Increasing Your Online Poker Skills

        

To win money playing poker online, you have to be able to overcome a few obstacles that you will not find when you play at your local casino. Once you can identify these hurdles and make small changes to your game, you can start building up your online poker reputation and then the chips will start flowing your way. Here a re a few things to consider when playing poker online.

Keeping Things Close to the Vest

Poker in general is a social game when you play at the casino. It is usually common for players to at the least talk to each other while they are seated at the poker table. Online, all bets are off because you are playing people from around the world who only care about your chip stack and making it their own. The only thing you should be doing is disabling the player chat feature at the online table so you do not speak to anyone. Each time you tell the table how long since you had a good hand or what you just folded, you are giving away key information they will use to come after your chips. Turn off the chat and focus on your game skills.

Creating a Powerful Online Presence

In order to start grabbing chips, you have to start convincing the other players you are extremely skilled. To keep the better players from going after your chips, start mixing up your play by bluffing for the blinds, raising the pot when an ace hits the board, or pushing all in when the river makes the straight. Regardless your two cards, if you can convince players you have a made hand, then you can start separating them from their chips and growing your online poker chip stack a little more each day.