Selection and training of the game

Poker - one of the easiest games. To start the game, you need to know the seniority card combinations that the more senior the combination has a younger and that with strong cards, you should bet and when weak to refuse to continue the game.
First of all, find out what kind of poker you offer, what are the rates structure, fees and additional rules. Start learning the proper policies and strategies, focusing on the specific game.
In the world the most common stud poker , so it makes sense to pay more attention to this particular game. Texas Holdem because of his simple strategies and rules are not less popular.
To date, the Russian Stud Poker on five cards is more common than the same game with seven cards. At the same time in America, playing the five cards do not.
If you are completely unfamiliar with poker, you should start with Draw Poker . In this game you will understand the basic principles of poker - betting strategy, the seniority of combinations, the possibility of drawing in the distribution of additional cards. In addition, it is Draw Poker is the greatest fame and popularity among the "home" players, and you will not be difficult to find a partner for the game among their acquaintances, friends and colleagues.
If you play in the casino, in many American and almost all Russian clubs have poker tables for beginners. At these tables play completely without money or set very low rates. In some clubs, instructors can give beginners some free tips and playing lessons. But do not get carried away too long a cheap game. In many cases, generate a paltry rate at beginning the habit to put chips in every pot - enter the game with all the cards, "just would not sit idle." Moreover, the habit of extraordinarily impressive and spectacular (on the cheap tables) actions can lead to unconscious repetition in future, more serious games that can cause large losses.
The best way to explore all aspects of the game and acquire the necessary skills of the game - a game at a table with a "normal" rates, but low antes. For example, in the standard Draw Poker structural rate of $ 5-10, and only 1 dollar ante. Even if you are playing poker for just the second time in his life, you can spend at the gaming table and a lot of time is practically nothing to lose or even gain a small profit. At the same time, watching the game prepared by knowledgeable players (more players at the table, the better), you can explore the game strategy and tactics, to understand the game, but the the real game does not engage, set each time the ante $ 1, and only when your card will be very strong indeed, make the first bet, or a bet of your opponents. Then again, wait for good luck, losing just a little, and when fate smiles return of their money.
Statistics show that by using this strategy, the majority of beginners enough to master playing skills just $ 100 !!! Do not forget that this strategy is a losing! It is intended only to give you the opportunity to fully understand the game. After spending an hour at the gaming table or a couple of hours, you will definitely start to use other favorable to strategic decisions. You will notice that the players made after you bet or raise invariably folded cards, because they know that you're playing very tight and getting into the game, be sure to win, you can use this - bluff - start playing with weak cards. Use stealing antes, perform a check-raise - and you're in a full game. A little luck, a little common sense, and you win.
The Russian casinos the minimum bet in poker from 2 to 5 dollars. If you are familiar with the main principles and strategies of the game, such low rates is unlikely to ruin you. Structural rate of $ 2-4 or 5-10 are optimal for all beginners and intermediate level players. These rates are easy to install and make the game balanced, visible, to the extent of losing and moderately profitable. The local casino poker, most players can not boast of professionalism. If you lose and most likely your loss at such low rates will be much less than the players, who, not knowing the basic strategy, play blackjack . If the class of your game will be higher than that of your competitors, your winnings will probably be more than those who play Blackjack, having a score card. In addition, as in any other game of chance, poker is not excluded moment of good luck, which gives quite a big chance, even a novice player to win a professional.
Learn to play, do not stop there, constantly improve its strategy and tactics, and very soon you will be able each time to beat the casino and win percentages at their opponents.
Having achieved some success, go into the category of higher rates. There is quite a misconception that the higher the rate, the higher the class of players. The reality is just the opposite. The fact that very often in the more expensive games are not played, who is more familiar with the game, but simply a wealthy gambling and people who are not in employment because of their business or self-confidence to explore the complex strategies of the game is not enough time. If your income is a few hundred or a thousand a day, did not put a solid 5-10 dollars, even if you are a complete ignoramus in the game. Therefore, experienced players know that the higher rate on the table, the more easily they won one and lost the other.
Professionals have long observed that if they play with other strong players, which is not much inferior to them in the class of the game, then it's best that you can hope for is a winning high stakes for one hour of play. That is, in a game with stakes of $ 5.10 the best player wins about $ 10 per hour. Therefore, the main income of a professional brings not the best, and completely illiterate casual players that fish is called in poker - the fish. In this case, your winnings (at the same rate) may be 50, 100 or more dollars per hour, depending on the number and species of fish in your "tank". If you earn the game to life, the "catching fish" and play at high rates should be your main tactic.