One of the most important attributes of a good poker player is patience. This is also a great attribute in any one hoping to learn the game. Don't expect it to be easy - if it was, every one would play well.
But the biggest mistake that new players make? By far the biggest mistake, and one of the most common mistakes, is to learn a little about poker and then think you know it all.
Thinking you know it all, means that you think there is nothing left to learn, so you stop learning.
You can see this type of player any day on any poker site - he's the guy (or gal) that gets beat and proceeds to abuse the winning player, telling them what they did wrong and how useless they are.
If you want to make money from playing online poker, then we suggest that a good place to start is our Poker Lessons section.
The most popular style of poker game online is the sit n go. A sit n go is a game that runs at all hours of the day. I consistently fills up to a set amount of players. For example, there may be a 10 person sit n go. As soon as 10 people have registered for that tournament, it will start. Normally, the top 30% or so would cash. It is probably one of the fastest and easiest ways to make some money online playing poker. Read More
The most popular style of poker game is a tournament poker game. To be more specific, a multi table tournament. This is the kind of tournament you will find when you watch the World Poker Tour or the World Series of Poker on TV. These are the types of tournaments where you can make the big money. In fact, some of the bigger tournaments out there have been known to change lives of average people. Could you imagine buying into a tournament for a thousand dollars and within 15 hours walking away with $400,000? Well that is the kind of stuff that happens every single day in these poker tournaments. Multi table tournaments provide opportunity to your normal average poker player. Read More
In general, there are two different styles of poker games. There are ring games (also known as cash games) and Tournaments. Of course, with the recent poker boom with the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker, tournament play is very popular. There are a lot of folks out there that have no idea that ring games even exist. There are a lot of differences between the two. A tournament is not the same playing style as a cash game. They call for completely different strategies for a variety of different reasons. Read More
Playing with a short stack can be one of the most exciting positions to be in when playing poker. After sitting with a short stack for long enough, you start to get the feeling that you have nothing to lose. That makes you dangerous, and it opens up a lot of doors. The only way that could work in your favor, is if you learn how to have that attitude in a smart kind of way. Channel that frustration and feeling into playing a smart short stack strategy. Read More
They say that each and every poker player has a tell. A tell is something that gives away what they have in their hand. Something that they do or a specific way they act could be a tell in poker. If what they say is true, than that should be a pretty important thing to learn about and understand. The fact is, that most people have several tells and only very few people actually look for them. Even less know how to find them and what to do with the tells once they do find them. Read More
Hand Selection is by far one of the most important parts of poker. It is actually one of the first things that you should master. The problem is that many sources out there will give you the wrong idea about hand selection. This article is about hand selection in general, so not just Texas Holdem. The different games will obviously call for different types of hands, but they all have the same rule of thumb. That rule as that you should be very selective with when and how you play hands. Read More
Poker can be played in a variety of different ways. Some people enjoy playing on special occasions, while others like to play a home game with friends once every Saturday. Some people play in $10 tournaments, and some do not play for any money at all. Well, then there are the people that choose to play in card rooms where the minimum buy in for a cash game is anywhere from $100-$100,000 (in some cases even more). So when do you decide to take that plunge? How do you know if that is the right thing for you? Read More
Online poker grows bigger day by day. If you think about it, what could be better than playing poker from your computer any time and any day you would like. Being a big time live poker player, you could think the completely opposite. What better than sitting down at a poker table with a stack of chips in front of you sitting eye to eye with your opponents. There is no questions that both live poker and online poker have their pros and cons. The real question is which one is more profitable? Live poker or Online Poker? Which one should you dedicate your time to master? Read More
As you get more experience playing poker you will start to develop a playing style. In fact, you will probably have a playing style that changes multiple times over the course of your playing career. There are really several different styles of play that one could have. There is the aggressive style, the tight style and many more. Those are the main two, however there are different variations Read More
Math is one of the most important aspects of poker. When you think about it, poker is just one big numbers game. It is all about the numbers. Everything from how you decide who wins the hand right down to how much money you win each hand. Along with that, there are very specific odds and probabilities for each hand. If you are not real big on math, then poker probably is not the right game for you. Read More
This month we are looking at the (relatively) new poker room Pay No Rake which was launched about 6 months ago on the Action Poker Network.
The Action Poker Network is home to poker rooms such as (surprise) Action Poker, and Tiger Gaming. Traffic is low at this network, and they do not accept playres from America.
The concept behind PayNoRake.com is, as you might have guessed, that players can get all their rake paid back to them if they play enough.
Rake is paid back on a scale depending on how much the player has played in the previous 24 hour period, which reaches a max of 100% rake back for the busiest players.
The rake back amount is calculated and paid back automatically by the site, so the player need not do anything except play poker.
This site is definitely worth checking out if you play any reasonable amount of online poker.
It is possible to play hold'em poker online for free, and there are a couple of ways that you can do this.
The first, and best, way is by using the various 'no deposit' bonuses that are available. We will be adding our own 'No Deposit Poker Bonuses' section soon, but in the meantime if you are interested in this type of bonus you should check out all the available offers at No Deposit Poker.
These no deposit required bonuses can be a great way for beginners to learn the finer points of playing for real money without actually having to put their own money up. And some players might even develop a sizeable bankroll from them.
Anyway, who can say no to free money?
The second way to play poker online for free is by using the fake poker money option that is available on most, if not all, online poker sites.
That second option we think is not a good idea. To find out why not, read our article Free Online Poker Fake Money.
This article just might make you think again before playing poker with fake money.
