Some great online poker secrets on your opponents:

Put your opponent on hands
Look for betting patterns
Remember showdown hands and positions
Figure out what mood your opponents are in (if they are speaking)

These are all good things to think about while playing online poker

I am going to spend the next group of posts, talking about Phil Gordon and his Little Green Book, which I believe to be one of the greatest Beginner/Novice poker books available on the shelves.  Not only is it an easy read, but it gives poker players the basic tools to move forward in their poker game and learn how to be a Winning Poker Player.

“Winning poker is not about winning money.  Nor is it about reading tells or being the best bluffer.  It’s not about winning the most pots.  Winning poker is about making the correct decisions” – Phil Gordon

With that being said, you have made a great decision by visiting Online Poker Secrets, as we are here to provide you with the best possibile Poker Secrets we can, and hopefully they will help in improving your game.

Pride means the end of wisdom – Japanese Proverb

One of the best online poker secrets I could give is: DO NOT let your ego ruin your game! 

Overconfidence is one of the biggest errors in Online Poker.  Humility will help you through the long haul of the game.  Just as lightening will strike more than once, you will go through the swings of poker, which means you will go through winning hands and sessions.  Ego will not help you through these situations and will only assist in you losing more than you need to.

“There is interaction if there is a call for it, no interaction if there is no call for it” – Zen master Yangshan

The reality in poker is, there is no unwritten rule that just because you have been dealt 100 terrible hands, doesnt mean that you should play second rate cards because you are “due to win”!  Patience will be tested, but you will not be rewarded for your patience until you begin to receive the hands you should be playing. 

Online Poker Secrets suggests that if you have been folding a lot, and your hands still arent improving: KEEP FOLDING!

While the luxury of cash game poker is that you can make a questionable call, or an instincts call, and if you get stacked, you can reload; you dont want to take advantage of this perk. 

One of the best online poker secrets I can give you is, if you have lost 2 full buy-ins in one session, leave that table!  Sure, you have lost 2 buy-ins and that completely sucks; but by this time, either the cards are just not running well for you, you cant beat the fish, or you are going to go on tilt! 

Either take a break, or find a poker table with a different dynamic so that you can take advantage and win the money back without letting emotions get to you.