In my previous article "Tournament poker or live poker?", I analyzed the changed situation in recent years especially with regards to tournaments, and the effects that these changes could or should have on "old-school" brick and mortar cash game players.
I fell about the place laughing when Poker News' Tony G asked me to write a strategy piece about on-line poker and to highlight the differences between it and the traditional face-to-face game.
When I started playing poker for a living a bit more than seven years ago, the games were played either in brick and mortar cardrooms, or in small (sometimes illegal) cardrooms. Nowadays, the majority of the games is played online.
When you've learnt the ropes at Limit Holdem and feel like a 'seat of the pants' ride its time to move onto No Limit Holdem and experience the thrill of the game everyone's talking about and watching on TV.
Now we've gone through the various possibilities open to you as an online poker player, its time to get into some basic strategies so you can think about how to make playing profitable, as well as having fun doing it.
If you've been paying attention you should therefore know by now that there is almost no such thing as No Limit Omaha but that No Limit Holdem is 'in' in a big way. In this concluding part, we'll move on from the various types of games and betting structu
People who play on more than one table at the same time (in other words, multitablers) will sometimes get over 100 hands an hour, as opposed to only 30 or 35 in a regular cardroom. So, it would seem that good players who multitable should be able to make
Online poker required a very different strategy from cardroom poker. Learn the differences from top teacher Rolf "Ace" Slotboom.
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