Stud Poker is an extremely popular and widespread game involving several variations. It has been losing share because of the overwhelming enthusiasm for the Texas Hold’em kind. Among the main existing versions, we can find: 5-Card Stud, 7-Card stud, Caribbean Stud Poker, Canadian Stud and Telesina. Five-Card Stud can be listed as a “limit betting game” and involves a maximum of ten players. It is rarely played in casinos because too much skill is involved, so the game becomes interesting only when played with good players. Seven-Card Stud is the more popular variation of Stud Poker.
It is a fixed-limit game consisting of five betting rounds and involves both memory and mathematical skills. Caribbean Stud Poker differs from the other versions not only because it is played against the house rather than against other players, but also for the progressive jackpot. Canadian Stud is pretty similar to the 5-card Stud. The structure is the same (each player is dealt 5 cards, 4 face down and one face up) except for two additional ranks: 4-card straight beats a pair, 4-card flush beats a 4-card straight, 2 pair beats a 4-card flush. Telesina is a variation of poker very similar to Five-Card Stud and is spread across Italy. Even though this game is seldomly played in poker rooms, it includes many versions.
The Royal Hold’em variant is very similar to the popular Texas Hold’em. On 22nd May 2008, the Nevada Commission approved this variation of poker that is now listed as one of the card games that can be legally played in casinos. Royal hold’Em is played with a French deck containing only Tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces (20 cards in total). Considering the limited number of cards involved, the number of players can vary from a minimum of two through a maximum of six. Even though the rules are practically the same as forTexas Hold’em’s, the small deck requires completely different strategies for this particular version which the experts say to be dependent on the chance more than on the player’s skills.
If compared to he traditional Hold’em, Royal Hold’em is more suitable for those players searching for action and intense game, or people who consider Texas Hold’em as a waiting game. Even if it is too early to tell if Royal Hold’em will become a threat for the powerful Texas Hold’em, the recent licence obtained for another poker variant called No River Hold’em is a proof that the New Poker Championships (Las Vegas’ inventor of Royal Hold’em) is willing to carve out a niche in the world of poker.
In the online version when you’re playng poker we remember you can even play side casino games just if you’re bored.
Security is by no means one of the more delicate topics to be discussed with the proper attention. In online casinos, all the transaction systems (both financial and personal data’s) are now protected by 128 bit SSL encryption and even more advanced systems are under development. At present, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology is the most reliable on the market in terms of safeness and security of transaction. Pages using SSL encryption schemes can be easily recognised by a closed lock image usually displayed in the bottom bar of your browser. Gambling softwares security is also very important and must be certified by renowned companies like Playtech and Microgaming that develop real gaming platforms for simulating at best online casino games by granting the maximum reliability and security. Relevant licences are delivered by external authorities for major transparency. These softwares are also to grant events randomness (by the means of random number generators) and impartiality of the game. Once again, we point out that relying upon softwares of doubtful provenience means running considerable risks in terms of frauds and tricks which may be damaging for the concerned player. As a matter of fact, unreliable softwares can have harmful dialers and viruses and seize users’ personal data (banking data, credit card passwords, etc.).
Since 2002 bet-office has been in the online gambling market to show you all the best about online gambling. In late 2002 bet-office was a small tiny website (located in a free domain!) that was talking about online casinos (absolutely not famous yet). Little by little the website grew up, changed a lot of looks until today: we can consider bet-office.com one of the biggest portal of Europe, with an editorial staff full time in 7 different countries and languages. But it’s not over yet: the website is about to change again (in better we all hope). Since the end of 2007 our redaction got bigger and bigger, online casinos are not anymore the only priority but we have great people working on online poker in 3 different languages. The look of bet-office will change very soon; our goal is to give you always more space for news, articles and important contents: important for you, for you user that want to play secure and eventually wanna win. Moreover we will have new important sections about sports betting and online bingo, a brand new language for online poker (the UK has just been released) and many other things.
The first language which is going to be live with the “new skin†will be the French area of the site. There will be always more space for your feedback with polls, special areas for comment and a new newsletter.
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Gambling industry’s got in 2007 the best year ever: starting from online casinos, passing by online poker and ending up in sports betting 2007 has been a sort of eldorado for all of them registering an improvement of 60% comparing with the already very good year 2006. Everyone was waiting for 2008, everyone knows that it’s quite difficult to repeat the exploit of the passed year but the first data are very positive: in the first 6 months of the current year the situation it’s quite stable and generally we can see again a little improvement…not bad considering the performances of 2007. The crisis of USA and especially of the US Dollar could make us think for the worst but it didn’t happen. So far we can calculate a couple of points percent better than last year due probably to the new software released this year, to the always more trendy online poker in Europe and to the attitude of the people to bet online.
Statistics say that in 2012 this industry will be 450% bigger than now and generally very profitable. This will raise a lot the competition and that’s just fine for the players: high and honest competition means better services and, in this case, software always more powerful, beautiful and secure.
Let’s hope then that the 2008’s trend keep growing and please: keep betting by us!
The staff of bet-office.com is proud to announce the birth of the new english portal dedicated to online poker: bet-office.com Poker UK. Following the tradition of the dutch market and the italian as well even the english market now has got a brand new site dedicated to the most famous card game of the world: poker and, of course, online poker!
For all the poker lovers here we have a complete new staff who’s taking care about latest news, articles and finding the ultimate online poker room of the moment. The website (a real sub-portal) will be always up to date and full of useful contents. Poker UK will be reachable from the normal bet-office.com menu or from the quick link bet-office.com/pokerUK as well as the IT and the NL.
What are you waiting for: play poker in our brand new poker section!
Titan Poker, has announced it will be increasing the total payments it will make to players during the month of May. The amount is being raised to $16 million. The site which is the largest on the iPoker Network has said that this is being done as it is a sign of its growing popularity in the online poker community. A site spokesperson stated that the site was always on the look out to give its players the opportunity to play more and win more money on the site.
The spokesperson added that the guaranteed prize money was now almost double of what was being offered five months ago. He said that this was a sign that the site was popular despite the competition it was facing.
Titan Poker was recently awarded the Gold Award by Gambling Online Magazine for providing the best customer service among internet poker sites. This is the second time in two years that the site has won this award.
Titan Poker currently has over 30,000 people who play online poker on a daily basis. These players also enjoy playing the Texas Hold’em and sit and go tournaments, which are held during the busy hours.
