Moving From Free Money To Real Money

As any poker player will tell you, the game changes when you start playing for real money. In fact, many people would argue that playing poker for free money is not really poker at all.

Oh, and let’s remind ourselves - the whole point and thrill of poker is to win money, not just have fun!

Only when real money is played for do you see the true behaviour of poker players. Bluffing suddenly means something and players are generally more “tight”.

But how do you start playing for real money without risking the house?

The easiest way is to play the low limit tables. Many poker rooms offer limit Holdem games where the bets can be as little as just a few cents. Even though you won’t break the bank on a few cents, it is sufficiently a difference from playing for free that you will be able to observe how your opponents play differently and how your reactions in the game also change.

There are also some very cheap tournaments that you can play for next to nothing, a measly sum of a couple of bucks or so where you can take home a large amount of the pot.

Enrol with some of the poker rooms listed on the right and you will see that most of them have some low or micro limit games that are perfect for graduating to the paid game. Most of them also have some good freerolls too.