How Linux Users Can Analyze Their Online Poker Game

If you are a Linux user and want to improve your poker playing skills, then you need to analyze your game and for this, you can use software like Poker Tracker. What you need to do is just install this software on your Linux computer and this software will start analyzing your game.

This article describes how to install Poker Tracker on wine.

1. First you must have a working Linux PostgreSQL installation.

2. Then, take a backup of your existing.wine directory.

3. Now create a fresh wine-installation using ies4linux script (choose to install IE6 only).

4. When the ies4linux script is finished then copy/move '~/.ies4linux/ie6' to '~/.wine'.

5. Set Windows version to Win98 in winecfg.

6. Install DCOM98, MDAC 2.8, Jet 4.0 SP8 (English Version)

7. Install Windows PostgreSQL ODBC driver.

8. Install Poker Tracker.

9. Now Add library overrides for PokerTracker. Then, run these 2 commands in your shell:

1)wget http://www.holdemresources.net/hr/linuxpoker/pokertracker/ptrack-reg.txt 2)regedit ptrack-reg.txt Note: If you haven't used wine, then just run the abovementioned commands and change anything else manually.

If you have a non-US setting, ensure you change it to US before running PokerTracker. If you are working on an English system, then you can skip this step. Now changing the desktop starter to env LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_US:en"WINEPREFIX="/home/xxxxx/.wine" wine "C:\xxxxx\Poker Tracker V2\ptrack2.exe" and you are done. Now you can start Poker Tracker to analyze your poker game. But ensure that PostgreSQL running on your Linux system. Also, you need connect PokerTracker to it with the windows native ODBC driver.

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A Good Poker Download Tutorial

Most of the poker downloads are of the tutorial type. Most of the poker downloads these days are designed to be a fun to use, because they have excellent user friendly graphics for the play. Almost every poker download links to a free poker room or a money poker room. After you learn through the tutorial poker download you can practice the poker variant for either free or for money games.

A good poker download tutorial provides with easy to read and understand playing advice. Some of them even provide rank analysis software in built. Previously, rank analysis software was a part of just money downloads, but due to increasing competition these materials and software are available as a part of free poker rooms.

Before making a download of any poker download you have to peep through the screenshots and demonstration video of the poker download to get to know what is there inside the poker software. They can be useful in understanding several of the strategies involved in poker like how a trip can beat a high pair, why check raising is better than betting, why all in is better than folding, when should you go all in, what is a side pot and lot more.

Most of the tutorial poker downloads are a combination of hands that can be studied through to arrive at how to act next. Some poker download is a collection of past plays from various sources. Many interesting playing histories are interpreted in flash programs and are reanalyzed and the results are given as a tutorial.

The past hand history analysis, which is presented in a replay format of the whole game in a flash program gives a feeling of rail birding a real table. It eliminates the boredom that one experiences when they are trying to learn poker approaches by reading the hand history analysis. The interactive graphics format is easy to grasp than when the same is given in a text format.

You learn lot of things from a poker download ranging from how to count your pot odds, how to estimate the number of bets that you will be missing on your next move, how to keep people playing because you need money in the pot, how to have people go heads down because you are sitting mediocre. A whole lot of tricks can be learnt from a patient exploration of a poker download.

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Emerging Online Casinos in Spanish Market

Online casinos activity into the Spanish market as well as the Latin American online casino popularity have been growing tremendously day by day, and it doesn't seem to stop.

For that reason many online casinos are getting very interested on entering into these markets as they are still in certain way virgin.

The two larger markets for the online casino industry are Mexico and Spain, being the second the one that brings more online casino players and therefore, more revenues for the online casinos.

Actually not just online casinos are the ones making good money but also the online casino review sites and online casino affiliates, who found a great niche market to make more money from online casino percertage.

Is true that every online casino has a site in Spanish, but what we can't see is how in their backend they are recruiting new online casino professionals to take care of the support service, live chat and other interesting tools that online casinos must provide to their online casino players.

I'm certain that this tendency on the Latin American and Spanish markets will continue growing on the following months, and years, and don't have to rest importance to Latin origin US citizens who prefer using the Spanish language for news, to shop, and also to gamble at online casinos in Spanish.

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