{"id":406,"date":"2010-03-26T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T15:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-03-29T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T07:45:30","slug":"free-poker-isnt-just-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/free-poker-isnt-just-for-beginners","title":{"rendered":"Free Poker Isn&#8217;t Just for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing real money poker for years. However, although I enjoy the rush I get from playing money games I still enjoy free poker. Sure, it&#8217;s a great way for newbies to learn the rules of the game, strategies and tricks of the trade. But free poker games can be fun for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of situations that I think free poker games are great in. For starters, sometimes you are simply in a money crunch. Everyone has bills to pay and when you just can&#8217;t afford playing real money games playing for free can be a great way to still enjoy the game and keep your skills up until you can build your poker bankroll up once again.<\/p>\n<p>I also like to play free poker games when I learn about new poker strategies. For instance, if you&#8217;ve just learned about continuation betting (also known as the c-bet) it&#8217;s better not to try it out for the first time when you have real money on the line. Playing for free gives you a chance to try out these new skills, practice them and decide if you want to use them when playing for money.<\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of free poker games on the Web. You can play a Flash game against the computer or compete for fun against other real poker players from all over the world. Free poker isn&#8217;t just for beginners anymore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing real money poker for years. However, although I enjoy the rush I get from playing money games I still enjoy free poker. Sure, it&#8217;s a great way for newbies to learn the rules of the game, strategies and tricks of the trade. But free poker games can be fun for everyone. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[10,69,155,154,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}