{"id":32,"date":"2009-09-24T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-09-29T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T08:32:10","slug":"switching-texas-holdem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/switching-texas-holdem","title":{"rendered":"Switching it Up or There&#8217;s More to Life Than Texas Hold&#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days Texas Hold&#8217;em is viewed by many poker players, online and off, as the end-all be-all of poker variations. It is the primary game in most poker tournaments, it is featured in films and television shows. In the world of poker, Texas Hold&#8217;em is clearly King.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Hold&#8217;em was the first game I played, as that was the game of choice at poker night with my buddies. But when I started playing poker online I thought I&#8217;d try a change. After all, it can start to get old playing the same game time after time. If you want to switch to the only slightly less popular Omaha Hi-Lo, Caribbean Stud, 5-Card Poker, something more rare like Crazy Pineapple or another poker variation it will take a little work, but its good to put a little variety in your life.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you should do when switching to a different poker variation is study up on the rules and strategy. Having a comprehensive understanding of a game&#8217;s rules and strategy is the key to success. Remember that strategy varies from poker game to poker game. A starting hand that is great in Texas Hold&#8217;em may be only so-so or not good at all in another poker variation.<\/p>\n<p>When you are ready to play, consider dropping down a few levels in the stakes department, or even try a free game. When starting out with a new game you&#8217;ll have to work your way back up to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days Texas Hold&#8217;em is viewed by many poker players, online and off, as the end-all be-all of poker variations. It is the primary game in most poker tournaments, it is featured in films and television shows. In the world of poker, Texas Hold&#8217;em is clearly King. Texas Hold&#8217;em was the first game I played, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[29,28,30,27,11,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}