BUDDY LISTS "FIND THE DONKEYS"

Buddy lists are a great feature when you’re playing poker online. If you’re only using buddy lists to keep track of your friends, then you’re missing out big time. Keeping track of all the donkeys/drunks is what you really should be using your buddy lists for.

You want to have hundreds of people on your list. Make descriptive notes on everyone you play against. When you finally get a large amount of players on your buddy list, the first thing you should do when you log-in is check it.

Sites That Allow Buddy Lists

Almost all online poker rooms allow you to keep buddy lists. The exception to this rule is that most Java poker rooms don’t have the capability.

Buddies of All Kinds

There are so many bad players out there, and you should be keeping track of them. You’d be amazed at what you find. You can find players that go all-in every couple hands just for the thrill of going all-in. You’ll find players that only bet with the nuts, and players that don’t even know what hand beats what.

Low Stake Buddy Listers

You’ll find that buddy lists are more important in the lower staked games. If you are a low stakes player, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have at least 100 players on your list. There’s also no reason you can’t make a couple hundred dollars off these people every day in a short period of time.

Note Taking

Outline the way your opponents play on your note lists. The way you do this is to right-click on the player sitting down at your table, and usually a notepad will pop-up. Write down notes on how that person plays; things like they play loose, aggressive, how much they bet when they had certain hands, or if they could be bluffed or not. Taking notes on good players is a great thing to do as well.

Remember players can play differently every night. You shouldn’t follow your notes to the death. Sometimes you just caught a player on a bad night, or they were just playing a certain way that day. Most of the time however, you will find that players play the same every single night.