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By participating in a set of free poker tournaments, I learned how to play well so I could win most of the free courses
This is of course if you would like to play and play several times and take advantage of previous mistakes this gives you some kind of experience. This has made me look for the best gambling sites, Despite all the knowledge I have now I want more if you have an advantage I would like to know, Do not worry write down what you know.

it depends on how serious you are
the best thing to do for now is to keep checking youtube channels for strategies , theories and some hand reviews
gripsed channel on youtube used to be great but I haven't checked it since a long time so I don't know if the content still that good

if your bankroll is good enough to afford a tracker then buying holdem manger or poker tracker can give you a lot of info about your opponents
strategy depends on the game that you are playing since there is no single working strategy
I would say playing more is the only way to get better , but make sure you are playing within your bankroll limits so the experience won't cost you a lot

I stopped playing poker like 2 years ago but if you need any help just let me know

hope I understood your topic correctly cause not sure if you are asking about the advantage of playing this game or what players should do in order to have an advantage over the other players

The main advantage of playing is the chance to win. Tournaments are a very cheap way to play a lot and win a lot because you're paying a fixed fee and are given much more money in the form of credit. Normally most of us wouldn't be able to afford a high stake game but in a tournament we all do.

The bad side is that you will face very experienced opponents so your chances of winning are low but it's all random and you can get lucky and get a beginner table.

Right, playing free poker tournaments is not much of a challenge because you don't get to face experienced poker players but with you played on series of them I think you might already have a strategy in playing one you can try it out on the true poker gambling site to test if it going to work, I prefer playing on the gambling sites because you got to face different players.

Can you share where you can play some free poker tournaments?
I tried playing poker but most of my games are lost, lost games are a lot than winning games. But I learnt before about being patience on poker, and don't be a greedy always.

I also read before here that if you are perfect can control your emotion while playing poker, it's an additional advantage for you, like for bluffing, or like wearing some eyeglasses to hide your eyes from your opponents.

You probably have more experience than me when it comes to playing poker. For some reason, I always felt intimidated by playing against other players. I usually played Blackjack, which is a pretty straight forward game, although I am amazed at how many people don't know the proper strategy. Also, if you play online, you don't have to worry about keeping a poker face. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo) However, I believe that their are programs out there that can track a player's betting habits. So I would gather that a good poker player has to also be able to change up their betting strategies, so their opponents are kept guessing.

Winning against the house is absolutely at very thin chances and this is to find out that poker or any gambling games are needing pure luck otherwise, we'll just be losing at all. That is why I've never engaged more in gambling cause I don't have that luck in me.

The player can have good experience, perfect learning about the strategies related to poker and good funding and if there is no luck he cannot win. Maybe he can lower the loss stopping by the very first round.

Poker is commonly played all around the world, and the shuffling of the cards too has its role in the win. This is an automated process and already it'll be scripted how the shuffling needs to be, which is unlike the human shuffling. Lot many factors need to be analyzed while playing poker.

The advantage of winning - You become rich
The advantage of losing - You lose money

There are no scientific known advantages of playing poker but if you're a materialistic person, you might use the earned rewards to satisfy your capitalistic mind with enough dopamine.

you forgot that you can also become a pro poker player if you play poker at all times  . that is another advantage of playing a poker and that is too become good at it  . 

anyway , you cant call loosing an advantage because you already loose money   . advantage means you can earn something with it  like for example winning  .

Tournaments can enhance your skills especially if you don’t have much money to lose. We can play through many poker games online for free and we can learn a lot from there but I guess the moment you step on the casinos the situation will be different because of the money involve. I just play and play, until i learn everything especially on controlling my greediness.

I only play poker IRL because I like to watch people's body language etc.

Playing poker is a good feeling to begin.It can also make your critical thinking skill better and you can apply that wherever you are,in your work and in different life situations.Of course we play poker for a chance to win money in a fast amount of time and this is the main reason to play but as a side effect you become better at critical thinking.

