Top Free Online Poker Games Player Reveals Why Moving From Casino Or Free Poker To Cash Online Is So Hard
In this free online poker ex-musician, police officer, casino security and poker table dealer John S imparts some free online poker training. In particular his insights on the differences between real world poker and online poker and then between the different forms of online poker games, free and cash ought to be a must read by every poker play today.
In 1988 years before the crazy idea of free online poker games became reality that I went on tour with a heavy metal band playing warm up for the likes of Skid Row and Ozzy. Bizarrely this led to a career as a police officer. For the next 20 years I would spend my time investigating homicides, sexual assaults and high tech crimes. As a result of a poor, as I’d say now, hand of cards, I ended up in early retirement which in turn led me into the world of casinos.
After surviving a series of heart attacks I needed something low stress to pay the bills. It was the Trump Taj Mahal that saw fit to hire me in the surveillance department where I would spend the next 6 months watching the poker room, learning the game and ultimately going to dealer school.
This job proved a bit too much and I didn’t work as a dealer for long but it did turn poker into a new passion.
Although the next few months saw me playing in the casinos at real poker tables, I had also discovered the world of online poker. I had learned some hard lessons in the casinos, but thought those lessons would prove useful in my new poker world. In fact nothing could not have been more untrue! I have to tell you that between real world poker and online poker, free poker or cash, the same principles do not apply and transfer well at all.
In a casino you have personal interactions with your opponents. You often become friends, have drinks after games, hopefully buying with the money you won from them! But online offers a mask of anonymity. A mask that some people use to do and say some crazy things in poker games.
Some of them act like this due to the lack of personal interaction, so it’s just boredom. Yet there is a great opportunity to make money with online poker when you know what you’re doing.
How you go about making money in online poker comes down very much to what sort of game you play. Freerolls, for example, differ greatly from buy in games and SNGs (sit-n-gos) differ fundamentally compared to big multi table tournaments. Big money games, as you might expect, are very different to free poker online and micro stakes penny poker.
I have spent an exorbitant amount of time playing freerolls. That’s because I like the idea of building my bankroll on someone else’s money. Although they are free, I can assure you they are no walk in the park. They vary greatly in prizes, but they all require the same thing if you have any ambitions on winning – patience.
In the initial stages of a freeroll you will throw a hurricane of donks (short for donkey which means a bad player) at you and you should expect a very high number of pre-flop all-ins. As long as you can weather the storm and resist fighting back and risking your pocket 5s or suited King/Queen then you have a good chance to progress in the tournament.
You must also not chase down your hand. You either flop a hand you can play or you don’t. You must not reduce your chip stack by paying for a straight or flush draw when the flop was not really good enough.
If this does not make perfect sense then you should go play free online poker first to learn the games in depth.
Good free poker sites offer true risk free games but still give you a legitimate way to build your bankroll of real cash from zero, and there are always games to play. You don’t have to wait for hours for tournaments to start.
So get going, you will have literally nothing to lose and you can also find tons of free online poker training to suit all skill levels from beginner upwards.