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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.
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.
If you would like to try out the Calculatem Pro you can download it by
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Online Poker Strategy
- Spencer L Fraise
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