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Originally Posted by liladypokerpro  Do you think online poker is a good way for new players to learn the game? |
I learned poker by first reading two books for beginners, and then started to play small stakes online.
One point to consider is that in live casinos (save for Vegas), you cannot play for small stakes. Online you can start playing for cents, so it makes the learning process affordable.
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Originally Posted by liladypokerpro Personally, I think a new player should not start out online because there are many other players just like him/her that don't really know what they're doing, thus setting a bad example for the new player. |
The first advice I got from my mentor when I started to play was to play for play money just so long that you learn how to use the poker software. What buttons to click, how the system works. And after that move on to real money.
In play money tables, and even small stakes, the game
is quite unrealistic and loose. If you play for a long time for play money or at really small stakes, you are in danger of learning a distorted way of playing poker. Strategies learned from micro stakes do not necessarily work at higher stakes.
So my advice is the same as what I got: when you are just starting to play,
move out of micro stakes as soon as you can.