Poker 101: Feel of the chips…or mouse

February 8, 2010

Online Poker has brought with it a new and interesting approach to the game of poker. Whilst these new differences do not involve the strategy of playing the games themselves, they do involve something previously unseen in casinos and cardrooms. Players who might usually play on a table where they have a slight edge in skill over the opposition, know that the time constraints on how many hands you play in a live game, do not have to apply in online play.

All you have to do as a poker player with an edge in skill, is play many tables at once online. This ensures that as luck evens out over the tables, your skill results in an overall profit, which should be more expansive with more tables being played simultaneously.

This is all very good theoretically, and there are many players in the world who put this theory into practice with a great deal of success too. The problem with this type of play is that skipping between so many tables means you cannot concentrate on the finer points of the play going on at each table. You will not for instance have seen the player bluffing constantly, or that the player who just raised you hasn’t played a hand in the past thirty five minutes.

This means that some poker players will lose what edge they may have had in the first place because they are not giving their full attention to any of the games they are playing. Despite this, if you play solid poker and are sensible and straightforward about your choices, you can still find a profit margin there.

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