Practice your game.

If you are a new online poker player, polish your skills playing as fun player first and analyze your strengths and weaknesses to gain confidence. This is the time to develop your own strategies and find out whether you are a safe player or an aggressive one who pushes an advantage to the fullest. You can then move on to playing with real money.

Choose your poker site.

Ensure that you are registered at a reputed online poker site. There for is always a possibility of players colluding online against someone and sharing information. The site you are registered to should have an effective monitoring system for keeping tabs on the players.

Strategy.

Be patient - Fold early and often, the idea is to only play when you have an advantage.
Be aggressive - Don't be afraid to raise, Often the best choice is to raise, next best is to fold and the worst choice is to call.
Get inside your opponent's head - What do you think he has?

Know the Poker games you are playing!

It’s very important to know the game you choose to play.
Never jump into a poker game until you have first observed and learned how to play it online.

Choose your opponent.

If you are a new player you should play with the fish and not with the sharks. A fish is the most irritating player to play against. The plays moves and bets they play make no sense at all. Fish like to chase hands and are sometimes called "calling stations" by other players. You cannot bluff a fish, so don't try. A shark, a top player, is good at every aspect of the game and can adjust his play to all types of players. Sharks are very hard to sit with - you can never really get a read on them.

Choose your game.

Your chances of winning depend a great deal on your game selection. Select a game that is in sync with your skills, ability, and style of play. If possible research on your opponents and get an idea of the quality of opponents that you are going to face. Research on online poker games shows that there is a great deal of benefit in accumulating as much information as you can on your opponents. The key mistakes that people make and the ones you should avoid are calling too frequently, betting too much or folding too often.

Learn from your own game.

Online poker is a fast game, more so than live poker. That means that you have to be at the top of your game. You can consider writing notes to yourself about your game plan and mistakes to avoid and quickly glance at them as you play. If possible, memorize the strengths and weaknesses of your opponents.

Learn your opponent.

When you play online poker you are not able to see your opponent and thus you can not gauge his emotions from facial expressions and gestures. Thus, you need to make use of whatever information is available. At online poker games offer an indication of whether the person you are playing against is a fresher or an experienced poker player. If the player takes time to make his move, chances are that he is new to online poker and you can probably try to bluff him more than you would otherwise do.

Don't become overconfident!

The worst thing that can happen to a novice player is to win too big and too fast. When you start to win big, make sure to maintain your caution and gamble only with your head, and not with your emotions.

Keep a low profile!

Whether you are winning or losing never tell anyone how well you are doing.
Never tell anyone in the poker chat room where you are from, where you live or how much you've won.

Change your Pace.

Playing the same style of poker gets boring and repetitive after awhile, it is also a bad technique to compete at poker. If you consistently play every hand the same way, you will get too predictable. At random intervals, you should mix up your play. If you are playing very tight, loosen up and vise versa.

This strategy is not really to be used for limit games with 7 or more players, but rather for no limit games or shorthanded limit games, where bluffing and table appearance become more important. You also don’t need to change your style of game against bad opponents; they don’t pay attention to how you are playing anyway.