{"id":479,"date":"2010-05-17T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=479"},"modified":"2010-05-17T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:31:55","slug":"free-poker-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/free-poker-perks","title":{"rendered":"Free Poker Isn&#8217;t Just For Newbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing online poker for years now, but I still play free poker games on a regular basis. There are a lot of players that think that once you switch to real money poker games you can never go back, but there are a lot of very good reasons for playing poker for free, even after you start rolling with the high rollers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons I play free poker games is to brush up on my poker skills when I&#8217;m in a bankroll rut. We all go through ups and downs when it comes to spare cash &#8211; especially when the bills roll around. If you stop playing cold turkey when you don&#8217;t have the money then your poker skills will suffer. Playing for free prevents that from happening.<\/p>\n<p>Playing poker for free also gives me the opportunity to try out new poker games and variations that I haven&#8217;t played before, without risking my poker bankroll. I usually stick to Hold&#8217;em, so if I want to try out other games free poker gives me a great opportunity to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a free game can be a great way to get into the groove just before you sit down at a real money table. I like to play a few games of free Texas Hold&#8217;em to get ready for real money play. If I am off my game then I find out before I lose money on it. So don&#8217;t throw free poker to the wayside, it&#8217;s got a lot of great perks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing online poker for years now, but I still play free poker games on a regular basis. There are a lot of players that think that once you switch to real money poker games you can never go back, but there are a lot of very good reasons for playing poker for free, [&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":[10,11,69,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}