How to win at online poker

[bodizzl]

online poker isnt rigged. theres just a million idiots that chase gutshots with half there staccks. that said the best you can do is get some1 to accept bad odds to chase there draw. sadly the draws hit more than live which is y people dont learn not to play bad. lol as a winning player i recommend every 1 to seek knowledge. but the most important thing is to meet good players online and if there willing have them coach you a little or watchc them play and ask them what they have to help you analyze. this is what took my game from decent to better note im still learning. once you become a decent player dont multitable to much poker is about knowing your opponent. its easier to know 10-20 ppl than like 50. thats a start to becoming winning plyaer

 

[Afterlife000]

Ive always thought that online poker was rigged by the way i would get beat. I would flop something like a straight and get beat by runner runner flush. And i heard that on full tilt, they set up hands too make someone get knocked out. (ex. someone will have AA and the other KK and a K hits on the flop) I dont know if thats true but ive seen it plenty of times and im starting to beileve it now. Like i said, ive always thought online poker was rigged, but the sad thing is, i still play for real money online.

 

[reglardave]

No, I think he's pulling our leg. Y'all just don't get it yet.

Sounded extremely convincing and plausible to me.:angel:

 

[iraisejj]

The first thing you have to take into consideration is that online poker is rigged. It isn't rigged so that the house wins an above average amount of hands because in online poker, players play against each. The online casino makes it's money by raking or taking part of the pot. So the casino rigs games in a several different ways to increase their rake.

First, they want to keep all players winning equally regardless of skill and ability. This is done by rewarding poor play so that the poor players aren't knocked out by the better players and they can stay and continue to bet. You always hear about suck outs online but how often to you hear about it in live games.

Second, they want to increase the amount of bets. They do this by giving players in early position better hands to get the betting started. If you have ever played online poker you know you always get your best hand UTG.

Third, they they want big pots. This one is done quite easily by matching big hand against big hand.

Now keeping these things in mind I have come up with some simple rules for playing online poker

1) Always play any hand and at least take a look at the flop especially if you are UTG.

2) If you receive big hole cards (AA, KK, QQ, AKs, etc) be cautious. If you flop a monster hand check the board and see if anyone else could have the nuts or draw the nuts. If there is a chance of someone getting a better hand it will probably happen.

3) Always chase flushes and straights. you will be suprised how many you will hit on the river.

4) If you flop a straight or a flush, fold immediatly. If you flop a straight someone will get a flush and if you flop a flush someone will get a fullhouse.

5) If your stack is getting a little short, just push all in. Chances are you will win regardless of what you have. You do have to keep in mind that someone with a smaller or equal stack may call you though.

A final thought; You don't see or hear much about online poker being rigged or how to get around it because most of the forums are owned by the online casinos and they do their best to tell how honest it is. There is always people to tell how to play and how they win, but if the truth were known most these people don't even play. They just get paid to spread propaganda. Use these rules to win and I hope to see you at the tables and I really mean it when I say I hope to see you at the tables.

your an idiot why would pros endorse these sites if they are rigged. With so many hands you are going to see bad beats. you never want to slow those high pockets, that is when they get beat. i really get tired of hearing about online poker being rigged.

 

[ashirani]

only on online poker can you see qauds 9 out of 10 hands, lol

 

[ashirani]

your an idiot why would pros endorse these sites if they are rigged. With so many hands you are going to see bad beats. you never want to slow those high pockets, that is when they get beat. i really get tired of hearing about online poker being rigged.

lol, pros endorse the site for money, doesnt take a rocket scientist to fidure that out, and they do rigg it to get a better rake

 

[reglardave]

your an idiot why would pros endorse these sites if they are rigged. With so many hands you are going to see bad beats. you never want to slow those high pockets, that is when they get beat. i really get tired of hearing about online poker being rigged.

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Okay, now I think it's time to put our heads down and take a little nap.

 

[cptmorgan]

wow ... that sure is not my style of playing poker , and i will not try it either !