You're going to have the best shot at winning based on your own skill alone, and you're not going to be hampered by the house edge or anything along those lines. This is a game of skill, not a game of chance. Though this could also be a negative as well, as you're the only person that can control how you do here (instead of just pure luck, like other casino games)

I'd like to be able to control my own destiny and be able to win my own money if I was able to learn the game and play correctly with my bankroll. This sort of thing isn't present in the world of regular gambling, as you're bound to lose just because of the house edge destroying your odds over time.

If you really think that you are good at poker,in reality you most likely suck. ;D
No offense,OP,but overconfidence is a disadvantage in poker.For me,the best skills a poker player must have are patience and the ability to not play predictable,while trying to predict the patterns and moves of other players(because most average poker players usually follow a pattern).

Poker is a beautiful game.
There is luck involved (we call it variance) but in the long run it is not a factor.

I've been playing for many years and am now taking a shot at doing it full time.
If anybody's got any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

PS - I've got a ton of courses that can help you improve your game.
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Of course you can gain a lot of valuable experience playing free poker tournaments. However, semi and pro poker tournaments are very different. I mean the atmosphere the player themselves. You can learn some basics in free tournaments, but when it comes to the big league, those things you learn may not be enough.

The best experience you get an în poker is by playing lots of tournaments and practice every move. Learn strategies, watch how players are playing, when they are calling, when they are folding and you will be able to discover different patters different players use. You will notice a lot of people, especially beginners tend to raise on a lot of hands where they have nothing or just a pair, meaning they are bluffing. Others tend to play very safe and only call when they have a strong hand. Poker is a game of strategy and experience and in order to achive that you need to play as much as possible

Some advantages of playing poker:

1. You stay sharp as you try to study every move by opponents.
2. You get thrilled or satisfied every time you figure out someones game plan then beat them.

In addition to your point, the advantage of playing porker are numerous and one of them is to develop IQ, learning toward professionalism and learning to be a gainer in the world of porker. Most of time on porker are solely to learn more about the game to make more profits in the process.

We think that it used to learn more and help us to make more profits but is this the reality? No right many people even lose huge amount at the last bets even if they are making decent in the previous bets.

The advantage of playing poker is having a provability fair game from the opponent if you sharpen your mind in reading cards. The game mechanics are less of having luck and the rest are skills and knowledge on how dealing your cards and opponent moves. I have been playing poker on Facebook apps and that was fun for me to enhance my knowledge. When I know the perfect timing of folding cards or when to increase my bet and then go in a big poker casino.

You would probably need to play for free before playing with your hard earned money. Experience from learning to play poker may differ from real poker gambling.
 
As regards the advantages,  guess you will become a better poker player, improve your  luck with more competition, improve your general problem solving skills etc

Most of the time you wont really be to face up some good opponents with these free tourneys but at least you do able to test out

your skills and knowledge towards poker with having real opponents.The good thing or advantage of this card game is that you can eventually
learn up strategy basing on other players emotional or physical movements and the one thing for most is on how you do handle your cards.

Well arguably the major advantage of Poker is that it isn't 100% luck based. Somebody with skill can prevail in the long run against somebody who just gets a lucky streak.

This is wildly different from games that are purely luck based, such as slots, roulette and blackjack.

However, it is often a challenging game to pick up for newbies, and playing online can be challenging since nearly everybody is using a HUD and some sort of AI to help with decision making.

That's why I only play Texas Hold'em live.

We can't do it all by ourselves playing poker, you may gather ideas from those players whose better than you. There were times you thought you're good enough but still went out frustrated, because you don't even try to apply those strategy that's effective from other gamblers.

I enjoyed reading, All responses were appropriate So the player can rely on some strategies to win a tour with ease. The best way to develop your skill during play is to participate in freeroll, This gives you a chance to qualify for professionalism. Every professional in the game did not create a professional, but the opposite by practice you win.

Because poker also relies on strategy, intelligence, and skills, of course there will be lessons from every game you do.
You will be more expert the more you play poker. if you ask what the benefits are of course financial profit and fun

Playing free poker tournaments can help people to learn poker as well as you. But people need to know that they don't have to use their money to learn poker because by joining the tournaments or using poker software. If we talk about the advantages of playing poker then I think it about to stay focus in the game because we need to know the card and the opponent card so we can have a chance to win. I think it's more related to what strategy we have to use in the poker game so we know how to arrange a better card.

