Swimming with the Fish

Congratulations, reader, in taking the most important step you'll ever take in furthering your No Limit Texas Hold 'Em poker game. The information compiled in this guide will teach the fundamentals and secrets that literally every online poker professional in the world knows and practices. I will then build upon those fundamentals and teach you how and when to deviate and branch out into more advanced tactics. The information at your fingertips is not a simple regurgitation of previously printed material. It is a new and innovative poker system that will transform a new player into a dangerous and feared competitor practically overnight.

Beating the Game of Online Poker

Many of the fundamentals of poker must be learned before branching out, and we will of course start at the beginning. However, the starting hand requirements listed here are not replica charts or reprints. The starting hand charts and pre-flop strategies that you will learn are being disclosed here for the first time ever and are unlike anything you've seen before. While modern poker theory may not agree with the ranking systems and categories I'm divulging, there are good reasons for the changes and those reasons will be discussed in detail as we lay them out.

Many players, new and experienced, have turned to the wide variety of literature that is currently in print to teach them how to win at poker. The pros and authors of today certainly know what they're doing and have done an excellent job of providing useful information and accurate game theory. However, much of the literature available is useful only against other seasoned players.

Many players dedicate countless hours to bettering their game and becoming good or at least reasonable players, only to find that about the time they are able beat mediocre players, all at once they are no longer able to beat the bad ones or the so called "fish".

There is an easy and rational explanation for that, and I think it's about time someone addresses it. This section has a great deal of information dedicated to what I like to call "swimming with the fish". I've heard members of my poker school, advanced players, complain that playing small stakes or inexpensive online poker tournaments is more or less a craps shoot. Many good players hold the belief that playing with a large number of poor players (or "fish") causes a situation in which luck, not skill, predominates. They even have a name for it, the "schooling effect of fish". The whole concept of course is utter garbage. The truth of the matter is, however, that if you play poker against fish the same way you would play against better players, you will not win nearly as much as you should. I have developed a method of exploiting the playing errors of bad players that is so powerful that I seek out the tables with the worst players and make more money per hour playing small stakes than most players could make playing medium or high stakes poker. The benefit of course is that there is not nearly the risk involved. And I'm going to teach you to do the same.

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