Game psychology
For many players, there is nothing quite like the challenge playing poker online provides. While they may be restricted to matching their skills against maybe average players in their own location, playing poker online allows them to meet players of a broad range of skills.
This naturally promises much more exciting, tense games, and in the long run, a player will ultimately improve his own game through the experiences he has had. It opens up a chance to meet other, like-minded people and discuss the many poker online games with them in one of the many poker blogs.
Often it is possible to find helpful hints and tips on how to deal with certain hands or situation within poker blogs, while on other occasions it is merely a chance to show off one’s latest achievements or find out who is doing what and how well they are doing with it.
For many, playing poker online is not only a chance to play the game as such, it is a chance to practice and improve their skills in readiness for tournaments of varying importance.
Many of these poker online games are played for real money, so a skilled player may actually be able to make some money out of a game. One should, however, remember at all times that there are a whole lot of excellent players out there, so the chances of losing are high.
Poker Online – The Opportunities
There are hundreds, if not thousands of online poker facilities. Some require memberships and downloads of specific software, others are free sites where players can simply sit and enjoy an online game or two.
Poker blogs are usually full of the latest news on what is happening where. Statitistics of games, winners, their winning hands and descriptions of whole games can be studied and learned from by perusing poker blogs.
Players also have many opportunities to take part in an array of tournaments, from relatively small, so-alled mini-tournaments to major world championships they would otherwise not be able to attend.
As well as beckoning with the chance to win so-called big money, these tournaments also offer prestige to players taking part. What better than to see one’s name mentioned in a myriad of poker blogs as the winner of some more or less prestigious tournament.
The world of poker online is a serious one, and players do take their game very seriously indeed. They will use charts, take notes, calculate odds and who-knows-what during games in order to improve their winning chances.
Having said that, considering the stakes involved in some of the games, as well as the possible winnings, players do have to be very serious about it.
It appears that some players actually go as far as making a living out of playing poker online. As they admit themselves, it is a risky business and money is just as eaily lost as it is won, but it seems to work for them.
Anyone considering this should however be aware that these people have been playing for years. They have the experience and necessary skills to attempt making poker online their livelihood.
They are prepared to take the risks and even they, as the results displayed in poker blogs clearly show, can lose big style. Sadly, few poker blogs show the effects too many lost bets on poker games can have on individuals and often their families, too.
Poker online is good fun, big money for companies providing the facilities, a chance to win big money and become famous, as well as presenting an incredibly high risk of ending up in debt.
Continue Reading »In the end of the day to earn nearly $ 1,500 a month from 100 hours of play time is not bad at all, it gives me an average profit of 15 $ per hour, it’s much more money than any job I can get right now, and it’s also way more fun 
In poker, and life in general, it is very important to set goals, so here are my goals for the month of September:
* Play at least four hours a day, or at least 100 hours per month.
* Earn at least 2000$ per month. Purpose certainly possible given that in the first three days of the month, my earnings are already a whoppin’ $450.
Beyond the economic goals, I’d like to see some other improvements in my game elements:
* Being more aggressive before the flop, ESPECIALLY if there’s a raise before.
* Plan each bet in advance; to know before I go in, whether I’ll fold in case of a raise.
* Read your opponents: ALL THE TIME. I tend to go on “autopilot” mode and start playing my hand regardless of what my opponents hold. My goal is to put every opponent, holding every hand right in my pocket, regardless of what my hand ranking is.
* Maximize the profit of my strong hands. I hate playing slowly with strong hands. That got me burned a lot of times, but I have to begin to identify the situations in which it fits to play hard.
In addition, I feel there are some mental aspects I need to work on:
* I have to stop to calculate how much I gained and lost during each session, and stop feeling anxious by it. I tend to start poker sessions very relaxed, which is a GOOD thing, but as the session progresses, I feel anxious to retain my earnings or just bet foolishly in order to gain back what I’ve lost. I have to learn to look at the big picture instead.
* I need to start enjoying! I can get bored very quickly which than leads me to count the minutes ‘till the session ends, which doesn’t help my anxiety. I need to start looking at this game as the fun it used to be, and not as the work it currently is.
I apologize for this post as it isn’t very accessible to those who do not understand poker. But hopefully, more posts will follow, and I’ll write about some of my better card games experiences
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