This is depending on what poker you are playing,if this is online or in real life since I believe that the advantage of strategies are only applied in real gaming because we need to see the reaction of each opponent and how they’re eyes rolls whenever the card hasn’t being laid though I am not sure in online since I only rely on luck whenever I wanna play

I find that playing in "free" tournaments, or freerolls, is actually a very poor demonstration of poker and poker tournaments in general. As the title of them suggests, they're free. There's no risk and seemingly full of terrible players that are there playing bingo. That being said, the fields are extremely soft but instead of playing poker, it feels more as if you're trying to dodge mines to make it to the end than beating out a field of however many. For the same reason, it is also not the worst spot for someone to practice their poker if you have no or a very low bankroll, as there is no risk. You can always begin to build a bankroll in these games!

Poker, depending on how serious you want to take it, is an endless time *sink* - not in the sense that you're wasting your time - but the sense that there's endless information and studying that you could put in to be the best player you can be! The best ways to study today, for starters (this depends on your bankroll as well) is to purchase one of the training courses. Raise Your Edge, Upswing, seem to be the top 2. Fedor Holz (one of the best players in the world) is releasing a course in the upcoming weeks. These courses cost around $1000-$1500 on average. That's what I would be shooting for if you're looking to start taking poker seriously.

The first rule of a proper poker player is to never reveal your cards so you coming here and asking people to 'write down' their secrets without fear is probably not going to happen. You will get a lot of useless comments however.

I heard of this saying recently from a guy's twitter page, this is the best place to repeat it I guess. ""Knowledge loses its value if shared, but it loses its meaning otherwise"".

Poker, in general, requires luck and skill at the same time in order to win at games. Mostly, people would attempt to flop or guess the cards of others but it still primarily depend on your hand and the pool. Although winning against the house may be difficult, it is possible with the right experience and skill.

Poker is all about experience by combining the time you spent and strategizing your cards. Most poker players that I know are successful but they also reached rock bottom throughout their journey.

This is the best part that when your experience helps you and you know what move a person can play or which cards might be their and accordingly you set your game and use the strategy to play and you win in the end . This is the best thing to happen .

The more you play poker the more skillfull you become until you can make money from it effortlessly. I think some people said "with the knowledge of poker, one can trade in forex and cryptocurrency" but I don't know how truthful some of this statement is. Remember that " practice makes perfect and the more you involved yourself in some pokers' tournament the better you become.

Advantages of poker games are the own choice of making profit based upon your luck not more than that.
You want to learn more about poker games there are some specialised I am listen this forum who is giving advice for every gamblers here.
Other than that you can juice any article sites for YouTube to check ok the best ways to make the profit there.

I totally agree with you boss, I am this type too that does not grab things on time, so it was really difficult for me to cope when I started playing poker games, I started watching how they play it on YouTube which helped me a bit, and I was able to see some few strategies used by some great players I had seen playing it, so what I did was to go live into playing, and I had to challenge myself by playing with professional players.

These players, you could take it that they were burn with it the way they move their games, I lost several times, and I was just like a puppet they were playing with, but I never gave up, as time goes by, I started picking up gradually till I became very good now and could compete with anyone, I am not near perfection though, but I can still play a standard poker game with little or no defeat.

The advantages of playing poker are relaxing your mind, improving your gaming ability and mind, becoming much focus on things and many more. I think is article might help you .

 https://www.replaypoker.com/blog/four-surprising-health-benefits-of-playing-poker/

I guess that is a good article for most newbies and poker enthusiast alike, preferably some health benefits in playing poker but gradually lets not all forget that poker is a two edge two if there are good there are bad effects too so be very wary in all those things because I think that there are different effects in most people just moderation is a must I think in playing gambling.

But in playing poker it doesn't only need luck but a ton of techniques it will need determination and focus in every game you play in playing it I think that if you are playing in regular games with friends that don't have a bet I think that is a fun game to be but it will surely be a different feeling if people will bet on a tournament or have placed their bets on it, It will surely need emotional control in playing poker in my opinion.

