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Poker Education

by admin on February 8, 2010

in Rakeback Articles

In poker the player who knows the most about the game will win the most in the long run because they will be able to better recognize mistakes and be able to take advantage of the mistakes in the most profitable way possible. When you sit a good player down heads up against a great player, the good player might win a pot here and there and maybe even for a short run, but in the long run the great player will take all of the good player’s money.

You need to study the game as much as possible while also practicing the game as well. If you get the perfect combination of this you should be able to take your game to a whole new level and start winning more.

Poker Strategy Articles

Poker strategy articles are great for your poker education because they are the easiest to write notes on. You should always take notes on everything that you learn about poker. Just like school you need to study what you teach yourself to ensure that you really learn it and can apply it on the poker tables. When you take notes you can leave out everything that you already know so what you read is simplified. This way it is much easier to read your notes instead of reading an article again and wasting your time with what you already know.

Poker Training Videos

Poker training videos are probably the most popular form of poker education around. Pros will make videos of themselves playing online and will elaborate on what they are doing and why. Players can watch these videos and pause before the action and think of what they would do and then see what is correct to do according to the pro. This is a great way to add poker experience under your belt without having to risk your bankroll.

One of the hardest parts of watching poker training videos is taking notes on them. The pro that is doing the video cannot control the hands that come up so what they are teaching is dependent on the hands that they see and the situations that arise with them. When you take notes on poker training videos go back and rewrite your notes so that everything that is related is put together instead of being just random notes.

Poker Forums

Poker forums are by far the best means of poker education because they offer so much to the player. First off there are other players in the poker forums that you can talk to. The more that you talk to good players about playing poker the better you will become. You can discuss hand histories with these players to see if you have made the correct choices. You can also talk about playing poker professionally in general with them if you have any issues. Maybe you aren’t sure how much to play and how much to devote to education. You can talk to other good players who do this and see what they recommend.

Posting hand histories is the next great thing about poker forums. Players will post a hand without the resolution and ask what they should have done. You can then look at the hand as though you were that player and think what you would have done. You can then look at what other top players think is the correct play. Most players will sit and discuss this until they come up with what would be the perfect play. You can post your own hand histories here too if you have any issues or spots that you don’t know exactly what to do.

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