If you heard about this and you are not quite sure what it means, then you have to know first that these kinds of games are the exact opposite of their title. Play money games are games where players actually fake playing for real money. Instead of money they have fake chips that are used to stimulate a real money poker games. The top purpose of these games is entertainment, but there is also an ulterior purpose, and that is initiating beginners in the world of internet poker. You can find all around the world many more play money poker player than player that use real money. The main reason is the fact that many people like poker but are first trying to get better at it and have fun at the same time. Play money games have two distinct purposes: help a person understand the poker rules and help him accommodate to the poker software used for online games. But the thing they lack is an important one: also they are quite successful in teaching you poker, they fail when it comes to strategy and skills. The lack of real money makes most players play loose and just for fun so strategies are rarely applied. If you intend to get better poker skills, then playing these games a lot is not the answer. Constantly entering play money games will only make you develop play money skills and you might get very good at them and even win all the time. However, this doesn't mean you will do the same in games with real money involved. In fact, it is quite possible that as your play money skills climb, your real money skills might deteriorate. You can gain bad habits for real money poker when playing a lot of play money games. The fist thing is that you will get accustomed to playing all hands. This happens mostly because you have nothing really to worry about in play money games and you will try anything knowing that. But if you were playing a real money game and you will find someone to call you all-in bet when they have a 2d, 3c hand and the board doesn't really help them. In a plat money game, people will do that, just for fun. The virtual money is easily given away by players, they can be quite generous, but this doesn't make them generous with their real money too, so don't get that impression. |
