Austin Toll Party Poker

The 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event is finally down to the final table. The hundred day plus delay until the November Nine battle it out for poker’s most prestigious championship has opened the floodgates for the Sports books. This year, you can bet on the World Series of Poker Main Event winner at virtually any online sports book.

The November Nine Chip Count and Odds of Winning

1. Darvin Moon – 58,930,000 – 17 to 10
2. Eric Buchman – 34,800,000 – 3 to 1
3. Steven Begleiter – 29,885,000 – 4 to 1
4. Jeff Shulman – 19,580,000 4 to 1
5. Joseph Cada – 13,215,000 – 10 to 1
6. Kevin Schaffel – 12,390,000 – 12 to 1
7. Phil Ivey – 9,765,000 – 4 to 1
8. Antoine Saout – 9,500,000 – 12 to 1
9. James Akenhead – 6,800,000 – 22 to 1

While chip leader Darvin Moon is currently a 17 to 10 chalk, it seems feared professional Phil Ivey is getting mad respect with four to one odds, despite sitting ninth in chips. Ivey has roughly six times less chips than the leader. Perhaps the best value play in this WSOP Main Event field has to be online professional poker player Joseph Cada at 10 to 1 odds. Cada is no stranger to cashing, as he has amassed over $500,000 in online poker tournament winnings prior to finding his way into the middle of the pack of the November 9.

In addition to betting on the winner of this year’s WSOP Main Event, there are several proposition bets, most notably determining who will be the first to be eliminated at the final table, where the short stacked James Akenhead is a 2 to 1 chalk.

Additionally, you can bet on whether or not this year’s WSOP Main Event winner will be American or European. The entire remaining field less James Akenhead and Antoine Saout are American.

Additionally, various Party Poker last longer bets are floating around as to which of the WSOP November 9 will outlast one another, as well as bets as to what place each player will finish.

Not only is the World Series of Poker November 9 great for television and the world of poker, but it is also great for sports betting! Whether looking to wager on the winner of the Main Event or looking to place a last longer bet, the WSOP Main Event has many interesting propositions to wager upon.

If you play internet poker for a while, regardless if it’s an online poker tournament or a cash game, you should be very careful about being too predictable. Being a predictable player is a bad strategy, because your adversaries will learn to predict your behavior and will be also able to decipher the meanings of your bets.

Being deciphered by the adversaries will prove to be disastrous, as everyone will fold when you have great hands, so that you’d get almost nothing in the pot, you’d get called when you’re bluffing and if you have mediocre hands, you’d be forced to drop.

For instance, beginners in the game of poker, are often not used to the values of the hands: they’ll act too confident and start raising on really bad hands and will be shy and just call on premium hands. This strategy, which is the opposite of what a normal player will do, sometimes confuses at first even the top players, who might lose a few hands to them, before they realize how their opponents really plays.

An non-predictable Pacific Poker player is a successful player, because your adversaries will not know what to expect from you. This is why you should try to change your style once in a while. After a few hands in which you were raising on weak hands and slow-playing the weaker ones, try the opposite and play a nice tight-aggressive play, with an especially aggressive raising on the best hands.

You can cultivate an image of being an especially tight player, who only plays the great hands and who always bets proportional to the strength of the hand. Then, you can use this image to bluff. It might get you several wins, and, eventually, you’ll get caught a few times.
When you got caught for bluffing, you get another opportunity. Your opponents will know you bluff, so they might not believe you have a good hand next time you raise your bet. This will give you an opportunity to increase the bet a lot when you have a good hand.

Nevertheless, you should know that playing the “wrong way” (bluffing, slow-playing) shouldn’t be your standard play. You can use them just to seed doubt into the minds of your adversaries, but not as your regular play. Just use a nice tight-aggressive play for most of the time and you will win the most in your poker games.