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With all of the publicity that poker has received over the past few years, many people have decided that they too would like to take up the game and make some money. Unfortunately, a lot of these players don’t take the time to go over online poker tips that are available and are only concerned with making money off of the game. What they don’t realize is that poker is not an easy game where money flows to those who seek it out. In fact, many players already have a good strategy and one will have to learn more than their opponents if they are to achieve success in the game.

The first and most basic of the tips that many players don’t know is that one should only play selected hands in poker games such as texas holdem. Too many people get caught up trying to make hands out of garbage hole cards when they should have just folded to begin with. One should only stay in hands that they actually have a chance to win with before the flop.

Another great tip is to know how to manage your bankroll. There are quite a few players who just don’t realize when it’s time to quit and so they spend more money than they are able to afford. One should never play in games where the limit is too high either until they’ve mastered the lower limits and then move up.

Another forgotten thing is to make sure to have fun with the game. People who only play for the money and don’t truly enjoy poker may get burnt out on it very quickly. But if they actually like the game then making money should come naturally.

For the last few days my life has been consumed with my Sister’s graduation from Penn. She has always enjoyed the stage and thusly demanded attendance at all graduation events.  The first such event was her “major” graduation ceremony (communications). After a plethora of speeches about how at Penn’s Annenberg school of communication students were taught to be leaders of the 21st century in all things news and information related, a woman took to the lectern to read the names of the graduates. As she read the names it became clear that she had no right to be reading complicated, or even simple, names aloud. In fact I’m not sure she had the right to read a book quietly to herself in the corner. She botched or stumbled over just about every name on the list to the point of absurdity, pronouncing “Michael” as “Michelle” and making other even more greivous errors. halfway through the whole auditorium was erupting in laughter. The woman stopped reading the names and slowly took a sip of water, then proceeded so stumble even worse than before. She was about 2/3 of her way through the list of students when she started crying and ran off the stage much to the amazement of everyone in attendance.  The most amazing part of the debacle is that she was representing the school of COMMUNICATIONS and could not communicate a list of names in a way that perhaps a 3rd grader could.

What really irks me about this display is that I’m quite sure if I or any other competent poker player applied for a job at the School of Communications I would be promptly denied. This woman was clearly gainfully employed and respected enough to have the task of reading the names at graduation. How on earth did she get to that point? I was told that 90% of doing basically any job on earth just requires showing up for work. I truly hope this isn’t true and what I witnessed was a fluke.