Win at Online Poker

Poker players don't have to go to Vegas or Atlantic City in order to find a game any more. In today's connected world, a poker game is only a computer away. But how to win at online poker is more interesting than only playing.

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Winning at Online Poker

  1. Practice and play for free while you learn the various games of poker before ever attempting to play for actual cash.
  2. Read as many books or magazines about the game as possible, to learn the ins and outs of the game. Learn the tricks, how to bluff, when to hold and when to fold!
  3. Register for one of the free online poker sites/rooms. Check the Internet for the better ones. You can learn by playing with the bots, and then move on to play with other beginners. Remain with the beginners until you learn the basics. When you feel comfortable move on to the more advanced players.
  4. Make notes as you learn, writing down the basic hands, the higher paying hands, and the starting hands (good hold cards). Write down everything you learn while playing the bots, and then the real people. Ask them questions by chatting with them, as the game progresses. The Internet site has a chat space by your seat.
  5. Keep practicing until you feel sure that you can play with money and win! Sign up for the online paying games, and the tournaments. Everything is there for you, without you ever leaving your house.



Tips

  • Beat the machine first. Practice with poker-training software.
  • There are numerous books about poker written by some very well known poker players (eg. Phil Hellmuth or Doyle Brunson). The top poker magazine in the U.S. is Card Player. In Canada the best magazine about poker is Canadian Poker Player.
  • Get a RakeBack deal before signing up at the poker site. This will ensure additional free money is credited to your account just for playing.
  • Play sit-n-go poker tournaments to build your experience at final table play.
  • Get your timing down.
  • "Play within your bankroll". When you play higher limits with a great chance of losing all of your poker money quickly, you would be playing "out of your bankroll." If you don't have enough to bankroll "300" buy-ins for Limit Hold'em games/tournaments, then you are out of your bankroll.[1]. Notice that means you would risk less than 1/2% of you available money; so, playing remains a game not an act of desperation. Don't go for broke. Work up to where you can afford your ventures.
    • Variance in poker means runs of bad results or good results in betting. A player who bets a lot (a high percent) of pots will be playing loose (playing more weak hands), and so he will face more variance than a tight player who plays a low percentage of hands (i.e.: usually bets pretty good hands).[1]
  • Playing really-tight might be like usually only playing when you have pairs, from 6s up to As, and play ace-high hands AK down to AJ, and you bet only within those limits, otherwise you fold[2] But, of course, that is saying nothing of when you might bluff, or how you "read tells" for when someone has a better hand than you or when s/he is bluffing you.
  • Try several online poker rooms/sites before you make a decision where to play. Only after a few games in each room, you can be able to choose the best poker room for you.

Warnings

  • Do not copy anything you see on TV or YouTube!
  • This does not mean that videos on youtube are not good or of no use. Every person has ones own strategy as well as the skill; so, watching videos on youtube or on TV, one can develop a nice judgment and know about different strategies and tactics.
  • Forget about and "never play" any No Limit (NL) Hold'em, unless you are a proven winner and have funds for 20 such buy-ins for games[1], and to lose that 1 out of 20. You must be able to build your bankroll back up, and so, have no fear whether you would win or lose the one NL game/tournament, and only if you were an experienced player with tough nerves, alert, awake, unimpressed...

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Basic Bankroll-management
  2. ↑ http://themoth.org/posts/stories/the-big-things-you-dont-do Page-down to list of cards that helped her get started, Annie Duke, on TheMoth.ORG "The Big Things You Don’t Do" (Winner: 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and National Heads-Up Poker Championship 2010)
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