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 Poker strategy for playing Texas Holdem online on the internet.

Online Poker Strategy

The simple truth about online poker today is that the players winning the most money are not necessarily the most skilled - they are using an odds calculator to make better, quicker decisions and steal your pots.

Regardless of how skilled YOU are, the best online poker tip to stay one step ahead of the competition and win the most money, you don't need just an odds calculator - you need an advanced automated poker odds calculator.

Personally I've tried several poker odds calculators and haven't like any as well as Calculatem Pro.  What I like most about Calculatem Pro is how easily it integrates in with your game, unlike most that are a separate program that you have to manually enter the information in, Calculatem Pro attaches to your game and automatically gives you the information which is the ideal best online poker strategy.  This includes your starting hand percentage, how many outs you have, what your chance of winning the hand is, the pot odds, and even figures up all of the factors and advises you on what move you should make hand by hand all automatically.  You are even able to adjust the level of play meaning you can set it to play more tight or more loose.

Now obviously even the best calculator won't guarantee a win but it will help you win more games over all, and most importantly it will help prevent you from losing as much as you normally would without it.

While hand odds can help you keep up with your opponents, Pot Odds are CRITICAL to consider if you want to win more money and truly take your game to a higher level than your opponents...yet most odds calculators don't provide pot odds because of their complexity.

Calculatem Pro provides both hand AND pot odds and considers both when formulating advice, so you don't make isolated - and costly- plays based on hand odds alone!

The online poker strategy I have adopted personally for online poker tournaments and sit n goes is to not play anything under an 85% or 90% starting hand, now when I do play I am confident enough to play aggressive before the flop.  Once you see the flop play the hands by the calculator and I guarantee 7 times out of 10 you will place in the money using this tight aggressive strategy.  Now when you come down to only a few people left at the table you can adjust your game to a little more loose playing 75% starting hands with 3 people and 65% starting hands in heads-up.

You will also begin to notice once you start using this online poker strategy that people will begin to respect your bets more and folding more readily since they will see that when you bet you are betting a good hand.  This will give you the ability to take more pots before the other players are able to draw out on you, and giving you a better chance to steal a pot in the rare situations where you need to bluff a pot.  Remember the objective in tournaments isn't to necessarily be first but to place in the money.  This means lots and lots of folding and only playing the hands where you have the best chance of winning, then playing them aggressively.

Here again let me stress the fact that you will not win every hand or place in every tournament, but you will consistently place in more tournaments than you lose, here again you should be placing in about 7 of every 10 games you play.

Another piece of advice I would give is to try and find the fish, the people that play reckless and foolishly.  It should go without saying that you will find more fish in the $1 - $5 sit n go poker games than you will in the $20 and up games.  One of the best places to start out is in the $1 9 player sit n go's, these should last under 15 minutes and you should hardly ever not place in these if you are using the online poker tips I gave above using the Calculatem Pro calculator.  Of course you will still have bad beats and people will still draw out on you but this strategy will take these to a minimum and allow you to play a tighter more aggressive game.

One advantage to playing online poker is that you can observe tables, if you are a cash game player then one of the most important things you should be doing is observing tables before you sit down in order to find the fish.  You should be looking for tables with players who generally see a flop 50-75% of the time.  These are the chasers and hopers, the fish that will play a hand to the end.  They pay dearly to see the flop on the hopes that they will hit, but if they don't hit they are likely to feel like they are pot committed and end up playing the hand to the end, often in disaster if they're playing against someone like you who is playing a 90% beginning hand.

One of the best things about playing in a cash game is that you don't have to worry about getting blinded out like in a tournament style game.  You can fold and fold and fold and never have to worry about losing too much money in the blinds, this gives you an opportune environment to only play good starting hands and to wait for the fish to make a mistake.

Calculatem Pro does come at a cost of $69 but in my opinion is invaluable for anyone that is serious about playing poker online.  You can get the program for free but you have to jump through hoops of setting up a new account with Absolute Poker and deposit so much and earn so many points before you get your license key.  For me it was just easier to buy it for the $69.

You need any edge you can get and you can almost be sure that at least some of the players your sitting across from are using a calculator in their own online poker strategy.  For me it only took a few games to make my money back that I spent on it and then some, at the risk of sounding like a advertisement for the program I would honestly say that I would not play an online poker game without it.  And what's more after I'd played with the calculator for a while I noticed my live game starting to improve and remembering the percentages of the starting hands and odds of winning in different situations.  I have to admit that I was a little bit surprised by this aspect of using the program.

I hope this online poker tips helps with your online poker game and takes you into the pay window more often.  As always be careful out there and know when a bad day is just a bad day, never be to "good" to just stand up and walk away when things just aren't working your way.

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