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Timing Is Everything With Online Poker |
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Robert Eagle |
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Timing Is Everything With Online Poker
Robert Eagle
Internet poker can be a grinding experience. You will get your share of good and bad hands just like everyone else. You must exercise patience. So many beginners play great starting hands poorly. Take pocket kings for instance in a no limit holdem game. This is one of the best starting hands you can get in the game.
You raise the blinds up four times and one person calls you. The flop comes and a king hits the board. You bet five blinds again and you are not called. Twenty hands later you get pocket rockets and you go all in. Nobody calls and you win the blinds. Big deal.
Hours later, and you get KK again. You are a little over zealous and you push all in. this time you get two callers. Your opponents aren't scared of you. To your excitement, 2 people call you. You are up against AQ suited and TT. You have the best hand pre-flop and you wait to see what happens.
The flop comes and it's TAQ. You went from best hand to worse just like that. You are not happy. The turn and river draw blanks for you. Now, instead of being up a few dollars, your bankroll has just taken a sever hit and you are down a lot.
"Online poker is a scam", you mumble to yourself. Well not entirely. Your questionable play is what got you into this mess. You played your first two monster with medium aggression. You played your third hand extremely hard and you got two "suckers" to call you. This was a mistake on your part because of math.
You really didn't get paid off on your first two hands. On you third hand, you pushed all in and the reason you got two callers is because they really didn't buy it. Regardless that you didn't have the best position in your third hand with KK, you really should have seen a flop. Why risk more than 10 times the blind on your third hand?
KK is a great hand and has good odds of winning. The problem is that it's not guaranteed. If you would have made a bet of at least three times the blind to clear the field a little, you could have at least positioned yourself to see the flop and have a low pot commitment to get out of the hand if you needed to.
The nice thing about seeing a flop before committing all of your chips is to see if an Ace hits. Many weaker players play any ace online, and it's the worst thing pocket kings can run into. If that ace does hit with two other players, it's usually fold time baby.
Experts have analyzed the outcomes of millions of hands dealt out on internet poker. The stats do not differ from those of random results. This is an important factor. I believe that online poker is so fair, that it is predictable.
If you have a 1 in3 chance of making your hand, it's best to usually not chase unless you have a lot of callers in the pot to justify the odds. If you have had several hands miss in the past, the odds are in your favor to hit, and a semi-bluff is usually the best play. Keep practicing and you can and will only get better.
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Article Source: http://www.statssheet.com/articles/article71002.html |
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