The longer you play poker the better you become ?

[Nellayar]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

Maybe, experience is the best learning. Anyway, poker is not only for professional players. It does not require a lot of time just to win, it needs skills and luck. Even if you are too old in the poker game, if the luck is not in your hands, you will ne win. But poker also needs to be professional in appearance as well as movement so that you can avoid to be showed your play by observant players.

[panjul07]

poker is a game that requires certain skills so the more you play the more skills you will get and it will help you in future to beat the opponents.

But that will be hard to get the skills if we use the money to learn poker game. The best thing that you can do is trying to search offline poker software so you can learn the poker itself. Learning poker itself will not easy, and it needs time before you can master the poker skills while you need to control your emotion inside the games.

Sometime you need to spend some money to learn something, it is common thing in this world. Indeed you can find some free poker sites to practice but if you are relying on this free poker site then you wont get the real feeling of gambling as you are not risking your money. Once you think you have learned from the free poker sites, you need to make a step forward by learning with real money.

[rachman mahesa]

Playing poker is not just relying on luck, you must have a good strategy for poker. The more you have a lot of experience in playing poker, of course you already have the right strategy when playing. You can be a winner with a low or not very good card, but you can make it win with your strategy when playing poker.

[roosbit]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

Consistent playing of this game will definitely improve your skills but this game is between you and other players and there is no telling how good you have got if you not playing the same player's, if you will play the same players and get to win some prizes then you getting better but always playing different crowds luck can be on anybody's side.

[onrise]

Playing poker is not just relying on luck, you must have a good strategy for poker. The more you have a lot of experience in playing poker, of course you already have the right strategy when playing. You can be a winner with a low or not very good card, but you can make it win with your strategy when playing poker.

Poker is a game of experienced people as it can help you and guide the way to win in this as strategy and experience is what drives in winning the game . Luck also plays some role though may not be a bigger one but experience counts a bigger one .

[Betwrong]

poker is a game that requires certain skills so the more you play the more skills you will get and it will help you in future to beat the opponents.

But that will be hard to get the skills if we use the money to learn poker game. The best thing that you can do is trying to search offline poker software so you can learn the poker itself. Learning poker itself will not easy, and it needs time before you can master the poker skills while you need to control your emotion inside the games.

Poker rules are easy to learn. You will need several hours, or two days max, to understand the basic rules. You can even play poker not knowing the rules but constantly checking with poker hands rankings from this or that site. Learning how to control your emotions during a game is another thing entirely. It is so hard that some people can never succeed in that. From my experience, it's not something you can learn with practice, but rather it depends on your mood each time you play, and every time is unique. I personally know a poker player who was very good several years ago in controlling his emotions, but then had lost this ability at some point, and started playing very aggressively, losing in the end in most cases. He thinks that other people have become better at playing poker, but what I see is that he can't control his emotions anymore, or most of the time anyway.

It is quite important not only control own emotions, but also be able to  read others movements, by a change in eyes, small movement, even the way person move his bid on the table. Best players read body language the same as we see the cards.

"Best players" can read body language, as you described, only in movies and TV series. In reality they are sitting at one table with other "best players" who are not worse than them in understanding body language, making a good poker face etc. Good poker players can fake that body language to make others believe that they are trying to bluff, while they are having the best hand possible. Tom Dwan is very good in such things, but that doesn't make him constant winner because there are others who are good at it too, and also because luck is a big factor. In short, there is nothing you can learn that others can't. Those overconfident gamblers who think otherwise usually lose big in the end.

[shoreno]

poker is a game that requires certain skills so the more you play the more skills you will get and it will help you in future to beat the opponents.

But that will be hard to get the skills if we use the money to learn poker game. The best thing that you can do is trying to search offline poker software so you can learn the poker itself. Learning poker itself will not easy, and it needs time before you can master the poker skills while you need to control your emotion inside the games.

