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According to the 2006 WSOP champ, Jamie Gold, he would like to be recognized as the best bluffer in the poker world. But if his last tournament is any indication, his wish may not come true at all.

The setting is the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic held at the Las Vegas Bellagio in 2007. Featuring $50 - $100 blinds and a $15,000 buy-in, Darrell Dicken is just barely holding on. The seat 4 player has just raised his wager to $300, a minor increase with only one player taking the bait. “I put him as being weak,” Jamie said, “I was thinking about raising, but instead I just called with a 10-3 of hearts to see what would happen.”

Jamie believed that Brad Booth would make a move, which he did. He re-raised to $1600 from the big blind. Gold had the idea that Booth had a good hand, but he was in an excellent position to make a move taking into account the quantity of dead money in the pot. Dicken folded, and the unknown in Seat 4 called Booth’s raise.

Now there was over $4000 in the pot, so Jamie raised the wager by $4000. His thought was, only if someone else had aces or kings there would be no chance they would make that call. Jamie’s strategy was to make a huge move on the flop, as long as no ace came up. The second part of his strategy was to get Booth to fold, which he did. Booth folded with pocket queens.

Out of the flop there was an ace of ace-6-5, two clubs. The player in seat 4 checked and Jamie bet $2000. Jamie’s initial thought was to make him think that he had clubs. Seat 4 tossed out a $10,000 chip, but didn’t say anything thus changing his raise into a call. Jamie’s thought was that seat 4 definitely had an ace, but you have to look after it in case he hits his set on the upcoming poker card.

A 2 of hearts was dealt on the turn, and Jamie decided to fold to what he thought was a top pair kicker. Seat 4 displayed a king-jack off suit. Seat 4 fooled Gold by bluffing with a superb hand, he made a great poker play and continued with the bluff to the end of the poker tournament.

Texas Holdem’ used to be a game available only in Sin City Hotels or from electronic poker machines, but now it is more in style than ever in Vegas thanks to the internet and TV.

The famous Venetian Casino, is now betting on this popularity with its new audience-participation show called “The Real Deal!” in its showroom located in the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino, beginning in October.

This new idea will join comedy and game show elements to entertain its live audience. The audience will also be able to join in the popular game of Texas Holdem’ alongside the best poker players in the world. The show has many prizes for the audience including a chance to win 1$ million.

In “The Real Deal!” the audience will play with players like Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Around 10 professional players have already signed up for the game show about poker. The audience will be able to play along with the 90 minute game thanks to handheld, wireless, touch screen devices located on each seat.

“People who come to Vegas casinos want to play poker games,” Negreanu says, “but obviously they can’t play in a top poker tournament with the people like Doyle or Phil Hellmuth. But, in this show, they actually can.” At the beginning of each show, six audience members will be chosen to sit at the poker table on stage with two professional players. Each audience member is then involved in the action by being dealt a unique set of poker cards on their devices. Everyone in the showroom is then involved in the action with big-screen monitors located on stage.

The show’s producers say that you don’t have to be a poker player to join in the poker game. There are other ways to increase your point total, that doesn’t involve playing poker necessarily. Betting on the suit of the next poker card or trying to guess which state a particular audience member is from, are just some of the ways to come out a winner in this game.

Creators of the show are also placing bets on the personalities of the professional poker players to create some exciting moments. Someone like Scotty Nguyen, the flamboyant five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, definitely can keep an audience entertained and will provide some great entertainment in this new idea for poker .

The NFL Regular Season is about to begin, and some people are still a little puzzled about how to bet on the total of a game. Basically the way it works is the sports book website will create a total for a specific part of the game and the bettor will either bet on the points going higher than the amount set or lower.
The most common over-under bet at any sports book would be the total points scored by the end of the game. The best example is from the online sportsbook pinnacle sports, which has the total of the Redskins vs. Giants game at 41 points. If you were to guess that the total points scored by both teams combined will be higher than 41, you would have to risk $110 to win $100 (the odds are the same for the under).
You may notice other sportsbooks posting a total with a half-point, for example the sportsbook sbg global has a total of 38½ for the Bengals vs. Ravens game. The idea of the half a point is basically to avoid a push if the total points in the game actually add up to 38 points.
There is another way that the sports books can adjust the line without touching the total, this is by moving the money line. For example the online betting website wagerweb has the odds the boxing match between Marquez and Casamayor at 9½ rounds with the over at -350 and the under at +275. This tells you that the favorite is the match lasting 10 rounds exactly.
Now you should be an expert at betting on the total, so take a look at your favorite sports book website for more total odds.