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On-line poker growing more popular than casino poker

It was only a matter of time … according to a new study, online poker players play more frequently and aggressively than those who go to casinos.
The study, by the University of Western Ontario, Canada, reports that frequent gamblers prefer to use a website they trust and prefer to game through an operator they knew was reputable.
Many respondents say the online poker experience meets both qualifications.
The study found that poker players and gamblers use of gaming and poker websites is growing in "leaps and bounds" with Internet gambling having among the highest rates of frequent participation with 25 per cent of respondents reporting they gambled at least once a week and 50 per cent daily.
Poker was the most popular choice for online gamblers, the study reported, noting its easy accessibility and ease of launching and closing the interface.
Luckyhog.com has endeavored to create a user friendly experience founded on trust. As this interesting study indicates, hundreds have taken note and arrived to play Luck Hog poker, confident their accounts and gaming experience will be memorable and worry free.

Online Lucky Hog poker or in-person poker: I love 'em both

I was recently asked: “Why play online poker at Lucky Hog instead of poker with real people, at a real poker table?”
Several reasons.
First off: I love poker and it is not always possible – or convenient – to get an in-person game together. Online poker at Lucky Hog is convenient – so long as I have access to a computer and the Internet, I can enjoy a game of online poker at Lucky Hog 24/7. The technological advancements that have been introduced at Lucky Hog has made online poker user friendly, reliable and exciting.
As well, while I love Texas Hold’em, I also love Omaha online poker and three card poker. When I play in-person, with friends, usually we play one or the other. At Lucky Hog, I can play which ever I want, when I want.
The bonuses help as well. Lucky Hog is in a competitive industry and need to entice players. Lucky Hog has offered in the past and continues to offer a whack of enticements, including free rolls, bounty games, real cash sign up bonuses - right now they have a $50,000 monthly freeroll on the last Sunday of each month. Try to get any of these things from your poker buddies!
Lucky Hog also lets me practice and play without risking a bunch of cash. Their Play for Free room has helped me better understand games and strategies. Try to gather your buddies together for a practice game! It ain’t going to happen.
Finally, I enjoy the safety of online poker. This is not to say I will be mugged leaving a casino or a friendly poker game; but have my cash in an online account I can access when needed does provide a sense of security.

Play Lucky Hog online poker with your head, not your heart

Poker is all over the television dial. Poker professionals are being built up and marketed as new media celebrities and icons, parlaying their card playing daring-do and unique personalities into marketable commodities. From bravado and braggadocio to quite and calm: the personalities run the gamut.
Increasingly, online poker players are adopting similar personas and are only too willing to crow about their accomplishments and cajones in online chats and over poker-related bulletin boards.
In some instances, players will personally bait and cajole others in forums to play them online. In some forums, this activity is discouraged, branded as being “abusive,” and offending entries are removed. However, in numerous instances, players take up the challenge and meet the agitator at an online poker table like Lucky Hog.com.
Should you take up an online challenge, be sure to keep you emotions in check. A challenge from a faceless foe should be approached with the utmost caution and the understanding that the person spouting off in the online forum is not necessarily the ultra-aggressive, stud player at the table. Personas are like hats: they can be quickly and easily switched.
In the heat of battle – and as the pot balloons – forget about the insults, taunts and aspersions cast at your mother. Keep your head about you and remember: in the long run, it will serve you better to turn tail and concede a hand than to let your ego get in the way.
On sixth street, if you get nothing, breath deep and forget the acrimony and agitation: you will be able to live it down if you fold. As well, you will remain in the game and at the table a lot longer if you let your head and not your heart - and bruised ego - guide you.
If you do take up an Lucky Hog.com online poker challenge, modesty will take you much further than arrogance. While you may be enraged on the inside, present a veneer of calm and humility. Fold when beaten and exit a game you feel has turned against you. What you may consider to be surrender, others will consider prudent, unemotional risk assessment and decision making. And in the long run, these qualities and abilities will serve you much better than drawing a line-in-the-sand from which you will not retreat.

Online Texas Hold’em Poker: what’s your flavour?

Before sidling up to an online Texas Hold’em Poker table, understand the type of game you are joining. There are three flavours of online Texas Hold'em poker: Limit, No Limit, and Pot Limit.
Lucky Hog Limit Texas Hold'em poker is the most popular form of non-tournament poker. Stakes of the Limit Texas Hold'em poker table are typically $1/$2, $5/$10, $15/$30 or $10/$20, the obvious rule being the first amount is half the second amount. The smaller amount represents the size of Bets and Raises that can be made for the first two betting rounds of the game. The second, larger amount is the size of betting for the turn and the river- the next two rounds. The amount of Stakes determines the size of the blinds. The Big Blind is equal to the smaller amount in the Stakes and the Small Blinds is half of the Big Blind. For example, in a $10/$20 stakes the Big Blind is $10 and the Small Blind is $5.
Players are limited to three raises, meaning there can be only one Bet and three Raises during the three betting rounds. This Three Raise Maximum is unique to Limit Hold'em poker. Once the third Raise is made, the betting is capped and no more raises can be made for that round.
If you choose to go All-in, it means you are putting all your remaining chips to the pot but can no longer Call or Raise. But not to worry, you still have a claim in the amount currently in the pot. However, the next betting and raises that your opponents make will be put to a Side Pot where you will have no more claim.
The second variety is No Limit Hold'em Poker. The title explains it all: in No-Limit Hold'em poker, you can make as many Bets or Raises as you want. There are no limits to the number of raises allowed. This form of Hold'em poker is most popular in Tournament games.
Pot Limit Hold'em Poker Pot Limit Hold'em poker is very similar to No Limit. The only difference is that in Pot Limit, you can never bet more than the current size of the pot.
If you are just starting out, go with Limit Hold'em. While No Limit and Pot Limit seem have easier rules, the strategies are much more complex and difficult.
Visit Lucky Hog for more on online poker rules.

