3 Reasons Why Online Poker is Better
Category: Online Poker, Texas Hold'em - Posted on September 3rd, 2007
1. YOU CAN WATCH. If you walk into a bricks and mortar casino tomorrow and decide you would like to just watch a game of Texas Holdʹem to better understand how it’s played, security will soon hustle you out of the building. Poker is not a spectator sport at casinos. If you want
to learn the game ‐ you need to play. And playing when you’re a rookie (or as the pros call it – a ‘fish’) can be a very expensive learning experience.
On the other hand, online, you can watch a real game as long as you want, for no cost and for no risk. Watching a table can teach you a lot about the players and their betting style and the game in general. Watching players for ‘free’ is one of the great advantages of online poker. There is nothing wrong or unethical about keeping notes on other players. Some Online Poker rooms even provide a feature that allows you to take notes online while you play. This feature facilitates the building of a database around the playing styles of consistent players. Our advice is to record what kinds of hands they play, how quickly they react, and to record detail on betting and raising behavior.
2. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S IN THE POT? At a regular card game, you need to do some rough guessing at pot totals. (The other players rarely encourage you to go digging through the pot to come up with a tally). Online, the total is calculated for you to the penny. This makes calculations about how much to bet very accurate. Why is this important? You will learn later that one of the keys to winning is a system used by pros for decades called Pot Betting. The more accurate your knowledge of the pot, the better able you are to know exactly how much you
should be betting on a given hand. Online Poker is a Pot Betting dream come true. Sharpen up your math skills a bit, and you are on the road to making money.
3. YOU HAVE MORE TABLE AND BETTING CHOICES! Have you ever walked into a real casino looking for a seat at a card game? You may be lucky to find a few dozen. Which one is the best for your playing style? You won’t know until you sit down and play a number of hands. And if you don’t like your company at that table? You move to another table and try again. There are thousands of online casinos with dozens or hundreds of tables at each one fro you to choose from. You can pick from a wide‐range of betting options and from an infinite variety of different player combinations – combinations you will have observed before putting down your hard‐eared money. And you can do this in a matter of minutes right from your computer screen. Never have there been so many options for the poker player willing to learn. Remember, you are not just playing against the odds, you are playing against other players and in a mathematical sense, the table as a whole. This is the real key to winning. Look for a table with the greatest number of weaker players and you will have an automatic advantage.
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