The article is useful for the poker player, From here we conclude that the game is also beneficial to human health, Poker needs careful concentration, which helps in the growth and activation of the brain, which is good.
Poker requires you to be calm. The quieter you are, the more chances you will win. If you are active, it will cause you a lot of trouble.

Haven't had much experience with tournaments. I prefer playing against AI or other people on FB to "train". Like was said, tournaments attract players that would be more experienced than you, so it might not reflects the crowd you might come across in casinos (there would be a considerable amount of noobs mixed with the experts).

So basically, train against AI first to get the hang of it, then play on social media to practice playing with time pressure and then join tournaments.

Unfortunately poker is not like chess or other games which requires learning and experience.
Although there is no hard skills to play poker but if you play it many times you might develop the habit of winning. One cannot say that by playing poker he has become a skilled player as poker is a simple game where there is hardly any skill.

As you get more amateur, you'd start meeting professional players so unlike any other gambling, learning never stops in poker. Anyone can learn the basics in a couple of weeks.
But for advance gameplay, you should be able to study your opponents, their playing strategy, know when they are bluffing and know how they behave when they have good hands.

Studying your opponent is a good strategy. For that, you should at first only play on good hands. Don't let they call you a bluff from the start. Make a personality first.
Meanwhile when you wait for good hands, learn how your opponents play. Fold and learn. Take it slow. Some early lose won't be much of a problem in long run.

Agree with you, when you are getting in gambling you will have to keening in mind that there will be allot of struggle you will face so when you start try to gain knowledge and then gamble with medium of knowledge but I if you are poker gambler you cannot rely totally on your luck as poker is skill based gamble so keep learning the more you will play the more you will learn about it.

huh ? of coourse it is  . its simmillar to chess and other games alike that requires skills and learning curve because poker is not a kind of easy game   .

there is buddy . you can develop skills and hard skills later on if you play oftenly and the best thing is that you can win more often if you master the act of playing a poker  .

poker is not just a simple game but its a complex game  , its not easy and not all have the ability to learn it  . 

I was a very active fiat poker player long time ago and I can call it as a hobby instead of gambling because I did not really care about winning or losing as long as I enjoyed while playing against other players. The advantages of playing poker for me: relaxing after work, get new online friends, get some fun, etc.
Without a doubt winning some money is an advantage when I was lucky enough but that was not my main purpose of playing poker.

Well unlike some of the dice games that are strictly based on luck and chance, poker is more strategic involved so the gambler can find a advantage.
Much different form sports betting where the gambler has no control of the outcome, in poker the gambler chooses their decision
Poker is a proven way to gamble successfully if you are good at it and there are thousands of books on sharpening up your poker skills.

For me, a chance to win is not an advantage. If you join a tournament, there must be two results, to win or lose. The advantage is to get money instantly, even if the chance is rather low.


I don't really understand what you tried to explain with this statement. But as I explained above, the chance to win is rather low although you just spend a bit of money to join it. Anyway, there is a positive side, at least you got experiences by joining a tournament.

There are really quite good reason for playing poker player game. First one should know or learn how to play poker anf then it will lead one to be challenge for accepting dutiea and responsibility.

Anyway, I think it is not only the poker game shoulf be considet when one think about advantage on every games. Most of the time games played has advantage or not depending on the employer on how he/she treated or depends on the employer on how strict one could be running his/her business.

Playing with an inexperienced player could be an advantage to an experienced player. He'll have more chances of winning in the game but I guess it won't benefit his mental/playing skills that much.
I think if you want to play with the experienced ones to improve just your skills then you will have to do that without money or money you can't afford to lose

This is where a larger percentage of my money goes.
Poker.

Yes. It is like I am working for it. The rush and excitement when I am cornered but still got the upper hand is what drives me to keep on going back.
I play live sessions though.
Dont like the computer mode or even online system. Hell! You cannot read people eyes with that. You just keep on betting like it is just a dicing game.
There is more fun when you can see like they are smiling at you thinking they are winning even if they are not. ;D

I prefer playing with a professional player since you can learn more about of their tricks in every game even if you were just watching. Although this may not be an advantage but it will help you to build your character through the experiences you gain from playing with them. Poker game may look too easy but if you played it against professional gambler you might think again.

