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All About Luck in Online Poker

1. Don't press your luck when you don't need to. If it's early in a deep stack tournament, simply don't put yourself into position to need to get lucky to win. Especially in a deep stack tournament, skillful players should be able to find situations where the outcome is predicated on their skill (at bluffing, inducing bluffs, making reads, whatever) and not on luck at all. This is why you hear the top pros say over and over again that they won't get broke early with any hand but pocket aces. They are particularly chary of hands like AK, which look oh so pretty, but usually need to be on the right side of a coin flip in order to win a big pot. Pros hate coin flips early in tournaments. They don't want to need to get lucky to stay alive, not when simply not getting involved will serve the same end.

2. Plan ahead for the luck you get. There's a whole range of situations where certain "unlucky" cards will come off the deck -- unlucky in the sense that they don't help your hand. But if you have a plan for those unlucky outcomes, you can often turn them to your advantage. We call these cards phantom outs -- cards that would help your hand if you, in fact, had that hand. To use phantom outs, simply look at a flop that's two-suited or two-straighted and tell yourself that if a coordinated card comes on the turn you're going to bet it as if you own it. Against the right opponent (the kind who will put you on a draw and be determined not to pay you off) you can the wrong card into a ripe opportunity to capture the pot.

3. Take luck out of the picture. Make everyone fold. That way it doesn't matter what cards come next. This is why strong players play strongly: so the power of their bets, not the power of luck, determines outcomes. I find that when I'm really on my game I'm not particularly lucky -- because I'm playing so dominantly that I really don't need to be lucky at all. Remember: If they all fold, you don't need to get lucky to win.

4. Deal with it. Bad luck strikes. It happens to you, me, and every other poker player in the world, just like it happens to slot players and craps players and everyone else who gambles. But we poker players know that our decisions matter, and one key decision is, "What are you going to do next?" If you let bad luck turn into bad play, then you've multiplied and magnified its negative influence. If you can shrug off bad outcomes, and stay strong and stable, then you have a chance to minimize bad luck and see yourself through to victory.

In every poker tournament, indeed any poker game anywhere, some very talented players get very unlucky, and go broke, while some not-so-talented players get very lucky and believe for a while that they're better than they are. Eventually, like water, they'll all find their level. The strong players will recover and the weak players will go broke. In the long run, after all, everyone is equally lucky: It how you deal with the luck you get that makes the difference in the end.

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Chronicles Of An Online Poker Player - Part Four

Author: J. Scott Miller

"Playing Limit or No-Limit"

Okay, so what will it be, limit poker, or no-limit poker? You better know the difference before you begin playing. By saying this, I mean by the types of players who play in these rooms. I will either choose 25/50 cent no-limit or $2/$4 limit.

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I have said in the past that I will sometimes buy in for $20 in a 10/20 cent no-limit room. But doing so without having a bankroll to continue on, should you lose an all-in bet, says you're only in it for the short term. That will say a lot about you and the way you play. I will constantly see people buy in for $5, go all-in, but no one will call. Then that same person goes all-in again, and no one calls. But it will happen. Someone will eventually call him and he will lose. "Bloop!" There is another $5 buy in from that player. He continues on until he has had enough and will disappear.

Please, don't get this person confused with the "Bully" that I spoke about in my first article. This guy is simply in it for the short term, as am I when I buy in for only $20. Even though $20 would be the maximum I can buy in for, you should have money backed up in your account to "reload" just in case.

This brings up another issue. Good online players will keep notes as to how people play. Believe it or not, this happens. That is what separates me from the good players …uh, you know what I mean.

Players in smaller limit rooms will definitely have more chasers, also known as "fish." "Fish" are people who chase the deck for cards on 4th street and the river. But "fish" can be found anywhere. So if you are playing in a lower limit game, be careful how you play. By saying "lower limit," this could be as much as $2/$4 limit rooms. Be aggressive with the "fish" players so they will drop out of the hand. Even then it may not be enough and you will find you are on the wrong side of a river card flush. I hate people like me!

Now playing no-limit is for true "gamblers." I don't even mean card players in general, but simply a person who likes to gamble for the fun of it. This, of course, is really meant for the lower no-limit games. Once you buy in for $50, or even $200, you better make sure you are not in this "just for the fun of it." There are plenty of players out there swimming through the internet poker rooms looking for the perfect catch. Don't get reeled in by one of them.

Have you made your decision yet? You can read all of the different professional poker player's books, there are plenty of them, (And I recommend it) but these are people who can tell you what cards you have by looking into your eyes. They can't do this with online poker. If you feel like you may be overwhelmed, or under skilled as a player, stay low and learn by your mistakes. Once you have decided what you like most, stick with it. And like I said before, be aggressive. Stay on the gas peddle and go for broke.

Maybe that's why I am broke? See you at the tables.

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J. Scott Miller is a freelance writer as well as a poker and sport betting enthusiast. Decades of experience as both a poker player and professional sporting news junkie plus his continued dedication to journalism has made him more than qualified to be our leading writer at OGN.

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