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In the world of online gambling nothing is more essential than information; the information on what games to play to maximize payoffs and when and where to make those bets. There is nothing more essential to any enterprise, if someone wants to call their personal gaming pleasure an enterprise, than the knowledge of the game and the knowledge of how the gaming community operates.

There are several ways to get the good, up to the minute information that a person is going to need to be successful in their chosen online gambling format. One of the most basic ways to get the right information is to sign up for an industry newsletter. Also, some of the premier online gambling sites have their own newsletter that comes like clockwork to your email giving you all of the information that you could possibly want. This is a great option for a player that doesn’t jump around too much from site to site. By getting a newsletter that is exclusive to the site that you are most familiar with and use the most you can increase your gaming understanding tremendously and learn the ins and outs of your favorite site.

Online gambling site newsletters are also great to keep you up on promotions and upcoming deals. If you’re the type of player that just wants to log on and don’t really care what’s going on a newsletter may not be for you. However, if you’re the kind of player that has to be the best that they can possibly be a newsletter is an essential weapon in your arsenal to attack the money fortresses of the online gaming sites.

As with everything in life nobody should assume that they are getting the whole story by using only one source of information. A smart player will get information from newsletters, but they will also pay attention to the industry news from other sources. A quick search on upcoming topics that are affecting the online gaming industry in a reputable search engine is another great way to glean some information from the net. Also, just because you may not like the game of draw Poker, for example, it shouldn’t mean that you don’t pay attention to it. Trends that start in one area of the gaming community often times filter to other areas and affect other games. By being able to see these trends developing in another game you can shift your game play in your chosen game to take advantage of the change before other players without as much personal drive can.

Any sources of information that a player can find to add to the fun and bottom line of their online gambling experience should never be discounted. A good place to start is by opting in for the next online gambling newsletter.

Being a compulsive gambler is never really a good thing. That is simple really: you don’t ever want to over-gambler, especially when you can’t pay for your next “fix.” Compulsive gambling is a disease, no matter how you look it; and like any disease-mental or physical-you must take a practical approach to diagnosing your problem and overcoming it.

Most gamblers will use their own money. But if they become a compulsive gambler, they will continue to use whatever money they can borrow, whether it means secretly mortgaging the house or taking out a loan. Some go to a casino and think of using just $50; then that figure goes up as they think the next big win is just around the corner.

A cash advance for a gambler is a disaster just waiting to happen and should never be taken.

A compulsive gambler who can’t pay for his addiction through his own money is in trouble; and if he applies for a cash advance to help him, then he will be in even bigger trouble then before. He could and probably will end up in a huge mountain of debt with no feasible method of escape.

A compulsive gambler taking a cash advance is not good for the simple reason that he probably won’t and or can’t pay it back, even if he has a regular income; it can be difficult for them and that is why a cash advance for a gambler is a pitfall itself. The cash advance company does not know much about the person who is applying for a cash advance, except for the information that they fill in on the cash advance form.

This means that they don’t know if a person is a compulsive gambler or not, so they presume that he will use the money wisely and then pay them back there amount every month. Of course, the gambler will think that his next big win is around the corner, but a gambler can never know when the next big win is.

If you are thinking about taking a cash advance to pay for time at a casino, you should instead think of how you can reduce the amount of gambling you do, so that it remains a recreational activity and not an addiction that controls your life.

I know, you’re reading this headline and scratching your head. A flush beats a straight, you say to yourself. How is a straight better than a flush? Well, what if I also told you that pocket fives are better than pocket aces?

All joking aside, what I mean by this is that hands like straights and pocket fives can reap you more money in the long run because they can make strong hands that are well hidden. It’s not enough to make a strong hand in hold’em; you also need to get paid off on that hand to make it worthwhile.

Players are always very wary when three of a suit lands on the board in hold’em and the presence of the third card often slows down the betting. Potential straight cards, on the other hand, don’t always have the same effect. Consider a flop of 9-J-2, with you holding 10-Q. If an 8 comes on the river, you are likely to get paid off, whereas if you were drawing to a flush maybe you don’t reap as much. Why are players more wary of flushes? That is a hard one to explain. Perhaps it’s easier to keep up with the symbols on the cards than worrying about counting five cards in a row. After all, in school we learn how to match symbols together, but they don’t teach us that “jack” comes after “ten.”

The reason I say that pocket fives are better than pocket aces is the greater potential to win a player’s stack. You will usually only get enough betting action to win a player’s stack with pocket aces if your opponent has pocket kings. If you flop a set of aces against opponents, you likely have the deck locked up and are therefore unlikely to get much action unless one opponent has the case ace in his hand.

With small pocket pairs like 5-5, however, when you flop a set you stand to win a nice pot because your hand is hidden. Players are conditioned to look out for high cards on the flop. If you are up against a player who has raised pre-flop with Q-Q, he is going to be wary of a king or ace hitting the flop. If that flop comes J-6-5, and he bets, you can raise and he may push all in to “protect” his hand. There lies the value of the small pocket pair.

Hoyt Corkins told me his favorite pocket pair is 6-6, and there is a good reason for it. If the board comes with a 2-3-4-5 then anyone with an ace may pay him off, hoping he doesn’t really have a six in his hand to make the higher straight.

Remember that in any poker game it’s not how great a hand you can make, but how great a hand that you can get paid off that matters the most.

Reach Johnny Kampis at dealmeincolumn@hotmail.com.