Poker rooms vary in how they communicate game availability to would-be players. Your first step is to know what games are available. I’ll cover entering a casino poker tournament in a later column. I work from the assumption that readers have enough experience under their belts at one or both of those other types of poker games to feel comfortable playing them and would like to try adding casino poker to their repertoire.įor this first installment, I’ll give you a step-by-step guide for getting into a cash game. The articles in this series will focus specifically on how poker in casinos differs from what you have learned from playing casino poker games like three-card poker online or at friends’ home games, particularly in what might be termed its “procedural” aspects. Understanding them might also keep you from losing money by inadvertently breaking a rule during the game. I hope to explain these to you in advance so that you don’t get intimidated or embarrassed. The series of articles ' Casino Poker for Beginners' is intended for people who have played poker online and/or in home games, but have little or no experience playing in a “brick-and-mortar” or at an online casino.Ĭasinos have rules, procedures, and points of etiquette that can trip up players on their first few visits - or at least confuse and mystify them.
