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Many online poker players won't like to read this but here's a fact - Recording and effective analysis of your online poker play is one of the biggest secrets of success if you're serious about your poker play and want to make money in poker online or offline. Playing for fun only? Not so necessary. Want to get good extra money or even full time? Then it's critical.

Firstly, as long as you input it right the data don't lie. It's very human to emphasize the good points and memories and minimize or bury the bad. If you play a lot and don't keep records you will almost certainly create false impression. Poker is a card game yes but it is also a game that can be analyzed in depth. Don't worry if you're not a math genius, you don't need to do math but you need to record and look at some other things.

The key things to track are the time you start and end playing, the game type, stakes, cost of entry, your winnings, the amount of your stack at each level and the outcome of key hands. A spreadsheet program is a great way to record this data and, once you learn how use the data you can do all sorts of useful calculations to further refine your performance and see what works well and not.

For example - The time of day you play is often very important; this can tell you what times of day you play best. Track game types and stakes to see what ones you do best and worst at. This is critical at online poker sites where you're paying for every game you play!

The cost of entry and your winnings are the truest track of how much you are winning and losing. By tracking your chip stacks at each level, you can see at what level in a tournament you are obtaining your chips. It you are losing big amounts of chips early, it may well mean that you're being too aggressive early on. In later stages you see low chip growth, then maybe it's time to test being more aggressive at these stages.

The result of the last hand in a tournament is the most critical one to track. You do this to discover what kinds of hands are knocking you out of tournaments. If you see a trend in such hands you should look at those hands more closely. As an example, you may see that Ace - King is ending your tournaments far more often than it should when you're all in. If so then you can combat this by betting Ace - King and not going All In. If you lose you're still in the tournament.

As a first action have a look at the NoPayPoker.com poker forum. See especially the article sections. You'll also find many of the players there very helpful and willing to give a helping hand on how to build your record sheets and make use of the info you collect.

Spreadsheet's data, analysis? I hear you scream. I can't be bothered with that, I'll just play my poker freeform. Fine, up to you but realize that if you ever want to be real good then you need to keep and use records. Realize too that players who do this would like you to stay away from it…you're much easier to beat when you're playing blind after all!

Is Poker - Online Poker, Casino Poker Mostly Luck?

How much of poker is luck, articles we get an NoPayPOKER seem to think it's 95% luck.

We rather think it's not an absolute figure or even close to, much more dependent on player skill - Like top 10 WSOP Pros or top winners at leading free online poker sites will have a much lower belief and dependence  on luck that an all-in donkin fish loony

What do you think? Comments please!

I’d been playing 4/8 limit holdem poker cash games in casinos for about 2 years, without the benefit of D.M. Vadais fantastic teaching poker articles available at nopaypoker.com, and so I was down financially a few thousand dollars.

Finally one day, I thought my ship had come in! Believe it or not, in less than 90 minutes I received pocket Kings FOUR times and pocket Aces FIVE times -- the most phenomenal starting cards I'd ever received in my life in such a brief space of time, and ALL of them in KILL pots, where the limits were DOUBLED to 8/16.

Each hand was capped at $32 per player pre-flop, with me having the best hand preflop! KA-CHING!! I was thrilled and overjoyed, licking my chops as the pots piled high in the middle each time, singing "We're in the money...we're in the money!!" (Silently to myself of course, with only an ear-to-ear grin of a poker face, and a slight leap out of my seat each time I flopped a set to give me away!).

And then, believe it or not, I LOST EIGHT of those nine hands, even when I flopped a set, for a total loss of $625 in that hour and a half of getting the best cards of my life!!

I couldn't believe it! People were rivering straights, turning flushes, having 5/2 offsuit make 2 pair against my aces, and so on!! The only reason I didn't lose $1000 was that, ONE time only out of nine, my pocket aces were up against 1 person who flopped a set and 2 people who turned flushes, in a huge $300 kill pot, when a fourth heart on the board came out on the river, with no pairs on the board, and I had the ace of hearts for the nut flush!

Then my pocket starting cards all went to crap, except for finally getting suited face cars and I looked down at my tiny stack and said to myself, "That’s it!! That's it!! I've had it!! I am NEVER EVER EVER EVER going to play this stupid unjust random suckout game anywhere or anytime, besides NoPayPOKER, for cash money again! I'm going all-in with my last 16 bucks and this Queen/Jack of hearts, and calling it quits!!! That's it for this life -- I'll play poker at nopay in this life, and maybe I'll play in heaven someday -- but for now, put a fork in me Chef Ramsey, I'm done!!"