Poker rules are easy to learn. You will need several hours, or two days max, to understand the basic rules. You can even play poker not knowing the rules but constantly checking with poker hands rankings from this or that site. Learning how to control your emotions during a game is another thing entirely. It is so hard that some people can never succeed in that. From my experience, it's not something you can learn with practice, but rather it depends on your mood each time you play, and every time is unique. I personally know a poker player who was very good several years ago in controlling his emotions, but then had lost this ability at some point, and started playing very aggressively, losing in the end in most cases. He thinks that other people have become better at playing poker, but what I see is that he can't control his emotions anymore, or most of the time anyway.

It is quite important not only control own emotions, but also be able to  read others movements, by a change in eyes, small movement, even the way person move his bid on the table. Best players read body language the same as we see the cards.

"Best players" can read body language, as you described, only in movies and TV series. In reality they are sitting at one table with other "best players" who are not worse than them in understanding body language, making a good poker face etc. Good poker players can fake that body language to make others believe that they are trying to bluff, while they are having the best hand possible. Tom Dwan is very good in such things, but that doesn't make him constant winner because there are others who are good at it too, and also because luck is a big factor. In short, there is nothing you can learn that others can't. Those overconfident gamblers who think otherwise usually lose big in the end.

thanks for that kind of trivia , now i know where the poker face word came from but your right that luck still matter the most because like what you said , some poker players are wise and they can fake their body language so that their oponnents can also make a mistake and they can win the game . those who are overconfident are better than those who dont have a confident at all no matter when they win or loose because being confident can bring positive results when playing a poker game  .

[partysaurus]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

Maybe, experience is the best learning. Anyway, poker is not only for professional players. It does not require a lot of time just to win, it needs skills and luck. Even if you are too old in the poker game, if the luck is not in your hands, you will ne win. But poker also needs to be professional in appearance as well as movement so that you can avoid to be showed your play by observant players.

the luck factor is a huge part from seasion to seasion, but over the long haul if u win 52% of the times you will be a winner, but alot of people think you can win every time you play and that wrong, even pro players go on long losing streaks that can last months.

[MFahad]

poker is a game that requires certain skills so the more you play the more skills you will get and it will help you in future to beat the opponents.

But that will be hard to get the skills if we use the money to learn poker game. The best thing that you can do is trying to search offline poker software so you can learn the poker itself. Learning poker itself will not easy, and it needs time before you can master the poker skills while you need to control your emotion inside the games.

Poker rules are easy to learn. You will need several hours, or two days max, to understand the basic rules. You can even play poker not knowing the rules but constantly checking with poker hands rankings from this or that site. Learning how to control your emotions during a game is another thing entirely. It is so hard that some people can never succeed in that. From my experience, it's not something you can learn with practice, but rather it depends on your mood each time you play, and every time is unique. I personally know a poker player who was very good several years ago in controlling his emotions, but then had lost this ability at some point, and started playing very aggressively, losing in the end in most cases. He thinks that other people have become better at playing poker, but what I see is that he can't control his emotions anymore, or most of the time anyway.

I am surprised whenever anyone say that poker is easy game, it is most difficult game in whole gambling, may be i can't understand the basic rules of poker or may be i am not made for poker game. I quit it because i have failed in poker game. But as you explain about poker, it seems you are expert in poker game.   

[FanEagle]

This is both true and not true. The longer you play the better you will definitely get but not as much as you may think you would.

Like if you start gambling at the age of 18 (legal age in many places of the world) and keep gambling poker for 50 years that doesn't mean you will be as good as the best poker players, there are people making millions of dollars in poker tourneys and you may never become like them, you still can, there is a chance but that doesn't mean you will be. That is why the longer you play the better you get but not as good as you think. That requires both a god given talent of calculation and mathematics and social cue understanding plus reading a lot of books and learning the tricks of the game and what not plus a big set of balls to actually pull off some bluffs.

[mich]

Well look if this was a true and accurate statement then I would be very rich since I have been playing poker more then 40 years
Achieving success at poker doesnt really depend on your time played but rather if you possess the skill set and can calculate odds quickly
I dont personally like poker since I am up against other people who may have a better skills or are just better at math

[TheCoinGrabber]

Never played physical poker nor am I pretending to be good at the few one's I tried (like the Zynga one on FB) but yes, it is a skill unlike more common gambling games like dice or slots. There's not much that can be done with the random nature of it but a lot can be done on the human side, with bluffing and stuff (more important in f2f games).

