Syndi N Poker: TEXAS "Holdem" STYLE

Playing internet poker can be different than playing face to face. I have played more internet poker than I have of the face to face. However, I have played enough to know that they are very different and yet somewhat the same.

Let’s start with the similarities:

• Of course to state the obvious, the rules are the same.
• They both have free play or cash play.
• Both of them can take a long time to finish.
• Finally, they both require some luck.

Now, let’s move on to the differences. The internet differs in the following ways:

• It can be done without clothes or in a bath robe and no one gets offended if that’s your mood.
• One can bluff easier because the opponents can’t see your face.
• One can play multiple games at once.
• One can take the game to the restroom if they wanted to continue play and no one knows.
• It gives you an option ahead of time to select what you want to do with your cards.
• One can select the position they want to sit in.
• Opponents can’t see when you are on tilt. (unless you type a nasty message to them, lol)
• Doesn’t really require a lot of skill.
  

These are just a few that I can think of at the moment. I can remember when I first started playing. I played free money on the internet and I used to get so frustrated because it seems that all the players were playing what I would call "Lotto Poker". This is where the opponents would just go all in and take a chance on winning. If they lost... it was really no big deal because they could reload their chips and do it again. My frustration built up so much that I ended up doing the same type of play. I ended up calling a lot (more out of frustration), just to have the idiots suck out and win. Of course, this didn’t help me to improve my own game. So, I decided to try another strategy. I would just wait out the idiots until I could get a cheap flop with a premium start hand. If I hit on the flop... that’s when I would take those idiots down. I would simply just act weak. This in turn would make them go all in again with any two cards that they held. At this point, I would rake in their chips! I realized that the more patience I had with them, the better my chances were with winning all their chips.