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Robert De Niro Promotes Casino

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro played the part of Sam “Ace” Rothstein in Casino (1995), in which the top gambling handicapper was brought in to the Tangiers Casino to help improve the business, before eventually doubling the casino’s profits.

Now the Paradise Walker Hill Casino in Korea, is hoping he may have a similar affect on their operation after contracting the New York City screen icon to be its official model.

The Paradise Walker Hill Casino is the country’s longest running casino and plays host to the five-day APPT Seoul Festival of Poker. Now tourists arriving at the Incheon International Airport are greeted by a billboard of De Niro sharply dressed in a tuxedo, holding cards and beckoning tourists to come play at the Paradise Walker-Hill Casino. Similar posters can also be seen at other major tourist spots.

For those of you wondering why a US actor would be chosen to promote a Korean casino, the answer lies in the fact that the East Asian country only permits non-nationals to gamble, with APPT President Danny McDonagh explaining:

“It’s illegal for nationals to gamble in the casinos here. The numbers [at APPT Seoul] would be nuts if they could. Only internationals can play. We have a few Koreans in the field, but they hold multiple passports.”

Still, despite restrictions the APPT Seoul continues to grow and this season attracted 268 players, although the 68 year-old movie icon was not amongst the field. The figures were also markedly up from 166 in season 2 and 186 the season before. Furthermore, this years winner Andrew Kim from the USA, picked up a record KRW 145 million ($128,914) for his victory in the Korean capital.

The 30-bet rule at poker

How can you tell whether or not you’re playing a good poker game? This simple rule will make it easier for beginner’s to judge their poker performance.

When you’re new to poker, it’s hard to judge how well you’re playing over the course of an entire game, and managing your bankroll can be difficult.

There are lots of different schools of thought when it comes to managing your bankroll while you’re playing on-line poker, but the simplest and most effective tip that I’ve ever heard is one that can be applied to all kinds of poker – limit and no limit, Texas Hold’em, and Omaha hi/lo.

That tip is known as the “30 bet rule”. Essentially, the 30 bet rule says that you should never lose more than 30 big bets in a game. The size of a “big bet” depends on the type of game you’re playing, but it should give you an idea of how much money you will be risking in a game, and has the added bonus of making sure you’re ready for your chosen limits – if you can’t afford those 30 big bets, don’t even sit down at the table.

The 30 bet rule is useful for many reasons. Firstly, it stops you from staying at a table when you’re losing. Secondly, it encourages you to think carefully before you play poker, and may help you to adopt a more conservative style.

Thirdly, it acts as a form of automatic bankroll management – even for more experienced players. If you are a good player, and you’ve lost 30 hands in one night, then it’s likely that you need to step away from the table for a while. Not necessarily because you’re playing badly, but because those 30 losses – even if they were simply down to bad luck, will have had a massive impact on your table image.

If you look weak to other players at the table, your performance suffers – even if you’re good, you end up getting called on more hands, and you’ll end up losing more often just because of the way the other players perceive you.

The 30 bet rule ensures that bad table image won’t be as much of a problem.

Texas Holdem Poker

The education procedure begins by acquiring a solid understanding of the fundamentals of Texas Holdem Poker. These essentials will engage information of the ranking of poker hands, accepting the concepts of gambling, checking, raising, re-raising, bluffing and folding. The capability to analyze numerical chances and probability is a huge ability to have. But for a lot of the players who are not so blessed, a basic considerate of hand power is necessary. Knowing which hands are tough and which hands are feeble and the chances of making a hand with the cards that are dealt is an essential skill. Without this smallest basic poker information and skill, poker triumph at any level will be hard to achieve.

Unluckily, today there is a rush to get it done, just does it! Endurance is not a asset, it is essentially non-existent. The main error that a start player can make is to rush off to a casino, a poker room or an online poker room such as PokerStars, Poker Party or Full Tilt poker and start playing for real money. This can be a very costly error.

The poker knowledge and expansion process should begin by playing poker at house in a low-risk surroundings with family and friends. At first, stakes should be restricted to playing for arrogant rights or for very low stakes. The poker crowd should include players who are at the same stage of knowledge, at least until there is an understanding of all the basic rules and procedures. At these very basic levels, the group of players might even want to share their knowledge to help each other develop their skills more quickly. It is at this level, that they should also begin to acquire a poker library of poker instructional books and DVDs. These instructional resources should provide basic poker training plus information on higher poker strategy and tactics.