Win at Online Poker

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Techniques For Winning At Online Poker

*** QUESTION FROM A READER ***

Roy,

Great article.

I had one question to you. Wouldn’t you advise
calling with all pairs even with when facing a
raise?

I play 25 NL on Party and I will call a raise
with any pair as long as the raise is less than
10% of the opposing players stack. My thinking,
with a monster hand like AA or KK that he is
raising; when I do hit my set I am taking his
whole stack.

So I hit my set statistically 1 in 8 times and
call any raise with any pair as long as its 10% or
less of a players stack. I make most of my money
on the no limit tables doing this.

Playing Home Games Vs. Playing Online

Most people meet up at a friends house to play poker for fun. The ante would be a fixed amount of chips, and an example of the betting spread would a minimum of five chips to a maximum of twenty chips per round.

Playing casual games like these are simple: bet then call or bet,
raise, then call. What does anyone really care? These home games are simply for bragging rights. Even though the person with the hottest cards wins at the showdown, it doesn’t necessarily mean that person played his/her hands well at all.

There are three ways that make playing online different from the casual home game: the ante structure, the betting structures, and the skill levels.

* Ante Structure
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First of all, this is a trick paragraph. There is no ante unless you
are playing 7-card stud. The betting is made according to blinds or
forced bets where the person to the left of the dealer button must pay the
small blind and the subsequent person must pay the big blind. The
button, the small blind, and the big blind rotate from person to person at
the table.