  so i'm sitting there with nothing. i mean, nothing. one of my cards i think is a 5 of Diamonds, and the other card has a Bird illustration on it with a roman numeral C. i couldn't trade these cards at an Arabian market for an american flag.
but i'm the big blind, so i'm in already. flop comes out, everybody checks. so i get to thinking that maybe no one else has anything, and i bet $1 on the next hand. fold,fold,fold,fold. i'm a winner. this happens all the time. people in online poker are scared to bet on anything less than a sure thing, so as soon as someone throws a little action the pot's way, they're folding like london bridge. what i love about it is that it's a .50/1.00 game. that means, that the bets are either 50 cents or a dollar. you can't buy anything for a dollar, besides a game of bowling at the fort. but these people will just muck if they don't have the nuts. so let's go over skiz's tips: 1) if you have any semblance of anything, and people are checking, raise them. 2) if you have the nuts, and someone is betting, check him. number 2 is really based on number 1. people are scared to gamble, despite the fact that they have given people they don't know access to their bank account and social security number, and they will bak away so quickly if they see you raise.
better to let them bet themselves into a corner and raise at the absolute last second. here are some money totals so far: bought in for $100 with a 8.9% charge for the instant deposit (-8.90) before today i was holding $73 (-$27) after today i was holding $79 (-$21) luckily for me, i've played 125 hands, and after that many hands, they're going to throw me $25 dollars in bankroll. so really, i'm only down the finance charge at this point, plus through another promotion, they're going to ship me 300 free clay chips. so far, so good. so what. time for cards. BANKROLL: $120 (approximately) 
