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One sure fire way of learning how to play good poker is to get inside the minds of live poker legends, the way to do this would be ideally to play with them and ask questions. The beauty of playing poker online is that you actually can – play with poker pros. There is no need to stalk these professional poker players outside the Bellagio – Las Vegas. Get to sites such as Full Tilt, and Poker Stars (preferably Poker Stars) sign up as a member of the site and sign up at the poker school too. You won’t believe the big names who play games on these sites and you can get all the info you need, right from the horses mouth.

Poker Stars features big name poker professionals right through the ranks and you will find, Daniel Negreanu, and a special room named after him where high stakes cash games take place. Team Pokers Stars also features big names such as Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Peter Eastgate – although Peter Eastgate is supposed to have retired from playing poker. But nevertheless if you fancy a game against one of the big names, you can, and not only at this specific site.

It is also possible to get inside the heads of the poker legends, by reading their books, all the biggest and best names have written these. They also write and publish articles online and most of these articles are free for you to read. Electronically archived magazines are available all over the net and any good poker site will provide you with links to these.

Because playing poker is an ongoing learning process, you don’t stop learning when you reach the top, it is essential to keep educating yourself. As your knowledge of this game increases, so does your skill. The more you know, the better your confidence will be and this shows through in your play. You will soon be working your way through the ranks from micro limits, to low limits and better. Once you have a bankroll that is able to handle any kind of fluctuations in luck, you will know that you have achieved a very big part of your poker playing goals.

One thing you will come across time and again is the importance of bankroll and good money management. All the pros go to great lengths on this subject, so when you read a book, it is fine to read it from cover to cover, but go back to the chapters and try to adapt the situations they talk about to the way that you play. Book learning without practical experience and knowing how to apply it to a real life situation, is not that good unless you can apply it to a hands on poker game. What you learn has to be able to fit the situations you come across, and it doesn’t help to read a book only once. You should also be able to get your hands on a good selection of poker books at your local library, so it does not have to cost money.