Using a Four Color Deck in Online PokerUsing a four color deck in online poker is simple. Most players don’t take advantage of an easy to use feature at nearly all online poker rooms (including StraightFlush.com) that allows you to separate each of the four suits by a different color.
Relax…no one is calling you an idiot! But the fact is that we all make stupid mistakes, and these expensive blunders become more commonplace in quicker online play, and especially when you start playing multiple tables, or play while dividing your attention elsewhere! Playing with a four color deck just takes away one more common and easy to make mistake, and since winning long term poker is all about both playing well and minimizing the number of errors you make, even if this saves you from a blunder once every few hundred hands, over a period of weeks and months, this can start to add up to significant money.
By playing with four color cards, you'll never again miss that obvious draw flush sitting on the table mocking your betting of a draw straight, and you'll also get a quicker read on your hand and the threats at the table, letting you pay more attention to good sound statistical play, and the likely plays of your opponents.
It's not cheating, and since the key to eventual success is reliable and consistent play, anything that you can do to get an edge just makes sense. We're all human and hence we all make stupid, regrettable and costly mistakes…using idiot proof four color cards makes it just a little bit harder to make an expensive blunder.
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Byron Badd, Gambling911.com
Originally published September 12, 2007 11:10 pm ET
