It's really hard to say when I first ever played poker, but sufficed to say I hadn't play much at all before this year. I watched no limit hold em on TV for the first time and scratched my head, trying to work out what was going on. After watching it again next week I understood how hold em is actually played (oh they all get the board cards), and was into it. I bought a hold em game, and played for a few weeks before working out the game is hard and stopped playing. Again some events came up on TV and I watched with interest. So when Vista Ultimate came with a hold em game, I stared playing that and actually started beating the computer consistantly. At that point I wanted real poker interaction.
Without really taking it in I was interested that someone at work in my department, I work in IT, was playing free live tournaments and had won one. Live tournaments sounded great and free meant there was no harm, but he instead pointed me towards online poker at PokerStars to sharpen my skills against real players. I joined up on July 2nd and worked up my play money to the point where I decided I needed to play real money. On July 7th I deposited $25 on PokerStars.
Up until that point Poker was an easy game with a lot of luck. But at that point, I just started to learn that it's a mixture of luck, but more importantly skill. Once realising this, I've spent a fair few hours playing and learning those skills and can safely say I've improved a lot, and still have a long way to go. So why not write about the things I learn along the way.
I'll start by reviewing a bit of what's happened in that interesting month, and from there look at writing about future learnings and hopefully some handy tips and valuable advice.
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