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July 14th, 2010 Theme Party Ideas for Every Occasion

The foremost thing you need to do is to think about your theme. Consider about the person you’re planning the party for. If your guest of honor loves a particular character, actor or actress, film or have a favorite hobby concentrate on that. You could host a party filled with fictional characters from a favorite film or incorporate decorations to design a fairytale birthday for your little princess. For an adult, theme parties surrounding the year they were born would be festive and informative.

Make a party music mix set around the theme party you are hosting.The music should complement the theme party ideas you have come up with. If it’s an 80’s theme party stick with those standard 80’s hits. Use the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack for a pirate theme party, and set up a “Wild Thing” karaoke for adults at a jungle or safari theme party. If you seem nervous or are worrying things won’t go well, your guests will pick up on it as soon as they walk in the house. If you are easy going and have a good time, everyone else will be.

If you’re giving a pirate theme party, make sure you plan a lot of lively festivities for the party. One thing is for certain — pirates knew how to have a great time! When they hit land, they were legendary for their wild partying ways, women chasing, and rum consumption. Serve Up a menu of pirate party food and drinks to recreate the same rowdy atmosphere — minus the women-chasing, of course, it’s guaranteed to be a good time.

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June 21st, 2010 Berg Simple AF Go Kart

The Berg Basic AF Go Kart is beyond doubt a piece of art. Its uncomplicated and strong shape permits you to peddle ahead and backwards, and its automated freewheel element signifies that you are able to freewheel as quickly as you want down hills without getting your feet and pedals in a twist!

This go kart is included with a 5 year warranty on the framework which makes parents feel confident about it and has a look of permanency. Suggested for toddlers aged 5 and upwards, with a variable seat, this go kart will grow with your child and promises a lot of hours of outdoors fun.

Thanks to the pneumatic air tyres, it doesn’t matter what the land is you will be ensured of a relaxed ride. The go kart is also presented in two different colour schemes: blue/red or else silver/black. These toys are subject to rigorous manufacturing quality control procedures considering that they are designed to the best standards, using only the finest quality materials.

Berg go karts egg on enthusiastic, innovative outdoors play, that will be able to be a factor to the healthy mental and physical growth of your toddler. Designed for people that live in the countryside a Berg go kart is the best gift for a toddler, since they will have the open space to wander on their go kart, on the contrary it is also a fantastic gift for those who live in the city, where go karts can be absolute amusement in any playing field or open space.

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June 11th, 2010 Good Poker Players Have Poker Buddies

Good Poker Players Have Poker Buddies I am a firm believer in the fact that it takes some serious studying to become top notch poker players. I think that every player needs to hit the books for a while before they are ready to hit the poker online table. Studying poker knowledge is a solitary activity, but true poker players should never feel alone. To make poker part of one’s lifestyle, people need poker buddies to encourage them in their passion. Imagine for a second that no one you knew played poker. It would be hard to get a game together right? It would be hard to talk about poker right? If no one in your circle of friends wants to talk about poker, the natural consequence is that you simply stop trying to talk about it. For new players, this is the kiss of death. Without support from friends and family, a new poker player can easily be convinced to give up their new hobby in favor of more generally accepted pursuits. This is just a very sad situation. Don’t let it happen to you or anyone you know. Find a poker buddy if you are just starting out. With a poker buddy, or buddies, you stand a much better chance of making it to the big leagues.

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March 18th, 2010 Top Five Playing a One Pair Hand after the Turn

This is a very well known circumstance in poker, and it happens way more than we realize until we go back and look at our stats. When you’re the preflop raiser, and your turn bet gets reraised, it’s time to reevaluate your one pair hands.

Why is this? Well, in most circumstances, if you’re betting and getting consistently called, then all of a sudden on the turn, you get reraised, what you’re seeing is a value bet. Most poker players decide to start playing their big hands on the turn and build some equity for their showdown. What this reveals to you, almost inevitably every time, is that either a) the turn card improved their hand incredibly, or b) they were stringing you along the whole time letting your value bet for them.

So the common wisdom in this situation is to reevaluate where you stand. You need to look at the board. Is there a straight or flush possibility? Are there two cards that could have two paired your opponent? Can you put your poker online opponent on trips (taking into consideration position, and betting/calling pattern plus past history). You may have to go into the tank in these kinds of situations and think about the information you don’t have from your opponent. If you do decide to proceed, proceed with caution, or at least have some outs that would put you ahead of your opponent’s sudden initiative. Otherwise, you may be looking at a much shorter stack than you planned when you started spewing chips.

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March 5th, 2010 This Week on Legal Online Poker

This week on legal poker online advocate’s Right2bet blog, German lawyer and supporter of gambling deregulation, Martin Arendts, talks about poker gambling law in Germany, which is currently managed through a series of monopolies by the 16 ‘Lnder’ (or states) in the country. Whilst the initial move to state companies was seen as reasonably successful, these companies have recently seen a large dip in profit, having consequences for public spending above and beyond what would be the norm in a commercial market. This has resulted in many states believing they can make more from taxing a deregulated industry full of private operators.

The other issue Germany has, according to Arendts, is that each of the 16 states has different rulings and it may prove difficult to operate a commercial market in one area, with a monopoly operating in the neighbouring state. Some of the Northern states encompass only cities (Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin), so one could find that they live in a ‘no man’s land’ or are able to take advantage of better prices simply by walking down the road.

