Do They Jeer When You Play Poker? Poker Is Serious Business, Have The Last Laugh
If you sit down to a game of Texas Holdem Poker and your friends begin to laugh behind their hands. Use it. You have established a reputation as a poker player who is too dumb to win. The best thing to do is begin to play in fewer hands. Count Aces as eleven and face cards as ten and all other cards at their face value. So if you hold a King and a three you have thirteen. Drop it like a hot rock. Play only in the hands that count up to twenty or twenty-one. If you have a suited six and seven. The hand is another hot rock. Drop it. You have less than one chance in 60 of floppping a flush. Practice online. Play in the free games to hone your poker skills. Do not mention it to your friends.
The pocket cards are the first two cards that you look at. Playing just any old two card combination can break your bank fast. I like to play what I call the Black Jack hands. That is any two cards that add up to 20 or 21. Aces are eleven amd face cards are ten. All other cards have their numerical value. These are your pre-flop cards and only you get to see them. Keep in mind that after the flop everything changes. Also keep in mind that unless you are sitting on one of the blinds it did not cost you anything to see these cards so you are not married to them. If you are dealt Jack of Diamonds and the Six of Spades you do not have to take them all the way to the alter...err...river. If you look at any two pocket cards and add a little imagination you can make a good five card hand out of almost anything. Is it going to happen. sure it is but is going to happen such a small percentage of the time that you will always loose in the long run if you play these hands.
Playing Texas hold em poker online is a lot faster game than playing in the brick and mortar casinos. There is no way that a human dealer can beat a software program in dealing, playing, or splitting pots, if it comes to that.
The hold em software has lots of tools that will let you make your decisions in advance. You can check the box to bet/raise, check, check/call, even auto post your blind. In a brick and mortar game the dealer is pretty much going to give you all the time that you need to call or fold. Poker online is much faster. The software gives you about 20 seconds to make up your mind and then if you don't respond, for whatever reason, it knocks you out of the pot. There is a handy check box that I use a lot. It says, "Fold."
There are just some times that it is just too much trouble to drive up to the Casino. Instead of sitting around the house wishing that I lived in Las Vegas and was able to walk out my front door and have a choice of casino poker rooms within a few miles. I get up to my computer and log onto a poker game. There are also times that I do no want to play for real money. So I click on the free poker link. That opens up hundreds of games for all different money levels that I can play for free.