Time to get serious folks

Ok folks, it's time to stand up and be counted!

Are you happy playing poker online as a hobby? Great, if you are then this article may not be for you but humour me for 5 minutes and you won't be disappointed!

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In my opinion, the 3 most important things you need to be a poker player are patience, timing and possibly most importantly a sensible head.

If you take me as a real example, I started playing poker about April last year. Started on the 1cent/2cent tables and learned the game from there.

I now play comfortably (meaning I am not risking my entire bankroll and sanity) on the $5/$10 tables where the average pot is about $90-$120!

So for example, you take $200 to the table, win a few hands and leave with....say £350-$400, effectively doubling up on what you took to the table in the first place.

And this can happen in as little as 50 hands, but not always.

When it comes to poker, playing without a poker strategy is like randomly betting on a roulette table, sometimes a miracle can happen and you can win money. Eventually though, your luck will run out and you will end up with nothing in your bankroll (disaster).

But it doesn't have to be that way!

Learning and playing poker on the lower levels with a correct strategy enables you to steadily build your bankroll, the bigger your bankroll the higher up the stakes you can go, let me show you what I mean by a sensible strategy;

Start off with $50 in your bankroll (remember, the $50 is completely free so you've nothing to lose)

Play the low end tables which have blinds of $0.10 and $0.20 until your bankroll is up to about $90-$100 dollars (much easier than you think)

Then you can play a level up on the $0.15 and $0.30 tables (doesn't seem like much, but bear with me:)

With proper poker strategy and patience, you can easily get up to $150, once at this point, this is where the fun begins and the serious wins start!

NOW, with your $150 move up to the middle stakes tables $0.25 and $0.50 (this is where big changes are noticed on your bankroll)

When you get up to $300-$320, you can move up to the $0.50 and $1 (Yup, you're climbing the ranks well!)

And so on and so forth.

You won't win every hand you play, but trust me, with a poker strategy, timing and patience, you will comfortably move up the ranks faster than you might think!

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I hope you have found this article fun and informative and wish you all the best of luck in your online poker playing, whether you choose to continue it as a hobby or start playing with the big boys!

Best of luck, and see you at the tables!

Paul has been playing poker online as a semi-professional and is well respected in the UK poker community. He has claimed top spot in 6 major tournaments last year and finished in the money in most of the touraments he has played online. He is also a ruthless player on the cash tables and plays alongside some of the UKs biggest high-rollers.

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