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POKERSTRIP TALK: NO LIMIT TEXAS HOLDEM MASTER CLASS
or, how to turn an average Joe into an online poker pro.
Texas Hold’em Poker has become the most fast-paced growing game on the World Wide Web. Play it a couple of times and you will understand why. It’s habit-forming. Double-quick. Entertaining. Brilliant. And there you are, playing live with folks from all over the Earth, a cracking virtual casino experience - and substantial money is being won by people just like you and me.
Day and Day out, Poker , mainly its no limit Holdem variant is played online by thousands of different people from all around the world. This immense boom was triggered back in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker (yes believe it or not, that’s his real name) has won the World Series of Poker, an amateur who had qualified for the main event playing an online satellite tournament for as low as $40. Not bad for a guy working as a clerk who had no experience in playing live poker. Obviously ever since there are thousands of average guys (and girls) who would like to achieve the same. Amateurs abundant.
So what’s not to like? Well, you say, “I would like to bring home the bacon more often . . .”
Yes, that’s how the whole thing is supposed to work...people love to watch the big guys play on TV, grinding it out on the table like Phil, Gus or Howard (you know the last names) but in fact they are just Joe, Tom and Mike. And most of them are destined to lose their spare bucks - While the major online poker sites rake in millions of bucks in the process.
So the question is, how to beat the system, how to beat online poker for money?
Like the people who play slots or video poker terminals (VLT), most people just play poker online for fun. Don’t get us wrong. They would love to pull ahead; they just aren’t inclined to do the preparation necessary to get genuinely good at the tables and win systematically.
Who has time for that? The professionals do, that’s who!
And the Pro’s love online poker. Contrary to VLT’s, the odds are not piled so much in favor of the house and players may really make consistent incomes - if they understand the game to an adequate degree.
For starters, we can frankly assure you that there are two cardinal differences between casual players and pros.
One - Professionals always recognize exactly whom they are playing with.
Don’t be deceived. When you play poker you are not playing against the cards – you are wagering against the other competitors. Smart poker players never forget this.
The goal of our class is to instruct you how to better understand the hombre or gal sitting across from you at the virtual poker table. A deeper understanding of the dynamics between human beings at the poker table alone will dramatically improve your probabilities of gaining ground. We will give you anything, from starting hand requirements to odds and probabilities calculations up to a poker mindset which helps crushing tables.
Two – professionals realize the odds.
This online master class will teach you how to work out odds utilizing real game examples and give you cutoffs that will help you to increase your probabilities of succeeding every time you play.
Remember: “Odds do not tell you how to play, they tell you how to bet.”
First of all you need to understand why reading about the traditional ‘brick and mortar’ game of Texas Hold’em (the one you play in a real casino) certainly won’t hurt – but it will unquestionably not train you for the unique experience of playing the game online.
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