By: Jon Stein With excerpts from Paul Westin, and several other online poker professionals Brought to you by: The Royal Flush Club © 2009 Jon Stein, et al [email protected] 1 DMCA Copyright Notice and EULA This eBook may be distributed freely to anyone as long as the contents, copyright notice and/or material herein are not changed. No addendum or additional content may be added to this eBook. You are free to give this book away as a gift to anyone as long as it remains in its original state, with no additions or changes to the content. You may NOT sell this eBook; however, you may display it as a download on your website, or email it to any one you wish. Thank You! This is a FREE eBook, if you have any questions or would like additional information, you may contact the author directly at [email protected] and use the subject line of ‘Poker Book’. Enjoy reading and great success to you! 2 How to Succeed as a Professional Online Poker 1. Intro to Online Poker…………………………………………….. 4 2. Software, and bots, and algorithms, oh my!................................. 6 How to Beat a Poker Bot in Online Poker……………………… 8 3. Real Online Poker Strategy…………………………………….. 10 Before You Make A Move…………………………………..….. 11 Bluffing, Position and Moves………………………………..…. 11 Final Table Strategy………………………………………….…. 12 4. Bankroll Management……………………………………………15 Making Bank……………………………………………………...15 Keeping within your Limits……………………………………...16 Tournaments……………………………………………….……..17 Cash (Ring) Games…………………………………………..…..17 5. Poker Tools…………………………………………………….…19 How Online Poker Tools Can Increase Your Winnings…........19 6. Conclusion………………………………………………………..20 3 Intro to Online Poker Online poker is enjoyed by more than 2 million people everyday. This phenomenon has created a virtual playground for any well-versed and experienced player an opportunity to make loads of cash from the glut of new or less experienced player. Using proper strategies, knowledge of the gaming software and your own intuition can easily make you a fortune in online poker. The early days of online poker produced several outstanding players who went on to win major events, like Chris Moneymaker’s WSOP championship in 2003. The enormous rush of players to online poker sites with a dream to become millionaires has also created a huge headache for the online poker sites. Cheating, collusion and hi-tech poker tools have all joined in the mix of online poker. The fact that a poker site must prevent a breach of security from cheaters and colluders as well as poker bot software and tools designed to give players an unfair advantage has made the game a lot different today then when Moneymaker made his phenomenal run. Online poker sites have implemented several different software controls to detect and prevent people from engaging in illicit acts of cheating. Most sites ban poker tools or software designed to give you an unfair advantage against your opponents. In addition, several sites have built in detection that can spy on exactly what programs you are running while playing on their site. Fulltilt for instance places several registry entries in your hard drive for this exact reason. Therefore, they know if you have an Instant Message (IM) browser window open or any other software. Although they can not see what you are typing or know whom you are chatting with, they use this information to help detect possible collusion. In addition, major pokersites have implemented software algorithms that will actually prevent a player from winning hand after hand after hand. This stopgap measure prevents a player from dominating a table or tourneys and in essence changes the whole game around. By knowing how these algorithms work, one can actually subvert them and succeed at playing. The focus of the Online Poker Code Crack by Paul Westin goes deeper into detail about these algorithms and explains how to beat them. I encourage any online poker player to get a copy of the Online Poker Code Crack to discover how to better beat the poker sites software. 4 Statistics, outs, and pot odds are no longer an important part of playing poker online because of the software. In addition, these very software programs cause the enormous amounts of bad beats and unbelievable play in online poker. As a final note, you must understand that online poker is quite different then live poker, mainly because of the software programs, computer-generated codes and algorithms used by online poker sites. That software actually controls the outcomes, the deals and in large part determines a lot of the action in an online poker game. You can NOT play online poker in the same way you do live, and in order to succeed you MUST adjust your online game play. 5 Software, and bots, and algorithms, oh my! It is well documented that every online poker site uses multiple software programs for a variety of tasks including anti-collusion, anti-cheating, bot detection and other methods to make the game as fair as possible in their eyes. However, a lot of these ‘extra’ programs actually makes it more difficult for the experienced player, and further destroys the true odds of the game. The extra software and algorithms intended to make the game fair and level the playing field, actually is the reason behind the constant bad beats and unbelievable suckouts seen in online poker. In order to succeed, one must become familiar with not only the style of play, but also the techniques used by the online poker sites that ‘level the field’. The purists and mostly naïve players have difficulty in believing that such things as pokerbots and subversive algorithms exist. In fact, many blogs and websites will fervently argue that the conspiracy theorists are paranoid and that there is no way a poker site would use any type of software to change the game. To be so naïve as to believe that online poker sites are not using poker bots, algorithms or other subversive tools on the market or in the poker site software is ridiculous. Many will claim that pokersites would not chance losing their rakes by using such software if discovered. However, the truth is that if they did not have some sort of software to prevent cheating, collusion and other illicit attempts, it would be easy for people to steal, bluff and dominate their way into millions of dollars in poker online. The result of never being able to win online poker would ultimately lead many to quit playing and eventually cause the poker sites to lose massive customers. Just like the Ultimate Bet scandal, and Absolute Poker scandal rocked the sites as tens of thousands of players closed their accounts. If it were discovered a site uses some type of software or algorithm to change the game dramatically, people would close their accounts and file tons of lawsuits against the site. The reality is that poker sites DO in fact use software and algorithms and they keep this information highly protected against public view and opinion. Recently, several lawsuits have been filed against more than one poker site alleging the use of pokerbots and subversive algorithms that change the game from a game of skill to a game of chance and luck. In addition to the pokersites using advanced software, other players easily have at their disposal pokerbots, online poker tools, calculators and other methods to advance their game and further an unfair advantage against you. It is like playing professional football and all your opponents are on steroids! It is tough to beat a player that has such an advantage, unless you know HOW to play online poker. If you believe you can play online poker in the same manner that you can in live play; you are doomed for failure. An adjustment of your game is necessary in order to win. There is no doubt that additional software, other than the normal random number generator, is used to determine the outcome of hands. This is the reason you must pay special attention to the players at your table and the methods in which they play. 6 If you are going to be successful in online poker, go in with the attitude that you are not going to win every tournament and that there is a multitude of software in the poker room that changes the game from a game of skill into a game of chance. As I said in the introduction, Paul Westin has done extensive research on this subject and written the Online Poker Code Crack . Take a minute to learn more by visiting his website at http://www.caligonia.com/poker 7 How to Beat a Poker Bot in Online Poker The latest rage by poker aficionados and programmers is to create and use a poker bot that will automatically play online poker with little or no human interaction, with the ultimate goal of winning money. This recent craze has alarmed both online poker sites and players as the fear of a computer program with the capacity to win online poker will essentially be able to outsmart live thinking players of their hard-earned money and eventually rob the pokersites of quality players afraid to play against so many poker bots. A recent industry study concluded that 12% of online poker players were apprehensive about or had completely stopped playing online poker in light of the recent poker bot craze. That essentially sends players offline rather than risk their money against these new computer-generated poker bots. However, there are several ways to beat a poker bot in online poker, and knowing these methods will certainly give the human player back the edge against poker bots.