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About Playing Online
In my opinion playing Hold'em online is the best way to learn the ins and outs of the
game quickly. You can get in on a game just by sitting at your computer, you don't
waste time shuffling cards or distributing chips and money, you can choose from
many different tables and stakes and play at multiple tables at once, it's quick easy
and convenient!
Play Money
If you are a beginner to No-Limit Hold'em I suggest starting out with Play money
rooms, here's the thing about Play money: most people don't care if they lose
because it's not real money DON'T BE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE! Your goal here is
to hone your skills and become a good solid poker player, usually what you will see
is people calling bets when they shouldn't and improving crappy hands on the turn
and river. For this reason you will need better hands on average to win but when you
do have these better hands you will take down HUGE Play money pots. Here's a
good way of looking at it: If you need two pair to take down a pot in a regular cash
game then you will need three of a kind to take down that same pot in a Play money
room. What you want to do here is get a good feel for the cards falling and how the
hands are played out, try to treat the play money as if it where the real thing!
Making the Transition to Real Money
If you're like me once you make the transition to real money games you will never go
back to Play money again (unless you suck really bad and lose all your money) if you
are here on this site than you should be able to learn all the skills you need so that
doesn't happen. The best way to make the transition is to play in FreeRoll
tournaments where you can enter for free and win real money (See Multi-Table
Tournament strategy section) some rooms also have Play-2-Real tournaments
where you can buy in to a Single Table Tournament with real cash prizes using Play
money (Check out TigerGaming). These tournaments are quite difficult to win so
don't get discouraged, but they make real good practice for real money tournaments.
Next move to Micro-Limit ring games or tournaments with small buy-ins like 50 cents
or 1$, once you start feeling confident you can increase these limits but be careful!
You want to build up your Bankroll safely and effectively without over-extending
yourself.
Online Tells
"Tells" are clues that tell us about what another players hand might be. When you
play poker online poker you can't see your opponents so you would think that there
would be no tells at all. Wrong, there are some tricks to reading people online but be
careful these are only clues and should not be given too much
Depositing
There is one form of payment that is common to nearly ALL online poker rooms and
that is Neteller. Neteller is pretty much the standard for depositing and cashing out
from online casinos, it's fast, safe, reputable and confidential. Another cool thing
about Neteller is NetPoints, every time you transfer money in and out you gather
points that can be used to enter weekly, bi-weekly and monthly draws for cash prizes.
Most Poker rooms also accept FirePay, PayPal and major credit cards like Visa or
MasterCard.
