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Originally Posted by Nickatilynx
Start at very low limits and play lots of tourny's.
My argument for this a $5 - $20 tourny is not much money.However it affords the chance to win decent money and thus motivates you more than playing say a 50cent bet game where you'll be calling when you shouldn't etc cause "its only 50 cents"
If you have never played online you will be most likely be easy meat I'm afraid if you play at the limits you are accustomed to.
The reason I say this?
Lets say you have been playing B&M ( Real world - Bricks and mortar ) poker for 5 years.
You play twice a week for 5 hours for a total of 10 hours play a week.
Hands dealt in B&M will be around 25 an hour.
Thus every week you play 250 hands , or 13,000 hands a year meaning in 5 years you have played 65000.
Online I play averaged out prolly 4 hours a day in all. ( Hour or two a day playing money games on 2 tables at a time plus tournys) (((( work it out))) LOL Effectively 4 hours play per day.
I am therefore involved in 60 dealt hands per hour , per table.
Therefore at 4 hours play a day I'm seeing 240 hands a day...not a week.
Plus it being online I'm able to have a virtual book of notes on my lap telling me what so and so did the last time I played him.What impression I have of him and what impression I think he has of me.I also have all the history of past hands to study and various other statistics.
Oh shit!!!!!
I really am getting into it!! LOL
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Yeah.. online play certainly does speed up the learning curve.