Internet poker can be a grinding experience. You will get your share of good and bad hands just like everyone else. You must exercise patience. So many beginners play great starting hands poorly. Take pocket kings for instance in a no limit holdem game. This is one of the best starting hands you can get in the game.



You raise the blinds up four times and one person calls you. The flop comes and a king hits the board. You bet five blinds again and you are not called. Twenty hands later you get pocket rockets and you go all in. Nobody calls and you win the blinds. Big deal.

Awhile later you get pocket kings again. You are excited and you push all in. Because of your play, you now get a caller. People don't believe you. To your shock you get two callers. Your adversaries have AQ suited and pocket tens. You are ahead in the hand and you anxiously await the flop.

The flop comes and it's TAQ. You went from best hand to worse just like that. You are not happy. The turn and river draw blanks for you. Now, instead of being up a few dollars, your bankroll has just taken a sever hit and you are down a lot.

"Online poker is rigged", you scream to yourself. Well not necessarily. Your poor play is what got you into this trouble. You played your first two great starting hands with mild aggression and got called one time. You played your third hand very aggressively and got two callers. This reason this play wasn't so great is because of pure math.

You didn't get enough action on your first two monsters. You definitely didn't get paid off. You attempted to get paid off on your 3rd great starting hand, but it didn't pan out. You could have waited to see the flop before you pushed, but your lack of patience got the best of you.

KK is a great hand and has good odds of winning. The problem is that it's not guaranteed. If you would have made a bet of at least three times the blind to clear the field a little, you could have at least positioned yourself to see the flop and have a low pot commitment to get out of the hand if you needed to.

The nice thing about seeing a flop before committing all of your chips is to see if an Ace hits. Many weaker players play any ace online, and it's the worst thing pocket kings can run into. If that ace does hit with two other players, it's usually fold time baby.

Experts have analyzed the outcomes of millions of hands dealt out on internet poker. The stats do not differ from those of random results. This is an important factor. I believe that online poker is so fair, that it is predictable.

If you have a one in three chance of making your hand, keep track of it. If you are on your 4th draw and haven't hit the first three times, now is a great opportunity to semi bluff and push. The odds are now in your favor and you will have most of your chips in at the right time. Never give up and you too can become a poker star.