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Ladbrokes Poker Review

	Ladbrokes Poker Room Details:
	Country of Origin	:	Gibraltar
	License	:	Gibraltar
	Year of Foundation	:	2004
	Software	:	Microgaming
	Size	:	NA
	Audited By	:	PWC
	Language	:	English
	Accepts USA Players	:	NA
	Bonus	:	100% Up to $500

Ladbrokes Poker offers its players a great playing experience with a wide range of limits at cash games, a plethora of tournaments along with some interesting promotions for its regular player community. It boasts of a high amount of traffic because of the huge variety of games including casino games, it has to offer. Tournaments take place every fifteen minutes and some of them have high stakes being played that allow players to make good profits. Players do not have to wait for games to begin as they are well timed and fast to proceed. As Ladbrokes is a world renowned name among bookmakers, it is a perfectly safe and reliable website to play your favorite game of poker.

Software

Ladbrokes Poker earlier had their own patented software but is now a part of the MicroGaming network. After having shifted to the MicroGaming software, it has received a tremendous boost to its website. The software offers great graphics and a simple to navigate menu that gives access to all the necessary information. It offers some exclusive features such as a detailed hand history, winning hand histories, timer and important table statistics for example flop percentages, average pot size etc. All the essential statistics that are required by players are readily available from the lobby.

Also available is an organizer calendar that helps you list all the events that you look forward to. A chat facility allows you to interact with players at the table. You can choose from a selection of three different tables sizes, these are the large table size, medium and the mini mode versions. The games are fast and you can encounter up to 120 games being played within the hour. The fast and reliable software is available in a downloadable as well as a browser version.

Games

Ladbrokes Poker offers poker games that include Texas Holdem Poker, Omaha, Omaha High, Omaha Low, 7 Card Stud, 5 Card Stud and 5 Card Draw. There are various limit ranges available with loose games being played at the shorthanded and the turbo tables. As for tournaments, there is a lot to choose from with tournaments being the hot favorite; players can find a whole heap of them at Ladbrokes.

Traffic can go up to 8,000 players playing at the cash tables as well as the tournaments during peak hours. The most traffic at cash games can be seen at the medium stake limit of Texas Holdem. Like most of other poker sites, US players are not allowed to wager at Ladbrokes Poker due to their laws that restrict them from doing so.

At Ladbrokes Poker, players have the privilege of playing casino games too. Without having to change to an online casino, players can choose to play some exciting casino games from the poker website. Some of the casino games include Blackjack, Roulette, slot games, video poker and several other games.

Bonus

New players who sign up at Ladbrokes Poker are offered a 100% sign up bonus of up to $500. However, they have to wager for this bonus amount by playing enough tournaments and raked hands for which they earn Player Points. These points have to be thirty times the bonus amount to get the free bonus offer.

Promotions

Ladbrokes Poker has plenty of promotional offers that include free roll tournaments, bad beat jackpots, guaranteed tournaments and the leader board program. These tournaments give the players an opportunity to make some fast cash. New promotions are introduced all the time, making them more attractive each time. More than $1,000,000 is given out in cash prizes each month.

Players are offered Player Points for every raked hand and tournaments that they play. The points can be redeemed for the sign up bonus or for buy-ins to satellite tournaments. This makes games more exciting because of the rewards attached to them.

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The Transition to Playing Razz

Transitioning to Razz

If you mention that you play poker to the average person on the street, they will almost always assume you mean Texas Hold’em. Tournament Texas Hold’em was accepted as “the poker game” when the poker boom hit the United States in 2003, after Chris Moneymakers historic World Series of Poker Main Event victory. Millions of college students, middle aged men and women, and retirees began playing the game which was made famous through ESPN’s coverage.

Many people inside the game of poker only play Texas Hold’em and many of these people do not even understand the other forms of poker that are our there. I recently hosted my weekly home poker game and decided to make it a dealer’s choice game. I selected Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, and 7 card stud as my dealer’s choice games and had to explain the rules and concepts of the games numerous times. A few of my friends, who are quite talented Texas Hold’em players, were not big fans of these new games, as they did not fully understand the strategies to excel at the new games and could not be bothered to apply themselves. A few of the other players at the game, loved the new additions. They liked the added action created in Omaha, as well as the new information and betting rounds created in Stud and Razz.

There are so many different and unique caveats of each game, that it creates new and different challenges amongst each game. I, like many, first learned how to play Texas hold’em competitively. I got into Razz by playing online and reading books such as Super System. At the time I first got into these other games, I was a bit burnt out on Texas hold’em. That’s what really turned me onto playing Razz competitively. Learning the nuisances Razz and different strategies involved with the game brought back my passion for playing poker. I became a student of the game again, studying and learning everything I could about the game. In the end, I became much better at Razz, but these strategies and new thought processes also helped me in my Texas hold’em game as well.

Some sites do not offer every form of poker or have as high as volume of games in these different games that they do in Texas hold’em. However, most of the large sites and many medium sized sites have many game types. Paddy Power Poker, Virgin Poker, and Ladbrokes Poker all offer games in Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, Razz, 7 Card Stud and 7 Card Stud H/L. Just like Texas Hold’em, these sites offer micro stakes, .01/.02, low stakes, $1/2, medium stakes, $10/$20, and large stakes, $50/$100 and above. I would suggest starting at very low stakes if you are just learning the game of Razz. It can be very confusing at first and you don’t want to blow your whole bankroll before you even understand the game.

Throughout the next few weeks, I will take you on a journey through the game of Razz. I will not only give you a better understanding of the game, but I will teach you some proven winning strategies for this form of poker and the various opportunities involved with Razz.

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