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Choose your Table and Seat Carefully
By Al Oharra of AllOnlinePokerSites.com
In a casino, your table choices are limited by availability. But Online, your table and seating choices are much more extensive. Depending on the poker room, you also have access to other information such as pot size, # of hands per hour, and bankroll in each room. Consider each before you take a seat as it is time well spent.
Betting limits
Pick a table that you can afford. Remember that you'll be posting blinds in at least 20% of the hands at a 10 seat table, and more often if the table seats less. If your bankroll is $25, you wouldn't really want to play at a $2-$4 table.
Choosing between Limit and No-Limit Tables
Choose to play at a fixed limit table to begin with and limit your potential losses. Remember, one of the surest ways to get better at poker is to play more hands and see more flops. Once you get a comfort level, then you can dip your toe in the shark infested no-limit waters.
Table Action
Before you sit down, take some time to watch the action, and learn about the players. Try and spot the really loose players, the maniacs, the tight aggressive ones. Knowing whom you're up against can prove invaluable in a showdown. And if you are playing no limit, try to get into a game where your bankroll is not dominated- Know your table money.
Pick Your Seat
Once you've got an idea of the players at the table, try and get a favorable seat relative to the different types. You'll want the unpredictable, wildly aggressive players on your right, so that you can get out of a marginal hand before it becomes too expensive. If you haven’t determined that yet, put the big chip count to your right. Timid and passive players are great to have on your left, as the former will fold when you bet aggressively as a bluff, and the latter will call anything with a minimum hand.
Change Your Table
You will know when it is time to start fresh. This is one of the advantages of playing online. When you know it is time, change your table. When you have doubled or tripled your money and you want to safeguard your winnings, change your table. When you thing the competition in the room has a bead on your game, change your table.
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