Online poker secrets
- February 7th, 2010
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The greatest secrets of online poker
From all the advice which I received in the three last years on how to play poker online, only one is detached from the others – to be patient. Patience is what will build or destroy the players on Internet and which will enable them to earn money.
It is usual to meet, occasionally, and have poor hands during weeks and a good player will learn how to surmount this bad luck. A general rule of poker says that to play above a certain limit will very quickly lead you to bankruptcy, but to be impatient will ruin you still even more quickly.
The professional players of poker are extremely patient. Watch any of the greats and you will notice that they all take their time.
You will never find an impatient professional poker player because poker is a game which only pays in the long run. There is just sufficient chance in poker to make a small fry return, but the best players know that the play comprises more ups and downs than the Stock Exchang Market and that the most lucrative plan consists of remaining serious and playing regularly.
I intended to say that it is necessary to count 1,400 hours of play before starting to collect the benefits (good wins). Although I do not think that it is completely true, I believe that it is necessary to consider and reflect on poker month after month. If you played correctly and regularly, each month should enable you to make a little more profit.
Sometimes, you will have a terrible period and will lose for one whole month. If you note that you lose month after month, you should ask yourself if the problem is to do with patience.
There are two kinds of impatience:
1. Money Miser – places too much emphasis on hands without value
2. To play too much with hands that are good, but go all in too soon
Even if you play only the best hands, you can nevertheless be impatient. You could bet too much money on hands without much value. For example, let us say that you start again with Kings and that three players follow. An Ace leaves to failure but you miser nevertheless. You are made to start again and you know that you are beaten. The good players can lie down in this situation. The impatient players will not want to admit that their hand is beaten and they will continue to play as if they had the best possible hand.
Although you wish to play the good hands at bottom, you will want to never lose your money by being any more likely to gain. If you do not find anything interesting with failure with Have-King, do not lose hope.
You could also play too much with hands. The fact of fixing your screen of computer to play poker during eight hours can be tedious. This means that certain people can be tired, slacken their attention and play too much with their hands; therefore becomes easier to click on the follow button rather than to remain concentrated on the game.
The best advice I can give is to play for shorter amounts of time when you are most concentrated and to be as patient as possible.
