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Interpreting Poker Results

Live poker results are something that many players both beginner and experienced seem to have conflicting opinions about. While some poker players would assure you that keeping a close eye on your results is the only way that you can be able to play live poker games effectively, others would just as convincingly tell you that it does not pay to be so “results oriented”.

So which is it? How exactly would you know if you are winning a particular poker games if you don’t look at your results? Well, the answer to that lies in tracking.
While it would first appear tracking is pretty much the same as watching your results, the two actually have some differences. Session tracking involves among other things, knowing your win rate, your standard deviation, the number of hours that you play poker, the limits played for each and every game and more. All this is done for each poker session that you play.

There are many ways by which you can keep track of all this information. In recent years a number of stand-alone poker results tracking software has been introduced into the market, of which StatKing or the Poker Charts online services are among the most commonly used.

Ask ten people what the best way to get started in a poker game is and you may just end up with 11 different answers! That’s because each and every poker player has their own way of going about doing things, and what may work for one player may not necessarily work for another.

While there really is no one definitive way to get started in a poker game, there are some basic things to keep in mind that most poker players will generally agree are a good way to get started. Here are a few tips that you may find helpful:

• Try to learn the Texas Hold ‘em poker games variation first. A lot of skills that you will pick up here will help you in many other variations of the game.

• Choose either “limit” or “no-limit” hold ‘em to start with. In all likelihood, you will want to play both variations later on, but it would be better to focus on one or the other at the start.

• Check out some of the online play money poker games first until you have a clearer understanding of how the game is played.

• Finally, get familiar with rakeback and bonus whoring first before you deposit any money online.