Free Online Poker Games – Part 1

Free online poker games are everywhere. You can find them on poker stars, absolute poker, full tilt poker etc…FREE OF CHARGE. Now if you are new to poker in general and do not know the poker rules quite yet I definitely suggest you start playing online. If you have been playing poker for years and years at a local casino or a home game, playing free online poker games is MUCH different. Reason being, you can’t actually see someone’s facial expressions and getting a read on an individual’s poker cards is much harder online. Also, catching a bluff online is much harder than in person. The good thing about playing poker online is when you finally get familiar with where to play poker online and how to when playing for play money poker chips you can move into playing for real money.

The first thing you must know when you jump into real money tables is they are MUCH MORE different than playing for play money. Player’s games completely change when money is on the line. Don’t ask me why, but if players don’t have money on the line most of them are just not motivated to try and win. To reach the stage of players trying you have to move into real money games offered on all the same sites that you can play free game online poker on, you can play real money on also. What I suggest you doing is depositing $50.00 if you do not have that much. I was a poor college student starting out when I started playing for real money. It has turned into a house, car, and me being able to quit my job so it is definitely possible. After you deposit this $50.00, many poker sites such as fulltilt poker and poker stars will give you a 100% deposit bonus to match whatever you deposit up to $600.00. That’s great for you, right when you deposit that $50.00 you now have $100.00 bucks to work with. Instead of jumping right into a cash game with this $100.00 I strongly urge you to try out sit n go games. You can’t go wrong with poker tournaments online. If you are unfamiliar with sit n go’s basically they are mini tournaments consisting of 9 players which the top 3 of these players make it to the money. The prize structure is as follows:

3rd place = 20% of the total prize pool offered

2nd place = 30% of the total prize pool offered

1st place = 50% of the total prize pool offered

Looking at these payouts, winning first place in a sit and go is like three 3rd place finishes. It is VERY important to try and get first place each time. A great poker tip you should know is to play tight all the way through until there is 4 players left in which you need to play aggressive. When there is 4 players left everyone will start playing tight but YOU in hopes to hang on for a 3rd place finish and into the money. This is the most perfect time to steal their blinds and cruise your way into a first place finish.

Using Free Online Poker Games

If you really want to become a good player of poker games such as Texas Holdem you need to have ways in which you can actually improve your game. Certainly one of the best ways available for a person to be able to do this is by taking part in free online Texas hold em games (tournaments).

It is through these games that a person can learn how to play this particular poker game without it costing them anything. Instead when they play these games they will use play money. But the problem is that there are quite a number of players who actually play these games for too long and they can actually become worse rather than better players and will find it difficult when it comes to playing a real game of Texas hold em for real money.

The reason why this occurs is that when a person takes part in these games they are not actually having to risk their own money so for some they are not bothered if they play well or not. But instead what these players should be doing is actually using these free online games instead to teach themselves how to play the game better as well as help them to learn to control their emotions better (so that their opponents are unable to decipher what type of hand they have) and it will also help them to learn about the betting habits of the other players as well.

The whole idea of a person using free online Texas hold em games is to allow them to get to know everything about the game when first starting out. It is a great for them to learn to know which hands they should carry on playing and which hands they should fold on.

With any game of poker including Texas hold em a player does not need the ability to be able to beat the other players, but rather the ability to help them figure out what is the best way to beat them when at the table. Taking part in a free online Texas hold em game will provide you with an idea of how to beat your opponents (other players). Then after a while you can start to move on to playing in games for real money rather than play money and this will then help you to hone your skills and knowledge further all of which you have acquired whilst taking part in free online Texas hold em games and which have made you in to the player you are today.