Playing Straight Online
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Playing Straight Online By B. Butler Watching poker on TV makes it look a lot of the time like there’s so many wild moves you need to have up your sleeve. Restealing, bluffing, explicit knowledge of your poker opponents gestures, table images, and so on, all add into a rather complex system of information being passed around at all times. Online, though, we see a lot less coming at us. The bodies are not there, and in their place 2D icons meant to represent or misrepresent the player. Because the amount of information we are aware of is so limited, the range of moves that we can make and exhibit misleading information about is also constrained. For this reason a lot of the time the most successful style of playing online poker is playing straight ahead, no gimmicks, solid poker at Everest Poker Telecharger. Though betting in the right spot to steal here and there clearly helps, more often we are dealing with numbers and positions than the more intuitive kind of info that comes with live play. Subtlety is often lost on the guy who can only see that you are an ATM icon with the screenname RaisingYourwith7-2Offsuit. Sticking to the middle with some small variations and playing good solid poker will win you money online in the long run.