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How
Online Holdem Poker can help maximize your efficiencies!
Although this site deals with the general
concepts behind Texas Holdem, more and more, it has become a
resource for online Texas holdem players looking
to improve.
Many of our strategy pages (in the left column)
deal specifically with issues and situations that Texas Holdem
players find themselves facing. And now, with the recent explosion
in online Texas Holdem I find myself adding content specifically
dedicated to help enlighten this new legion of players.
I'm going to write about one of the unique
characteristics of playing Texas holdem online: the ability to
maximize ones efficiencies. Who ever said you can't be in 5 places
at once?
I come from a business background and I treat
my online play much like a business. I try not to get too emotional
about what I’m doing. I’m always very aware of my
environment, how it is changing, and constantly adjusting my
play to make more informed decisions based on the new dynamic.
The better your decisions, the more success you will achieve,
positively impacting your bottom line. Sounds pretty logical.
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Well, let’s say that you have done all
that. Again, using the business analogy, how can we squeeze more
productivity out of our business model? In many businesses this
is the $64,000 question. Let me answer it for you online Texas
Holdem players.
Can you be in two places at one time? Well,
when it comes to playing Texas Holdem online you certainly can.
This is the way that I, as well as a lot of other good players,
maximize our efficiencies. I typically tend to play on 4 real
money tables at one time, using two flat screen monitors. I hooked
up two nice Dell flatscreens (costing $400 each) and it makes
my online poker experience that much nicer.
Some players will play on even more tables
than that, simultaneously. Here's what I do...I tend to play
one or two real money cash games, two single
table tournaments and a multiplayer tournament, if there
happens to be one going on at PokerRoom.com. That's what works
for me.
This is a beautiful thing for a good online
Texas holdem player because in a real casino you can only be
at one table. Playing in a land based casino, there is quite
a bit of down time, where online you have little or no downtime,
allowing the class player to maximize his (her) opportunites.
You may ask yourself, how can you concentrate
when you have so many things going on at once? Well,
here's the big secret...a funny thing happens when you
are 'maximizing your efficiencies'. You instill a tremendous
discipline, only playing the best hands (because you don't have
the time to play more), therefore dramatically increasing your
odds for success over any longer period of time.
Because you have so many things going... you
may decide to only get involved in pots with the best 10 starting
hands, (let's say AA, KK, QQ, JJ, 1010, 99, 88,
77, AK, AQ) most of the time folding all other hands, until your
short handed (see Lingo)
Three things are achieved here:
- you're not running around like a madman
- you're alot less likely to be bored or frustated...cutting
down on the number of stupid plays you make and the number of
hands you play...preserving your table image, a vital fact.
- Most importantly, your results should improve
dramatically.
At the end of the day, real money online poker becomes a zero sum
game, how much $$$ did I start with and what do I have now? Like
I said before... if you treat it like a business you can become
a successful online holdem poker player. By the way, one of the
coolest businesses you'd ever want to be involved in :)
Repeat the process over and over again and
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Every player is different and you will find
what works best for you. For me, playing on five tables or more,
the action gets a bit too hectic and I can’t fully focus
my attention on isolating player tendencies. Always remember
to keep notes since you often will be running into the same players
(most online Texas holder sites will give you a drop down menu
to make notes)
I often find myself, in single table tournaments,
having notes on more then half the players at the table. I can
still hear my dad saying to me, "remember that chance favors
the prepared mind" and no where is that more true then at
the online Texas holdem tables.
This section was not designed to make it seem
like playing online is the solution to all your problems. In
fact, you will go through periods where things are not going
your way, therefore compounding your losses by however many tables
you play. But...
All we are saying is if your past results
have shown you to be an above average player then the opportunity
to maximize your productivity is all you can ask for. And you
can do this playing online. If you feel you have a 5% edge on
your opponents over any longer period of time, imagine multiplying
that by however many Texas Holdem tables you are playing simultaneously?
If you are a relatively new online Texas holdem
player then don't start like this. Much like you would not jump
off a 50 meter diving board to start, you have to work your way
up. Once your results, playing in one online game situations,
improves...then you can think about starting to really
maximize your efficiencies.
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To
complete your knowledge of the math behind Texas Holdem Poker,
read these sections: Pre Flop
Odds, Outs and Odds, Starting Hands and Drawing Hand Odds.
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