Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Interesting, I was just thinking of posting a thread about online poker. I have been playing for free at PokerStars for quite a while and was thinking of finally taking the leap to pay poker and was just going to ask for thoughts/strategies for a noob.
Don't want to hijack though, so I'll try to just watch the discussion, but if anyway wants to through some advice out there, I'd aprpeciate it.
KT
Hijack away! I just like talking about poker .
If you're going to play at Poker Stars, be prepared to grind it out. The players there are good and well disciplined. Very little bluffing from my experience - if someone is in a hand, they have cards.
Party Poker is the exact opposite and is, in my opinion, a terrible place to play. Besides the insane action you'll get from idiots drawing on a 7-3 looking for a straight, there has always been speculation that they employ "action flops" (flops designed to suck people into betting). I've seen some CRAZY shit at that site over the years and will never give them a dime again.
As for strategies, there's always the tried and true "tight/aggressive". I tend to play much better at real tables than I do online because there's so little information online. When I play online, I rarely try to put people on a hand. If I have cards, I bet 'em. If I don't, I get out. I save the "reading" for real life.