Many envy the life a professional poker player. Who wouldn't want to set their own hours, play a game they love for a living, and travel around the world to various tournaments? Add a nice income to boot, and you have yourself a dream job. So how does a professional become a professional?
Professional poker players do not graduate from Poker Pro School, and there is also no guild that bestows the "pro" status on players. It is entirely a label that one adopts for himself. Even some people who lose money at poker consider themselves professionals. Generally, one decides to make poker-playing his occupation for at least one of two reasons:
What's New (23rd December 2005) Summary of recent additions and changes. This web site is updated irregularly at intervals of about 2 - 4 months.
Alphabetical Index of Card Games Alphabetical index to rules of traditional card and tile games for two or more players, giving the number of players required.
Classified Index of Card Games Another index to traditional card and tile games, classified by mechanism and by objective, and including a list of children's games.
National and Regional Games Index of games arranged by country where they are played, and the types of cards they are played with.
Tile Games Section for traditional games played with tiles: Chinese and Western Dominoes, Rummy tiles, etc.
Links to Other Information Links to sources of card games software, places to play cards online, other collections of card game rules, information about playing-cards, sources of cards and equipment, books, discussion groups, gambling and casinos and other resources.
Commercial Games A selection of games requiring a special proprietary pack of cards from a particular maker.
Solitaire Games A collection of links to information about Solitaire (Patience) Games
Invented Games Readers' contributions of newly created games and variations which can be played with existing cards or tiles.
General Mechanics of Card Games Some basic rules, procedures and strategies that apply to most or all card games
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Last updated 23rd December 2005
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Poker Strategy
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Texas Hold'em
The site TexasHoldem-Poker.com provides an introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker for beginners, some pages on strategy, and other useful information and links.
TexasHold-emPoker.com provides Texas Holdem rules, helpful strategy advice, forums and other information and links.
Tyson's Flop Turn River site provides strategy advice for low-stakes no limit Texas Hold'em players.
Greg Mallon's Poker Decision site concentrates on low stakes no limit Hold'em strategy.
Matthew Hilger's Internet Texas Hold em site offers help with general Texas Holdem poker strategy and concepts; also news and a forum.
James Yates has written a useful free Texas Hold'em strategy guide: Introduction to Texas Hold'em Poker.
Arild Thorsby's NL-holdem site specialises in No Limit Texas Holdem strategy and is available in English and Norwegian.
The poker pages of the Netbettor site include a strategy section with a useful tutorial on Texas Holdem, as well as information and links for various online poker rooms and tournaments.
The Poker Check Raise site provides Texas Holdem rules and an online strategy guide.
Godfrey Daniel's Online Texas Hold'em Tips site offers tips and strategy especially geared to the low limit online Hold'em player.
Texas Holdem Poker - a Texas Holdem resource guide featuring rules, strategies and tips.
The Mastering Holdem site provides Texas Holdem rules and a guide to strategy.
TexasHoldem.org provides Texas Holdem rules and strategy advice. Those who register with the site receive a free Texas Holdem Secrets newsletter.
Jason's Texas Holdem Strategies Online site gives advice on playing Texas Holdem from game selection and assessment of opponents to betting, tells and tournament play.
The Classic Holdem site offers Texas Holdem rules, tips and other resources.
The Hold'em-online site provides advice on how to play Fixed Limit Texas Hold'em.
The Online Poker Beginners Guide site provides advice for beginners, mainly on Texas Holdem.
The Jugar Poker site provides basic rules and strategy of Texas Hold'em in Spanish.
Poker lessons and tutorials
King Cobra Poker offers a series of poker lessons. The first few lessons are free; to obtain additional lessons you have to sign up through King Cobra to play at one or more on-line poker sites.
Dan Strelnick's Poker Mentor site teaches how to play online Texas Holdem for profit. Students sign up through Poker Mentor at an on-line poker room, receive detailed advice and statistics to aid their play, and can submit played hands for comment and analysis.
Rick Braddy's e-book Secrets of Winning Sit & Go Tournaments teaches techniques for success in on-line Texas Holdem tournaments in seven lessons: Fundamentals; Position; Adjusting to changing blinds and number of players; Heads-Up technique; Beating aggressive players; Tells; Bluffing and Stealing.
Jason Spry offers an on line Dealer Training course, a less expensive alternative to land based courses for those who would like to run their own poker games or aspire to a creer as a professsional poker dealer.
Bill Fried's book For Winners Only introduces a "Pocket Scoring System" which can be used to evaluate hands in Texas Holdem (and some other casino poker games) and guide you on when to raise, call or fold. Cheater Cards summarising the system are also available.
Poker discussion
Nick Kisberg's Cardschat provides several Poker forums as well as forums for discussion of card games in general.
The Bet The Pot Poker site has an active Forum for discussion of Poker topics
Tyler Cruz runs the PokerForums.org site, which provides forums for discussion of poker strategy and techniques, along with various other resources such as poker site reviews and a glossary.
The web site Pokerconduct.com is dedicated to exposing corruption and cheating in online poker rooms. It offers a news forum, chat rooms and a player help desk, offering free assistance to members with problems they may encounter at any poker site, including the withholding of funds.
iMac Online Poker caters for online poker players who use Macintosh computers, providing a forum and verious information resources.
Your Poker Hands - a site where you can submit your poker stories and anecdotes about interesting or unusual hands you have played.
The Poker Stories site provides a forum and live chat room for poker players.
Poker Variants
Mike's Poker Pages contain a collection of rules for well over 100 poker variants.
Jerry Cooley has maintains a set of pages on Poker Variants, which he based on the collection maintained by Peter Sarrett. The variants are classified into four types:
Draw Games
Stud Games
Shared Card Games
Miscellaneous Games
Peter Sarrett's Poker Variants page can be seen at http://gamereport.com/poker/index.html.
The Mongoose Online Poker Rules site includes descriptions of several Poker Variants as well as links to online poker rooms.
Steve Hopkins' MaxJackpots site includes a collection of rules of poker variants.
Here is an alphabetical list of poker variants, with links mostly to Jerry Cooley's pages, and in some cases to other sites:
Abyssinia - variant of The Price is Right
All For One or One For All
Anaconda
Auction
Badugi
Baseball
Buddha's Folly
Caribbean Poker
Cincinnati
Chicago
Church
Cowpie Poker
Dakota - variant of Mexican Stud
Dirty Schultz
Elevator
English Stud
Five Card Draw
Follow the Queen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Grocery Store Dots
Guts
Have a Heart
Henway
Howdy Doody
Indian Poker
Iron Cross
Jacks to Open, Trips to Win
Jack the Shifter
Lame Brain Pete
Let It Ride
Mexican Stud
Mexican Sweat
Midnight Baseball
Napalm
Omaha
Pai Gow Poker Pass The Trash
Pick a Partner
The Price is Right
Psycho
Second Hand High
Selection/Rejection
Sequence
Spit in the Ocean
Strip Poker
Stud Poker
Ten
Texas Hold 'Em
Three Five Seven
Tic Tac Toe
Trees
Wall Street
Want It? Want It? Got It!
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