I dejectedly shoved in all my chips, was called by 7 other players who were already in for $12, and waited for the flop…

The flop came Ace/King/deuce of hearts, giving me the nut flush, the turn was a brick, and then, with my heart pounding in anticipation, the beautiful Ten of hearts came on the river, giving me my first Royal Flush, a huge pot, and a $250 bonus high-hand prize, all on "the last hand I was ever going to play" in a live cash game in this life!!

So now I still play at casinos 10% of the time, but I wisely play at nopaypoker.com 90% of the time, and to the casino's dismay I tell every poker player I meet at the at the casinos about nopaypoker.com and their fabulous benefits and instructional articles which have helped me make over $900 in casino tournament winnings lately!! Nopaypoker.com, even without high-hand and bad-beat bonuses, is THE place to play -- FAR better than casinos, and a lot more fun. You will never lose $625 of your own hard-earned money in less than 2 hours with fabulous starting cards, with dozens of dollars lost to rakes and dealer tips to boot, at http://www.nopaypoker.com

You just get to play lots of free online poker and enjoy it! So sign up, log in, and get playing, everyone!

Do you ever ask yourself if your poker play is better than average? Well you should! Here’s what I mean -

• When you’re playing at a poker table, do you have more than the average chip stack?
• Do you have more than the average of the people in the poker tourney?

If you don’t you need to have a plan, because playing below average will make you a net loser in the long run.

The exception would be that some people use a short-stack strategy at cash tables. This can be profitable depending on your strategy, but even those folks will tell you, their goal isn’t to remain small. They’re plan is usually to take a shot (somewhat risky) to double up at the first good opportunity. In poker, chips are power. If you're not specifically planning to play that way, when you sit down at a cash table, you shouldn't be buying in for less than the average. Hopefully you have enough $ to buy in for the most.

In poker tournaments, keeping an idea where you stand as far as average can be very helpful. Sometimes you may lose a big hand and feel the tilt coming on, but what if you looked it up and realized you still had an average stack, or even more than the average player still in the game? The beat might still hurt or you might still be sick that someone called your bluff, but you can get your head back in the game if you realize you still have a great chance to win this game! It can also help you through times when the cards are just not coming. Feel like you’ve been folding all day?

If you’re still close to average, relax, you’ll be fine, chill out and wait for a good hand, it’ll come eventually. But probably the most important is when you’re short. You’ve made some mistakes or someone else has gotten lucky and you’re falling behind. Knowing what the average chip stack is will tell you how hard you need to slam the gas pedal while trying to catch up. If you’re way behind, you’ll know it’s worth risking your tournament life to double up in the next few hands.

At some sites, there’s an option to click on to see what the average chip stack is. Sometimes in live games (especially home games) you won’t have that help, and this site doesn’t currently tell you (at least I haven’t found that option). So do you know how to figure it for yourself? Easy:

• If you’re online, pull up the lobby window for the tourney, it will have a couple numbers you’re going to need.
• Take the number of chips at the beginning of the tourney. (example 1000)
• Take the total number of people that started the tournament. (example 200)
• Multiply those two numbers, that’s the total number of chips in the game. (example 1000X 200=200,000)
• Divide the result by the number of people still in the tournament. (example 56 players left – so 200,000/56=3571)

So then you have a benchmark of where you stand relative to everyone else left in the game. If you were sitting somewhere from 3k to 5k in the example above, you’re doing just fine, keep playing at about the same speed, you’re in great shape to make a deep run.

“But,” you say, I’m WAY too lazy to do that! I’m concentrating on the game, I don’t want to pull out a calculator and do all that!”

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a quick ‘n dirty way to “math it out” without frying your brain? Well there is, sort of. There are certain points at the tourney where even someone with a math-phobia can figure out the average in about 2.18 seconds.

At halfway through the tourney (half the players who started are gone), the average chip stack will be double what you started with. So in the above example, average will be 2000 chips once you’re down to 100 players. That’s easy right? Well here is the list of spots that I find easy to remember. If you happen to be really good with numbers and bored, well, you could use the same principle to get silly with it and figure out more spots.

• ¾ players, average = 1.5X starting chips
• ½ players, average = 2X starting chips
• ¼ players, average = 4X starting chips
• 1/10 players, average = 10X starting chips

So will this concept make you better at poker? NO! But this WILL give you a measuring stick which can be very helpful in gauging your situation. The more you know about where you stand (or sit) at the table, the better decisions you’ll be able to make and that will make you a better poker player...(as long as you have some aptitude anyways), and over time, the more $ you’ll be able to win.

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