Winning Consistently at Online Poker

Winning Consistently at Online Poker Sense discovering online poker, I make enough money that I quit my job and an d play online  poker full time. I make on average $45, a month playing 4 hours a !eek. I have read many books on poker and put together this fool proof system to !inning online  poker. In general, online poker needs to be attacked the same !ay as poker in a brick and mortar  casino. In order to play !ell and !in, one al!ays has to adjust to the players and the circumstances. "here are differences bet!een the average online player compared to the average brick and mortar player,  but those differences are small enough that some logical adjustments adjustments should do the trick. In that respect, this section on online poker is specifically aimed at the differences and uniqueness that online poker presents. What Is Poker?

Poker is by far the most popular card game played in America today (if  Poker not the world), in terms of both the amount of money that changes hands every year, as well as in the number of players involved. Though there are hundreds of variations of Poker being played today, they can mostly be placed into three main classes: •

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lop !ames ("ike #old $em and %maha) in which each player receives their own hole cards and & e'posed community cards (flop) that are available to all players. The hole cards are hidden from the other players until the showdown (completion of the hand). tud (like  and & *ard tud) Poker, in which some cards in each player$s hand are e'posed to all the players as the betting progresses, and all the active players$ cards being e'posed at the showdown. *losed games, like draw poker where you see no cards e'cept your own until the showdown.

The most popular form of poker played today is a (lop !ame) called Te'as #old$em. or this reason it will be the form of Poker that Pokerchool Poke rchool %nline initially focuses on. +n all the variations of poker, two factors remain constant:

. The value value or rank rank of of each poker poker hand. hand. -. At the showdow showdown n (when the round round of play play ends) the hand hand cannot cannot consist of more than five cards, even though more cards are used in many poker variations. variations. ention poker to someone and you$re likely to hear of one of these three poker stereotypes: •

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/ild /ild /est: where ississippi 0iverboat gamblers with striped shirts and thin moustaches have a derringer hidden up their sleeve, or 1odge *ity residents like 1oc #olliday or /ild 2ill #ickok sitting around a smoky table in a saloon. The ting: from the famous movie, comes the image of *hicago mobsters sitting in a cigar filled room, a bottle of cheap scotch on the table, and a husky football player standing ready at the peep3hole. The 4itchen Table: Table: 5ncle 6ohn and Aunt 2essie are sitting around their kitchen table playing with their many visiting relatives, with a penny ante. omehow all their nieces and nephews come c ome away with penny3stuffed pockets.

ince the late 789$s, poker has undergone a revolution toward respectability. Today$s poker is clean, brightly lit, and decidedly middle class. "ike bowling and billiards beforehand, b eforehand, poker has moved moved from its seedier roots into daylight and acceptance by the masses. o matter where you live, it$s likely that you are only a few hours away from a public card room, or ;ust blocks from a friendly game. Poker is all around you. Poker has achieved its outstanding popularity for the following Poker reasons: . +t can be played played by rich and poor alike. alike. The stakes stakes may vary from no limit to penny ante, ;ust as long as the minimum and ma'imum betting limits are agreed upon before the game begins. -. +t is is easy easy to lea learn. rn.