What if you could learn to play Texas Hold Em, Omaha, Blackjack — any kind of poker — from a proven, winning professional? What if you could get weekly lessons from such a master for an entire year? Do you think it would make your poker game a lot better? Do you think it would allow you to not only beat the locals, but start scoring serious green at both real world poker tables and virtual ones? Of course it would! But the question is… what would it cost?

This is a Boylesports sponsored young poker pro from Ireland who plays mainly mid stakes PLO online but has had some decent big buy-in MTT success, most notable coming 6th in last years 25k 5 Star World Poker Classic which is part of the WPT schedule. He’s not afraid to speak his mind and is brutally honest in his blog. One of his stand out posts where he cleaned out a visiting business man in Ireland’s biggest ever casino held poker game. He is also a fan of sports betting so definitely a degenerate streak in him!

And realize that there are two main categories of best online nagapoker sites as well – the paid ones and the free ones. In the free one, typically there’s just some sort of email registration. For the paid ones, you have to find some way to transfer money to them to get you started, and the amount varies from site to site.

When you turn pro, you need to keep improving constantly. Most professional poker players keep on improving after they have turned pro. You need to constantly put in the hours and keep studying the game.

Use Christmas bonuses. There are fantastic online poker bonuses available, which allow you to feel festive while being profitable. Sky poker has recently issued a poker bonus which will make a lot of people very happy this Christmas.

Poker rooms lost their reliability. The shutdown of Fulltilt, Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker changed the basis of online poker markets. Until that point players did not believe that they could lose their money because of poker room shutdowns. Thousands of players lost their bankroll because of the mentioned poker rooms. At the same time other poker rooms also had withdrawal problems and players could not withdraw money from their account or if they could then it was slow. Withdrawal problems are the biggest influencing factors why players lost their trust in online poker rooms.

The online poker history is just 13 years old. It was 1998 when first poker game came online. Although 2002 is considered as the milestone year in poker history. Just after one year, World Poker Tour got launched on a travel channel of America and that was the time when online poker got its boost in the history. There was a competition for online poker as well that was held in 2003 and it was a real hit competition. Due to its availability and competitions it became more popular among individuals and more people started getting into that game. There was a time when poker was played in casinos only but today the due to great online poker history, you can play this game while sitting in your house.

The bonuses we’ve mentioned before are normally offered to new players. The player deposits and gets a percentage (usually between 10% and 150% in most cases). First deposit bonuses have limits as low as $10 and maximun of $500 and don’t forget there are requirements to cash out. You need a minumun amount to risk / bet! That’s why it’s important to read the rules and terms and conditions.