How to play Texas hold’em poker is a question many player’s ask when starting out. You can go to Google and type in how to play Texas hold’em poker and learn all the rules quickly, but what good does that really do you? Let me give you a piece of advice this old man once told me at the poker table. It takes 10 minutes to learn the rules of poker, but a lifetime to master. Think about it, you can learn the poker rules in 10 minutes, but it takes a lifetime to master poker. I have been playing for over 20 years and I still learn new things everyday. Every bit of experience you can notch under your belt is golden. I started out playing Texas hold’em poker limit using my Texas hold’em poker odds calculator. Now it’s a great poker tool to learn the correct poker odds and which hands to play and which hands not to when starting out. Sometimes if you do not have the odds of winning the hand and you have a gut feeling, sometimes you just have to go with that feeling.

Texas hold’em is a great game and you will constantly win by playing the odds, having some luck, studying the game, and playing as much poker and gaining as much experience as you can. Experience is irreplaceable. What I did to gain experience was start out by playing online poker freerolls to win online Texas hold’em free. Basically by playing online poker freerolls you can win lots of free money. Many sites such as fulltilt poker and poker stars offer poker freerolls for all types of players free of charge. Sometimes they offer $100.00 for first place out of 1000 people that create a play money account. I was lucky because I am one of those 1 in 1000 people that actually won first place in one of these online poker tournaments. I remember it clearly because it was July 21st, 2004. Right when I won it said congratulations you have received 100 bucks for your first place victory.

I was stoked and I have never looked back since. What I did with this 100 bucks is start out by playing 5 dollar sit n go’s to increase my bankroll. My poker players make a huge mistake by jumping into cash games aka ring games as soon as they jump into online poker games. This is where players go wrong. You need to think outside the box and put cash games aside for now. You don’t want to risk losing your whole bankroll in one hand. For inexperienced players, sit n go’s are the absolute best thing you could ever play. Not only do you gain so much experience, you can only lose the buy in of the sit and go if you lose. In poker you will run into bad beats, the way you win is if you survive these bad beats and make a profit.

I honestly wish you the best of luck at the poker tables and good luck if it is your first time playing online. It is definitely the way to go!

By: Sean Moranse

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