Establish your online Texas Holdem Poker persona

To raise or not to raise: that is how you develop your online persona and character at Lucky Hog.
Aggressive, conservative, wily or foolish: your persona is usually defined by your raise and fold strategy.
In online Texas Holdem Poker games, there are many opportunities to raise before the flop. However, your persona – and in many instances success –depends on what you do after you discover your hand does not connect with the community cards in any way.
There many types of online Texas Holdem Poker personas.
For some, the strategy is to be on tilt: lay wildly or recklessly, playing too many hands, trying wild bluffs, raising with bad hands, etc.
Others Lucky Hog online poker players fold at the slightest sense of trouble.
For many players, the strategy is to hold the line: consistent, unwavering aggression. Their goal being, keep opponents guessing and worried: are you bluffing or are you holding a nut straight.
There is a risk in all strategies and personas. In the latter case, a Lucky Hog player who does a lot of hyper-aggressive raising, betting, and bluffing can be labeled a maniac and avoided by other Texas Holdem Poker players. In gaming lingo, a maniac is not a good player, but is simply doing a lot of gambling.
However, strategic mixing of your persona - such as occasionally acting like a maniac and other times being overly cautious – can confuse opponents and can make you quite a dangerous player.
Variety is the spice of life. And, in online in Texas Holdem Poker games at Lucky Hog, it can be the difference between winning and losing.

Amazing Lucky Hog Poker Video: Five Pocket Pairs off The Flop

You gotta watch this video.
This is a remarkable video - and a remarkable read by Denis O’Mahoney.

Let’s crunch in the numbers – and the odds. If you are dealt a pair of aces in the flop, you have a 31 percent chance of winning a 10-seater hand of Texas hold’em. Dealt a pair of Kings – AKA Cowboys - you have a 26.02 per cent chance of winning a hand of 10-seater Texas hold’em. Two pocket Queens will give you a 22.03 per cent chance of winning while a pocket pair of Jacks in a 10-seater game will see you sitting with a 19.09 per cent chance of winning the Texas hold’em hand.
Great odds, but when five pocket pairs are dealt – WOW!

LuckyHog.com February Online Poker Promotion - Heart Attack

[Poker Room Name]Heart Attack

During February LuckyHog.com will be hosting a phenomenal promotion. There will be  daily free roll online poker tournaments where entry is gained through daily comp points earnings. Every qualifying player then receives a coupon entry to the daily Heart Breaker Tournament. The prize pool will be $500 per weekday and $1000 (per tournament) on Saturday and Sunday. On Valentines day we will make the prize pool $5,000. Players must achieve at least 4,000 comp points to gain eligibility for this tournament.

During the promotion the prize pool will be split down the middle. 50% of the pool will be paid according to the set up of a normal tournament structure. The remainder of the pool will be based on receiving hearts as hole cards, the top 5 players with the most consecutive hole cards as hearts win a percentage of the prize pool. Any heart in the hole counts.

Entry to the promotion require players to earn 700 comp points per day (between midnight and midnight poker time) in order to get the coupon for the daily tournament. The current average comp point earnings per day varies between 420 and 500.

The tournaments will run daily during the week and twice on a Saturday and Sunday – Coupons can be stored and used for any event. We will attempt to stagger the times of the tourneys to get a fair representation of the user groups. (see tournament schedule below)

During the tournament there will be Heart Attack leader board in which the top 25 players will all receive a Heart Accolade for the promotion.

We will provide:-

• A “Freeroll counter” in the player admin so the players know how many points they need to get the coupon
• A “heart Monitor” that will count the number of hearts received during play. This will update in the tournament results section live as the tournament is running.
• A Heart Race leader board will be produced that will so the cumulative number of hearts gained by each player during the month. The top 10% will receive a unique Heart Accolade that will never be repeated.
• Custom Heart shaped tables
• Custom card backs
• Flash graphics
• Player notification through the LuckyHog.com within an hour before the start time how many points shy of the coupon they are getting to allow entry.

