Playing
Winning Online Poker
In
the past several years, poker has experienced a surge
in popularity. The World
Series of Poker is televised every year, and people
all over the country watch poker players in this live
tournament win millions of dollars.
Some
of these people in this tournament have won their seats
playing poker online. There are many different kinds
of poker games such as Omaha, and Seven Card Stud, but
Texas Hold'em is by far the most popular game played
online or live.
Free
Online poker has many benefits, such as being able
to play at any time of the day or night, in the comfort
of your own home. The other players cannot see you,
so you don't have to worry about any visual tells giving
away the strength or weakness of the hand being played.
The blinds and ante's are posted for you, so you don't
have to keep up with that, it is automatically deducted
from your chip stack when it is your turn to post them.
In an online poker tournament, there will often be a
large number of players enrolled, but you will play
at a table with 10 players.
As
players bust the computer will automatically move you
from table to table until you reach the final table.
Close to the final table, however, there will frequently
be less than 10 players seated with you. Players tend
to play much more aggressively online than in live play,
however, this may work to your advantage if you are
a patient poker player.
There
are many online
poker schools that will, teach you the basics of
the game. These can be helpful in teaching strategy
and which cards to play. However, there are many online
poker sites that offer very low limit games, and daily
freerolls. This allows the poker player to learn to
play at a very low cost, or no cost at all. Usually,
in an online tournament, you will be given 1500 chips
to start with.
If
you are playing a $1-$2 no limit tournament, that means
the big blind will cost $2 and the small blind will
cost $1. No limit means that you can go all-in for all
your chips at any given time in the tournament.
There
are some tournaments that are fixed limit, meaning that
the bet can only be raised to a certain limit. Poker
is a game of skill, with an element of luck involved,
it takes time and patience to learn to be a winning
player.