It may seem easy to talk about “poker” when you refer to it with someone who he has no idea what you’re talking about.
There are different specialties of modern pokerespecially if we are referring to the live one, in which it is difficult to find inside the gaming houses all the proposals that are present in the lobbies of the various poker rooms on the web.
If you are talking to someone who has no idea how the tool works, you should first tell them that you need decide which specialtyor format, you plan to play.
Cash Game / Tournaments / Spin & Go, the macro choices
When modern poker, that is to say Texas Hold’Em and its siblings, ousted 5-card poker or, as they used to say in our smoky cellars 40/50 years ago, Italian poker, the form of poker that was starting to take hold was the one with two hole cards with 5 community cards to match.
A sort of “Telesina” that was played more or less “with the well”, but Americanized, a winning formula that made converts from the very beginning of its journey.
When, at the beginning of the new millennium, the real interest in online poker began, even in light of of the Moneymaker effect which took shape practically all over the world, then the specialties also began to diversify.
Apart from the cash game, which entered our poker rooms a few years after the tournaments, at the time the following were beaten with great interest: sit & goa sort of mini tournament at a table, made up of 6 to 9 or 10 players.
Poker has changed over the years and today, in a historical moment in which it is difficult to see Sit & Go tables starting frequently, Spin & Go have become the new Sit & Go.
Obviously cash game games and tournaments are holding up, even though the latter have gone through a very long and tortuous process that has led them to be very different from a few years ago depending on their format.
The format that’s right for you
The appeal that poker tournaments have on players remains intact, mostly because the prize pool of an online tournament, or even better a live one, of our game, is often interesting and the idea of taking home the first prize of that particular tournament, after a few hours of play, it’s obviously tempting.
When, however, the new player is faced with the prospect of winning a hourly average of few big blinds in a cash game session lasting several hours, he will turn up his nose, at least at the beginning.
A discipline like cash game should be evaluated above all for the profit that is created gradually, slowly, day after day, session after session, during which one becomes acquainted with a whole series of mathematical formulas that refer to the own bankrollto the possibility of leveling up if things go well and leveling down if “you can’t beat the level.”
This scares the neophyte a little, who imagines poker as a kind of toyland, when it is absolutely not like that.
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The difference is that, however, once you become familiar with these dynamics, you learn to live with them and the cash game, which, let’s remember, is a poker game that lasts a lifetime, it can excite you.
Speaking of tournaments and cash games, it goes without saying that Spin & Go, improperly called, would be better defined Hyper 3 Handed, are the other formula most used by modern players.
Even for this type of format it is necessary to get on track with study in self-denialyou never win, at least in the long term, by chance.
Pros and cons of the various formats
As far as tournaments are concerned, the most visible advantage is being able to participate with a limited investmentto the division of very large prize pools and you already know in advance how much you will be able to spend, and therefore lose, before signing up.
The cons are obviously the time and duration of each tournament, which sometimes does not allow for a different programming of the evening. You need to have a lot of patience and react to the problems that involves variance.
Cash game is the most traditional form of poker, what you bring to the table is exactly what you paid to play, it is the money you have, there is no nominal value of the chips other than the same as the one you paid to buy in for.
For free games you have the option to leave the table whenever you likethe variance is often lower than in tournaments.
Cash games have their drawbacks, in the sense that in individual sessions you can experience wild and very tough moments, the dynamics are probably more open than in tournaments, where your strategy can be put into play in report at the time of the tournament.
Finally, as regards Spin & Go, the time to be spent is the pro that can be the most captivating, given that each game lasts just a few minutes and to learn the first techniques and strategies, probably It is the format that requires the least time.
Later on, when these strategies need to be refined, then it is necessary to engage in a much more in-depth manner.
As for the cons, Spin & Go can be quite monotonous and pre-flop ranges must be known by heartplus there is much less post-flop play.