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The Tagpoker Top Team is the ultimate group of low stakes grinders from Tagpoker that have been hand picked to fast track their way up the stakes with the help of Brokerstar and Borg.

These players will be staked, managed and mentored from the micros right up to the upper mid stakes and beyond. This may sound exactly what you think you need to help you move up but this is certainly not for the faint hearted. We expect huge volume, setting aside time for lessons at least once a week and results.

This is not an offer for losing or breakeven players this offer is for players that have used all of the tools on this site and started beating their games over a decent sample size for a bare minimum of 5% ROI (the higher, the more likely you’ll be picked).

Even if you have the results that we have asked for this will not be an automatic entry. We’re looking for people that are active in the Tagpoker forums, helpful, friendly and have shown dedication to their own ongoing want to improve.

If you think you deserve to be a member of the Tagpoker Top Team and want to find out more about exactly what’s needed of you in terms of our expectations then read about our full terms in this forum thread and post your results to date with a reason why we should pick you?

Blazing_Saddler is from the UK and joined tagpoker back in March 2010. He was originally self taught for the most part just learning from the videos that are on the site as well as making the most out of the Tagpoker forums.

It’s clear to see that Blazing was crushing the $5 and $10 games. Brokerstar knew that he could be a real force in the higher stake games and so chose him to become the first member of this elete team to help him reach his potential, much faster.

Blazing was moved right into the $50 games and will now be playing at least five times higher than he ever has and with Brokerstar and Borg right there behind him he really has nothing to worry about if he continues to work hard. We’re sure those five figure earning months are not too far away.

Mr Corbishley is the second member of the Tagpoker Top Team. He was a former student of Brokerstar and he got his coaching through the FREE coaching options

Mr Corbishley instantly improved his game after the coaching and just turned heads with very impressive low stakes results.

In most cases being a member of the Top Team is partly results and partly commitment to the site by way of participation in the forums but Brokerstar and Borg agreed that Mr Corbishley was showing the potential to be a true force in the higher stakes games and a solid member of the team.

We’re sure that if he continues to apply himself and make the most of the weekly coaching that he’ll be playing in the $100 and $200 HUSNG’s in no time at all. As long as he continues to hit the targets set for him there will be nothing holding him back from getting to the top as fast as possible.

Aggysb Joined Tagpoker and became one of Brokerstars students in April 2010. He started off with a $12 bankroll and played the $2 games, under rolled.

Brokerstars has emerged as a popular outcome because people are initially swayed with the cheap offer of $2 but only realize the benefits of playing through an entire level playing field when they come to terms with the fact that this isn’t as simple as say Bandarqq and involves a lot more to learn before starting out.

Aggysb is fiercely competitive and really wants to be playing and beating much higher stakes. It’s for this reason an his continued effort to help others on the site with continual particiation in the forums that he has been staked by the Top Team to play $100 deep stack games on Full Tilt.

If Aggsyb continues to master this form of the game and manages to play and beat the best at these stakes then you’ll very shortly see him rolled for the high stakes games in the very near future.

A big well done to Tagpoker member z1s6arn. He’s done really well crushing the micro games for a huge win rate that Borg and I have decided to stake and mentor him through the higher stakes.

Now he will be moving up from the $2 games to the $20’s and no doubt far beyond that still. He’s also been active, polite and helpful in the Tagpoker forum which is always a big factor for being chosen.

Sometimes the poker world is affected by incredible events. Every month we learn about people going to extreme measures to return a card debt or hear about the strange behaviour in a casino. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes not. November was no exception. Here are some of the most vivid events worthy of your attention.

One of the largest poker establishments was subjected to armed robbery. According to the police, at about 3.45 a.m. local time on 28 November, a white man entered Bellagio, approached the cashier’s cage inside the hall, and demanded money. After that, he left the room with a certain amount of cash. The robber was armed with a pistol and wore a mask. He disappeared in a Chevrolet Cruze car which was soon found by law enforcers. No one got hurt. 48 hours after the incident, the police are still looking for the criminal.

