Online poker has changed quite a bit over the last 5 years. In fact all of poker has changed quite a bit during that time period. And one of the things that has changed the most is what it takes to be a winning player in the poker tables. 5 years ago you could get away with playing very sub-optimal strategy, simply because majority of the people you were playing against were even much worse in poker. However, at today’s games you really need to be playing top poker in order to win. Unfortunately majority of the online poker tips that you can find around the net were written several years ago and don’t really work in today’s games (if they worked). Because of that our resident poker pro is going to list below 5 things that you should keep in mind when playing online poker in 2010, that is if your goal is to win money in poker. All the tips were written 2-6 player pot limit omaha and texas holdem cash games in the mind, but they should help you in whatever poker game you are playing.
5 Poker strategy tips that work in 2010:
1: Looking for good games. This was already back in the day the most important thing you had to keep in mind if you wanted to make money on in online poker and it still is. However as there are these days far less great online poker games around you need to be willing to spend more time in looking around for the quality games. My suggestion is that you have an account at several online poker rooms and scout their lobbies frequently for quality games. You can find some recommended online poker sites for soft games from our softest poker rooms list.
2: Paying attention on your opponent’s tendencies. There are some people who still have some tendencies that you can abuse, for an example some otherwise really solid players never check turn if they bet on flop unless they have a marginal made hand looking for cheap showdown.
3: Putting people on hand ranges. No-one plays only one hand in similar way in the similar spot for that reason it is also important when you trying to figure out what is your optimal play you first figure out what are the type of hands that you opponent(s) might be holding against you in that situation. When you have figured out their hand ranges making the correct decision should become much easier.
4: Playing headsup poker. These days when you find a bad player playing 6 max or 10 max poker you are pretty much guaranteed that the table is soon filled with great players looking to take that bad player’s moneys, for that reason I prefer to play headsup where you get that bad player entirely to yourself.
5: Having a rakeback / VIP bonus deal. Not really a strategy tip, but because it is the games are so much harder in 2010 it much more important that you are playing with a rakeback / VIP deal. They are especially helpful during those times (which occur now much frequently because the expected winrates tend to be lower and variance is higher) that you can’t seem to be able to make any money by actually playing poker.