Surprisingly, given the excuses of the monopolies regarding fighting corruption in sport, one of the biggest voices in favour of the liberalisation of the industry comes from the organisation most affected by recent ‘match-fixing’ scandals. The German Football association’s president Theo Zwanziger and representative Franz Beckenbauer have both been quoted as believing the transparency of a fully legal, liberal system to be far more attractive than that which current laws allow. Indeed, Arendts believes that by 2012 the country will have moved away from state poker monopolies, towards a liberalised industry in which multiple private operators compete and pay tax.

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December 22nd, 2009 Playing the Cutoff Too Freely

I was recently watching a free poker video from a pretty well known poker online player. He was 4-tabling different buy-in 180 man sit and go events. While the stuff he was talking about was very basic and great for a beginner, I found most of it to be rather useless. But, while he was discussing a hand on one of his online poker tables, I saw him play a hand differently than I might have played it, yet it went unmentioned. In the cutoff, he folded A-7 off with about 10BB’s in an unopened pot. This isn’t a huge deal, and in fact, it’s probably right on the border of a fold or a shove. My first instinct would be to shove and hope to take the blinds, or even get called by one of the blinds or the button who is putting you on an “any two cards” cutoff shove. The big thing that I took from this is that I, and perhaps many good players, might be treating the cutoff too much like the button when it is not. It’s relatively the same, but if you’re not shutting the hand down, you could get in a lot of trouble just flat-calling to be in position on an opening raiser. While the shove might be a marginal situation (trying to get through 3 players instead of 2) a flat call in front of a solid button player can be throwing chips away. This leaves the button to take the play away from you preflop or anywhere later in the course of the hand. Know the difference between the cutoff and the button and you might just patch a small hole in your game.

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November 24th, 2009 Keeping Reins on Your Habit

Like any good thing, it is easy to get addicted to online poker. With the widespread access of a game at all hours online, and the easy to signing in even from your bed on a laptop, certainly the presence of poker online has skyrocketed in the last 5 years from an entity restricted to home games and casinos, to any bedroom in the country.

In the face of this great blessing, it is important still, even for the most regular of professional players, to keep the game within the confines of a healthy lifestyle. Whether you are addicted to the thrill of the game, to the money you make, or to simply the act of seeing one hand after another, don’t forget that there is a world outside there with people in it. Breathe. Eat. Walk. Read. Have a life.

I say all this from the perspective of having gotten so addicted to the game myself that I stopped thinking about anything else but the casino. I played all waking hours of any day, and stopped hanging out with friends or doing anything else beyond the game itself. Sure, I made money, and my skills improved, but generally I got so deep into the game that I lost sight of all else.

Remember that work is work and play is play, and at the end of the day, too much of anything will eventually catch up with you.

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July 17th, 2009 Poker Terms: ‘Runner-Runner’

‘Running cards,’ in a hand of poker, refer to the fact that a player needs a very specific turn and river to come down in a given hand in order for them to win the pot. For instance, a poker online player needs two cards to make a straight against their opponents aces, or two more cards of a suit to make a flush, etc. Another example of needing running cards would be having Ace Queen against Ace King and the board reading K 8 9. In this case you could win with running Q Q or with running jack ten, but otherwise you will lose the hands.

Needing running cards means you are way behind in the hand and are against the mathematical odds to winbut it’s not impossible. Having backdoor poker draws to straight and flushes do crop up and win. Backdoor draws make up a small percentage of a player’s chance to win, and can add extra outs when the right card comes on the turn.

Another term for needing ‘running cards’ is needing ‘runner runner.’ Or if you needed, as above, two queens to come, you would need ‘running queens.’ Doing your best to avoid needing runners is a pretty smart play, if you can at all help it.

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March 31st, 2009 Another Lawmaker Attempts to Ban Online Gaming

More disturbing news from the anti-online poker front, as an overzealous politician wants to deny the good people of the Philippines the right to play online poker.As reported by the Philippine Daily Inquirer: A lawmaker has proposed that gambling on the Internet be made illegal in that country.Alliance for Rural Concerns party-list Representative Narciso Santiago noted in his proposed legislation that there are no existing regulations on Internet gambling in the Philippines (which is a good thing).Santiago’s bill proposes to make it illegal for people running a gambling or online casino operation to use the Internet or any other interactive computer service to place, receive, or otherwise make a bet or wager; or send, receive, or invite information that may assist in the placing of a bet or wager.He also said there is a danger that gambling sites may be used in scams to trick people out of their money.This is of course completely false, as online gambling sites should not be equated to Nigerian phishing scams or some such thing.This is just another example of a crooked politician who wants to deny people their God-given right to play online poker. I am hopeful that this bill, and other bills like it worldwide, will be defeated and we can all play online poker in peace.

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January 12th, 2009 Know when to Hold on Video Poker

<p>If you are reading this article, it means that you already know a thing or two about video <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.com/hu/”>poker</a>. You probably know where to find a game, the basics behind play, and how to make sure that you are playing on a full pay table. But, even the most advanced video <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.fr”>poker</a> players sometimes run into trouble knowing when to hold cards and when discard.

<p>Most video <a href=”http://www.everestpoker.se”>poker</a> machines will make suggestions about what cards you should keep, and that is exactly the trouble. Most players are distrustful of this; after all, the casinos are out to make money. Why would they give you tips that would let you win? Well, you don’t have to worry anymore; the tips offered on machines are generally good advice. The casino wants you to win every so often, that is what keeps their customers coming back. No one would ever go to the casino if they knew they were going to lose everything. Something to remember is that the casino only wins a small percentage of everyone’s money. By taking a little bit from everyone, they end up with a lot in the long run. They need customers to fill their seats. They need happy, satisfied poker players like you. So go ahead and follow their tips, it might improve your play overall.

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