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
Wonging
Wonging Also known as back-counting, Wonging gets its name from its namesake, Stanford Wong. Players ‘Wong in’ (enter the game) when it is to their advantage and bet accordingly. Some online players ‘Wong out’ (exit the game) when it is no longer to their advantage, others when the deck is shuffled. Wonging is usually done on shoe games of 4, 6, or 8 decks. Back-counting provides a certain advantage over card counting in that the ‘Wonger’ does not play every hand he sees; he can play far more strategically than the card counter. On the other hand, online players are generally not very accepting of a holdem player sitting down mid-game (they become quite irritated) and a player who hops in and out of games is also quite likely to get the attention of the casino personnel.
Working, or should we say Wonging, as a Team
Working, or should we say Wonging, as a Team Card counting is often used by teams of online players to maximize the advantage against the casinos. A team will have spotters who will sit at a table and play, betting the minimum while keeping a count. They are essentially the back-counters. When the table is sufficiently hot, one of the spotters will signal a big holdem player who will then ‘Wong in’ and stand very large amounts (very close to, if not the table maximum) while the count is high. When the count cools off or the shoe is shuffled, the big holdem player will ‘Wong out’ and look for other counters signalling a high count.