As a gambler of vast experience that has been playing long before online gambling was even possible I will now share my expertise with you.

Online poker is fairly not the same as playing with your friends or even in poker tournaments. It has some marvellous advantages over traditional poker. You can 'sit' at a table anytime and a lot more importantly you can leave at any time. Your opponents will be from a pool of many thousands of online players who 'sit' at tables at random. Sometimes you shall see the exact same 'faces' i.e. their pseudonyms. It is totally impersonal. In traditional poker you may actually take a dislike to some players as a result of their mode of play or their expressions etc. but in online poker you leave all those emotions behind you.

There is a notion out there that playing online poker exposes you to fraud. I think this is false.
The people at your table don't know you and it's unlikely you know them. Two people can't play from the same computer. The exchange platform will not allow it. You are playing for yourself only. I think it will be impossible for two people to 'rig' a game. Assume two people were in contact by smart phone. What information can they give except what is in their own hands. They cannot see yours or anyone else's. Whenever they attempted to raise the stakes that can be their undoing if someone else has a red hot hand! And after that think of the price of the telephone calls.

Online poker (or any poker for that matter) is not for fools. You need to focus on what you are doing. In case you are in a penny ante game (and there are plenty on the betting exchange) learning the best way to play poker then treat that game as if you were in a 'big' money game. The guidelines are exactly the same and the strategies that work in small games shall work in big games.

The best game is Texas Hold 'Em. When you probably are aware you are dealt two cards and after the very first round of betting three cards are flopped by the computer. Everybody uses those cards in conjunction with their very own to make the best five card hand. After the very first three cards are flopped by the exchange computer there is yet another round of checking or betting. Then another card is flopped and another round of checking or betting follows. Finally the fifth card is flopped through the exchange computer as well as the final round of betting or checking takes place. The best hand is the winner. The best hand is dependent upon using one or two cards through your hand and three or four cards from the table. In certain cases the cards on the table constitute the winning hand on their own own and the pot is divided through the players remaining within the game.

Let's assume you know the typical rules of poker e.g. the rankings of hands - best hand a Royal Flush (10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace of same suit) down to one pair or if perhaps there's absolutely no pair then mouse click the following post hand with the highest ranking card from the Ace down. In Texas Hold 'Em I feel you shouldn't play unless you are dealt a combination of cards from the 10 to the Ace or perhaps a pair. Of course if you were to rank those sets of two cards the very best set could be two Aces, then two Kings down to a pair of deuces. After them an Ace as well as a King will be the best and after that an Ace and Queen, Ace and Jack, Ace and ten. If you have an Ace and some other card they too are worth playing with. But if you want to be clinical concerning this game don't play at all until you get a combination as described above. Do not be tempted to play with two of a suit unless they can be one of the combinations described in the paragraph.