Having complete control over your avatar's appearance, outward mood, and mid-hand actions - emotes - at the tables is what clearly separates PKR from the crowd and makes it the favourite as the future of online poker.

Cuthbert von Buy-my-Book's Super-Secret Winning Hold 'em Strategies can help you win or break even whilst you get some experience - if you've got the patience - but everyone gets bored eventually and despite their super fantastic amazing titles, it's been said that

" The one thing you can learn from poker books is that you can't learn anything from
poker books.. but you have to read an awful lot of them to find that out. "

How can you have a 'standard' model for what other people are going to do? What if they've read Cuthbert's book too? Winning poker is about adapting your game to the way opponents are playing and you have to build your own style to be able to do it.

Development and continuous improvement of your own unique approach to the game is the interesting part of poker and the only way to do it is to make your own mistakes - sometimes talk about them - and learn.

Everyone can "play the player".. Anyone who's ever tilted has already done it. Badly.. but they've done it. There's no secrets, just logic.

Tilting's a mistake. But you can see how people react to it.. Start looking for tilters.. Change your play around them.. Even fake tilt in the future if the situation's right..

Maybe out of position right after a bad beat?

That's playing poker. PKR's new dimension makes it instinctive and lots of tilting used to go on at PKR because the player element is so pronounced.

Understanding when and why a strategy will work is more important than the technique itself. The other players are the when and why - the cards are just the opportunity.

Sometimes a 4x the blind raise with AK suited is the "right" move, sometimes 2.5x, 6x or 16x.. Sometimes a flat call. No limit hold-em's an art not a science.

With your own style, PKR's table actions can start to fill some of the gaps in control over another player's decision: He might not want to call but can you provoke it?  The "bet-cough", the "raise-unlucky", or the "insta-thanks".. They all help keep the pressure on.

PKR's relentless marketing mission attracted a player base which stopped it from growing as fast as it looked like it would - Apparently carefree gamblers don't mix with seasoned poker players very well..

A few months have smoothed out the kinks though and now is the time to get into the PKR cash games and sit 'n go's. Get in now and be ready for everyone else that's going to follow.

Use PKR's new dimension to play some poker. Experiment. Sell an image. Read the players. Spot the right ones and play them - that's what PKR was made for..

Grab one of our bonus codes while your at it - PKRfriends codes are the best - better than PKR's own with 30% rakeback as well as the normal bonus.

It's still got to be Full Tilt and Pokerstars for tourneys though - no $500,000 or $1,000,000 guaranteed Sundays at PKR just yet..