It might be looking like a white Christmas where you live but December is gearing up to be the hottest month of the year on PKR. We've got some great promotions and brand new features lined up including your chance to jet off to sunny California for the LA Poker Classic plus a whole lot more.
Christmas is a Great to Play Poker - Get into the spirit of the season with cool Christmas gear for your avatar.
Hot, Hot Holidays - Watch out for a range of huge Christmas promotions coming this month on PKR.
Welcome to LA - Jet off to the City of Angels to play in the LA Poker Classic courtesy of PKR!
EPT Winners - Find out who's going to Prague to play for over $3million!
One Hand Clapping - One hand, everyone all-in and the winner takes all - one hand satellites are a huge hit on PKR.
Have More Fun at PKR - Meet other players, increase your poker knowledge and take a shot at some fabulous prizes.
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A Christmas to Remember
How Not To Cheat At Online Poker
If you are going to cheat at online poker to try to make extra money then at least do it correctly.
As happens sometimes when people chat at online poker, they are caught. This has happened again after a recent tournament where two players played on one single account.
The big mistake made here is forgetting the online poker systems will also track the IP address of login information. If you try to cheat playing online poker by using more than one person to play a table or tournament then get the players together in the same room and using the same computer.
Since online poker tournaments take hours to play through, something that never happens in the real world as breaks are regularly taken, it can be a long, arduous and extremely tiring process to play through what can be anything up to 12 hours of playing poker online.
Having some poker playing buddies around means you can share the time. Of course, that would mean having to share the poker winnings as well but often the winnings from a long tournament can increase. Sharing table time with your poker buddies also means your style of playing will change to any of your opponents who may be trying to follow patterns in your poker playing.
There will always be people who try to cheat the online poker world and some will still get away with it. Some get caught, often through their own recklessness or boasting about it.
If you cheat and win at online poker then keep quiet!
Coming In November on PKR
With well over a million registered users PKR is still the fastest growing poker room in the world with thousands of new players signing up every day. So, if you're looking for cash game action on all levels and a huge range of Sit & Go's and MTTs then PKR is the place to be...
One Handed Satellites
Popular in live tournaments for years, PKR brings one of the most exciting ways to qualify for big money tournaments to online poker for the first time. One hand - everyone all-in and the winner takes all! If you feel like taking a punt on qualifying for a tournament at the last minute for the fraction of the price you'll love one handed satellite qualifiers.
Bigger Guarantees
With more players joining every day our guarantees keep going up! Take your shot at huge new guaranteed prize pools on PKR like $15,000 every Saturday night, $20,000 guaranteed every Sunday night, $50,000 guaranteed every month! Buy-in on the night or win your way in through satellites rolling right now. Check it out! 
EPT Prague Play Now!
You don't need to be a high roller to compete for the biggest prizes in poker on PKR. From now until 23 November we're giving you the chance to win one of four $9,100 Packages to the EPT Prague! The best bit, you can win your way in for as little as $1.28 with our special EPT satellites. That's an incredibly low entry fee to take your shot at a prize pool worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in one of Europe's coolest cities!
Join The Club
There's always something extra to play for on PKR - no matter what your level of play and the 20K and 50K clubs on PKR are just two of the ways we reward our players. The best part is that there's nothing to sign up for - all you have to do is play PKR for real money!
More Tournament Tickets
Use your PKR Points to get in to even more PKR tournaments like our new monthly $50,000 GTD, the $20,000 GTD on Sunday and the Saturday $15,000 GTD. You can also scoop satellite seats for most tourneys along with EPT qualifiers and loads more. Check it out!
Weekly Bounty Tournaments
Bounty tournaments are always popular on PKR. Take on six special PKR bounty players every week for your shot at $100 in extra cash.
Double The Value
Sign up for a cool PKR deposit bonus today and you'll be a winner in more ways than one. That's because the same PKR Points you use to cash in your bonus also unlock cool in-game gear, big money tournament tickets and coveted PKR merchandise.
It's like getting two great rewards for the price of one! Best of all we've got a huge range of bonuses designed to suit every player - from a quick $50 that you'll earn in no time to 100% up to $600 and an incredible $2K (that's the biggest bonus in poker!).
Find out more
PKR Just Keeps Getting Better
We've added a load of great new features to PKR that make it even more exciting to play.
Check out our new emotes (including an option to create your own), player notes, new voices plus a whole lot more.
Baccarat Strategies - A Dime a Dozen
Card Counting is one of those phony ideas published in baccarat strategy
books. Card counting is most often associated with the game of blackjack - and is very effected, used correctly in the right casino. It could also seem to be of real worth in baccarat as the game does work off a comparable shoe. The issue that causes the problem is that of used cards be reintroduced into the shoe before very many have been taken out, thereby flummoxing any count made up to that point! Baccarat also, unlike Blackjack, does not allow the player the right to change his bet mid-hand in play. Blackjack allows this practice in a number of specific cases, and the player can increase his bet if his count changes during play. In baccarat, card counting presents very few situations with an advantage against the house that the actual overall labours are of no value to the player at all.
Baccarat can be considered a very elaborate coin toss game. This oversimplified impression of the game lures many players to using the Martingale based system of betting which entails doubling up on ones' bet each time a hand is lost. The Logic being that you eventually have to win, and the doubling will allow you to recoup all losses made from all the preceding hands! A perfect system indeed and one that actually can't be beaten in games like baccarat or roulette, and it is because of this that casinos issued new rules. The new rules limit how much a player can bet in 1 hand.
Casinos effectively got rid of the threat of the Martingale System gambler or player by setting Table maximums (and minimums). i.e. A player bets $5 on the banker and lost. Next bet, $10 on the banker, next bet $20, etc, and he continues to lose. Before long, his bet will have doubled up to a point that it will exceed the table maximum. In this case the player can't bet any higher and his system has failed, he must quit.
The Martingale System is a horrific betting system that follows a human beings panic thinking - their natural thought pattern that somehow believes that if a coin lands heads up 9x in a row, there is a greater chance than 50% that it will land tails on the 10th flip! IT DOES NOT WORK!
So - if all these strategies and systems - card counting, pattern spotting, streak spotting etc are worthless strategies for baccarat - is there any good one? Well...practically and mathematically speaking... when you analyse the numbers, the odds do seem to always be in favour when a player bets on the banker, though this is a very boring tactic to play. Perhaps throw in some pattern chasing to break the tedium, or count the scorecards!