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Really? Is that so? Never heard of the term Poker face? Believe it or not Poker is a game of skill and like any other skill, it can be mastered. I'd love to see you try and say that playing poker requires no skill at a professional poker tourney where millions of dollars are at stake.

Yes,Plenty of practice play makes you gain experience over time, Knowing the experience can not be gained without practice. This makes me look for professionals to meet them so I can get more knowledge.

Before you can participate in poker tournament, you still need to have at least little knowledge of it before you then continue to pursue more knowledge and more experience through it, as a newbie, it will be absolutely impossible to even know what the tournament is all about.

For me, I already learnt how to play poker tournament every well, although I still engage myself in it, and the reason why I do so is to continue to gain more experience through it, because as they say, practice makes perfect, it is when you continuously engage yourself in an activity that you become a master of it, and this is why I like to participate in their courses for more experience to face a tougher challenge.

Great done well, Continuing to participate in courses is a distinctive model for gaining knowledge in a proper way, Through it we can participate in difficult challenges. And thinking about winning a tournament, And I think it will be more exciting and entertaining at the same time.

I think the advantages are it improves your decision making and ability to bluff your opponents. It really takes a lot of time and dedication if you really want to be good in poker. Even if you have bad cards you can turn the table on your side if you are good at bluffing your opponents.

I don't think so, because it depends on the card and it's smart we manage the cards we have.

To be fair personally I find there is no advantage of playing poker online but in real life it's a whole different experience. In live it's pretty easy to blef and understand emotions of your opponents, of course in this situation playing of poker is advantage compared to slots, roulette and other games because here you can feel, understand how others react in different situations, how their mimics change and etc.

On everything you do,experience is needed.We don't start on being a professional or expert on first try.

We do always start on being a newbie and experiences along the way will pile up to the road on being a good player.
You would know on how the system goes and creating your own ways on how to perform well.

When it comes to poker,engaging in more games will really mold you up.

These emotions you will feel at all kind of businesses and gambling relevant games you can see in every sites. Still your file to explain what is the advantage for you on playing poker games.
The peoples Ho feel them are lucky to do when in some games they can concentrate on poker games other than that it is not useful for random users who wish to start gambling.

I'm not a great poker player and I only occasionally play the game nowadays (sometimes online, sometimes in real life), but I've found in my experience that some of the skills you gain from playing poker IRL do transfer over to playing poker online, at least a bit. The game's obviously different in many ways online for various reasons, but you should still be honing your skills whenever possible especially as a newer player. You'll get better by doing so. Reading guides you can find online can also help your poker skills out to a degree, though if you aren't applying what you learn you don't gain anything.

IRL Poker is a much easier game. Online you're up against bots, heads up displays, bluffing algorithms and collusion.

Unless you're going to use every possible tool to max out your game, you can never master online poker.

There are many tutorials in playing poker. In fact, I am one of the people that learned poker for only watching in tutorials. I like the way people play poker specially if they have guys with their bets or they just want to bluff people around them. That is why poker is my favourite game in any gambling site. That is also the first thing that I am searching in a new gambling casino.

It's not really that hard to learn the basics for poker anyway since it's enjoyable like playing any other competitive games. Unlike most gambling games that you just put your hopes up in the air. And being efficient in poker also can make you more composed and relaxed in real life. For me at least,  it taught me to be more calculative when making decisions. I think poker does that. Experienced poker players tend to be more critical minded once they get used to applying what they learn in the game.

There is a huge difference between doing it online and doing it in real life in a casino. However, you cannot deny the benefits and advantages of playing poker online. It teaches you skills and enable you to think strategically. If you play online and then switch to casino poker, you might be able to perform not so bad unlike the case when you start it directly at a casino.

The virtual cards make the experience quite different I guess? I sometimes feel there is no way to tell if people are seeing your cards or not.  I guess that is one of the experiences that makes both physical and virtual poker different?

