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Free Online Poker Coaching Games Guide To Why Casino Poker Players Struggle Online

With this free online poker ex-musician, law enforcement officer, casino security and poker table dealer John S imparts some free online poker coaching. In particular his insights on the differences between real-world poker and online poker and then between the various forms of online poker games, free and cash ought to be a required read by every poker play right now.

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. It was an unfortunate twist of fate that would see me into early retirement and 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.

For the next few months I was a regular on the live casino poker tables but at the same time started toying with online poker sites. The world of live poker in casinos had taught me some hard lessons and I figured they would be an ideal base for hammering online poker games. That could not have been further from the truth. 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 make friends, and if you’re lucky, you’ll take their money! But online offers a mask of anonymity. A cloak under which people will do some very dumb things at a poker table.

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 play online poker depends entirely on what you are playing. Freerolls, for example, differ greatly from buy in games and SNGs (sit-n-gos) differ fundamentally compared to big multi table tournaments. High stakes is different from penny poker.

In my own case I have played a huge number of freerolls. That’s because I like the idea of building my bankroll on someone else’s money. Yet while free I promise you they’re not an easy option. They vary greatly in prizes, but they all require the same thing if you have any ambitions on winning – patience.

The early stages of a freeroll will inevitably throw a storm of donks (short for donkey which refers to the worst poker players) at you with an unusually high percentage 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 also want to avoid, at all costs, chasing down your hand. You either flop a playable hand or you don’t. You don’t want to deplete your stack paying for a straight or flush draw.

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 go ahead and give it a shot, there is literally nothing to lose and they also offer loads of free online poker instruction for all levels from beginner up.
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