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I have not been doing too well recently at online poker, so I wanted to regroup and to think about the reasons and the weaknesses in my game.

It seems that the key factor is that I play “too scared”. And I see monsters on every board. The way we remember events is that the most traumatic ones will leave a deeper print in our memory. There are some violent scenes that will never leave our memory, such as scenes of accidents.

In poker the equivalent is the memory of the times when we lost huge pots and felt humiliated, because we thought we played very well a very strong hand, but it turned out we were deceived and trapped by an even stronger hand. A monster. The unexpected and unlikely nuts was held by our opponent. We did not believe it, but it happened.

After getting a few of these bad scenarios, some players may develop a tendency to see monsters everywhere. And to play extremely passively, failing to raise to protect their hands for example. But the reason why aggression is the winning strategy in no-limit Texas Hold’em poker is that by raising, you will give bad odds to your opponents, you will force them to make tough decisions or you will get information.

By playing passively, you are just waiting to get run over by the bus.

Another important element for playing successfully online poker is that you should be very careful when you sit at a new table. Because if you do not know the players and what has been going on recently, you cannot judge the meaning of the players’ actions.

For example if there is a maniac at the table, players may play very aggressively medium hands in order to win big pots against the maniac. So a big bet may not represent a very strong hand. But at another table full of rocks, the same big bet means the nuts.

It is important to first gauge what is going on. Observe and play cautiously until you feel you understand the table and the players. Then start progressively to take more risks.

This is just a short post about online casinos. As this is a new blog about online gambling, I will share my thoughts about this topic and I assume that most of my readers will be somehow new to online gambling. Otherwise they would not read this blog, they would write their own blog. So here is just a quick summary about online casinos.

Online casinos have literally exploded over the Internet in the past ten years. In the late 90’s the technology was only starting to be put in place to enable a sophisticated online casino to be set up properly. As a matter of fact, it is necessary first of all to have secure connections for deposits or withdrawals, fair and safe games using a truly random “random number generator” (no pun intended) and robust platforms to provide stable real-time single or multi-players games.

This type of technology is already very mature in 2010. Your money is perfectly safe at most online casinos (avoid the smaller ones though). And people are now using robust Internet connections so the chances of disconnection are minimal compared to ten or five years ago. But in case of disconnection your money is safe and no more betting will take place on your behalf.

The games offering does not stop to widen. Popular games are Poker, the Roulette, Baccarat, craps and many more. Poker can be played in the video poker format or in other variations such as Pai Gow poker or Caribbean Stud poker, beyond the pure games of poker played at online poker rooms.

All these games are often the same as the ones you could find at a live casino, except that you get a much wider game selection online than you would ever find at any brick and mortar venue, even the bigger ones. And the convenience to gamble online compared to going to a casino is the same convenience that you get in other activities performed on the Web, like shopping or chatting. So much more efficient and enjoyable over the Internet.

So if you are looking for some fun, try online gambling and you will not be disappointed.