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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 - 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. [...]