Many casual online poker players have for years now expressed the feeling that they are playing with a built-in deficit. To give every player more tools at their disposal to help them win, many online casinos offer software which keeps statistics and profiles of your competition, such as their betting tendencies, their win percentage, and deposit frequency. While this may sound like a great thing, the average player who just wants to log on at the end of a stressful day and enjoy some online poker is placed at a disadvantage. Tracking tools, data miners and stats trackers are employed by serious online poker players, and make it harder for the casual player to finish a session in the black.

Transitioning from “real world” or brick-and-mortar Texas Hold ‘Em poker playing to online poker can be tough for a lot of us. The vast majority of us played our first hand of Hold ‘Em poker with a physical deck of cards, sitting down at a kitchen or coffee table with our family or friends. In that environment, you can see the players, there is very little pressure involved, and each player can move at their own pace when it is their deal. That is certainly not the case in the online poker world, where gameplay is fast and furious, watching your opponents for tells is not an option, and the pressure of playing anonymous icons in a time-limited fashion can be a little scary.

I have a very good friend I’ve been playing poker with for some time. He is incredibly aggressive, to the point that he actually disturbs some of the weaker minded players at the table. (Good for him!) But his constant aggression frequently works to his disadvantage against more skilled opponents, because he simply doesn’t know proper aggression techniques. Knowing when and how to be aggressive, and when to pass, is a central strategy to becoming a profitable Texas Hold ‘Em Sit and Go online tournament champion. By simply employing the correct aggression techniques at just the right times, you can find yourself wanting more hands, and more Sit and Go tournaments online, with the same hands that cost you money in the past.

Phil Laak, also referred to as the Prince of Poker and the Una-bomber (due to his sunglasses and hoodie apparel worn during play), has not only broken the world record for the most hours played in a single sitting of poker. The previous record was 72 hours, hence Laak set a goal of playing 80 hours to break the record and set his own. Well as it turned out, Laak far surpassed the existing record, and his own goals with an amazing 115 hours played!!!

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