joe If you live in the states of Texas, then you’ve probably seen Poker Stars, the largest online poker room in the world. It’s not that large, so you don’t have to bet much just to experience the excitement. But you don’t have to bet much either. In fact, you don’t have to bet at all.
If you’re a new player, then you’re very lucky. slot 138 login Poker Stars gives you a lot of opportunity to Learn How To Play Poker, without risking a single dollar.
The best part is, even if you lose every few hands, you’ll still be among the top winners. Poker Stars awards winners with pure currency riding on their games. That means you get a lot more bang for your buck if you win Showdown Poker than if you were to play it at a standard casino. Showdown games carry a little more weight, and a lot more consequence.
Of the top 20% of poker players on Poker Stars, 13 are again making the money to continue to play on the site. And while that may sound impossible, it is not impossible.I’m sure I don’t have the room or the time to list out every single profitable, regular 36 hour period…
But it is very possible for people to join in game after game, and often win. How can that be? If you keep improving your game, in combination with a winning strategy, you can win without broketing your bankroll.
In the last hold’em principal I told you to find a list of the best buy-in + buy-in tournaments, and playing at the most profitable cash game structure. You find the games, you play consistently, and you fine tune your skills.
Now you go to sleep and in your dreams you have a 45 minutes tournament and wake up with a 2 hour bankroll accomplishment. It can be a little simpler than that, you tell yourself at the beginning of the session you want to win X amount of dollars per hand. So you enter a game, you play solid and secure, you end up with a small win, you track your bankroll up to the X amount you needed to win, and you quit.
The next day you tell yourself you’re going to do this again. This time winning the whole bankroll in just a few hands. You fine tune your game, and after playing for a while, you find out that you are slowly improving. You quit, and as a result you find that you have lost X amount of dollars per hand. And then you tell yourself ‘Ok, that happened, I played pretty well, I should be good enough to win this game’… and you lose, BOTH times.
You ask yourself ‘What went wrong this time?’ And you tell yourself ‘It was just bad luck, I played pretty well’… you meant to say ‘I played horribly, I’m broke’, but apparently not, because you can’t stop gambling.
This happens all the time. People are ‘lucky’ to win and ‘bad luck’ to lose.
The difference is that a lucky winning session can have considerable profit, whereas a HORSE (or HORSE challenge) losing session will always take a shot at your bankroll.
Plus, if you’re lucky and have an excellent (even at EL terrible) poker playing strategy, you can actually turn a profit.
So why isn’t Poker Stars a better place to play, for the beginner player?
First, for the novice player, Poker Stars is often too conservative for their own good. I agree that it is easier to beat the other players in a HORSE game rather than the best player, but the problem is you’ll more than likely lose more hands in the 7 to 9 hour session. (I have done this multiple times, in one evening.)
Second, the big blind is big enough. Generally speaking, a player can only play the max buy-in of 2 big blinds in a cash game. It’s too easy to get wrapped up in a game online, lose all your money, and not really care all that much about losing 3 against the worst player in the world. Plus, you can get up and down to a NL$10 game, get into a habit, and never really have to deal with the repercussions of playing so many limits at once.
Third, HORSE tournaments are not profitable. They are often very difficult, and new players terrible. For example, you can only play HORSE tournaments that have a starting all-in level of RED when a player goes all-in. Most HORSE tournaments have a buy-in that is less than the amount that you would have to call to participate in the game.
When you fast play in a HORSE tournament, you open yourself up to the possibility of losing all your chips.