The Man Was Handed a Sentence for Organizing High Rollers in Brooklyn

The federal judge sentenced the organizer of the underground poker games in Brooklyn to a year in prison. 33-year-old Isak Aronov is one of nine people who were charged in November 2016. Among other crimes charged to this group are racketeering, extortion, usury, and drug trafficking. In the Ministry of Justice, the gang is called an Eastern European mafia syndicate. Aronov, according to the investigation, was engaged in knocking out debts from underground poker games under threat of reprisal. According to the feds’ information, the total amount of bets was up to $150,000. In a separate act in August, several of the nine mentioned individuals were charged with deliberately burning a building where their competitors played poker games. While playing at poker online site, a separate budget should be prepared to get the advantages in investment of the money. The participation in the leagues and tournaments should be great with the skills and intelligence of the players. The selection of the poker card game should enhance the experience of the players. 

The Casino Owner Claims to be Tired and Drunk When Losing $3 Million in a Scandalous Poker Session

In early November, a legal battle broke out between two wealthy poker players. One of them filed a counterclaim on the original lawsuit brought against him in the summer. Australian pro Matt Kirk says in his lawsuit that the owner of the Czech casino Leon Tsoukernik owes him $2 million which he lent to him during a poker session in late May at the Aria casino in Las Vegas. A few months later Tsoukernik filed a counterclaim, claiming that Kirk had taken advantage of his inadequate condition. According to Tsoukernik, he was treated to alcoholic beverages which was enough to get him drunk and deprive of concentration as well as to encourage continuing to play for large sums.

The Pastor Robbed the Same Casino Three Times Before Being Caught

According to the police of Las Vegas, the local pastor tempted fate in the Las Vegas casino several times. Law enforcers arrested Gregory Bolusan at the Penn National Gaming M Resort for attempting to rob an establishment for about $33,000. The police said that the pastor went to the cashier’s cage and, threatening with a dummy gun, demanded to give him money. Interestingly, this was Bolusan’s third attempt to rob the same casino within the last three months. The first took place at the end of August. Bolusan serves as senior pastor at the Grace Bible Church in Las Vegas.

A Nude Man Tried to Register for a Poker Game at a Las Vegas Casino

The attention of poker players in one of the largest gambling establishments in Las Vegas was attracted by a completely naked man, pacing around the hall. All present in the poker room of Bellagio casino watched how an unknown player was surrounded by guards and forced to put on clothes that he kept in his hands all the time closing his pelvic area. According to other players, the naked man intended to make a buy-in to participate in the game.

This is a beginners guide to the continuation bet. There is a lot of misconception about what a continuation bet is, when to use it, when not to, how much to bet and why. With the introduction of Poker Online site, the placing of the staked over the card games has become simple for the players. All the misconceptions are cleared through the experts for placing of the stakes from home with continuity. 

A continuation bet is exactly as the name implies, a bet made to continue the aggression a players made from the start of a hand. So for example lets say you raise or re-raise pre flop, a continuation bet would be betting on the flop, regardless of whether you connected to the flop or not.

When to use a continuation bet

Many new poker players that learn the concept of continuation betting normally go right ahead, start applying it, see a few immediate results picking up pots then naively over use it and end up losing money.

The continuation bet works best in heads up pots on a dry flop (when you’re betting after missing the flop). A dry flop is essentially a flop that has no draws (flush or straight) and maybe one high card, for example: King-hearts 2-spades and the 9-clubs.

The reason that the continuation bet works is because you and your opponent will miss the flop nearly 70% of the time and if you have the lead in the hand (taking control of the betting pre flop and therefore representing a strong hand) you will get your opponent to fold most of the time when they have nothing (which is more often than not).

When you find yourself in this situation (ie heads up, dry board) you’ll be able to bet less in relation to the pot size (half/ two thirds pot) with your continuation bets as it’ll be tougher for your opponent to have a hand to continue with, thus making your c-bet bluffing more profitable.

When to not use a continuation bet

Ok so for this scenario we are going to assume that you were the raiser pre flop and you have missed the flop with a hand like AK (ace, king) for example.

Firstly if we have been called by lots of other players who happen to be quite loose (likely to call our continuation bet) and we are early to act in the hand post flop then it will probably be better to check the hand and hope it gets checked round and if it doesn’t, simply fold to a bet.

The second situation may be if you have more than one pre flop caller again and the flop is very co-ordinated (flush and straight draws on the board). Or a flop that is likely to hit the caller’s range of hands. For example a flop of Queen – hearts, J – hearts and 9 – clubs is a flop that hits a calling range rather well and will often give one of your opponents a pair, pair plus a draw or a strong draw. In these cases you may also think twice about making a continuation bet as it will again get folds less often than you want to show a profit.

