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
If you play in such a game after reading this analysis of the 5% cut
If you play in such a game after reading this analysis of the 5% cut and still think you can hope to come out ahead, don't read any further. Any advice I can give you won't do you any good. Some operators charge a 2% or 3% cut per pot, which eats up your bankroll just as the 5% charge does, except that it takes about twice as long before you go broke.
Another thing the player should learn
Another thing the player should learn is how to protect his money from cheaters. Otherwise, he should stop playing the game for fair or big stakes right now. The best Online Hold'em Poker skill in the world means nothing against a cold deck. Study carefully the information and detection methods explained in Chapter 14, because all the moves and gimmicks described there are used by the cheat in Online Hold'em Poker. A sharper at work in a fair- or big-limit Online Hold'em Poker game can break you for that session and plenty of others.