There's difference between, playing real life poker will allow you to read the body language and the emotions of your opponents while playing online you are basing everything with luck and how the house will facilitate your game, experience wise it will be more exciting playing with real people as you'll be able to practice those things that you've learned from time to time.

In other words, playing in the casino imparts some real life behaviors and enable you understand and play out your own strategy in real terms unlike what happens on the online game. I have always preferred the practical participation in sports gambling and compared to online gambling, it has its own unique advantages. In addition, you make more money in playing in a casino than online.

It’s not hard for those who have interest in learning.  No matter how simple a game is, if you do not show interest it will always look extremely difficult, that’s the same thing with poker. I find this game as the most difficult game ever, even to the basics. I know deep down that it might really not be so difficult but my love for sports game has overshadowed my learning habit to any other kind of game. Sometimes I feel those who play other games have never really done sports betting, if they have, I am very sure there will be less players  in other game sectors.

Back to the post, I don’t think I am in a position to list the advantages of poker games since it is not really my line of interest. Poker players are in the best position to know this.

In my opinion, there might be a great difference between online and offline gambling but at the same time, whatever advantage we get playing offline is what we get in online games. Benefits are really not tied only to the pattern of playing but the game on its own. Poker games generally, helps players in always thinking critically and as well mapping out strategies, and this is a great advantage to humans

I also noticed that all poker players think like very great entrepreneurs, Maybe because of the nature of the game, they are always available to make very smart and quick decision and poker games has succeeded in making players to think deeply. I think this is the most beneficial advantageous games aside the money it brings to the table and this advantages applies to both online and offline players.

I don't think about the advantages because playing poker gives the entertainment and also the experience otherwise I don't think more about that many people also like thinking only how we can win this otherwise the advantages and very less here.

The biggest advantage of learning poker is that you'll be able to play strip-poker and win!
Well... I guess some people might prefer to lose in this case instead though, but in any case here's one advantage!

Well, there's only one for me that I saw the advantage of poker game in the gambling industry. This is because not a pure base of luck it also depends on your skills in playing cards. Indeed, there's is a 50% of chances that you can defeat your opponent if you have good cards to hold and how you analyze the mind of your opponents. Indeed, not just like dice, roulette, and others that possible base on how lucky you are.

There are a lot of advantages on playing poker especially when you're good at bluffing. First one is you'll develop on how to bluff or fool the opponent through your actions. It will enhance your behavioral actions towards the game and will learn to control the game. I think poker is the only gambling game that will definitely help you to enhance your math skills, especially on the probabilities and possibilities.

Yes that is right. Playing poker is something that will give you experience in the long term and this is actually the experience that enables you make good money in the same game in future. We have billionaires in the industry and they think poker for all their money. So I think there are advantages if you invest your time and energy in learning poker.

I always meet professional poker players when we play the card game in reality.  It suits me better and I like it.  Of course, I am an amateur, but I have never been able to make a good jackpot.  Of course, I hope to gain experience in this way and show good results in online poker.

The most fun and valuable in playing poker besides training mentally also practicing acting and analyzing all possibilities. as we know poker face moment is always interesting to watch or do because mental and mind and also the pressure in the game set is one. I myself am a poker player who is quite active at real casino or online casino. although only at a small table but always pleasant.

poker does really have lots of advantages but this are only applicable to poker players but what about us that didnt know how to play this game ? like me i dont know how to play poker but i can be able to understand other card games    . i think the advantages of poker can still be apply on those games because they are all card based but aside from advantage there are also disadvantage and one that applies for me is that it can cause stress when im loosing .

Poker is indeed categorized as a popular game now, especially in gambling. There are many poker gambling sites that are both crypto and fiat based, this proves that poker is loved by many people. Moreover, poker is quite fun when it is played, we need to develop a strategy, choose the right decision and well it is very cool.

Because you participaning the free tournaments in poker and if you encountered again those scene you can now how to win or to avoid you made mistake before. I think it is really advatanges for you if you really play in real poker when you bet money because you can use all of your experienced in the tournaments you joined because you have more stategy you use.