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Poker Strategy - Life of a ProPreparationThis is an often overlooked side to online poker, the sheer speed at which you can actually play. Whenever you play in a bricks and mortar card room, there is always a time delay between the moment you intend to play and the time that you are actually being physically dealt the first hand. This time delay can be several hours and it helps you to mentally prepare for the session ahead. It is different though online as you can literally jump out of bed and be playing poker within a couple of minutes tops. I finally log on and I am now into the sites poker lobby. I look for my bread and butter game which is limit hold'em and I see three tables going at my usual $30-$60 level. I now bring up the files from my documents on the players that I have taken notes on from previous games and then miniaturise it on the screen. A quick check of my notes revealed that I did not actually have any information on anyone who was active at this time although I had not been playing on this site for all that long. I selected a game to watch, one of the tables had a better flop percentage and average pot size than the other two so I decided on that one. I like to watch the game that I am about to be playing in for about fifteen minutes or so because you can "feel" the players out in that length of time. The game looked relatively standard, there was one player who was raising more than the norm but the rest of them seemed average to me. I have often been asked why I do not use software like "Poker Tracker" or something similar to assist me when playing. I have several reasons for this but the main ones are that software of this type is actually not allowed on some of the sites that I have played but the most important reason for me is that I want to be in control of what information I take. Articles Within This Category |
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