Online Poker Practice Helps Increase Real World Winnings
Can playing poker online increase skills when playing for real? One young man has personal anecdotal evidence that it does. In a local boy makes good story from the Bryan/College Station Eagle, Jordan Smith has just returned from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He placed 10th, thus losing out for a chance at the final rounds for a share of the $27 million dollar jackpot. However, the college dropout and professional poker player did score almost a million dollars in winnings.
With very little outside help, Smith said, he improved his poker skills by practicing online.
“The more you play, the more you learn,” he said, adding that he had played more than a million hands online. “Playing online is not that different [from live games]; you just get a lot more hands in. When you’re playing live, you can only play one tournament and you can get about 20 to 30 hands in. But online, you can play eight tournaments at one time and play 60 to 100 hands in an hour. Online, you learn at a much faster rate, and you get to play more tournaments.”
Read the entire story here.
References:
Jaramillo, E. (2009, July 26). CS man scores big in poker tourney. The Eagle, A9.
Game Studies, Poker | John Rice | 
July 27, 2009 9:23 am
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