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Guest Post – PirateLawyer – Education of a Poker Blogger

Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail

PirateLawyer is a blogger (but not a real pirate) who is looking to educate players on some of the problems faced with online poker and how you can deal with them. He starts off with some basic principles to start off his four part series. Feel free to drop a line if you have a comment or question.

The Education of a Poker Blogger
by PirateLawyer

Stubbornness is a character trait that has held me back at the virtual felt of the poker world. Like most amateur poker players of a certain age, I began playing the game before it gained popularity on television, and soon realized that the online poker experience demands a new set of habits and skills. Slowly but surely, through painful trial and error, I have learned some lessons about how to cope with the pitfalls of online poker. I hope this primer will help fellow amateur poker players of the non-genius variety avoid similar mistakes and improve the state of their bankrolls. In Part One, I’ll discuss some basic tools to help you in online play; in Part Two I’ll introduce the concepts of self-control and poker study; in Part Three I’ll discuss experimenting with all of the major variants of poker at low stakes, and do a paired walk through of a successful tournament satellite and main event final table run; and finally in Part Four I’ll introduce some advanced concepts for consideration – reciprocity and the skill of quitting, as well as the need to start balancing your own game against tougher opponents as you move up in stakes (optimal versus exploitive play).

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