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What is multi-tabling in facebook poker? Multi-tabling is simply playing in more than one table, and usually more than 3 or 4 at the same time with the hope of winning more facebook poker chips. This is something that can only be done for online texas holdem games because obviously it wouldn’t be possible for someone to run around to more than one table playing different hands in real life.

What are the benefits of multi-tabling, and can you really win more facebook poker chips by doing it? Is it against the rules in facebook poker? We’ll there is nothing against the rules about playing in multiple tables as you are not violating any of the game makers’ Terms of Service by playing in more than one room at a time. And yes, you can win more facebook poker chips by doing it, as long as you follow a few simple pointers:

- Open a new browser for each additional room you intend to play in and resize it so that it fits onto your screen. If you’re playing in 2 facebook poker rooms place the browsters next to each other, if you’re playing in 4 tables, place the browser windows on top of each other, just as if you were stacking 4 boxes. Never open a new table in the same browser using the “tabs” feature as this will most likely cause your browser to crash and throw you out of the table.

- Firefox handles flash better than Internet explorer does and is much more stable.  You can download Firefox direct from Mozilla.

- Close any programs that aren’t essential. Running multiple games of facebook poker in browsers can strain your computer system’s resources and if you’re chatting it up on MSN while watching clips of Girls Gone Wild on YoutTube at the same time, sooner or later your computer is going to freeze up and crash and eject you from all the tables.

- Forget about chatting in the chatbox. It might be fun to flirt or talk to friends when you’re playing in a single room, but multi tabling takes concentration and focus. Is it worth giving up a hand of a few million facebook poker chips when the timer runs out just to tell the hot girl seated across from you that you wana lick her face? Probably not, and “she” is probably a 45 year old man from Lebanon anyway.

The main advantage of playing in multiple tables in facebook texas holdem poker is that it allows you to see more hands than you normally would, letting you play a greater range of cards in a short amount of time. Any decent and careful player should be able to take advantage of this and use it their advantage to win more facebook poker chips. On the otherhand, if you play like a drunken monkey in heat and have the concentration of a stick you may want to think about passing on multi tabling.

      Here’s a satirical parody from Toby Turner about Zynga’s Farmville game on Facebook and how much time players devote to this game. I guess it rubbed him the wrong way, someone should get this man some facebook poker chips.

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 With the continuing rise in popularity of facebook poker chips as a virtual currency in facebook texas holdem poker games has come the unfortunate scourge of hackers, phishers, and thieves who try their best to trick unsuspecting players out of their hard earned facebook poker chips. Forums all over the internet are littered with posts by people who have had their facebook chips stolen. Nothing sucks quite as much as logging into Facebook or MySpace to play a few hands of poker only to find someone has already been in your account and your poker chips are gone.

Follow these tips to keeep your facebook poker chips safe:

• Never give your password to friends or family: Trust is a delicate thing that takes a long time to build but only second to destroy. Maybe giving your password to your girlfriend or brother to play in your account seemed like a harmless idea, but what happens when you have a disagreement or argument? What if after a war of words they decide the best way to get back at you is to log into your account and steal all your facebook poker chips?

• Be careful about what you download: Serious online gamers are always searching for cheats and hacks for the games they play in order to give them an edge. Poker is no different and there’s plenty of sites on the internet touting facebook poker cheats and hacks for those brave enough to download and install them. But many of these so called facebook poker cheats have viruses or trojan programs to them that allow the creator to gain access to your accounts and steal your facebook poker chips. If you never downloaded any of these programs then you’re probably safe, and if you have then you should run a spyware detection program like the one from Lavasoft.

• Make sure links you click on through Facebook and your email are from people you trust: Another popular way hackers try to gain access to players’ accounts is through what is known as phishing. They send legitimate and official looking emails to your inbox. When you open them you are asked to click on the link and login in order to save your account or win free facebook poker chips, but in reality you are logging into a fake site that sends your information off to the hacker who made it. Before you know it they’ve broken into your account and emptied it of any facebook chips you may have.

• Don’t fall for You Tube scams: If you do a search on you tube for facebook poker cheats, zynga poker hacks, or free facebook poker chips you’ll find hundreds of videos on the topic. More than 90% of them are made by idiots hoping to convince you to send them your account information. They range from slightly clever to completely moronic. Below is a video that has been up for a month and gotten over 1200 views so far. Though the spelling is horrendous I’m sure it still managed to fool a couple of people.

Warning: Do NOT follow the instructions in this video. It’s just an example.

It’s been said that bluffing in texas holdem poker is the line that seperates average players from great players. Anyone can get dealt a pair of Aces and click the all in button (like 90% of facebook poker players) but it takes a true professional to work with real garbage hands and turn them into facebook poker chip gold. But how do you bluff someone when you can’t see their face, their nervous gestures like tapping their hands or twitching their eye, or the sweat beading up on their brow? Don’t forget that this works both ways and they can’t see your poker tells either. If you wana bluff your opponents and steal their facebook poker chips here are some pointers to follow: 

1) Don’t show your fear: If you’re a timid player who is afraid to risk their facebook poker chips, don’t bother trying to bluff others. You have to be comitted to picking good hands to bluff with and following through on them, or other players will sense your fear and make your bluff ineffective. 

2) A small bet is just as good as no bet: The point of bluffing in facebook poker is to get your opponents out of the pot with a bet large enough to scare them. Small raises don’t show confidence or aggression and will only waste your facebook poker chips. 

3) Try to bluff after the flop: Bluffing preflop is a tricky situation, as you never know when you are up against Aces or Kings. But after the flop, even pocket Aces can be cracked by 3 of a kind or a flush/straight draw. Your opponents know this and if you can make them believe you have the flush or straight you will succeed at pushing them out of the pot. 

4) Forget your pride: Even the most well played bluff can backfire and go wrong sometimes. If someone is continually calling or reraising you and you feel you really have no shot at improving your hand, don’t be afraid to swallow your pride and back down. Proving you’re a real man (or woman) isn’t worth losing all your facebook chips. 

5) Let your opponents catch you bluffing occasionally: Once you get caught bluffing a few times you can change up your strategy and play tight, so the next time you make a big bet others will be more inclined to think you’re full of shite and call you. 

6) Pay attention to your opponents facebook poker chips: It’s important to consider your opponent’s chip stack when betting against him. Bluffing against someone with only a few facebook chips may not be effective as it is likely to just push them all in as they will seize on any last ditch chance to double up their chips and get back in the game. Bluffing against someone with a large amount of facebook poker chips may not work either as they can comfortably call any raise you make and not worry about running low. Your best chances are to bluff against someone who has a similar amount of poker chips because, like you, they will worry about being knocked out of the game and thus less likely to make risky calls that put their facebook poker chips at risk. 

                 One of the craziest bluff’s in texas holdem poker: