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How to Avoid Poker Bluffs That Give You Away

Avoid bad blufffing in poker by being aware of "tells" that signal betting strategies. This video shows you what tells reveal about hands in play so you can begin to control tellate signs -- and keep your [more…]

How to Bluff at Poker

Poker players reveal subtle messages about the strength of their hands in "tells" -- telltale signs that sometimes mean they're bluffing. This video shows you how to recognize the top ten bluffs your opponents [more…]

Acquainting Yourself with Euchre

Euchre is an excellent card game, simple in concept but with a high degree of subtlety in the play. The game also offers myriad variations, because it can be played with any number of players and as a [more…]

Analyzing What You Have for a Trading Card Game

Although you need solid gameplay skills to win at trading card games, you also need to invest time figuring out what the cards do and how they interact with each other. Discerning each card's basic strengths [more…]

Avoiding Common Mistakes at Texas Hold'em

Everybody makes mistakes as they play cards. The wise learn and get better. The rest pull out another bill and feed everyone else at the table. [more…]

Being Kind to Your Bridge Partner

Most bridge players value a reliable, happy partner above anything else. It's important to the success of your partnership that you work together as a team. You both want to win, so you can't gain anything [more…]

Connecting Your Xbox 360 to Your Home or the World

Xbox 360 is a platform that can use many of your existing entertainment and communications systems. You can use your Xbox 360 with standard or high-definition TVs, connect and play the digital content [more…]

Controlling Access to Your Xbox

Each parent makes different decisions about what games his or her children play and movies they watch. If you're worried about your kids making that decision without your input, then you might want to [more…]

Dealing with Multiple Gamers on Xbox

Each member of your family can have his or her own profile on the Xbox 360. This way, players can keep their own scores, game saves, and Xbox Live information separate. [more…]

Dealing with Multiple Gamers on Your Xbox

Each member of your family can have his or her own profile on the Xbox 360. This way, players can keep their own scores, game saves, and Xbox Live information separate. [more…]

Defining Your Dungeons & Dragons Character

A Dungeons & Dragons player character lives in an ancient time, in a world much like ours was in medieval times, when knights and castles filled the land. Imagine this place, where magic really works and [more…]

Establishing the Ground Rules as a Dungeon Master

As in any social experience, a Dungeons and Dragons game benefits from common courtesies and ground rules that are followed by players and DMs alike. The following provides some of the unwritten ground [more…]

Finding Story Inspiration as a Dungeon Master

Many Dungeon Masters choose to create their own adventures and campaigns out of nothing more than their imaginations. If you're one of those DMs, good for you! Devising exciting adventures and crafting [more…]

Games versus Worlds: How Some Massively Multiplayer Games Differ from Others

At first glance, this may seem like a strange topic. After all, MMGs are all games, right? Well, yes and no.

Many MMGs are designed as purely games for gaming's sake. [more…]

Getting Sources and Inspiration to Play Vampire: The Requiem

Vampires have been part of people's storytelling traditions for hundreds of years. Vampire obviously concerns itself with the gothic tradition and a familiar modern setting, so certain sources are more [more…]

Great Gifts for the Game Player You Adore

What can I get her? What does she need?" Ah, there it is — the questions that ring loudly from house after house during the holiday season each year. You know that your gamer plays [more…]

Hooking Up Xbox 360 Sound

Xbox 360 allows two types of audio connections: analog and digital.Both analog and digital audio connections can give you surround sound or stereo sound, depending on the sound system that you use with [more…]

How to Play GURPS

Most Generic Universal Role Playing Games (GURPS) can be played almost as a board game. You have a map that diagrams the areas that you are exploring, and you make dice rolls to determine the outcome of [more…]

Identifying the Framework for Your Role Playing Game Character

More than just describing what you can and can't do, your character defines what you will and won't do while playing him. If you decide that your character is curious and impulsive, then you, as your character [more…]

Improving Your Home Game of Hold'em

Playing poker at home means you get to see your pals and you don't get chewed up by the rake. To improve your home games of Hold'em or any other kind of poker, outfit the gameroom [more…]