Are you optimising online poker? Do you play at bet365 Poker regularly but fail to cash out very often? Did you know that it might be how you are setting up to play, rather than your play at the table, that may be the reason for your lack of success?
In this guide, we will give you some clear guidance on optimising online poker. What do we mean by that? We are talking about setting the right conditions up for you to be able to give the game your full attention, rather than giving you poker strategic advice or guidance on how to play your hands.
That's because it can often be the environment in which you play online poker which is making a significant contribution to your success or failure rate. Our guide will give you some useful tips for optimising online poker environments to ensure you are set up to make the most of your game and your skills.
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Now that we're ready, let's begin our five tips to optimising online poker with a look at arguably the easiest tip to follow.
The tips we have outlined below are not in the order in which they should be completed. They are things we feel are a sensible precursor to playing online poker productively. They will not only enhance your enjoyment of the game you play, but also ensure that the environment around you is also set up to give you a better chance of success.
After that, it is down to your own poker skills (and a healthy slice of luck) as to whether you can finish in the cash!
We believe these optimising online poker tips can help set the scene and ensure minimal distractions when you play, whether that is for a five-minute Twister Poker game or a flighted tournament that can last many days or longer!
It stands to reason that if you have 15 minutes free time to dedicate to an online poker session, then the game you should select to play will be different to that if you have a two-week holiday in which to enjoy plenty of free time!
Matching your genuine free time to the right type of poker game for you is a key decision to make, as not every poker player will have the same amount of time to devote to a game and each individuals circumstances are different.
So, if you are likely to have just a few minutes or so to play, then you need to focus on quick-fire poker games, such as Twister Poker, or smaller Sit & Go events. Or, you can head to a cash table for a few hands before getting up to go when your free time is over.
However, if you have considerably longer available to play, then you can consider entering tournaments (the bet365 Freerolls are a great place for beginners to start and there are four of them run each day). These can take anywhere from a few hours, to several days to play to completion.
There is no worse feeling that entering a tournament and winning yourself a lot of chips, only for your free time to come to an end and then that forces you to either leave the game, or go all-in.
We are big advocates of having the right environment as a way of optimising online poker success. What do we mean by that?
Well, imagine the World Series of Poker. This takes place in a casino room and the entire focus is on what is happening at the tables.
We're not suggesting you turn your online poker session into a mini-WSOP. But there are some things we can take away from the setup. That being:
Perhaps the biggest enemy to an online poker player, especially those that engage with the game after a long day or night at work, is fatigue. This can be physical, mental or both and there is no doubt that if you are tired from your exertions in the day, then this will affect your poker game.
As such, part of optimising online poker success is ensuring you are in the right frame of mind and fully alert to devote your full attention and mental capabilities to the game.
Again, this is a consideration for you when it comes to the type of game you play. If you are tired, for example, then it is much wiser for you to play a quickfire poker game, than to sit down in a tournament which may last several hours and eat into your bedtime!
So, you are doing brilliantly in a tournament and after several hours, you are hungry and thirsty. So you jump up from the table, make yourself a sandwich and a drink and come back to see that while you were away you were dealt two aces as your hole cards, but because you were not there to act, the software automatically folded them.
It is a scenario that has likely affected many online poker players at one time or another, especially those that play on a desktop and cannot take their device with them while they make something to eat and/or drink.
As such, we strongly recommend having any refreshments you feel you may need easily on hand while you play. This way, you won't have to take a break and risk missing out on a fantastic opportunity to improve your chip stack.
This tip is for players who play in long-running tournaments or cash table games, but it is an essential one for success. In these tournaments, especially in the early stages, you will often be switched around tables as the game balances. On cash tables, you may see players come and go throughout the session.
That makes it very difficult to keep track of players mentally, especially when you are focusing on your poker hands predominantly. As such, we find a useful aid to be a small notebook and pen on which you can jot down some observations, usernames etc about players in the tournament.
By jotting these observations down, if you come across the same player later in the tournament, and you have noticed a tendency in their play (say they play more loosely and aggressively than most, playing a lot of hands with sub-optimal hole cards), then you will have this noted down when you next come across them in the tournament.
This aid-to-memory is very basic but can be a very useful asset over time in helping you better judge the tendencies of the players you face in tournament play or at the cash tables.
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