Online Poker Strategy - Playing Poker Online

You will need an online Poker strategy before you start playing in an online Poker room. Playing poker online is different than playing poker in a land based casino, but how it differs also sets it apart from other casino games. Online slot machines, dice or roulette are basically the same as real ones. Besides the difference of shuffling every hand, online blackjack is also similar to real world play.

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But poker is a communal game. Simply put, you need other people to play poker. Poker is a game of people, much more so than merely a card game. So, the differences and limitations of how human beings are able to interact in cyberspace transform the game. Some skills that are moderately important in a casino are critical online. For example, tracking opponent's betting patterns can reveal information about how a player plays poker. In a casino this is of limited value if only because players have literally hundreds of ways to do the simple task of setting bets into a pot -- a variety of speeds, hand motions, table chatter and other physical "tells" will much of the time reveal simply too much information for it to be very valuable. But online, betting is simplified. The speed of betting and when a player bets (whether they commonly bet draws, bluff or not, value bet marginal hands, and so on) create a limited amount of options to track. Since most players are very predictable, discovering the truth behind opponent's habits will increase your edge against those players -- and poker is all about exploiting edges.



Of course there is a trade-off here too. In a casino you can see your opponents. Sometimes they do an action that literally screams out the value of the hand they hold. Sometimes it is just blatantly obvious that an opponent is bluffing (or not). Many of these super-obvious moments disappear online.

Generally a winning casino poker player will be a winning online poker player, but some winning casino players do become losers at online poker because they simply don't adapt to their environment. They don't have all their familiar tools at their disposal. The first day I played poker online I thought it was like a golfer who normally shot a round of golf using a standard bag of clubs having to go out and play a round using only three clubs. What I soon realized though was that I did in fact have a full bag of clubs -- it's just that most of the clubs are DIFFERENT ones than I use when I play casino poker. Winning online poker is the result of making the effort to learn how to use those clubs. Make sure that your poker strategy is sound before you start playing poker online.

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This article was given to us courtesy of Gambling Online Magazine.

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by Bones McCoy at offshorepokerroom.com on February 12, 2006


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