With so many people opting to try their luck within the online poker craze, players are looking for online poker tips and strategy more then ever and with that in mind we thought that we would have a look at what tips to offer you in terms of using the poker room software to increase your chance of success.
Use your online poker player notepad
It is a feature that almost every online poker room offers to its members but its also a feature that is often overlooked by a large percentage of players.
Using the player notes feature on an online poker room offers you the opportunity to store your extracted information about a player while playing against them at the online poker tables, saving the data safely on the software for any time that you meet the same player.
Analyse the poker hand history logs
After speaking to a number of online poker players that i know, it soon became apparent that many players fail to not only know that the hand history logs are used for as well as the advantages that they can offer to players.
Many players told me that they only use the logs at times where they have missed a section of the play and they want to see who one the hand and how but they fail to look deeper into the advantages of this.
Hand history logs can help to reveal a number of tells that can make playing against the players seated at your online table easier, allowing you to see any patterns that arise within their game and betting approach.
Don’t use the check/fold button when playing poker on the internet
Although every online poker room offers players the option to select this button, using it will give away information surrounding your hand strength, if you are willing to run the risk of selecting that option, you are holding a hand that you don’t have interest in playing.
There isn’t any other strength of hand that you would select this option as no player would run the risk of trying to use the option as a bluffing opportunity due to a simple raise would alter the checking option into a fold option.
Don’t use the online poker chat area
Although its hard to recognise, the chat feature is a great source of information finding. Players often use this area to tell about previous poker experiences and as they tell the stories they fail to realise just how much information they are revealing to their opponents.
A story about how a player has just bluffed another opponent out of a large pot with a hand with very little strength tells more than a story about a player winning a pot, instead it tells others at the table that the player is only too happy to bluff into pots.
The best thing that you can do is refrain from commenting in the chatbox and keep a close eye on the conversations that are happening there, obtain information don’t transmit it.
