Mar 05 2008
Online Poker Tricks To Extracting Chips
Internet poker can be an emotional experience. Given enough time, everyone receives their share of monster starting hands. You must be disciplined to wait. It’s sad how many weak players finally get a good starting hand and blow it. Look at pocket kings in a NL holdem game. Kings are one of the best starting hands you can receive.
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.
Awhile later you get pocket kings again. You are excited and you push all in. Because of your play, you now get a caller. People don’t believe you. To your shock you get two callers. Your adversaries have AQ suited and pocket tens. You are ahead in the hand and you anxiously await the flop.
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 hacked”, you verbalize to yourself. Well, maybe, maybe not. Your dubious has crippled you in this game. The problem is the way you played your hand. You could have raised five times the blind and if the flop looked non-threatening, you could have pushed the rest of your chips post flop. Regardless if you get called post flop, you at least had an opportunity to look at three cards without risking your entire stack.
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?
Don’t get me wrong, KK is a great hand and has good odds of winning. But, there is no guarantee. It is your responsibility to clear the filed a little and get a lot of drawing hands out the way, but it’s also your responsibility to know your players calling limits and pushing limits.
When an ace hit the flop and two other people are still in the hand, it should be a concern that at least one player has an ace. When you see those monkies going crazy with their post flop bets, it allows you the chance to lay down your monster and retain your chips.
Computer software has analyzed millions of online poker hands and their outcomes. The results show very clearly that the outcomes fit within random expected outcomes. The outcomes were so close, that you would think online poker is randomly, unrandom.
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.