 

[bob_tiger]

lmao...blah blah blah no offense dude but this is bunch of bull shit that all there is to it...r u freaking retarded? what kind of drugs do u take? this is all about 110% wrong. wow great advice i would love to play with u and take yr money. lmao what a donk

 

[vivaitalia1]

do all of you people who argue that online poker is rigged realize that NOTHING is impossible in this world? There is no such thing as IMPOssIBLE.. so even if, 10 hands in a row someone gets four aces, doesnt mean anything is wrong, its HIGHLY unlikely, but its not IMPOssIBLE u gotta grasp that fundamental aspect of math. MOREOVER, cards generated online are not 'random' in the true sense of randomness because after all there are outside factors that determine what cards might be given IE a simple voltage fluctuation can change everything. However, if the cards are not 'shuffled' on the poker engine - ie, if each community card is random and not selected from a 'deck of cards' then this would be much closer to 'randomness' than live poker because in live poker, so many aspects get involved in the dealing of the cards, its very stupid to think that they are actually RANDOM. IE, every shuffle a different player does it and even when the turn comes around to the same dealer, he will be shuffling with a different mentality, different force, even might be different way of shuffling. Now to achieve anything close to randomness in live poker, then every shuffle has to be done by the same player with the exact same method and exact same moves without any outside interference. Its similar to roulette in the sense that every spin is independant to the one before it because its done at a different force from a different angle so theres no point betting on numbers that havent appeared because their odds of appearing are exactly the same as before even if theyve been hit 50 times in a row. IN CONCLUsION, online poker in my opinion is the best version of poker from the statistical point of view (with the randomness and variety of hands that are possible).

 

[Alon Ipser]

Been getting e-mail saying this thread had been dredged up. After reading the lastest replies, I am LMAO. A good post is like cream and just keeps rising to the top. Too funny.

 

[fishfood]

Alan...you should take this act on the road...a real classic this post deserves to be put in the "hall of fame"

 

[Blackstone3]

I don't know why anyone questions the dishonesty of poker sites. I sat at one site and saw 4 quads (two were mine, two were opponents) in less than 200 hands. Please. In fact, I lost back to back hands comprised of full houses (AAAKK; 444TT) to quads (AAAA; TTTT). Admittedly the AAAA was easy to see (AAA on board), but still.
Don' t you doubters ever wonder why there are so many flushes? Come on, if you play online enough three suited board cards bring chills. At a real table 3 suited cards are a reason to pay attention, but betting out still pays off. Can you say that online? Pay attention to the outcomes.
BTW, what makes everyone so sure that you are playing against other players? How many times have you played against someone who is just unbeatable. Ever wonder why that last card beats you when your opponent had no reason to stay.
We desperately need Federal or at least State (can you say "South Dakota") regulation of online poker (I am looking into how the Island of Malta regulates online poker). Otherwise we are all just buying very big houses for the site operators.
Blackstone3

 

[F Paulsson]

I don't know why anyone questions the dishonesty of poker sites. I sat at one site and saw 4 quads (two were mine, two were opponents) in less than 200 hands. Please. In fact, I lost back to back hands comprised of full houses (AAAKK; 444TT) to quads (AAAA; TTTT). Admittedly the AAAA was easy to see (AAA on board), but still.
Don' t you doubters ever wonder why there are so many flushes? Come on, if you play online enough three suited board cards bring chills. At a real table 3 suited cards are a reason to pay attention, but betting out still pays off. Can you say that online? Pay attention to the outcomes.
BTW, what makes everyone so sure that you are playing against other players? How many times have you played against someone who is just unbeatable. Ever wonder why that last card beats you when your opponent had no reason to stay.
We desperately need Federal or at least State (can you say "South Dakota") regulation of online poker (I am looking into how the Island of Malta regulates online poker). Otherwise we are all just buying very big houses for the site operators.
Blackstone3

How many hands would you say you have played online and live respectively? Just a rough number would do.

