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I was playing a little dealers choice this evening with not just one but three, I repeat three, lesson givers sitting at the table. Lesson givers are those people who feel they play better than everyone else at the table and have to explain how to play every hand correctly. The worst is when they have to yell at everyone who bets nut low. What is the best way to handle these people, they are driving me INSANE.

Answer 1:

First you go out a buy a 2 by 4 about 3 feet long…. then…. you hit them on the right side of the head as hard as you can… If you have their attention then you tells them to shut up if you don’t have their attention you hit them on the left side of the head…. repeat as needed.

Answer 2:

Sit back quietly and take their money. Seriously, it’s been my experience that a lot of lesson givers are also people who easily tilt. Trap them once or twice with a AA or KK in Hold’em, or put a bit of a beat on them, like making a flush on the river in 7-stud, and they’ll take it personally. Then you can take
their money while they are proving to you that they can beat you with inferior holdings. Although lesson givers are annoying I lot of times I find them good for the game.

Answer 3:

In dealing with them, I general like to hear what they have to say. And then I always act like I am actually trying to learn from their sage advice – without divulging my thought process. In reality what I am doing is learning something of how they play the hands. Lesson-givers aren’t always giving you the right advice. What they are giving you is insight into how they would play the hand – which you can use later against them. I had a situation come up last night in a lose 6-12 game where I had an over pair to a flop that contained two spades.  Now with 6 or 7 callers pre-flop, I fear the flush draws.  I bet and the turn card came with another spade.  I backed off, and the river card came a 4th spade. I lost the hand, although the guy only held one spade. A wild one to my immediate left starts ranting and raving telling me I made a big mistake by not aggressively hammering it the whole way. The real mistake I made was not folding it on the turn. I just acted like he was right and I was dead wrong and learned a little about him. Then I used this against him a little later when the roles were reversed and I had the flush draw, made it on the turn, and let him do all the betting with his top pair. So keep in mind, that unless you truly respect the lesson-giver (as I do with my friend SLAM), don’t necessarily assume that it is the proper book wisdom.

Poker has become one of the most widely accepted online gambling card games, which involves betting in high stakes also. There are many variations of this game which are in existence. Some of the examples are Texas Hold’em, Seven Card Stud and the most thrilling Three Card Poker. The basic rules for every game though remain the same. In any basic game usually the one having the highest hand wins and the one having the lowest looses the most. However in poker there are games where the lowest hand wins or sometimes the winning bet is split half between the lowest winner and the highest winner.

So let’s understand the theory of hands. We will start from highest and move downwards as we proceed. The highest hand is known as the Royal Flush which beats all irrespective of what you have.

It is a pretty straight ranging from a ten to an ace and also all five cards from the same suit. The restriction is that all cards containing in the hand must be from one card suit. The four card suits are the Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs.

The next to it is the straight flush. This is the condition when you have any straight sequence with all five cards from the same suit. Now we know a Royal Flush is very hard to get and is extremely rare, a Straight Flush proves to be a very good hand when one wants to raise the bets.

Next is the 4 of a Kind where one needs to have four cards of the same type. Now in an ambiguity situation where two players get four of a kind, then a higher fifth card is considered which is in the hand, known as the kicker, which decides who wins.

After that we have the Full House. In this, one needs to have 3 cards of same rank and rest of the two also of the same rank. The highest condition would be three Aces and two Kings.

Next we have the Three of one Kind. All one need is the 3 cards of the same type. In this the best possible combination is the hand with three Aces, a King and 1 Queen.

Towards the last there is a Two Pair hand, where one must have one pair of the same rank and another pair again of the same rank.

One before the last is the One Pair hand, where one can hold any 2 cards but of the same rank. The best combination here can be two Aces, a King, a Queen and a Jack.

Lastly, if somehow you get unlucky and do not have any of the above written hands, then you play just can play on the top card or the highest card in your card stack.

This is just the priority of hands. One must always believe in his or luck and even sometimes the false strategy which can be followed by increasing the stakes very much so that the opponents know the card are very big and they pack up make you winning with nothing real cards in hands.