How To Make Money From Poker
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Nov 16, 2007
jamesw
How To Make Money From Poker
If you want to make money from poker then there are a few steps you need to take. You don't become a top professional poker player overnight. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, just like any other profession. First of all you obviously need to be completely familiar with the rules of the game so learn them off by heart and practice on the practice tables online for play money until you've learnt all the intricacies of the game. When you feel you are ready, you can start playing at the real money tables. I always suggest starting off playing at the low-stakes tables in order to minimise your initial losses, but you should be aware that in many ways it can be harder playing at these tables because the play is so loose. For example, it's quite easy to bluff a good player, but bad players will often keep betting. Also the poker fish at the lower stakes tables can be very unpredictable and therefore difficult to read. As you gain more and more experience you should see a gradual improvement in your play, but this alone will rarely get you to the top. To help you achieve this aim you should educate yourself as much as possible by reading poker tips and strategies from poker professionals. Whether it's poker books or simply forums and websites, there's plenty of good quality information out there if you're prepared to look for it. Try and learn from the best, ie those players who have reached the very top, so I'm thinking here of people like Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Dan Harrington, David Sklansky, etc. This way you will learn some invaluable tips and strategies that will help improve your own game. By gaining experience and constantly educating yourself you should improve over time and should hopefully start consistently making money from poker. The next step is to focus your efforts on only playing one type of game, and really try and master that particular game. This is much easier than dabbling in different forms of poker and playing different variants of the game all the time. Of course not everyone will become a poker pro by following these simple steps outlined in this article, but by gaining experience and learning as much as you can about the game, including top tips and strategies used by the professional players, you are giving yourself every chance of becoming a good enough player to make a regular income from playing poker.
James Woolley is a regular poker player and the author of a poker blog which contains the very latest internet poker tips plus details on the top internet poker sites.
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