Advanced Fishing

To be good at finding the fish you got to think like a fish. Remember back to when you first started playing. Back when you didn’t know about pot odds, didn’t know what a fish was and just wanted to play poker. Where did you play?

Were you all starry eyed at big jackpots thinking you had a chance to win them so played at the big sites? Or were you more interested in what the site was giving away and went to the lesser known poker sites that give massive bonuses to draw you in.

Keep an eye out in your poker and casino magazines or search the internet to see who is doing the most advertising and generating the most buzz. Think like a newbie and see what is jumping out at you.

Newer sites will be advertising outside of poker. New sites know that part of their business must come from beyond their existing player base. They will be offering hefty sign up bonuses which won’t be achievable for a new player but an expert player will be able to notch up the points and release the bonuses. When a site is brand new it attracts the highest proportion of new players, those susceptible to advertising, bonus promotions and promises of jackpots. After time a natural balancing occurs into successful and failed sites. In both cases the rush of new players tapers off. If it has quality, good promotions, good software and good support then it will grow a viable player base. If though it lacks quality and starts to fail then it sinks to the bottom of the pile. Bad players don’t play there as they don’t know about it and good players don’t play there because the bad players aren’t there.

In poker game selection is everything, in online poker it starts with site selection. If you keep playing at the same site everyday because its your favourite or because it’s the best then you are missing out. The early shark gets the fish.

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