PokerGuy’s Online Poker Blog

Todays world is a world of conveniences, where everything is available right at your doorstep. All you need to do is lift a telephone and the world is at your feet. This convenience is not just limited to products and services but to knowledge as well. With availability of Internet as a resource pool, you can educate yourself about everything. I have been able to get a degree through online learning. The Internet is also a source of entertainment and provides shows, music and even card games for its users.

Poker is a card game that is very popular all over the world. The stakes are high and therefore it attracts many people. I am a huge fan and love to play it for the thrill and the money. The Internet now provides you to be a part of this game without the need to be at the actual site. The latest craze is the online poker wherein the fee is much less yet the stakes very high.

Since you do not actually see the other players and judge their cards by their reaction you play a foolproof game. The player with the better skill wins. The only caution I would like to give is to be sure that the site you play at is legitimate and has good security systems so all the information you give them is confidential. I wish you all the best in your first online game.

I believe poker is a game that revolves around the betting. With poker cards you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them. Reading is the key to playing the game well. However, no matter how much you bluff, a winning hand will always be a winning hand, and can be your doorway to a lot of money, especially in online rooms.

To capitalize on your winning hand you must know the top ten hands of poker. Let me give you a brief insight into these. The Royal flush is the highest of these is when you have the ace, king, queen, jack, and the ten of the same suite. Next in line is the Straight flush where the winner has a hand of successive cards of the same suite. Unlike the Royal flush, the cards here are of small values.

Moving on, the Four of a Kind is the next winning hand in poker. Here the player has to have four cards of the same value from all four suites. Therefore, if you have the eight of every color, you have got yourself a Four of a Kind hand. Another, rather popular winning hand is the Full House. If you have a set three cards of the same value and two cards of another value of the four suites you have a Full House. The other winning hands in decreasing order of priority are the Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, High Pair, and the Low Pair. The Flush happens when you have five cards that belong to the same suite in any random order. Similarly, a Straight is the reverse of a Flush. The other hands are either value or suite combination much like the ones described earlier.

Therefore, if you can recognize your hand you can place a bet with lan. Now, since the advent of online casinos, you can play several hands and actually see several winning combinations in a shorter period.

Poker strategy involves complex mathematical logic. Unreliable information, risk management and deception are some of the factors that turn poker into a game of probability. Poker strategy actually demands intelligent guesswork from the players, as one does not know the cards of the opponents.

At poker, you should use pot odds in deciding your next moves once you hit the flop. In such a situation, either you will win or you would want cards to improve your hand. The good poker strategy would be to bet and raise when you have a made hand.

When you do not have a made hand, you draw. A good poker strategy enables you decide whether to call or fold using the ‘pot odds’. You must first find out the number of cards that will make your hand the best hand. These cards are called outs.

In poker strategy, you only need to take the number of outs times 2 and then add 2 to work out the percentage of hitting an out. To find out the maximum bet you can call, you need to increase the chance of hitting a draw by the pot plus the bet.

An effective poker strategy would include a few things that you need to take care of while at the game. Some of them are-

1. You should always study your opponents. More so, when you are not playing hands and can be attentive.
2. You should play high pairs and your strong hands before the flop. By this, you will eliminate weak and garbage hands that may trouble you later.
3. When it comes to a straight, you should not draw to its low-end or both ends.
4. Usually, the unconnected medium and low cards including the suited cards that cannot flop a straight and are unplayable
5. You should be cautious while playing the starting low pairs.
6. When you have a two-way draw after the flop, you should get aggressive.
7. After a garbage flop, bet an Ace or two high over cards. If someone raises, fold it.
8. You can turn uniform flops into straights to overtake your high pair or other good hand.
9. You should be aware of suited flops that can form a completed flush.
10. By caught bluffing occasionally, you can make your moves hard to predict.