Today, I played my first round of online poker. Before I started, I was thinking this will be easy! It can't be any different or more difficult than playing in person. In fact, it should be easier because I won't be able to give my hand away from my various tells! Once again, I was wrong. What all I thought would be advantages were major disadvantages.
Since my opponents weren't able to see me and my tells, I wasn't able to see them and theirs. Obvious conclusion right? Well I didn't think about it before I started playing and I should have! I didn't realize before how much I relied on body language, eye contact, and being able to analyze and categorize my opponents habits. That is not easy to do on online poker. Online poker is about playing the odds of your own hand and not factoring in what is in the other players' hands.
Another thing that I learned about is that online poker isn't like in person poker due to the fact that players don't play by the "correct rules". People will raise out of position when they don't have a decent hand. Bluffing becomes a way of life. The impersonal nature of online poker leads to freedom of playing, which may or may not be a good thing. It becomes much more difficult to play when the strategy that I have worked weeks and months to develop goes out the window. Guess we will just see how I do and if I can adjust to a new way of playing.
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