Poker consists of not one game but is really a complicated group of games that are related to each other in some way. So while they are interrelated, some require a much different set of strategies and experience than some of the perhaps more popularly played versions of the game.
If you stick to the more familiar versions of the poker game and do pretty well and step out of your comfort zone occasionally, you will discover that the rules have suddenly changed on you and you have no idea how to proceed. The novice soon understands that to play with any consistent chance of coming out ahead, he will have to target one game to specialize in and grow with. How can such a decision be made?
One thing is certain, all poker players want to be winners. All the games are similar in their nature of complexity, making the decision more difficult. Add to this the fact that there is no game that is more profitable than another.
Profitability comes from you, how you combine your goals, strategies, and take advantage of the possibilities that are unique to a particular game. So, decide which one you excel at, at least as far as profitability is concerned, and strive to better yourself in that game. You can stray and play some of the other games on occasion, but only as a sometime thing. You will see your best earnings by adhering to the one or two versions at which you excel, and have done so for some time. Experience is a very valuable component of poker.
The new player will undoubtedly disregard this advice and continue to play only those games whose earning potential seems above average and in the end, they will probably win more due to dumb luck. Go ahead, enjoy the familiarity of the game and you will probably fall into some lucky streaks. You will not, however, gain in strategy and income.
Then there are those beginners who believe that if they learn to play no limit poker passably they will be making more money than if they played limit poker well. They reason that playing large sums, despite occasionally loosing, they will win larger sums than if they played smaller sums.
Again, if you want to be certain of constant profit, you want to consider the question more deeply. Your overall gain will be determined by the rate of your wins and by how well you manage your cards with a constantly growing bank. But the rate and the way you manage your cards are not determined by the pool of money, but by the game s entire set of rules. A specific hand requires specific skills to allow the bank to grow to the most profitable size before you can collect it. As stated at the beginning, the required strategies may differ significantly between game types.
This means that if you choose a game only by how profitable it looks to you, you are likely to end up a mediocre player at best, without the potential to improve beyond your opponents, and thus without the potential to win much more than them.
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