Did you start with play money before playing real money poker?

[Bawse]

I personally think playing poker for play money is a waste of time if you want to gain any real experience. You need to play against players that value their chips/money in order to improve.

I did start playing with play money many years ago on Pokerstars. I even remember trading play money for real money(not sure if there is any sites that still do that), but I ended up turning to freerolls, and working myself into grinding for real money.

How about you? Did you go straight to real money poker or start with play money?

 

[bharath]

I have tested with free money that offered by the poker website, but after that used real money and lost. I heard in other communities that they won by playing Poker. It is one of the toughest games for us to win.
I had used BTC for playing Poker online.

Our Government is restricted in thesed online Poker and gambling sites.

 

[padrespatty]

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[Jason]

I love to play video poker video games. In that case, I would advise people to improve skills that way before using real money. However, though, I'm not sure how realistic the computer/video games are, so don't take my advice without research.