Well, you find a poker site and make a deposit and you're now ready to play some poker! As the dreams of being the next world series of poker champion races through your mind, there's a few things you should know about playing on-line poker first.
The first thing to know and completely understand is that all computer poker sites have a auto shuffle system and all hands are computer generated. This isn't saying that there is something wrong with this because there's really no other way for it to work. The secret here is knowing that that is what you're playing against.
The computer with generate and shuffle cards to all players seated but understand that the round you are playing was generated to create activity. Think about this for a minute. The hands dealt aren't as random as some pretend them to be. There's no cheating involved in this system and no one is trying to trick you but the hands are dealt to create activity. You may get dealt pocket Kings and feel pretty good about yourself only to lose to someone who was dealt pocket Aces.
On the flip side of that, you may be dealt pocket Aces and lose to a caller who was dealt 67 suited. These are activity hands. What can we as players do to prevent most of those issues and how can we avoid losing our bankroll?
If you're going to last in the game of on-line poker you need to become a student of the game. You have to know for a fact that you're not only playing against a person but a computer too. Once you're aware of this you can now effectively start to do something about it.
In poker, live or on-line, you'll hear bad beat stories. There are millions of these stories but what's no being told is that most of them could have been prevented because the receiver of the bad beat misplayed his or her cards and allowed the bad beat to happen. Been there and done this many a time myself.
I've slow played a monster starting hand right into a losing hand more times than I want to tell you. Why do we do this? It's really an easy answer. We sit at a table for hours at a time looking at 2-7 off suit type cards and fold 95 % of our hands pre-flop. Then the monster hand gets dealt and we want to make up for lost time and slow play them into a monster pot. Sometimes that works but most of the time you'll play yourself into a losing hand. We need to be a student of the game.
Well, that's all for now but more will follow in a day or so. Play to win until then.
