A Gamblers Guide

Discipline

If there was one word that summed up the good poker players of the world, that word is discipline. Good poker players have the discipline to wait for good hands and not play bad ones just because they are bored. Good poker players have the discipline to know when to fold a hand. Good poker players have enough discipline that they can overcome the emotional hurdles that every poker player gets. Good poker players also have the discipline to constantly work towards improvement.

Every one of the things discussed above is a factor of major importance in becoming a successful poker player. This is true for both online poker and its conventional offline counterpart. Therefore, if you want to become a successful poker player, you are going to need to hone your discipline to the point where it is easily your strongest quality. While this might not seem necessary to some, please understand that it is the single most important thing that you can do along the road to becoming a successful poker player.

Study

In addition to maintaining discipline in all of the things you do in online poker, becoming a successful poker player also involves study. You are never going to get better unless you go back and analyze what you have done. This is extremely easy to do in online poker because all of the websites provide you with hand histories that you can comb over to see what you did right, what you did wrong and what was somewhat in between. Studying is one of the most important things that successful poker players do. You will notice that most successful poker players have excellent memories of past hands and this is primarily because they went back and studied those hands in detail.

Practice

Even the most studious poker player will not become successful until they start applying what they learn through study. It is one thi [Read more →]

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Dover Downs offers live harness racing from late October to mid-April in the state of Delaware. Built in 1969 to support both harness racing and automotive racing, Dover Downs is a big destination in the city of Dover. This track is the only one in the country to run a six month season with racing held six days a week. There are 15 races held each day.

Dover Downs is home to many stakes races during the season, but it is becoming best known for the Progress Pace, which has become one of the top events in harness racing. The Progress Pace is a relative newcomer as a harness race. It was begun in 1996, and it now attracts the top sophomore colts in pacing. In 2007, there were 102 nominees for the Progress Pace. Since the race’s inception, the purse has risen from $200,000 to over $400,000.

Depending on how many horses are entered, there will be more or fewer elimination heats. The winners of these heats will compete against each other in a final field of 8 horses. The eliminations will be held the week before the final race, giving spectators two days to pick their favorites. A lot more local horses are now competing in the Progress, and the competition is getting stiff. The best of the best are coming together at Dover Downs every year to compete in this race.

If you’ve never seen a pace, you don’t know what you are missing. The drivers sit behind the horse in a sulky, which is also called a bike. Pacers are faster than trotters, and they move both legs on the same side of their body in the same direction at the same time. It is amazing to watch the drivers maneuver their horse and sulky between the rest of the field. It takes a lot of skill.

The first year the Progress Pace was held, the winner was Armbro Operative, a colt that is currently standing at stud in New Zealand. He was driven by Hall of Fame driver, John Campbell. 1 [Read more →]

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