Poker Tips

An interesting thing to look out for in online poker websites has been raised this week. In an article about reading tells in online poker games the author recommends looking for tips and even courses in the online poker website regarding picking up and reading ‘online tells’. Whilst basically a sound idea, you need to be wary to some extent of what you’re being told or advised by the poker website, as obviously the website won’t want to give you the whole picture all at once. Also, you really need to progress along your own learning curve of the game – which you need to build up through experience with the more online poker games you play.

Thoughts on online poker bots.

I'm not too sure I'd want to play poker against this poker robot!

Of course the whole idea of looking for tells online falls down if you’re playing against an internet poker bot. Playing poker online you’re only going to see an identity – not another person as if you were at a bricks and mortar casino or poker table. Subsequently you might not even realize that you’re playing against a robot. These bots will be able to compute all the probabilities and big pot chances so that they always know when to fold and when to call – way ahead of the river, which they’ll wait for to make a real killing if it’s in their interests to.

To win – make yourself the internet robot of poker.

So, unless you’re sitting at an online poker table that you know is populated with real people – you must think like a poker robot and become the internet robot of online poker. Which means that, like any robot performing any function, you must detach yourself from the game emotionally.  Be prepared to accept that up to 70% of the time the cards won’t fall your way, if you instinctively feel you’ve got a poor hand, chances are you have and it is a false hope to expect it to improve.