Fri, 01/21/2011 – 04:48 – PokerPages Staff

PokerStars.tv offers a wide selection of online poker-related programming around the clock.  Visit the PokerStars.tv home page to see just how comprehensive the range of videos available for showing really is.

On the current home page there are programs for viewing from the PCA 2011 Bounty Shoot Out, as well as the wide range of poker-related channels available, including High Stakes Poker, ESPN Inside Deal, Team PokerStars Pro, and the Million Dollar Challege.

A very popular channel on PokerStars.tv is The Big Game currently showing Best of The Big Game 20 – Loose Cannon Special and Best of Big Game 19 – Pocket Kings Night.

PokerStars.tv also shows the lighter side of the game with poker related music videos and the TV Ads channel.

This week’s regular programming on the PokerStars.tv schedule includes the Online Poker Show, aired on Mondays at 18:0 ET, showing weekly action from Sunday Million.  Inside Deal is on every Wednesday at 05:30 ET, an ESPN poker show hosted by Bernard Lee and Laura Lane.

There is also plenty of live action available on PokerStars.tv. Not only is there the Live Action channel, regularly showing top class poker, but there will be soon highlights from the NAPT Los Angeles Main Event and Bounty Shootout Event on PokerStars.tv.

There is no doubt about it, poker fans are most certainly spoiled for choice on PokerStars.tv.  However, the website has the facility allowing viewers to personalize their selections thru the My Channel tab.  This can be set up when signing up on the PokerStar.tv account-sign up page.

Thu, 01/20/2011 – 01:28 – PokerPages Staff

#5 – Tie: 9 with 2, 3 or 4
Just about the only good thing about these two cards is the 9.  You’re only chance depends on pairing with another nine, but you’re still very unlikely to get very far.  Any player with pocket aces, kings, queens, jacks or tens could whoop your behind.

#4 – 6-2
Even worse.  Unless you think you’re due a miracle, fold.  Your only hope is that a sensational flop of 5-4-3 comes from the board, but even then, you’ll still be in trouble.  If someone happens to have a 6 and a 7, they’ll have the higher straight.  The same applies to a flush.

#3 – Tie: 8-3 & 7-3
The poker misery score just plumbed new depths.  OK, you might just make a straight with a 7 and a 3 if you’re lucky – but it still stinks.  There’s no chance this side of the Pearly Gates you’ll make a straight with an 8 and a 3.  Don’t let these cards take you down the pooper with them, which is where they belong.

#2 – 8-2
As indeed, does this combination.  8 is better than 7, granted, but it’s still underwhelming for a high card.  Even if the suits match, your best bet is to fold.  Poker junk.

#1 – 7-2 (“The Hammer”)
If you thought the others were bad, you hadn’t yet seen the worst.  This is it.  Things just don’t get more hopeless in Hold’em poker than this.  Because there are four cards between them, you’ll never make a straight.  Even with matching suits, the best you could hope for is a mediocre flush.  If the 2 or the 7 pairs, you’re still left with a dismally low hand.  Fold.