Online poker tournaments differ greatly from live poker tournaments in that an online game uses multiple computer-generated programs to determine the deal of the cards. Whereas, in live play, human shuffling of a deck is much more realistic and true to the real odds of the game.

Because of the disadvantage of a computer-generated program determining the deal, it is imperative for anyone wanting to play online poker to learn the strategies to use against the program. Although your opponents are real people (for the most part, pokerbots are a possibility as well), you actually are up against more than just the players. You are also up against computer-generated programs that possess multiple subroutines and algorithms to determine many factors of the game.

For this very reason, it is necessary that if you wish to become successful and win online poker, you must adjust your online poker tournament strategy. Typical methods as playing the button, bluffing, and raising in position are not nearly as effective in online poker as they are in live games. Mainly because of the disadvantage you have against the pokersites software.