The easiest way to decide if you are a fish at the online poker table is to ask yourself if you are losing more money than you should be under the conditions. Of course, every poker player will hit losing streaks, but fish are those players who just don’t know when to stop playing and step away from the table. They also tend to lose a lot more money than a typical player on a losing streak.

There are a lot of different reasons that a poker player may be a fish. Most of the time fish are simply inexperienced players that don’t know how to play. Along the same lines, a fish may also be a player who simply isn’t playing with strategy. Strategy is the most important thing when you play poker. It is the difference between a good player who walks away with the pot and a fish who walks away with nothing.

Experienced poker online players at the table can easily spot a fish. In fact, a whole culture of poker slang has arisen out of the metaphor of poor players as fish. Experienced players say that fish “school” or follow each other in their bad poker habits. The schooling idea is most obvious in tournament play when a lot of inexperienced players need to be weeded out in the beginning.

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