http://www.articletrader.com/ Articles at ArticleTrader en-us http://www.articletrader.com/entertainment/gambling/learn-how-to-bluff-in-online-poker-like-a-pro.html http://www.articletrader.com/entertainment/gambling/learn-how-to-bluff-in-online-poker-like-a-pro.html Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 One of the factors that a lot of poker players use s bluffing, a bluff can be when you have a bad hand, acting like a big shot making some big bets, trying to scare your opponent away, or trying to make him bet even more because you know you can beat him.
You could also do the opposite, if you have a good hand, try not to let the opponent know, catch him like a fish, let him bet, or even go all in, then you catch him like a big fish and win all the money, Now that good poker.
But bluffing is a tricky thing to do, most people get somehow caught trying to bluff and then they will loose a lot of money.
The great thing about bluffing is sometimes to reveal your bluff if you have won, not to brag but to piss your opponent off, so it affects his playing.
The very first thing you need to see about is the position you strike from. Late position is the ideal spot to start bluffing. But still don’t bluff always, cause then people will try to catch you.
Its very important to find the right guy to buff, a very bad victim is the aggressive guy, the one that bets a lot, and uses the forces of luck. (He will break down by him self at some point).
Never overdo the rising when bluffing, remember you don’t want to be catch in bluffing. You want him to think that you are forcing him to bet to the pot because you have a big hand, when you actually have a bad hand and can accept to win what’s already in the pot.
Bluffing online is not as easy as in real life, not that its easy in real life, cause then you have to think about not revealing anything with body language, which would be fatal, and a very known looser factor.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/entertainment/gambling/learn-the-basics-of-a-texas-holdem-poker-round.html http://www.articletrader.com/entertainment/gambling/learn-the-basics-of-a-texas-holdem-poker-round.html Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 But this will just be the basic rules of how simple a texas hold’em really is when you just know the routine. I just wanted to let you know that there is more to it then just knowing the basics, and then hoping to win be big money at poker, because without some knowledge you will fail and maybe even loose a lot of money.
There are a wide variety of games with different rules (and strategies). There are even different betting structures (like Limit versus No Limit) and different game formats (like normal 'ring' games versus tournaments).
What we will be focusing on how is texas hold'em, limit and no limit.
No limit texas hold'em is a poker game where there is no roof to the betting stake, you can raise a such as you want.
Limit texas hold'em is the more structured poker game, well if you are is beginner and want to play online poker I suggest you stick to limit so you don't loose to much money while trying to learn some poker ground rules.
In Texas hold'em poker we have 5 cards, 2 we get on our hand for only us to see, then 5 cards on the table facing down.
Now with only the knowledge of our two cards we can see if we want to bet hold or fold. But two cards is not much, so if we bet we are still in the game.
Now the turn, that what its called when the first 3 cards on the table gets turned, now we can combine the two on our hand with those on the table, figure out if we have some good poker cards, maybe even better then our opponents.
Then if we want to see the next card we bet again, then one card is turned, see again if we can combine 5 cards with the two on our hands with those 4 on the table.
Then the last card is turned, now comes the real thrilling poker game, we will bet, raise and what ever to see if our opponents has better cards then us, or if they bluffed better then us.
That’s a basic texas hold'em poker round;




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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/food/wine/great-tips-on-how-to-store-wine-for-beginners.html http://www.articletrader.com/food/wine/great-tips-on-how-to-store-wine-for-beginners.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 For optimal ageing potential, wines must be stored under ideal conditions, here I will try to mention some of the important factors to store wine in.
Wine should always be kept in a dark place, because light makes wine age faster, too much light can even make wine taste bad, (trust me, it can taste really bad).
Wine should be kept in a moist place because then you will make sure the corks don't dry out when the wine is stored for long time. But be careful not to have a wet place, this can make the wine labels moldy or deteriorated, this is usually a very overlooks area, I often see people keeping wine on top of a refrigerator or something like that, but have you ever tried to look at how dry it is and also think about the temperature.
Now as I just mentioned before, temperature is the next issue, and some may say the most important one. Wine should always have a constant temperature for your wine; the best temperature is in a cellar, at about 12-13 degrees. This is often a problem because if we store our wine in the garage temperature will raise and fall as the weather feels like it. (Unless you have some electrical stuff to keep a steady temperature in a room).
No vibrations and free of odors, like gasoline or petroleum, or whatever you think of keeping in the same room as your wine, keep in mind not to keep things with odors.
Okay just to sum this up.
the only thing you may need is a a dark place or room, that is a bit moist with no other odors, with a room temperature of about 12-13 degrees more or less, sounds simple? Well these conditions can be hard to optain, but with some effort and creativity it is not impossible.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/food/wine/knowing-the-different-wines-for-beginners.html http://www.articletrader.com/food/wine/knowing-the-different-wines-for-beginners.html Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Aperitif:
This is a pre dinner wine; it’s usually something you get just before you get to the table to have dinner, like an appetizer. The ones I have tasted usually are kind of sweet (not a bad thing), some even with taste of strawberry or some other fruit.
Barley wine:
This is a very strong wine, up to 12 percent alcohol, I'm not even sure this will go very well with food, I usually don’t drink these wines, they tend to have a very strong taste, and if I should have something strong, I would prefer alcohol then.
Cooking wine:
This is not wine to drink, usually its wine used to put in food while cooking, therefore it is also a bad quality. Actually I talked to a cooking chief recently; he told me a rule of thumb. If the wine is too bad to drink, it’s also to bad to use in food.
Dessert wines:
The title kind of says it all, it wine served with the dessert, some cake, ice cream or whatever. Usually it’s very sweet and very low on alcohol. (Note: this not counting Port wine which is a strong wine also not so sweet).
White and red wines:
Red wines are typically best for enhancing meals of red meat or tomato sauce, white wines are good for white meat as chicken and fish, but you can combine wine and food as you want there is not specific rule only your taste.
Rose wine:
This is kind of a mixture of red and white wines; they are sweet, good with seafood, salad and pork. These wines are also called summer wines.


