Online Poker Strategy - Cards

When Playing Online Poker, the cards can seem cruel at times, but this is all part of the game. Nobody can predict exactly what cards will come, just what will happen over time given certain situations over time. For example of we hold two spades as hold cards, and the flop is two spades, and a club, we know that we will land a flush around 32 percent of the time by the river.  Basically 1/3 or of the time or 1/5 per card. So when drawing with these hands we need to determine pot odds to decide whether or not its worth the draw.

People who play very little poker, or players who maybe play a lot of online poker and just refuse to look at the obvious strategies pertaining to cards, will always blame luck, or bad rivers or whatever and refuse to look at the odds. Profiting Poker players know that this is an over time game, and winning will depend on not only their play, but how poorly their opponents play. This is why a big online poker card strategy is to select the right tables!! Once on the loosest tables, just sit back, play quality hands, play them aggressively when hit, and let the amateurs make all the errors. Do not get impatient !! Every time a player makes an error this is a good thing, even if your not in the pot!!

A big online poker strategy that I can offer you is this. The three biggest card draws you can have are a Full house draw (holding a pair) , a flush draw, and an open ended straight draw. They hold almost the exact same odds for hitting !! 1/5 per card, or 1/3 from flop to river, so if someone is betting on the flop and you don’t know if its ok to draw or not , relate there bet to the odds you have and do some very easy math.

Lets say your hold cards are [Ah 10h] and flop of [2h 3h 6c].

Your stack $100

opponents stack$100

amount in pot $6

Opponent bets $6 dollars and its your turn to act. This is good call because we will land our heart 1/5 times. So our math is 5x (bet amount) of $6 dollars witch = $30 . Basically this means that in order to make this call good over time we need to make 30 dollars total just to break even . seen as how he bets $6 dollars, and the pot is already $6, (=12 total) we need to make another 18 dollars from him if we hit (He has $100 so we are gravy) We also have the Ace/10 over cards that might give us the best hand but we wont consider that for this example. If the turn comes our beloved heart, almost NEVER slow play this hand. Bet big because we do not want him to draw to a bigger hand for free. If you miss just check and let him bet again , and do your math over, taking into account the pot size, the 1/5 chance to hit, and the implied odds on his stack. Just be careful of going to deep on implied odds on the turn, because its tougher to get a big bet out of flushed board on the river. If the player bets out on the turn I usually fold unless I find myself against a real fish who pays off flushes consistently.

I hope this online poker strategy helps you with your card game !! Good Luck on the tables !!

TY-Fish