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The lure of online poker is one many cannot resist. It offers the opportunity to play whenever they wish against a wide variety of competitors from around the world. It gives them unlimited gaming options, and can be an intensely profitable pastime. However, this is only true if the player knows how to play. If he doesn’t, online poker is, to put it mildly, not fun. It is instead a fast way to lose a considerable amount of money.

Fortunately, Pocketfives.com has devised a way to prevent the impending loss from happening: free training. All a player has to do is sign up with one of the sponsored sites and he will be granted access to training through Leggo Poker, Stox Poker, Real Poker Training or all three. For six months, a player can take the classes on a variety of styles, strategy and methods, improving their poker game in the variation of choice and many more.

The list of possible online poker rooms is ever growing and changing, included is Doyle’s Room, a site for U.S. players who want to gamble with real money and real competition. So there’s no doubt that any player will be unable to find a place to play that suits their poker style and a place to learn that teaches the game as well. If more help is needed, wanted or sought, Pocketfives.com has created a free training forum where questions can be posed and answered. Poker lovers with thoughts and advice can find support and aid almost as easily as they will be able to ante up and rake in the money once their training sessions are complete.

Sit down, log in and play the game until you have become an expert.

The Pocket Five’s forum is abuzz with players who are wondering if change is about to come within the US online poker industry. Many hold out hope that within the upcoming elections, our newly elected leaders will see the unconstitutionality of the UIGEA and make some long overdue changes. While this would be a huge win for US poker players, whether the outcome of the election will affect the legalities and formalities that complicate the current online poker situation in this country, only time will tell.As the document stands, the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) has very strategically worded clauses that seem to unfairly target the online poker industry within this country. Should the wording be only slightly altered or amended, it would be fairly simple to establish a US-based online poker room, completely in line with all federal guidelines. However, the individual laws of the states are where the real issues come into play. Some of these laws are subject to excessive fines and even felony charges.

Some of the wording that leaves poker players so exasperated is the references to the legality of entry and other fees on a game of skills, rather than a game of chance. As the current classification stands, the UIGEA considers poker to be in the latter category. However, other card games, such as Spades or Hearts, are considered games of skill. How is the deal of cards a chance within poker, yet a skill in other card games? Why would it be legal to pay to play in a Spades tournament, but illegal to pay to play in a poker tournament? Seems to be a bit unfair in the reasoning and biased against the poker world.

After spending the evening catching up on some poker talk in the popular online poker community, Pocket 5’s, I went into the Off Topic section and found a lot of interest in the US Presidential Race. Many of the treads that caught my attention had titles like: “Why Obama will win the primary easily” and “Barack Obama will fight for you” and “So I signed up on Obama’s Website” There were many more along those lines posted just today.

The threads discuss everything from spam generated from email lists being sold associated with the candidate’s site to how he is taking the steam out of the Clinton Machine. It is obvious that the Poker Players are watching this election very closely.

The most impressive line of discussion includes one players fund raising efforts for Barack Obama. Jon Wiesman, aka Underdog, has organized some online poker tournaments specifically for Pocket 5’s players. Each one is a 50/50 win. The tournament champ will donate 50% of the cash pot to the Obama camaign for President of the United States. This movement has successfully raised more than 100 dollars for the first tournament with double that for tomorrow’s event. As part of the tournament promotions, he is also accepting straight donations for the campaign. With the second Poker Stars Tournament for Obama set to get underway tomorrow, he has already raised 150 USD in straight donations.

Donations can be made here.

It appears that the poker player’s canididate is Barack Obama.

The following is an excerpt from the Pocket 5’s Poker Forum. It applies directly to one of the candidates running for President of the United States of America. This man, Barack Obama, has been known to organize a poker game or two of his own, and below is a copy of a eye witness testimonial along with pictures of the candidate, supporting some of those who doubt him.

This poker player is in a position to run the government who authored the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. This is the opportunity for many to take a stand for some one who is for personal freedoms and liberties.

Many people come into the game of Poker with a favorite hands mindset. As much as you need to have a plan, and perhaps a handful of strong starting hands, you do not need to play favorites strictly. There are pot odds in all that you do around the poker table.   Keep the odds in your favor, and play a variety of hands. Do not stake the bankroll on one given hand. Most definatly do not play a hand that needs to draw out a win, because that may not happen. For example if you favorite cards like 7c and 9d because you drew out a draw the last time you played, you may find your chip stack and bankroll diminish faster than you thought possible.

Poker is a game of strategy for a reason. You will not always get the cards you want, when you want them. You will not win every hand, but you can plot a course of action that keeps the pot odds in your favor. This means keeping an open mind about what cards you are dealt and will play.

I found possibly one of the funniest forum threads of the year on a car forum today.  It all started when some poker affiliate (NICHOLAS ADAM SITKO or Nick for short) started spamming his website accross several forums.  Unfortunately for Nick, people decided that they did not like getting spammed, and decided to see if they could fight back.  A WHOIS search was performed on his website revealing the following information:

“Registrant:
nick sitko
100 Kensington Blvd. apt. 1102
Bluffton, SC 29910
US”

They had found his address, and his real name.  On further search some more information came about.  It turns out that Nick is a pedophile and convicted sex offender.

People started posting more pictures of him, and the thread started spreading like wildfire on forums accross the Internet.  It is still in the early stages, but hopefully this will teach Little Nicky why spamming is BAD!

People really need to learn that in the past you may have been able to hide behind your computer on the Internet, but nowadays people are much smarter so if you screw around and do unethical things, someone WILL find you!

You can see the original thread here:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98489