• Online Poker Tools

    With the market of online poker tools growing as the weeks go by, players are starting to become more and more custom to using them to their advantage.

    I have decided to look at the tools that are available to you as an online poker player but are not available to you as a live game player.

    Online Notepad

    Although many poker sites such as PokerStar com offer this tool, many players over look the tool which can offer a great opportunity to make notes about your opponents, things like are they a blind defensive player who is going to call any raise on their blind in order to see the flop or if they are aggressive more on the turn.

    Making notes like this will increase your winning percentage against that player, offering you back dated information about the player that only you have to your exposure.

    Hand History

    Again a tool that many of the online poker rooms offer its members but yet another tool that players are unaware how to use to their advantage.

    The hand history is a card by card log of how a player has played their previous hands with their betting, checking and raises all been documented for you to view.

    Been able to analyse this information and use it against that is a great way to maximise the size of the pot that your hand has the possibility of winning, increasing your profits faster.

    Poker Calculator

    More and more of these calculators are becoming available on the internet, offering players the opportunity to enter data and receive their pot odds and outs at the click of a button.

    Using one of these means that a player is able to make a better informed decision about how to bet or play their hand if you haven’t yet mastered the art of working out the percentages in your head.

    4 Colour Deck

    This is something that a lot of the bigger online poker sites added into their software in order to increase the player’s awareness of the hand that they are holding, preventing players missing that they have a flush should they lose concentration for a minute.

    The tool means that each of the suits within the deck are coloured differently, meaning that it is much easier to distinguish the suit of the card than if you were using the standard 2 coloured deck.

    Players sometimes feel that using these tools is cheating and that they are going to get caught and run the risk of been banned on their chosen site.

    This isn’t the case, in fact it is very likely that you are playing against players who are using the tools against you.