. There was even her portrayal of the original “fembot” in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. But it was her introduction to the world via the Internet, eventually being crowned the world’s most downloaded person in 2000 by The Guinness Book of World Records, that made her an icon. With her own poker site and a number of upcoming gaming projects, this California girl hasn’t stopped working just yet.

But does Cindy really play poker? Cindy Margolis: “I love poker. I play all sorts of games whenever I can. I’m on my site at least a few times a week and I always have the best time playing in celebrity and charity poker tourneys. Whether I’m playing for fun or for serious money, I always have fun.”

Cindy’s site will be interactive with my own website and I’ll also have friends like Cyndy Violette lending their expertise and suggestions to her poker site. Will legions of fans come to the new poker site as she has the greatest cyberfans in the world. Everyone loves poker. Her loyal cyberbuddies have always crossed over and been so wonderful to her. They have followed her as her career took different turns.

Right now she is producing and starring in her own animated game TV series called Cindy B.C. her character is a brilliant, sharp-witted and irresistibly sexy High Priestess with a mission to save mankind. she has also been chosen as the new cover model for the 10th Muse comic book series. This series has been optioned for a major motion picture. In other honors, she was named as one of E! Entertainment’s “Ultimate Blondes” as well as VH’1′s “Hottest 100.” And she launched her own jewelry and fashion line but she most look forward to playing a lot of poker.

Is Cindy Margolis single and what does she find attractive in a man? In fact she is married. She thinks confidence and a sense of humor is very sexy. She lives in Los Angeles and mostly plays poker with her friends. Celebrity poker games are big there. She also has played at the Commerce Casino and in the World Poker Tour Tournament. She went all in with a pair of kings, but unfortunately, Jon Favreau had aces.

Modeling and hosting will always be her first love. She is working on writing a book. She also has passion for producing, doing TV and movies, and of course playing poker. There’s a great reality show treatment about poker being put together that will hopefully be ready before the end of the year. Some exciting stuff! Please stay tuned. Being on “The Price is Right” was very rewarding to her, both career-wise and financially. It was sad when she had to leave the show but she remains friends with Bob Barker, who really is a sweet man.

Cindy was and is still recognized for being the original fembot. People want to know if she was the fembot that shot the bullets from her bra. Yes, indeed it was her. This movie was like a big game to her.