Texas Hold Em Strategy For Picking The Best Poker Table To Play At

How To Make Sure You Enter A Good Game

Let's look at a good strategy for some online Texas hold 'em. First things first. How do you make sure you enter a good game? Spend some time watching who's playing and how. Look for a mid-sized game as it gives you more choice of who you can sit alongside.

Watch everyone play. Decide if they are superior to you. Note who's aggressive, who's playing tight, who semi-bluffed or bluffed, who's weak and who check-raised. Steer clear of games with plenty of early pre flop or post flop raises. Definitely keep away from games where an experienced player is mopping up no-hopers. When you think you've sussed a table that's about at your level, try to sit to the right of a tight player and if possible to the left of a loose player.

It's worth waiting for this situation if you can smoke it out. Think: right/tight, left/loose. The reason for this classic choice is that with the loose guy on your right, you're always pondering the hand after the call is made. Furthermore, it'll be easier to steal blinds from the tight player of your left. Try this today online and see how it pans out.

Finally, always remember the words of Doyle Brunson, "Poker is more art than science, and that's what makes it difficult to master. Knowing what to do (the science) is about ten per cent of the game. Knowing how to do it (the art) is the other ninety per cent. You not only have to know when to bet, when to raise, and when to fold, you have to be able to do all of those things with finesse."

Now none of us are Doyle Brunson and thankfully you're unlikely to come up against him online, but today's tips would certainly meet with his approval.

GETTING TIMED OUT
A lot of new online players ask about timing out. The timer system is needed in online poker because the action dependes on multiple remote players clicking the on-screen prompts within a reasonable time. Otherwise the game would grind to a halt. Most sites allow fifteen to twenty seconds once the action buttons display. Usually an interface shows the countdown to the player required to take action. If the player fails to react within the twenty seconds, he or she is timed out and their hand is automatically folded. This doesn't happen a lot but it's in everyones' interest for the sake of the game's enjoyment that things proceed at a viable pace.

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