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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
What every father wants for Father’s Day:
To become a better Poker player.
This year, buy a Father’s day gift that will be appreciated
(and could even help bring in more money).
Seattle, WA, May 10, 2006 - Struggling for a gift to buy that special father in your life? Search no longer. GreatPokerHands.com is pleased to announce the release of a strategy card set to help the man in your life become a better poker player.
The growth in the popularity of poker seems to continue unchecked. Poker is now the third most watched sport on cable TV in the US[1], and 60% of men who play poker, claim they indulge up to four times per month[2]. The chances are good that your man already has an interest in poker. Why not show your love by helping him get better at the game?
If you have a poker mad man in your life, you’ve probably already exhausted the typical poker themed presents: sets of playing cards, sets of poker chips, green felt … so this fathers day, why not surprise him with a unique gift, and one that could improve his game? Who knows, he might even use the system to win more money to bring home and spoil you with!
Background
Texas Hold’em Poker is considered by many experts to be the purest form of Poker. It’s an easy game to learn, but a hard one to master. Time and time again, beginners and intermediate players break the cardinal rule of Texas by staying in a pot with mediocre (or poor) hands.
GreatPokerHands.com is pleased to announce a unique strategy card system that provides players an easy to use reference guide for instantly deducing the strength of opening poker hands.
When playing Texas Hold’em Poker, each player receives a secret pair of “hold” cards and these are combined with up to five common “community” cards to make the best possible poker hand. Players bet against each other that they have the best ranked hand overall.
What is not immediately obvious is that the value of player’s hold cards changes with the number of opponents who are also in the pot. The more people that stay into a pot, the higher the average quality of the hand needed to win becomes, and so correspondingly, the desired qualities of the hold cards change to those more likely to produce higher quality hands. If you are playing “head to head”, a high card or pair may, more often that not, seal a victory for you. However, as the number of players in the pot increases, typically a straight, flush, or higher handis needed to win against all the players staying in. This critical fact adjusts which starting hold cards are considered good starting hands, and which are considered great.
The GreatPokerHands system comprises a set of strategy cards. Each card hosts a grid of all 169 possible starting hold card combinations (representing each combination of starting cards, both suited and unsuited). There is one strategy card for each number of opponents up to ten. Each card shows the ordinal ranking of the starting hands – a stack ranking, with #1 indicating the best possible set of starting cards to be holding, all the way down to #169 for the worst possible starting pair of cards. Each card is rainbow color coded to show at the glance the; Great, Good, Okay, Dubious and Inferior starting hands.
If these cards stop a player from entering just one pot that he should have stayed away from, then they will probably have justified their existence in a single hand!
Purchase
The strategy card system (cards, instructions and carry case) is available for purchase directly from the manufacturer’s website at. The price of a card set is $20.00 (or $25.00 for two sets). Shipping and handling is free for all domestic orders.
About GreatPokerHands.com
GreatPokerHands.com was founded in 2006 by Nick Berry, a genuine rocket scientist. Nick holds a Masters Degree is Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southampton in England. He has over a dozen years experience working in the software industry, and over eight years experience in the computer games arena. He has a handful of patents in his name.
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[1] Source, MSNBC - 2005
[2] World Poker Exchange survey of poker players - 2005