Lottery Strategy and Information

When I started playing poker online I had no idea what an online poker analyzer could be, or if it even exists. I was just trying to learn poker hands and make bets whenever I believed I have a winning hand, or I was expecting some good hands. Slowly I realized that relying solely on my instincts wont make me a winning poker player just as knowing by heart what makes a flush or a straight is simply not enough to win money. I also needed to know the poker hand rankings, and later on an even more important aspect.

Online Poker Analysis comes in the picture

It turned out sizing up your and your opponents poker hand right from the start is one of the most important skills I could have, and it has roots in mathematics. I discovered, that each poker hand, like a flush or a straight have probabilities calculated already in statistical poker tables, showing you what chance your starting hand has in poker, and what chance of getting a flush, or a four of a kind has too. This was the essence of online poker analysis and most professional players already know these by heart, but since I was a newbie I had a serious lack of understanding this and hence I was losing in poker.
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With emotions running high, many poker players run into difficulties when they try to consistently calculate their own odds while observing their opponents’ behavior at the same time. Fortunately there are some cool online tools which help players do the numbers while keeping track of other players.

Pokertracker is one of the most popular tracking tools on the net. It is an extremely powerful piece of software that has many useful features, such as remembering every hand you’ve played, analyzing and predicting your opponents’ reactions in different situation, calculating your winnings, and much more.

As every advanced player knows, knowing the odds is essential if you want to become a consistent winner. But calculating them sometimes might be a bit hard. There are many software tools that instantly calculate the exact odds so you don’t have to. One of these tools is called Holdem Indicator.

Observing your own game and that of the players you play against is one of the best ways to improve your poker success. But what about players you haven’t played against before? Sharkscope, the poker tournaments database, tracks all tournaments played at the major sites and makes it easy for you to instantly see whether you’re playing against a fish or shark.
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In effective goal setting, using dreams to establish ideal outcomes is a critical step in creating the vision and purpose that become the building block for goals. When used that way, dreams are your servant.

But when the word dreams is mentioned, many people are turned off – to them dreams are a waste of time – a trip into fantasy. They feel dreams are not for the real world. They see dreams as taking away from action and accomplishment.

The line between dreams as the servant and dreams as the master is a thin one. Rudyard Kipling, in his masterpiece poem “IF ” wrote a verse that says “If you can dream, but not let dreams become your master….” Going even further, Cormac McCarthy, in his novel, “The Road” says: “When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again, then you will have given up.”

You can think of dreams as a resource, a servant – a special place where you go to create thoughts that can serve as the first step to accomplishment. Or they can become your master – taking you to that soft, fuzzy place where you can escape from reality and think great thoughts that have a really low probability of ever happening. For most people, dreams are both a servant and a master.

How do you know if your dreams represent real possibilities, or are a place to escape from reality – to fantasyland? Do your dreams replace action – or do they create action and persistence to get through the tough times? The answer to those questions isn’t always so clear cut – sometimes our mind plays tricks on us.

Take the Lottery dream as an example. A New York Times article states that the dream of winning stimulates the same brain circuits as actual winning does. The article goes on to state that ” in brain imaging studies of drug users, as well as healthy adults placing bets, neuroscientists have found that the prospect of reward activates the same circuits in the brain that the payoffs themselves do.” It’s easy to keep the Lottery dream alive – just buy a ticket and keep those brain circuits buzzing. And at odds of 147,000,000 to 1 for each drawing of the Powerball Lottery, you may be a winner. Nothing wrong with taking that chance. At least not until the dream of winning the Lottery replaces dreams that have the potential for real action and accomplishment.
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If straight unearned power or glory ever made man or woman a king or queen in even their conscious thinking, it would be akin to a lottery winner not being a part of the nouveau rich/new rich and a lottery winner being old money for-real. With that I begin explaining that statement in this article. If power and glory appropriated and unearned “easily” made people really happy in life and existence, then instead of ninety-five percent of lottery winners being broke in a couple of years, we would have ninety five percent of lottery winners happy with their money and investing it well and smartly. But, beyond the lottery example, we go to the earned which no matter what lasts longer because of the fact that it was worked for, so there is even that sense of territoriality about that kind of power even when it is short lived. (And you were waiting for me to mention this:) Being born into power and glory does not make it earned, it was earned by forbearers, but not by the scion. So, that too counts as unearned power and glory. Sure you have your rare Henry Ford II who create great cars like the Mustangs and prove themselves. But more often indeed, you get John E. DuPonts’ and Paris Hiltons’ that squander and exploit what they were born into power and monetary wealthwise. I’m not going to call that glory. My exact point in this article, to get to it is that earned is always better than “free”, in fact, most of the time you pay the most for the “free stuff”. Some philosophers say the mind was given free, but you have to “pay” by using it with effort, alacrity and honesty to think. Napoleon Hill and Rene Descartes are the most famous for saying that kind of thing. So, a really good life, in other words is not free in that it takes thinking and action effort to create and live and “given” or “lucky” power rarely ever makes the genuine mind of a king or queen. So, considering that everything takes at least thinking effort to use properly, “free” never means free, ever.

So, now that I have communicated the facts objectively, or what I feel and know to be objectively, now to communicate my genuine subjective opinion on the matter which I think and know that you will find interesting and rather Socratic, and still pretty objective: Sure nature gives, but we all must use with effort to use anything properly. Life is hard, sure, proficiency makes it easy, sure. But proficiency does not even come free, it comes with concentrated paid effort through thought and consistent action. In one of my other articles, I quoted Kevin Trudeau’s four point chart about competence, in at first you do not know that you do not know, then you do know that you do not know, then you know that you do know, and then finally it is second nature, you know, but it is a fully ingrained habit-knit part of all actions in every way. Even that is a way of paying, becoming that proficient in a subject over a time-investment. So, more proof, in my opinion and reality indeed that “free” never means free, ever. Everything to become genuinely proficient takes a genuinely effort-filled investment of time and effort before it becomes easy in any way. It makes sense to me, I hope and am convinced it will make sense to you, that is why I am typing this in this article.

So, now, back to objectivity, and out of subjective opinion mode: Think about everything successful that you have ever done, and think about the time and effort investment that you have made into it, it was not free. It took effort to create perfection or success, didn’t it? Yes, and that admittedly is a universal yes on anyone’s part.
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