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Change it up!

jen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:22:39 +0000

Changing up your game at the table helps in disguising how you play, and therefore, doesnt allow your opponents to get a good read on your poker game.

Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book

jen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:41:50 +0000

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.

Keep your bets the same

jen — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:37:34 +0000

When playing online poker, especially texas holdem, today’s game consists of a lot of students of the game. Players are no longer weak in the majority – so they are paying attention to how you play. A common peice of advice is to change up your bets often to keep your hand concealed. With the hundreds of hands you will be playing in a session, I believe that it is really hard to keep track of every hand you play and ensure that you are changing up your bets enough to keep them concealed.

Instead of following this change structure in Online Poker, do the opposite and keep all of your bets the same. If you are raising preflop, choose how much you want to raise (3x BB is my favourite) and continue to do that throughout your whole session, whether your hand is AA or 56 suited. If you are reraising preflop, reraise again the same amount every time (2x the original raise is what I suggest) whether you are doing so with AK or 22.

Dont give your opponents the opportunity to find a glitch in your poker game.

Tighten Up!

jen — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:46:27 +0000

“The biggest mistake weak players make is playing too many hands” – Avery Cardoza, How to Play Winning Poker

At a Full Table Ring Game, on average there are 1 to 2 great hands being dealt per round. If you were to play every hand, this would mean that 8/10 times, you are going to be competing against the better deal. You do not want to spend the majority of your poker game at a disadvantage – so tighten up your game!

Chips not Cash

jen — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:42:12 +0000

In online poker, its much easier to do this than it is in a live poker game, but you should definitely think this way in both circumstances. Once you have chips in your hand, no longer view the chips as money. They are just chips. Clay chips that you can use as your force. If you remove the idea of cash behind the chips – you will be able to focus more on playing the game then on winning money and then you will find yourself winning more money than you thought possible!

Don’t follow your mistakes

jen — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:28:46 +0000

Just because you have made a mistake in your poker game, doesnt mean you need to continue it! If you call a bet that you really shouldnt – do not make excuses to call again. If you make a bet that you shouldnt have, do not make a continuation bet just because you started betting in the first place.

Resist Impulse Decisions

jen — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:27:24 +0000

You open up your cards and see that you have pocket aces. Its a definite instinct to grab your chips and go. Just like in live poker, your online poker game is being observed by your opponents. Take time in your decisions, do not make any impulse acts. Leave your opponents wondering what you are going to do next.

Mistakes are good

jen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:30:45 +0000

“If defeat has more to teach us than victory, then perhaps a defeat is a victory unto itself?” – Miron Stabinsky

If you can take your past lessons/mistakes and use them as a tool towards your future games, then you are making your losses a win in itself. As stated before: poker is a game for the long run. You are given so many tools (especially in Online Poker) to learn from your mistakes, and you have the ability to take these mistakes into profit.

Review your mistakes, and see what you could have done better or how you could have taken action differently. Incorporate your mistakes into your strategy.

Knowing the basics is not enough!

jen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:20:12 +0000

Knowing the basics of online poker is not enough. Study the game, study your hands, study other players hands, read poker books, analyse different scenerios, identify your faults, watch poker on TV….do everything you can to ensure taht your knowledge of the game is continuously improving. Poker is not a game of now, poker is a game of the long run and of change. If you do not study, you will not have the ability to keep up with the game.

Not everything has to be now…

jen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:12:40 +0000

Poker is not a game about Right Now, even though the ability to win right now is a possibility. The biggest trap in Online Poker would have to be the chance to have immidiate profit at the instant that you want to play.

The reality is, your impatience to win Now can be a hinderance to your game. Desperation isnt the way to play poker. Poker is a game of patience and a game of time, so keep in your head that your wins will come over time, and they will.