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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/how-you-can-make-money-using-adobe-photoshop.html http://www.articletrader.com/computers/software/how-you-can-make-money-using-adobe-photoshop.html Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 So for you, if you don’t know anything about Photoshop then drop it, find another niche and do as it did, I wrote a list of ways to make a living on the internet with the use of my skills.

The first and most obvious way to make money with Photoshop for me was to get some freelance jobs making graphics and sell them. Now how do you find freelance jobs? Well there are a lot of forums on the internet where firms and people request for help and post job offers, you could be lucky to get some great deals like making a piece of graphic in about an hour and get 50$ other times you may settle for a lower pay. The most important thing is to have some stuff online you can show potential customers, something that would impress them.

You could also try participating in some of all those contests floating around the internet. Yes I know this would never be a stable income, but it could be a good bonus, as you may be a very good artist there may be a good change of you winning some good prizes.

Make a Photoshop blog. This is very popular right now, write news, graphics, or tutorials in your blog and get some traffic to your site, then put in some ads and you could make some money this way. I must say I have heard this is very hard to make the big money from, because it demands a whole lot of work, not only in Photoshop, but also promotion you site.

Now you could also sell your graphic at several image stock websites. I did this for a while, this way are not that popular or have not been enlightened enough yet, but you could make some decent money posting and selling your artwork in those websites.

Just make a search on Google for image stock site.

Remember I did not say it was easy to make money using Adobe Photoshop on the internet, but if you like it and love spending time in Photoshop, this might be worth a thought or two.
Also keep in mind there is a lot of competition out there, a lot of very good graphic artists to compete against, but if you keep trying and you have a talent for it then you may have a change, but I would recommend you not quit your day job before you have tried it to see if you could success.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/how-you-can-make-money-with-google-adsense.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/how-you-can-make-money-with-google-adsense.html Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Adsense basically lets you put in small advertising boxes, text based or image ads, (now even also video advertising) on your webpage. Google adsense can be found in many different shapes and sizes. Squres like 250 x 250, you bigger vertical sized ads to place at the top, buttom left or right.



Signing up for adsense is very easy, just go to www.google.com/adsense and you will be guided through the whole thing. Once you get approved you can copy your adsense code into placement on your website, and you are ready to earn some money.


It works like this:

Lets say you got a website about dogs and dog training, then you can place an ad banner at the top of your page, or where ever you thing it fits best with your design. You can even costumize colors and text to fit your design best possible. Now google adsense may see your site and analyze it thinking okay, its about dogs, so we find some advertisment about dog food, or dog toys. At last just drive some traffic to your website, and then hope for some clicks, because its the clicks you get paid for.


One thing I hear very often is, people being confused about why 1 click on your ads can give you 5$ and another day you only get 0.20 cents per click. I would like to explain this. Some keywords are worth more then others, depending on how popular the keyword is, lets say keywords like dogs, dog food etc. well my guess is this won’t get you as much money then pamela anderson.


Note: yes I know it sound easy, just get some traffic to your site, but I will recomment you to do some reading about search engine optimization also called SEO, and other traffic source ways to get some visitors. Also keep in mind that very few people can make a living just by making a website and get paid by adsense. I see google adsense as an extra income bonus, just try grabbing your calculator at calculate how many visitors you need every day and how few of them will click your ads, then estimate your adsense income from that. Not much but still better than nothing.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/in-search-for-free-oneway-links.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/in-search-for-free-oneway-links.html Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600
Now to the point, where do you submit your link or article or press release?

