Bravery, Wit, Wisdom, Luck and Skill

Poker is a game of bravery, wit, wisdom, luck and of course pure skill. From everybody’s favourite, Texas Hold ‘em to Omaha, the game has been played for years. More recently introduced to the online community. Although playing online has both it’s disadvantages and advantages to playing live. The key advantages of online poker being the fact you do not need a poker face at all! and you can easily see the chip counts, pot value and bets. But these could also be seen as a disadvantage, mainly in the eyes of a pro. Also you can mute any trash talk with a simple click of your mouse if this is a put off in your game. The main disadvantages playing online are not being able to see your opponent’s reaction, giving you no read on a player and you tend to be pressured into rushing your turn. Online you tend to have a simple choice of sit ‘n go tournaments, scheduled multi-table tournaments and cash ring games. sit n go tournaments are usually just one one table of a set amount of players where as it starts as soon as the required amount of people are registered to play, there are also MTT (multi table tournaments)sit n go with the same requirements just to allow more people to join. Scheduled tournaments are very similar, only instead of a set amount of players, it will keep registering until the set time of the tournament start time, although there are usually a minimal and maximum amount of players for these. Finally cash ring games where you buy onto a table in which you play with purely your own money, betting the stakes you choose to play, whether it’s limit, no-limit or pot limit. There are plenty of different type of games of poker to play online, Most often games to come across are: -Texas Hold’em -Omaha High -Seven/7 card stud -Five card stud -HORSE/HORS/HOR/HO (mixed games into one)