The skill that can be developed would be calculating the odds, which would always be useful whatever variant of the game you play.

[passwordnow]

the luck factor is a huge part from seasion to seasion, but over the long haul if u win 52% of the times you will be a winner, but alot of people think you can win every time you play and that wrong, even pro players go on long losing streaks that can last months.

Someone who thinks that he can win from time to time is out of his mind. Playing poker isn't like, time will come for your winning streak but there are also bad days where you see that it's about time to think of yourself on how you should recover from those losses.
In the end, it's about the experience that will teach you all of those things that you have to learn. From controlling your emotion, managing on how much to bring in the table, when to fold and when to be brave.

[Betwrong]

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thanks for that kind of trivia , now i know where the poker face word came from but your right that luck still matter the most because like what you said , some poker players are wise and they can fake their body language so that their oponnents can also make a mistake and they can win the game . those who are overconfident are better than those who dont have a confident at all no matter when they win or loose because being confident can bring positive results when playing a poker game  .

Maybe being confident can help you to win a boxing match, but it is hardly helpful in poker. Overconfident players act aggressively and they usually win more than others at first, but then this very confidence leads them to losing everything when, just by chance, their opponent has a really good hand. But if you mean(I hope you don't) that confidence creates some kind of a "winner's aura" that makes you to win a game, I can tell you that there is no such thing, even beyond poker. Overconfident people look silly, and that's it. They neither look like winners, nor do they actually win.

[maydna]

What do you think can be a consistent winning player on this game? is this game of skills or luck?
the longer you play more skills you get?

Maybe, experience is the best learning. Anyway, poker is not only for professional players. It does not require a lot of time just to win, it needs skills and luck. Even if you are too old in the poker game, if the luck is not in your hands, you will ne win. But poker also needs to be professional in appearance as well as movement so that you can avoid to be showed your play by observant players.

the luck factor is a huge part from seasion to seasion, but over the long haul if u win 52% of the times you will be a winner, but alot of people think you can win every time you play and that wrong, even pro players go on long losing streaks that can last months.

I don't think he can win 52% of the times because that will be too hard to get. No one can get a higher percentage in the gambling games unless he has luck and that is the most reason for every gambler who can win the games. Experience is the best learning, but we must remember, playing gambling without having luck is the same as losing money, and we are difficult to recover the losses.

If you only want to spend your time in gambling, then it's no problem for you, but most of the gambler will think about the money because money will attract them to play over and over.

[yousbabtle]

You can become better by playing poker daily if you keep a few notes.You should keep notes for every hand that you think you will win but in fact you lose.By studying these notes daily it is a sure thing that you will be better than you were before taking these notes.

That is a good idea. You would not forget about your strategies if you do that. It is a kind of practice that will make you the master but I think after doing so for sometimes, you would not need anything like notes to follow the practice. It is I think very possible to save this information like a muscle memory. You remember these things instantly when you need them in trading or gambling.

[Jjewelle29]

I think if the conbination of skill and luck will join you have no reason to los and yes, I believe the longer you play more games the more skill you gets.

[FlightyPouch]

I think if the conbination of skill and luck will join you have no reason to los and yes, I believe the longer you play more games the more skill you gets.

I don't think the word there is "gets" but I think the right word here is  "earned". The usual lines my teachers used when we asked her what is knowledge for her, it is the set of experiences acquired by the individual and I think that also apply in Poker. The more game that player played, the more knowledge he gain from the game. Luck may be in his side but I think the main contributor here is his skill.

[joshy23]

I think if the conbination of skill and luck will join you have no reason to los and yes, I believe the longer you play more games the more skill you gets.

The combo will bring decent winnings for sure, and regarding to longer time it will increase your good judgement as time passes by and lots of
deals that has been showed up, you will generate good anticipations when you stay that long and witness more card draw.

[jademaxsuy]

yes, you can have higher analysis when it comes to decision making. But still poker is not about a good strategy but instead it is all about luck. The good turns of cards will let one decide for the win or not. One could be at advantage when one will be having new poker players.

This is why it is advice for new players to watch or play using AI first beforw getting into the real world of poker gambling.