Poker Room School: Learn how to play poker.
Doesn't matter what's your poker knowledge level, we'll teach you how to be a professional poker player!

Getting started: Please read our step-by-step guide to playing poker. Read the articles in the order below for the ideal poker foundation course and then put the theory into practice at the Play Money tables at a Poker room.

1-Poker Basics
You can learn to play poker right here, and learning to play is easy. We’ll begin by teaching you Texas hold’em, the world’s most popular form of poker—the game you see played on television for enormous sums of money and the game used to determine the world champion each year at the World Series of Poker. read

2-Introduction to Poker
Poker is really a group of related games that have a number of common elements, including hand rankings, checking, betting, calling, folding, raising, bluffing and a few other things too. read

3-Betting
Betting is full of strategic ploys, designed to make money with good hands and save money with weaker ones. Although this is a complex topic, we’ll let you in on a few betting tips right here at the beginning, so you can keep them firmly in mind as you wind your way through these lessons. read

4-Bankroll and Money Management
Bankroll management Money management and bankroll management might sound like the same thing, but they’re not. If you haven’t paid attention to this vital topic, or are confused by some of the things you’ve always heard, like the suggestion to “quit while you’re ahead,” but you don’t know why, you’ll learn all the ins and outs in short order. read

5-Fixed Limit vs. No-Limit Hold'em
No-limit and fixed-limit hold’em are completely different games, although the only significant difference is in the betting. But that changes everything, and successful strategies in one won’t necessarily work in the other. read

6-Starting Hands
Poker is a game of decisions. While you cannot control either the way the cards fall or your opponents’ actions, decisions are how your skills are exercised in a poker game. read

7-Basic Limit strategy: Pre-Flop Play
The most important decisions you make playing fixed-limit Texas hold’em are made before the flop. Choosing to see the flop with the wrong cards can lead you down a primrose path and you’ll find yourself trapped in a hand when you catch part of the flop, but not enough of it to carry you to victory. read

8-Basic Limit strategy: The Flop
The flop is hold’em’s defining moment. It’s the critical moment in each hand you play. It’s important to realize that hold’em is a very front-loaded game. When you see the flop in hold’em, you’re looking at five-sevenths of your hand. That’s 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting. read

9-Basic Limit strategy: The Turn
If you see the turn, you probably have a hand with some intrinsic value, such as a big pair, or you have a draw to a straight or a flush. And while the turn does not play itself, you shouldn’t get into too much trouble unless you’ve already made the mistake of seeing the turn when you shouldn’t have. If that’s the case, you’re chasing — and probably throwing good money after bad. read
10-Basic Limit strategy: The River
If you’re still contesting the pot while awaiting that river card, you should have a strong hand, or a draw to what you believe will be the best hand if you make it. What may have begun as a confrontation between many opponents before the flop probably will be reduced to two — or perhaps three of you — once all the board cards are exposed. Realized versus Potential Value read

11-What tables should I play at?
The accepted rule in Bankroll Management is that you should have about 300 times the Big Bet (BB) in your bankroll. The BB is the minimum amount that can be bet on the River or the Turn round and so is twice the size of the big blind: at a $0.10/ $0.20 limit table, the BB is $0.20. Therefore, to play at this table you should have a bankroll of approx $60. read

Limit poker classes & no limit poker classes:
For "beginner", "intermediate", "advanced" and "pro".

PRO Level overview:

1-Raising Before the Flop Most of the Time
World Series of Poker Winner Chris “Jesus” Ferguson has been widely quoted as saying that the year he won the main event, he never voluntarily entered a pot calling. Except for calling from the small blind in unraised pots, every time he entered a pot he raised. read

2-Being Staked
It may come as a surprise to you, but a large number of tournament poker players—the pros that you see every week on television, not the amateurs who take a flyer on an occasional big buy-in event—are staked. They are playing on other people’s money, and as a result stand to win only a percentage of what it appears they have won when they make a big score. read

3-Playing Off Your Opponent’s Read of You
We’re getting into some very sophisticated strategy here, and it’s not something you’ll use every day. It’s certainly not something you’ll use against beginners, intermediate players, or even many advanced players. Nope, playing off your opponent’s read of you is a strategy to be reserved for use against only the most sophisticated players—and then only under the right circumstances. read

4-Expert Draw Play
Any hand that’s not leading after the flop is a drawing hand. The hand that’s running behind needs to catch a card to improve and win the pot. The leader need not do anything other than duck and dodge cards that would propel a second place hand to first place and a probable win. read

5-Betting When You Know Your Opponent Can’t Afford to Call
Sometimes you’ll encounter a betting situation where you know your opponent cannot possibly afford to call, and you can bet and take the pot without a fight. These situations do not occur all that frequently, but when they do, it’s a chance to capture an orphaned pot with no resistance at all from your opponent. read

6-Stone Cold Bluffing
Stone cold bluffing is the stuff of movies, the kind of bluffs James Bond would make sitting at the poker table. They are also the kind of bluffs made in big tournaments, but they are rare enough to become instant legends when they work and are revealed. When you make a stone cold bluff, you are working without a net. If you’re called, you’ll most certainly lose the hand and look foolish too. read

7-Relative Value
It’s all relative in poker. Some pots will be won with as little as ace-high, while on other occasions straights will lose to flushes and flushes will lose to full houses. Even a full house will lose every now and then to a larger full house or four-of-a-kind. read

-Video lessons:
Flush Draw Theory
The flush draw concept while going through the theory and using hand history examples.
Click to see the video lesson: http://www.pokerroomschool.com/video-lessons

-*Coaching*
Take advantage of the best coaching on the net!
At the heart of PokerRoomSchool, is our coaching program. After your read our strategy guides, watching our Professionals play while they explain their moves will really help your game take off! See them play, listen to their comments, understand their approach to playing and ask them questions in our forum. Our Pros are there to share their knowledge with you, so don’t miss out!

POKER SCHOOL PROMOTIONS:
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Free Bankroll Explained:
The first question that comes to mind, to most people, when they are offered free money is “where's the catch?”, and as we, at Poker Room School offer our users a free bankroll of $150, one might ask himself how this could be a good idea for a business?

The reason we are able to offer this amazing promotion is because Poker Room School students receive their $150 free bankroll in their account at an online Poker room. As players at any poker room (online or offline) you will be paying the poker room a commission for playing. We work together with the poker room and receive a certain part of this commission. We want to make it totally clear: You would not pay less commision to the poker room if you were not an Poker Room School member.

On the user side, you receive free money to play with, professional help for improving your game and pay no extra fees to the poker room or to us, we believe our coaching and experience is worth enough to produce good long term players that will justify our investment in each player.

It is in our best interest to make our students the best poker players we can, as we invest the free bankroll in each player, we bet our money on our poker methods. We know our players will be able, not only to play and enjoy their free bankroll, but increase their starting capital, continue playing and going up the limits, and end up making a lot of money. So we do our best to help you become the best poker player possible.

How do you get your bonus?
Step by Step Guide:

First we welcome you to Poker Room School, the biggest online poker community!
Follow our step by step guide to register a poker account and successfully receive your $50 + $100 starting money:

PokerRoomSchool provides a full range of facilities for all levels of poker player. We have a dedicated room for beginners – the PokerRoomSchool - and poker lessons for new and experienced players, plus a partnership with CDPoker for advanced players, complete with all types of table and regular tournaments.

-Register an account – single registration give you full access to all our poker facilities including the school, learning material and advanced play.
-New players go directly to PokerRoomSchool to begin their poker education. Just tick the ‘Never played Texas Hold’em’ box in registration.
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