However if you flop a strong hand and the flop is co-ordinated then you actually want to c-bet and c-bet strong (big bets) in order to charge people for drawing against you, denying them the correct odds to call. All of this is broad hypothetical advice as a lot of your decision making will also depend heavily on how your opponents have been playing.The situations covered here are mainly when you’re continuation betting as a bluff, (when you miss the flop) but you’ll also be continuation betting a lot when you hit the flop. My advice is to always keep your bet sizing in relation to the pot size as this keeps your bluffs and value bets approximately the same size thus making yourself much harder to read as a player.

Now when I say make them the same size, I mean based on the flop texture (smaller on dry flops, bigger on co-ordinated flops). Go and experiment with the continuation bet, we will look at more advanced applications of the continuation bet in future poker lessons.

Carbon Poker evolved from the Poker.com team as a way to accept US players. Traffic is still building and so the poker room is improving everyday in terms of finding the games you like. The graphics and customer support don’t need to improve, they are outstanding. As are the range of online poker games and side games. You won’t be disappointed with this online poker room.

Carbon Poker evolved out of the Poker.com camp because of the inability of the latter to accept poker plays from the US. Hence, Carbon Poker is part of the Merge Gaming Network who allow US players and whilst this online poker room has only been around since late 2007 the team behind it have plenty of experience. Things should only get better for this poker room and network as the traffic increases.

Simply put, the software behind Carbon Poker is amazing. If you are not impressed by the overall usability of the poker room software then I don’t know what else they could do for you. Being Flash based and with the graphics being vector images (don’t worry you don’t need to understand how it works) it means when adjusting the size of the table it doesn’t blur. It stays as crisp as ever, regardless of the size you choose. There’s some good customisations such as sounds, messages and graphics such as chat icons. For playing at poker room at Jasahoki88, the reviews should be checked from the online search engines. The overall impression of the poker room should be positive and great players for increased engagement. The size of the table should be suitable to get the required benefits and results. 

All the usual features and statistics are available including note taking, flop percentages, pot sizes and hands player per hour. This last one might be useful if you are taking advantage of playing at 8 ring games tables simultaneously. You can do this in separate windows or using the mini view feature. The one downside is the hand history can’t be exported.

Traffic is still building and at the time of this review there’s over 1000 players in the ring games. New online poker rooms tend to attract new poker players, as the established ones already know where they like to play. Of course this also provides a good opportunity for the experienced players to find some pretty loose games and grab a profit. This tends to be at the low stakes tables. Texas Hold’em is the most popular and with the large range of games on offer if one of the others is more your style then you should be able to find a game. In addition to the Omaha Hi/Lo and stud games there are others such as five card draw, seven card draw, H.O.R.S.E. Razz, Ace to Five Lowball, Deuce to Seven Lowball and Badugi.

Carbon Poker also offers one of the largest range of side games and these include blackjack, roulette (single zero not the lower odds double zero usually found) caribbean stud, video poker and backgammon. If you’re a poker player who isn’t that interested in slots then sign up with Carbon Poker and you won’t need to bother about a casino because all the other good games are available in one place. And don’t discount the single zero roulette as a much better option than most of the online casinos.

Less traffic tends to mean less tournament options and Carbon Poker is no exception. Expect this to change though, as the traffic builds. That said, there are still many low to medium buy-in poker tournaments so there are options. Add to that the daily and monthly freerolls plus a few satellites where you can build up to a decent tournament for very little outlay if you are successful.

Support is offered via a couple of methods with email and live chat available. No telephone support but with live chat I guess it isn’t 100% necessary. Support is accurate and responsive which comes from having a decent team behind the poker room and also being one that caters to new players and not just the experienced ones.

In addition to the normal credit card deposit/withdrawal options there are a bunch of online wallet solutions that can be used, ranging from the standards such as NETeller and Moneybookers to EcoCard, Click2Pay, eWalletXpress, Fonelinx and PINdebit.net. Just be aware that not all methods are available to all players. For example, US players are prohibited from using NETeller. Which is a pity because everyone else gets to enjoy the instant payouts offered by NETeller.

There’s too many bonuses and promotions to list here, however, suffice to say there are enough to keep you happy. Start with the initial deposit bonus of 100% up to $500 plus an entry into a $1000 freeroll and entry for 14 days into the $500 freerolls for new players. As with all bonus and promotion offers be sure to check the conditions so there is no doubt about how to earn them. Loyalty points are accumulated as you play and these can be appied against other promos and tournament buy-ins.