Regardless of the type of poker you play, free poker tournaments online cash games online or in the live room and events the game can become something of an obsession where you develop a burning desire to win, even if it’s just pennies or play money, but desire to win alone is not enough, you need a large skillset as well in order to win a lot. So yes, you need skills, lots of skills and types of skill yet even then it’s all of limited use unless you play well below your skill level unless you have, in bucket loads, the worlds most important skill (not just good for poker), which, of course, is patience.
Perhaps it will appear to be a given, but I do not think players starting out (and even more experienced ones for that matter) realize exactly how patient you’ve got to be or how one rash move can seriously compromise a hand and ruin your whole day. All they look for in a casino is the promociones de apuestas on which is the basis of their decision.
A luxury when you play poker online is that you don’t get the tension generated by having to sit across from someone when they try to stare you down, look for physical tells you might give away, or attempt to bully you with witty banter.
But, when you play even free poker online, you do have to wait for other players to make a decision in the time they’re allotted and a few people do love to take their time!
When you think about it a tournament of 500 players can last for hours more than it might need to because players like to wait until the last minute to decide what they are going to do. Example: If ten players are at a table and they are each allowed 30 seconds to make a decision on how they play their hand for that round and each player takes 25 seconds to make a decision, then by the time it is your turn to play, 225 seconds have passed.
Which makes it over 3 minutes before your turn arrives again. Due to this, it is easy to get terribly aggravated and make stupid moves that could set you back a large pot and most, if not all, of your chips. As a strategy, this sort of slow-motion play is fairly brilliant. It’s a legal approach to use time as a weapon against your opponents.
In order to combat what I like to call the ‘slower’ player method (and train your patience) you can take these steps: 1) Get a comfortable chair to sit in. 2) Make sure you have time to play 3) Stand up and walk around to keep your blood flowing and your energy up.
You might not have regarded patience as a skill in the past, but I assure you it is one of the best assets you can ever have in your little book of poker skills.
If you’re a newcomer to poker, first learn to play and develop your patience as well as game skills. In the first instance play free poker online at one of the better free online poker sites. Here you can learn to play poker for beginners for nothing with no risk to your own money and start building a bankroll to cash in for real money when you’re all set to go bigtime and play poker online to win money.
