It is a fact, donks get lucky at online poker and good players use to complain about their bad luck against donks. Everything in this life has an explanation and the donk’s luck is not an exception.
Donks get lucky because they rely on luck to play poker. If a donk doesn’t play according to the pot odds and just bets randomly according to what his guts tell him, sometimes he will get lucky. Being lucky is a matter of depending on luck to win money, but if you try to be lucky you will lose money on the long run.
Good online poker players complain at their luck, but being unlucky is a good sign, it means you are not [...] Continue Reading…
If you like poker you should be playing online poker instead of the old fashioned brick and mortar poker. Playing online has a lot of advantages versus playing offline and here we list 10 of them.
1)Comfort: Playing from home is much better than having to go to a place to play poker. You haven’t got to dress and you can play poker in your favorite underwear while sitting at your favorite seat. This is priceless.
2)Availability: Online poker sites are open 24/7 and have no restriction of time. If you go to a land based casino you have to go to set hours to be able to play or maybe you go and the table is full, so you have [...] Continue Reading…
Playing online poker tournaments is an art and takes years to master the perfect strategy, but there are some strategies which are basic for every player and everybody should know before starting and one of them is the power of the blinds.
The blinds are where it all starts. All the action in the table starts with a struggle for the blinds. First, we are going to make a theoretical calculation to explain the value of the blinds when you are playing an online tournament. Let’s assume the blinds are 0, this is no blinds, then it will be stupid to play unless you got the best hand possible (AA), why to bother with lesser hands if you can just [...] Continue Reading…
Okay, clicking on buttons is really easy, but the question is to click the right button for each situation. Most players always make the same mistakes and pay money for them. The above is a guide of the usually mistaken buttons.
To check when you should bet: Most part of the times, checking is a mistake in Hold’em poker but the situation where you hold KK and an Ace hits the flop is a classic one. Most people there use to check when they should bet. Only if your opponent had an ace you will be behind, but maybe he has not. If you check he is likely to bet and you must fold then. If you bet and he [...] Continue Reading…
