Improve Your Online Poker Play - Have Your Poker Training Aides Handy
Have Your Poker Training Aides Handy
A strong advantage to playing online poker is that you can use training aides while you’re playing at the computer. You can have books, charts, tables, and notes in front of you to assist you in making decisions, a practice that is totally legal and ethical in online poker. Having [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Take a Chip Count in Tournaments
Take a Chip Count in Tournaments
You should constantly keep track of everyone’s chip count in the tournament. It’s easier to do in online poker sites than in land-based poker rooms because the exact amount of chips everybody has is on display right in front of them. In a traditional poker rooms, you have to size [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Begin by Playing Small Buy-in Tournaments
Begin by Playing Small Buy-in Tournaments
As soon as you have mastered the basics in free games online, advance to a small buy-in tournament, preferably a single-table tournament in which you will be playing against nine opponents (when playing Hold ‘Em and Omaha). Play in a $5 or $10 buy-in single-table tournament. Once you experience playing [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Schedule Your Online Time Wisely
Budgeting your time is very important when you’re playing tournament poker online. You need to know how much time you have to play poker before you sign up for an online tournament. Don’t play if you’re in a hurry. You can’t play in a multitable tournament in which there are 1,000 players if you don’t [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Wait Before You Click
Don’t always use the Advance Action tab even when you know what you’re going to do before it’s your turn to act. The Advance Action boxes are the little tabs that come up on your computer screen with options such as Bet, Check, Call, Call Any, Fold, Raise, Raise Any, and Raise Pot. In online [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Play in a Game in Which You’re Comfortable
Whether you’re playing poker online or in a traditional casino, you should never play in a game that makes you feel uncomfortable. If you’re in a game in which you don’t like all the raising that’s going on, you should leave it and move to another table. If you’re playing in a game in which [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Realize That Online Play Is Speedy
You are dealt far more hands per hour online than in land-based card rooms. In fact, the speed of online games is two to three times faster than regular poker games. Since no time is wasted with dealers shuffling and dealing, the cards whiz right along.
Online play has fast action and it’s exciting. It also [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Proven Strategies for Beating Fast Games
Use Proven Strategies for Beating Fast, Action-Packed Games
Here are a few tips that will help you survive and thrive in the low-limit poker games you play online. For starters, if the table is playing loose, you’re better off to be playing tight (and vice versa). You should be selective about the starting hands you play—don’t [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Recognize That Low-Limit Games Are Action-Oriented
When people are playing for real money, they play more cautiously than they would in the free online games where a lot of newcomers will play any two cards trying to hit belly-buster straight draws. Still, games at online sites generally are looser than games in traditional casinos. People seem to gamble more and play [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Play for Free but Not for Long
Just because you’ve been winning in the free games online, don’t expect to be able to jump into a cash game and immediately start winning. In fact, that probably isn’t going to happen. You must understand that even though you have won at the play-money tables, you will not automatically win in the real-money games.
Many [...]
Improve Your Online Poker Play - Concentrate on the Game
You must concentrate on the game at hand. When you’re playing poker at home on your computer, it’s so easy to be watching television, talking with somebody, e-mailing a friend, or eating dinner while you’re playing online. But if you want to be successful at online poker, you need to focus solely on the game. [...]
How to Beat Online Poker
Online Poker
Many old-time poker players don’t consider online poker to be “real” poker. They think of it as a video game. To them, “poker” means sitting at a green-felt table looking your opponent in the eye.
In reality, online poker is simply a newer, different form of poker—and there’s no question that it is the real [...]
Free Online Poker Site Guide
The Players Guide to Online Poker - Free Download
Table of Contents
About This Guide
The Online Poker Boom
Chapter I – Getting Started in Online Poker
What you Will Need to Play Online
Choosing an Online Poker Site
Online Poker Site Review Chart
Downloading and Installing the Software Online Security
First Time on a Site
Taking Advantage of the Site’s Free Cash Bonus
Choosing your [...]
Online Poker Bonus Offer
Have you ever been offered 20% extra cash on the money you sat down with at a land based casino? Probably not.
Online poker sites will give you extra cash to play at their sites. They simply want you to play at their room and not their competitors. You will need a poker [...]
Why Sitting-in isn’t Against the Rules
Poker Stars has this to say about sitting out during a tournament…
A player in a “ring” game (a non-tournament game) can click “leave table”, and take his chips out of the game at any time. They can do this because each hand is its own separate event. If a player sits out [...]
Best Kept Secret in Online Poker
You have to keep this one under your hat. Not too many players are aware of what I am about to tell you.
What would you say if I told you that you could see a players mucked cards? You would probably want that info in your next online game of poker. In [...]
Position in Texas Holdem Poker
Many players forget that your position on the table should make a difference to how many hands you play and the way you go about playing them. Hands that look strong can become weak when playing from early position. Of course, the reverse is true as well. Weak hands get stronger if [...]
Playing Pocket Aces and Any Ace
A-A versus J-J gives you an 80% chance of winning the pot. If you play aggressively pre-flop, narrow the field to one or two callers, and get a read on your opponents, then you’ve done your job.
As for getting “out-kicked”…
Be careful with A-J and A-10… these hands are notorious for getting [...]
Read This Before Playing Online Poker
The number one tip for every poker player who joins a poker room online is…
…use a bonus code! You wouldn’t believe how many players sign up without a bonus code. Without taking advantage of the bonuses that the poker sites offer you are missing out on a huge amount of free money.
The [...]