Most online poker sites now have the programming to show you what the average chip stack is, but if they dont, you can use this easy calculation:

Average = Total number of chips in play, Divided By, Number of players remaining

While this shouldnt affect your game completely, it does help you in understanding how fast or aggressively you should play and more importantly, how fast your opponents are likely to play.

Poker is a game of constant education.  Once you stop educating, you start to lose your edge.  There are so many brilliant online poker players out there for you to learn from and there are many resources out there for you to gain their knowledge.

If you arrive in a game, online OR offline, and you are over-eager to play poker - this is generally going to affect the way you play.  You want to get into the game, and you want to start playing – but if your hands are not good, you may find yourself wanting to play them just to get into the game.  If your hands are ok, you may find yourself over playing them.  And if your hands are great, you may find yourself not getting the value you need out of your hands!

A great online poker secret would have to be, play when you are calm, relaxed, in a zone, and ready to focus.

An important note about playing poker tournaments:  Know the structure before you play!

This is important because, any changes in the structure can affect your overall play.  If the structure is regular for the first 2 hours, and then afterwards, speeds up a bit – you will have to make a change in your game.  If you arent aware of this before you begin the poker tournament, you may find yourself struggling to catch up and then you are not playing your A game.

Learning to let go is a pivital part of growth in online poker.  Steaming and Tilting are only going to make you suffer.  Its best if you can learn this as early as possible in the game, so that you dont have to break a bad habit. 

If you lose a hand, dont write into chat FFS and What a terrible beat and Of course you would win, donkey! 

Let it go.  Just let it go.  Expect the worst so that when the worst occurs, you are not blown away.