Download february_schedule_chart.pdf

FEBRUARY SCHEDULE

Changes at LuckyHog.com

We at LuckyHog.com have had a run of bad luck with two online poker networks. First FutureBet Gaming Systems in 2007, now Dynamic Gaming Systems.
LuckyHog.com is not alone.
Numerous other online poker sites were dragged down by these operators (see: http://www.pokerroomreview.com/article+who+is+futurebet.aspx). But unlike some other operators who simply disappeared, LuckyHog.com’s operators have worked to make things right.
When LuckyHog.com moved to Dynamic Gaming Systems, we paid out the players that had made cash deposits and had balances. LuckyHog.com management went into their own pockets and paid tens of thousands of dollars to honour all cash deposits. In addition, LuckyHog.com then added $5.00 real money to all affiliate and cash player accounts.
Unfortunately, LuckyHog.com management was unable to obtain accurate or reliable information on players who had outstanding promotional money/freeroll balances.
Most other operators simply disappeared. LuckyHog.com remains, under the same name, under the same management. We did not and will not abandon our clients in these trying times. We will continue to support our clients and are grateful for their ongoing trust and encouragement as we moved over to another safer, more secure network.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact LuckyHog.com at info@luckyhog.com.

Thanks,
Management

LuckyHog.com

Play Omaha online poker without fear

Omaha online poker has a reputation for being a complex and difficult to learn online casino card game. Don’t believe the hype. In reality, playing Omaha at Lucky Hog is straightforward, and is even much simpler than its closest cousin, Texas Holdem.
Omaha is similar to Texas Holdem in using a three-card flop on the community board, a fourth community board card, and then a fifth community board card. Each player is dealt four pocket cards (instead of two) at the start. In order to make a hand, a player must use precisely two pocket cards with three community board cards. The betting is the same as in Texas Holdem.
At the showdown, five card hands are created by using exactly two cards from a player's hand, and exactly three cards from the community board cards. All four of a player's cards must be shown to qualify for winning a pot. Regardless of what is on the board, without exception players must use three cards from the community board cards and two from their hand. Even if, for example, there are five spades on the community board, you must have two spades in your hand to have a flush.
If you only show two cards and discard the other two, your hand is dead and you forfeit claim to the pot.
Omaha rules are based on Texas Holdem with these main differences:

1. Players are dealt four pocket cards.
2. Player MUST use two pocket cards and three community board cards to make the best possible poker hand.
3. There can be a maximum of 10 players.

Each player is dealt four cards face down (the pocket cards). Then the first betting round begins.
Rounds are the same as in Texas Holdem:

1. Preflop - Two cards are dealt to every player face down, starting with the small blind.
2. The Flop - the dealer lays out the first three community board cards in the center of the table.
3. The Turn - A fourth card is dealt face up in the middle of the table.
4. The River - A fifth and final card is dealt face up in the middle of the table.

The player with the best 5-card hand wins.
Most Omaha hands come down to simply calculating your chances of winning all or part of a pot.
Omaha is usually a simple game: play hands before the flop that can easily make the strongest possible hand in a given situation, and play hands after the flop where you are getting correct odds on making the best hand.

Play Online Poker- Texas Holdem Strategy Guide

Keep in mind that this is a online poker tournament-style poker game so you should have a long-term strategy. It doesn't matter if you win the most hands. The way to win is to be the last person at the table. You don't have to play out every hand or even the majority of hands. Better online poker players calculate the odds and fold quickly if the odds are not in their favor. For the majority of hands, a good player will fold before the flop. Don't be afraid to fold and you shouldn't start betting haphazardly if you've won a few hands.
However, as the game is reduced to fewer and fewer players, the odds change and you'll be able to play more hands.
A good time to bet aggressively is in the early rounds when the blinds are lower and you can build an early chip lead.
It's not all about you. Watch how your opponents play and try to determine their style.
Going All-In is a risky move but it is part of the game. If your online poker opponent know that you won't go All-In, they'll bluff you. Know that you probably will have to go All-In during a game but try to do it when you have the strongest hand possible.
Make sure you know your poker rankings.
Don't fold when everyone else has checked. Pick on the little guy! If someone's chips are dwindling and they only have a few chips left, don't feel sorry for them. That's the best time to force someone to go All-In and knock them out of the tournament.
At Luckyhog.com, there are three types of online poker tournaments.
Single-Table Poker Tournaments (also called STT's) are usually comprised of one table and are not scheduled. A sit & go poker tournament will start as soon as all the seats are filled and the prizepool is fixed. Some sit & go tournaments are available 24-7 and some (like the special satellite tournaments) are only available at certain times of day.
Multi-Table Poker Tournaments (also called MTT's) are scheduled in advance of the poker tournament start time and players must register in order to participate. As the tournament progresses and players are eliminated, the tables are consolidated until one "final table" in reached. Play will continue until someone wins.
Freeroll Poker Tournaments are exactly like a Multi-Table Poker Tournament except there is no buy-in fee to enter. In other words, players can enter for free and win money! Some freeroll tournaments have requirements (such as player points) and others have none.
Check out a tourney.