Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Many factors have an effect
Many factors have an effect on the amount you will take home: The effectiveness of the system you’ve chosen – does it create and detect your advantage? The rules of the game Penetration: the fraction of the pack cut off - this will affect the amount of cards you’ve actually seen i.e. the amount of cards you’ve counted. The number of online players seated at a table: the more players at any given time, the fewer hands will be played in a given time frame The speed of the game itself: a game with side bets will take longer than a game without and thus, the number of hands dealt over time will be reduced
Shuffle machines
Shuffle machines increase game speed, if used to start a new game. However, they also confound counters as they have been known to ‘randomly’ shuffle decks to defeat cheating and card-counting. This can seriously affect the odds of taking a fair amount home.