How many of us learned to play poker when we were kids?   No, not how many of us gambled when we were kids but actually learned to play poker?  Who was your poker guide, who taught you poker?

And don’t think for one minute that playing poker is gambling.  It isn’t!   Yes, there is a luck factor but you aren’t committing your money and then seeing the outcome of your action. When you play poker you have choices, interactive choices that happen all the way through the play of the hand, which gives you the ability to win the hand even if you don’t have the best two cards.  That cannot be said in a casino game where the edge has already been figured – that is gambling.

Maybe you are one of those people that never played cards, of any type, and the whole concept of poker seems foreign?  That’s because you never had a poker guide to guide you.  It does seem a bit absurd that people come together just to beat each other out of their hard earned money with a deck of cards in a game of poker, right?   Right!

And doesn’t it just get a little more absurd and strange when you consider that everyone has their idea of what ‘real poker’ is?  What if you’re sitting between two friends and one only plays 7 Card Stud and the other will only play Texas Hold’em and they are arguing that their game is ‘real poker’ and they both play at PokerStars?  How can that be?  Where can you find a good poker guide of what PokerStars is all about?

If you aren’t a poker player, you’re still wondering what the big deal is and why another one of your friends can stay up all night to play in a poker game but when he’s not playing poker, he’s asleep on the couch in front of the TV by 8 p.m. But then his eyes light up as he explains that the rake is a percentage the poker room takes for spreading the game and he is getting paid to play at Full Tilt Rake Back because he receives rake back on hands that he plays.

The real question now would be – if you have at least three friends that play poker, why aren’t you a poker player? And unless you take a seat in the game, you’ll never know how it played out. Do you want that on your conscience?  Get yourself a decent poker guide and start learning the game – What’s wrong with you?