 

[muddawgg]

i lose with pocket aa 90 percent of the time..last time i bet big someone called with 3,4 offsuit. the flop was a,3,9. i went all in and lost.turn was 2 the river was a 5

 

[F Paulsson]

i lose with pocket aa 90 percent of the time..last time i bet big someone called with 3,4 offsuit. the flop was a,3,9. i went all in and lost.turn was 2 the river was a 5

Load up pokertracker and post a screenshot.

 

[4Aces]

Load up pokertracker and post a screenshot.

^this please.

 

[Blackstone3]

Experience

Interesting question re: the number of hands I've played.
I've played Atlantic City (mostly the Borgata) about 40 times over the last two years (I lived an hour north of AC) and Vegas 3 times. Averaging 8 hours of play a vist (344 hours) at 30 hands an hour comes to about 10,300 hands. Online I've played freerolls daily for about 7 months (AP, FT, bodog, Tropical, Poker.com, Poker4Ever, as well as CDPoker and Golden Riveria when they allowed US players) and then I've played diligently with the money I've won at freerolls until it was (is) all gone. So, make that about 100,000 hands online.
Not the most, not the least.

 

[ChuckTs]

I don't even know why you even acknowledge these guys, FP. They're people who are set in their ways and aren't going to believe any facts you put in front of them; they're just too stubborn.

I personally don't have the patience :/

 

[F Paulsson]

Interesting question re: the number of hands I've played.
I've played Atlantic City (mostly the Borgata) about 40 times over the last two years (I lived an hour north of AC) and Vegas 3 times. Averaging 8 hours of play a vist (344 hours) at 30 hands an hour comes to about 10,300 hands. Online I've played freerolls daily for about 7 months (AP, FT, Bodog, Tropical, Poker.com, Poker4Ever, as well as CDPoker and Golden Riveria when they allowed US players) and then I've played diligently with the money I've won at freerolls until it was (is) all gone. So, make that about 100,000 hands online.
Not the most, not the least.

Don't take this the wrong way, but unless you've been four-tabling freerolls every day for two hours for the past two months, I sincerely doubt that you're correct in estimating the number of hands to 100,000. Not that you couldn't have done that, it's just that I play a lot for someone who doesn't do it professionally and I haven't gotten to 100k hands yet this year (I'm a little over 80k as of today). This has taken me a little over 700 hours. So the idea of someone playing 100k hands in freerolls in the same amount of time seems very foreign to me.

Chuck: I do it because the "rigged!" stuff is a pet-peeve of mine and it's like scratching an itch. The stuff I've seen in live poker are just as outrageously (and in one notable incident, quite a bit more) funny and weird as anything I've seen online.

Anyway.

 

[crancko]

I am glad this article is going over well. I plan on doing some more in the future including "Aliens and humans are interbreeding"

I just KNEW those damn swedes were up to something!!!

 

[Egon Towst]

Lol. There`s one born every minute.

There aren`t many threads on CC that beat this one for comedy value.

 

[F Paulsson]

I just KNEW those damn swedes were up to something!!!

For helvede!

 

[spurssss]

I just finished playing 8 tables double or nothing tourneys (simultaneously) on pokerstars. $5.20 entry. Lost 5 of them. 3 of those...I flopped sets and got done in by runner runner str8's. At least my opponents had paired the board so it was understandable they were in post flop.

The 4th one, my JJ vs. 10 10...rivered 10. The 5th one...I'm on the BB with AK suited. Middle position raises, I re-raise 4 times his raise, he calls. I miss the flop completely....3 5 J. I push all in. He calls...with K 2. Yep, 4, 6 to complete his str8. Utterly ridiculous play on his part and wonderfully rewarded by the rigged Pokerstars RNG.

Failed to put a beat on anyone. I felt "lucky" that on the 3 I won my prohibitively best cards post flop actually held up.

Hell yes, it's fixed, rigged whatever. Once Pokerstars has your username tagged as "Losing player" that is that....doesn't matter how far you are ahead, when it matters you will lose.

 

[pokerman27]

This thread may have started 4 years ago but the content has changed. Evolution? Maybe that's rigged too.