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The second best starting hand in Texas Hold’em is pocket Kings, or as they are sometimes referred to, pocket cowboys. Here is a short discussion about pre flop and post flop play, as well as a mistake that many players make with KK in tournament play.

The best way to play KK pre flop is often much like you play pocket Aces, but after the flop they can sometimes be a little more tricky. You want to play against only one or two players if at all possible. The more players who see the flop with you, the less likely you will have the best hand at the showdown.

In limit Texas Hold’em, unless the table is very aggressive and you are positive that someone behind you will raise, you should raise. I will go so far as to say that if you raise pre flop every time you have KK in limit play that you won’t ever play them wrong. As you gain experience and move up in limits, you will start to see opportunities to trap with them, but even then a raise will not be incorrect.

In no-limit Texas Hold’em, the best play is to raise enough that most of your opponents fold, but not all of them. It can be hard to know the correct amount, but usually three to four times the big blind is correct. Post flop play is straightforward unless an Ace hits the board on the flop. When no Ace hits, you need to spend the rest of the hand maximizing your opponent’s contribution to the pot. When an Ace does hit, you must bet to give your opponent an opportunity to fold, unless a King also is on the flop. Then you can pretend to be weak / scared and give your opponent a chance to lose more chips.

If you bet with an Ace on the board and are called or raised, you will have a very tough decision to make. Until you reach the higher levels, where your opponents are capable of making a play at you, you should usually get away from the hand when called or raised. There is one area that I see many inexperienced players make a mistake in tournament play with pocket Kings pre flop. Especially early in a tournament, it may not be best to get all in pre flop with KK. Because of the nature of tournament play, as in if you lose all of your chips you are eliminated, early in the tournament if you can raise enough to isolate an opponent without getting all in, you will have the opportunity to survive when the flop contains an Ace.

If you get all in pre flop, many times you will be up against a hand that contains an Ace like AK, AQ or even AJ. Now I will agree that over the long run you will win these all in confrontations most of the time, but even when you are not all in pre flop, you will still win big hands when your opponent hits a Queen or Jack for top pair / top kicker but they still have the second best hand to your Kings.

The good news is that over time, you will make money with KK even if you do make a few mistakes when playing them, so it is usually better to be too aggressive with them as opposed to too weak.

This tip via Silver Sands Poker.

Deception and poker go hand in hand and when it comes to Hold’em, bluffing is key! A bluff entails tricking the other players into thinking you have a certain hand, hoping to get them to either fold or raise you, so you can capitalize off their misjudgement.

I’ve played a fair amount of poker in my life and learning to bluff is easier said than done, it takes a lot to deceive someone so perfectly and elegantly.

Here are some tips:

Tip 1: When someone at the table might have a good hand, it could be a good time to bluff and push them off the pot. A a good example is when the third of a suit hits the board – Somebody might have a flush. If you bet as if you have the flush, the other players may believe you.

Tip 2: Bluff if you are in a pot with a player that is looking for a reason to fold. By betting high and making them think you have something they can’t match, you can steal the pot from them.

Tip 3: Watch other players closely – The more you know about your opponent’s moves the better. If a player is a novice, they may bluff too frequently making them an easy target. However, it’s the more experienced players you need to watch.

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The chairman of an Australian IT company has built an RFID enabled poker table that could bring the same level of detail seen in televised games to the weekly rounds with your buddies.

Hoping to find a way to enjoy his hobby even more, Andrew Milner placed wireless RFID chips at the bottom of a table, fit RFID tags on a few deck of cards, and fired up quality HD cameras to accurately track every move in a game.

Currently, most poker television programs show each hand through tiny cameras installed on the table, from an individual player’s perspective. You follow the game through the feeds, and as cards are shown, drawing odds are automatically generated by a separate program. Basically, we’re allowed to count the cards.

Milner’s tracking method brings a different dimension to the game. Instead of relying on visual evidence on each hand (plus the interpretation of the announcers), each card is tracked exactly to its placement on the table.

And because the RFID chips are thin, unnoticeable, and quite flexible, they can be used in the same way as regular cards.

The technical details are pretty impressive. Milner uses four color (CCD) cameras and plugs them in through USB to a video encoder to create the main game feed. Then, a piece of software that he wrote (see app below) takes the video streams and mixes them up with the RFID data coming off the cards to create a video presentation, in real-time.

This means that he can actually record every single one his games, down to the last detail, and then broadcast it over the internet.

The result isn’t as sleek as something you’d see on a televised tournament of Hold’ Em, but it’s not like the networks are going to come down to your house and use their equipment to televise it either.

A cool application of RFID could be that we (in the audience) could know where every single card is at all times, even the placement in a vertical deck. This might remove the surprise element for the audience, but it might increase the tension in an anticipatory I-know-what’s-gonna-happen-but-he-doesn’t sort-of way.

In case you’re thinking about pulling this off yourself, it took Milner three months to make the table and cost him almost $7,000.

According to a recent interview, he is also working on a system that uses RFID to track liquor usage. This is an omen, I think. The guy will probably be brought into the fold as a Bellagio executive and will figure out a way how to ruin the invention by making it harder to steal drinks and to win a hand or two.

As gambling gets bigger and bigger in South Africa with the whole poker trend, it’s not surprising to see the web following similar ventures. Affiliate marketing meets gambling is a massive industry, with thousands and thousands of rands being made from simple referral links.

I enjoy my times at Grand West and have even been involved with some interesting gambling mashups, such as casino’s planting trees for new registered users!

PlayCasino.co.za is a new online portal for gambling, probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, site in South Africa for gambling. I’ve taken a quick look at their setup and it’s impressive. I was almost involved in a similar system about 6months ago, when I was approached and asked to put together a casino review website, which would run simply on WordPress and just have an A-Z category system for the various casino’s, however, after a long chat with my partner to be, we decided we didn’t want to be involved in the gambling scene as far too many people are sucked in too deeply. I will always play poker and have no problem with companies launching websites like this, I just don’t want to run my own one.

I’m interested to see how well this portal does!