I would recomment you start by making a folder in you internet explorer favorits folder, to store all the links you will get when searching for submission locations.

Start by using google.com, if you just write submit website, you’ll often get alot of unwanted results, you will get websites providing to do submission for you for a small fee, this is not what we want, we want clean free submissions. So by filtering your search you get more precise results, here are a couple of examples and explanations.

’submit url here’, ’submit website here’ by using ’ you get the precise sentense in the google results, and you will get alot better result in search for submission sites.

Another way is to search for a sentense plus a keyword, lets say you want to search for the sentense ’submit website’ at a website directory then you just write ’submit website + directory’, you see this gives you endless possibilities for filtering out unnessasery sites.
Just to clearify the above example, here is the same just for a press release submittsion.
’submit here + press release’

Another great tip is that many article submission sites use the same script for their website, and it is always shown at the bottom (of top) of the page. So if you search for the excact sentense that is linked for the script, you will get alot of result for article submission sites. Example. One of those script providers are ’Article Dashboard’, so search sentense would be.
’submit + Article Dashboard’

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/make-your-content-stand-out-be-unique-and-be-visable.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/make-your-content-stand-out-be-unique-and-be-visable.html Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600
But how do you then make content more interesting?
The simple ground rules are the same for any text writing, devide your text into sections, to give the reader a better and clear view. Also small graphical images illustrating or symbolising what your writing about can be a great way to make your content look more interesting. For instance if your writing about some statistics put in a nice drawing of some statistics, or as simple as write about a product, then remember putting in some images of the product. Remember the order humans usually see content is, first the shapes, then images, and last text, so if the overall shapes the website gives does not live up to a users expectations he or she will not stay there for too long.

Make an event
Some things that may catch users better then educational text, pictures etc. is events or competitions, so if you annouce a competition on your website, it doesn’t even have to be a big prize, many people will be interested and read on just for the change of winning a prize for 10$.

Make visitors interact
Another thing to keep visitors is interaction, if you give your readers a way to interact on your website I’ll promise you, visitors will stay longer, and you will have a better chance getting their attention where you want it. Interaction could be a simple flash game in your site, the ability to write a comment to something, a small forum or something like that.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/google-adsense-best-ads-placement.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/google-adsense-best-ads-placement.html Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Also i think its better to only place one ad on each web page, and not alot of small ones around on your site, I have too often seen how this can spoil a great web design. Now some of the best ways I have seen google ads being integrated into a website is when making a border around the ads with graphics (like making google ads look like a ’post it’ sticky). This is smart and stands out, and gets users to look at them.


One think to remember is not to put ads at the bottom of your site if your site is long and visitors have to scroll down to see it. I think its a wast of time, because the people with the biggest chance of clicking ads are the ones not so interested in your website, and they may shut down your site even before scrolling down to see your ads.


Some other things you can do is to put images next to your google ads, as our eyes are attracted to images before text, but remember not to make it look like the image has relation to the text ads because google has strict rules about that, and you can get banned. A good tips could be to put at visible border around the google ads, to indicade that that ads are seperated from the image.



Warning.
Google has been integrating new video ads, and yes its a very good and effectiv idea, but keep in mind not that many companies have make video ads yet, because they are so new, this means that if you put on video ada on your site, your video ads may not be shown every time yet, because there is not ads for your theme. Or maybe it will just show some not related ads on your site as a random ad instead, and we know this will not attract nor interest many users.

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Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/google-pagerank-drop-it-now.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/google-pagerank-drop-it-now.html Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Many are many aspects to consider when trying to get a higher pagerank, just to mention some of them, links to your website from others, onpage optimization, for how long your website has been online etc. its a fulltime job just trying to keep up with the adjustments made by google.



Many people sees google pagerank as a measurement tool for viewing the importance of a specific website, even other webmasters trust pagerank to be correct, but it can’t be further from the truth. Google page rank has in the last year + more been very unstable, I have seen website going from a pagerank of 1 to 5 within a month, and some sites going from 8 to 2, even newly added website having quite high pageranks, without even having any traffic to their sites.



So why are people still using this pagerank as a trusted tool. well its quite simple, people still reads all the old articles on the internet saying, what a wonderfull tool it is, and people just got stuck in the old rutine, well get out of it and try to do some reasonable analysis on webpages.



Note:Other people tend to use a website called alexa to see the importance of a website, this website is actually quite effectiv, or it was, now I see alot of website get highly ranked there to, because they once or twice have bought some cheap traffic and then alexa has rated them based on their visiors amount.



Conclusion.

So if your using eighter google pagerank or alexa to analyze websites, do it with caution, be carefull not to only use these tools, be creative instead try other ways, you may even discover new alternatives others have never thought of. For example try to see what are the most used keywords for a speciffic subject, then see what website is shown first in both google, yahoo, msn and more.


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