Poker Strategy
One of the key aspects to successful online poker (and live poker) is bankroll management. No matter how good a player you are you will get bad beats and cold swings, so it is important to always have a substantial proportion of your roll off the table. For larger field tournaments, you only really should buy-in for 1% of your bankroll or less. In other words if you have at least 100 buy-ins, then go for it.
For cash games, about 20 full buy-ins or more is about right for the amount to have in your roll. If you lose 6 or 7 buy-ins over several sessions, then you will need to drop down to a lower level, until you again have 20 full buyins
Another important aspect to poker strategy is getting used to betting patterns and player reads. What do people generally do it certain situations. Some people just cant help themselves to act similarly in certain situations, or telegraphically. If a tight player who hasnt played a hand for 30 mins suddenly wakes up and reraises pre-flop, then it would be ill-advised to take that at anything less than face value (ie high pair).
If a player bets out on the flop and turn on a draw-ridden board, and none of the potential draws hit, then an overly large bet on the river can easily be a sign of weakness, where a more common betting pattern for a hand of strength would be to bet lighter for value.
The more poker you play, the more you'll see many precitable behaviours. On the flip side for yourself, you should always try to mix your play to stop yourself being similarly predictable. If every time you get a decent hand everyone folds then you are going to find it difficult to accumulate chips unless you quickly realise that that is your table image, and capitilise on it my mixed some bluffs in there as well after you not been involved in many pots for a while.
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