How to Play Online Poker

Make Your Own Poker Video

Add Your Own Work to the Pro Poker School Video Library! The process is easy, fun, and your own poker video will be seen by lots of people!

Directions: How to Make Your Own Poker Video

1. Get your hands on a screen capture software, like Camtasia, a very easy to use tool that records a section of your computer screen.
2. Open Camtasia and click "New Screen Capture" then "Make a Capture", then click "Select Area to Record", and size the box to fit your online poker game.
3. You can choose to record audio while your recording the screen. Better yet, shut it off and you can easily add the audio afterwards.
4. Pause the recording on hands you fold, that way you will not have to edit it afterwards and the overall file size won't be so large.
5. When you finish recording, click Stop and Save your recording.
6. Camtasia will then ask you if you want to Edit your video or Record another. If you make more then one recording it is easy to combine multiple videos into one later when you choose Edit. Camtasia will ask if you for the size, leave it on the default web size of 640x480. We suggest adding audio (Voice Narration) and adding a title with your name.
7. Save your Edited Project (note: your raw video recording is a different file then your Edited Project).
8. When you finish editing, click "Produce Video As"
9. The Production Wizard will walk you through this process. Select the check box Custom Production Settings, click Next. On the next screen, choose the recommended "SWF. Click Next. The next screen shows various design looks and output size. You don't have to change anything here, click Next. The next screen gives you some more options, it is not necessary to change anything here. Click Next. The Produce Video screen lets you name your production before you click Finish. You can also choose the checkbox to upload to FTP. You can upload to FTP now, but I would suggest doing it afterwards so you can view the output first. Click Finish. Your Video is being produced and converted to an output file. This make take some time depending on the size of your recording.
10. Watch your video to make sure it came out the way you intended.
11. Upload to our Server. From Camtasia you can upload your files but I would suggest you that you do it yourself through FTP. You can use the Free, Open-Source File-Zilla to FTP the video to our server. Our FTP Settings
    * FTP Server: ftp.propokerschool.com
    * FTP Username: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
    * Password: pps2005
    
    If you have never used ftp before, it is very simple. The program opens and you will see the programs screen split in half. On the left size is your computer showing your files. On the right screen is the server folder where you will be uploading your video. Search on the left for your Video File. Just drag the Video File from the left side to the right side into the pokerstudent folder (or create your own folder and put it in there) and you will be uploading the file(s) to our server.
12. Send us an email to let us know you have uploaded a video. We will create one of our images for it to be displayed in our library with your name on it. Your Video will be added to the Pro Poker School library as soon as possible.

Thank you! Please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have any questions. If you run into any snags, find I am missing something in the directions, or have any suggestions let me know so I can smooth out the process for everyone.

You can also visit our Make Your Own Poker Video Forum. We have unlimited bandwidth and unlimited size hosting plan on our server so upload as often as you want. You can even start a new forum thread about your video to encourage discussion.

Tip: If you want to post particular hands after you have played them. Because you won't know what hand you will want to post until after it happens, the best way to do this would be to use a hand replayer (www.universalreplayer.com is free) and record the hand being played back through the replayer. The replayer also allows you to control the speed so you will be able to easily add audio to it. Hand Replayers use hand histories, so make sure your Poker Site options is set to save your hand histories automatically to your hard drive.

Pro Poker School Wants to Give You a Chance to Have a Poker Blog

If you are interested email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Have you read Railbird Poker, Poker High Stakes or Fashion Ace Poker Blogs?

The bloggers running these sites are Pro Poker School Students!

We are offering a chance to run a poker blog.

If you are a beginner or a pro it does not matter! Every poker player has cool experiences and awesome stories to share. Interesting poker hands, awesome cash games they played in and home game tournaments with your friends are just a few things people love reading about. Opinions on poker's current events. Anything at all really. Have fun with it.

• Improve your own game as you consider your own game
• Discuss your epic successes and your unforgettable beats
• Awesome domain name
• Share your experiences with other poker players and friends
• Comments from visitors
• Just knowing how to log-in and use a text editor (similar to writing an email) is all the techie stuff you need to know.
• Easily add youtube videos or your own
• Pick the look you want
• Appear on the Pro Poker School homepage
• Have fun
• Totally Free (and maybe make a few dollars)!

We have a really cool list of poker domains, you get to choose one that you would like to use for your poker blog. Next, we help set up the website and run it on our servers, and you simply have to occassionally login and blog about your poker interests, experiences, opinions... whatever. The latest blog post will appear on the Pro Poker School home page to help add dynamic content to Pro Poker School and increase the number of readers who see the blog.

Please consider doing this primarily for the enjoyment of blogging about poker in a way that is easy and free. Note: it is possible to make some money blogging but that shouldn't be your primary motivation for making your own poker blog. All the details will be explained further if you request information: email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Not sure about it, try practicing Blogging About Poker

If you want to just practice blogging about poker, feel free to do so right here at Pro Poker School. Just create a new account or login to an existing account and then go to your personal poker blogging page. The functionality on here is very basic-mainly text. If you choose to 'make my own poker blog' that is discussed above then the options for writing, adding images, adding video and more are available and very user friendly.

You can read other pro poker school student poker blogs as well to see how some other aspiring poker bloggers got their feet wet. Student blogs are read by hundreds of visitors.

Here are Some of the Domain Names You Can Choose From

Poker Hand Rankings

From the highest ranking poker hand to the lowest ranking poker hand:

Royal Flush: five cards in suit and sequence, spade 10JQKA.

Straight Flush: five cards in suit and sequence, heart 8910JQ.

Four of a Kind: aka Fours-four cards of the same rank and one idler, as J-J-J-J-x.

Full House: aka Full Boat-three of one rank and two of another, as K-K-K-5-5.

Flush: five cards in suit but not in sequence, heart 3-heart 4-heart 8-heart 10-heart K.

Straight: five cards in sequence but not in suit, club 8-heart 9-diamond 10-spade J-diamond Q.

Three of a Kind: aka Threes, Triplet, Trips, Set-three of the same rank plus two of two different ranks, as 9-9-9-x-y.

Two Pair: two different pairs, A-A-8-8-x.

One Pair: one pair, 6-6-x-y-z.

High Card: no combination, between two high card hands the one with the highest card wins.

Poker uses hand rankings to determine who has the best hand when two or more players are competing for the same pot. Below is a description an examples of poker hand rankings.

Poker is a five card betting game played with standard playing cards. The betting aspect allows players to bet as to who holds the best card combination by progressively raising the stakes until either there is a showdown-when the best hand wins all the pot or only one person remains because everyone else has given up betting and dropped out. In the last case, because there is no showdown, it is possible for the pot to be won by a hand that is not actually the best hand, but by betting the bettor has bluffed out the other players and won the hand. Regardless of the number of cards dealt to each player, the best five cards are used to determine the ranking of the player's hand.

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