3-23-05 - SportsCrew POKER News

Attention Poker Players: SportsCrew.com brings to you practical advice to improve your online game and useful tips to beat your opponents simply by analyzing their game and knowing these Internet ‘tells'. Start winning today!

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) March 23, 2005 -- Despite the abrupt termination of the Legislature's dalliance with Internet poker regulation in the state of North Dakota this past Monday -the bill proposed to make North Dakota the first state to license online poker rooms and it would have allowed internet poker sites to become licensed in the US for the first time-, the fact alone that there were various representatives of online poker rooms out there talking to US Senators, speaks volumes of what the internet poker industry has become.

While an accurate prediction of how much the total turnover volume of this industry will be in the near future is hard to cast, many experts believe the online poker industry will have reported a gross gambling yield pass the $250 billion mark by 2008 and $275 billion by 2012. This makes this industry one of the most explosives forms of e-business in the history of trade.

Hundreds of thousands of new players join different online poker rooms on a weekly basis and they soon find out that while the game remains unchanged, the environment in cyberspace poker rooms is a completely different reality.

R.J. Bergh, professional poker player and Poker Director of SportsCrewPOKER.com says, “we have been seeing our traffic grow at an almost exponential rate in the past 6 months and one of the main reasons for this happening, is that many poker players are new to the online poker scene and they are seeking for advice on how to make the best of their online game”; he continues to say, “you might be a great poker player, but the fact is that when you're playing online, your opponent might as well be sitting thousands of miles away from you and there is no way of analyzing his game based on the traditional study of body reactions. We publish articles with practical advice to improve your game in this new era of online poker”.

So, what resources does a player have to get to know his opponent when playing online? Many experts call them 'tells' and they are the product of the study of how different individuals can react in certain given situations when playing online poker. Learning this tells can make a significant difference in the way you play online, as they provide you with insight on how to interpret what the player sitting across the cyber-table does. As poker star T.J. Cloutier has stated…"It has always been my belief that knowing your opponents in pot-limit and no-limit hold'em — how they usually play, and how they play in specific situations — is the most important thing in the game."

On the March issue of SportsCrew.com poker magazine –Poker News- Matthew Hilger offers great practical advice to learn 5 Internet tells that will help you become a successful online poker player instantly. He writes: "Internet tells are all related to the speed at which an opponent bets. Before discussing tells, it is important to understand the two ways a player can act on the Internet when it is his turn. The most common way is to select one of the several buttons that appears on your screen when it is your turn to act. The other way is to pre-select your action using the “act in turn” buttons. For example, you can select check/fold or bet/raise before the action ever gets to you. When you use these “act in turn” buttons, your action will occur almost instantaneously when it is your turn.    

Let's look at some of the tells you can find depending on how fast or slow your opponent acts. One note of caution when using these types of tells: if your opponent is playing two tables, a lot of these tells do not work since the timing of his actions could be thrown off…”

In his article “Internet Texas Hold'em: Online Tells”, Matthew Hilger offers great, detailed information on the following 5 Internet tells for online Texas Hold'em:

1: A delay followed by a check often indicates weakness

2: A delay followed by a bet often indicates strength

3: An instantaneous bet or raise on the turn or river usually indicates strength

4: An instantaneous check usually indicates weakness

5: A quick check usually indicates weakness, but beware if the player check-raises...

Hilger's full article and the detailed explanation on these Internet tells are now available at http://www.sportscrew.com/pokerpages/poker_sectionstory.php?sectionid=53 . Visit us today and start playing like a pro. These and many more interesting articles are offered as resources to improve your online poker game and technique. Visit http://www.SportsCrewPOKER.com and start winning TODAY!

Matthew Hilger is author of Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro and owner of InternetTexasHoldem.com.

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