Use the Play Money tables to get familiar with the different games.
I've been trying to compare the different varieties of poker available on Paradise Poker. I'm coming to the decision that my best chances of winning consistently are in the Draw poker (look in the New Games section).
In Draw poker, no one else can see your cards until the bets are all in. You can choose which cards to hold and discard, from zero to five cards. And you're only playing against 4 other players at the most. There's a lot more room for skill and for luck to determine how often you can win.
In Texas Holdem, you can't discard. You're just given two cards, to play against the five table cards that you share with everyone else. So basically, of 10 players, one player will be handed the best pair of cards in each round. Pretty much your odds of getting those two cards are 1 in 10. And everyone else knows whether their hand is likely to win against yours or not. To play the Perfect game of Holdem, you pretty much would need to fold 9 times out of 10.
Also, in Draw poker there's a lot less betting rounds in each hand. That means that if your cards aren't the best, you won't be dragged through a long series of betting rounds the way you are in the other games. It also means that hands go quicker, and if you just fold and wait out the hand, you won't get bored and impatient to overplay as readily as in the other games.
I think the odds are more in your favor in Draw poker, than in the other games that play strip-tease with your hand, so you have to keep betting and betting before you can even know what your actual hand will be. The number of betting rounds in the other games can equal two or three hands of Draw poker.
I've been trying to compare the different varieties of poker available on Paradise Poker. I'm coming to the decision that my best chances of winning consistently are in the Draw poker (look in the New Games section).
In Draw poker, no one else can see your cards until the bets are all in. You can choose which cards to hold and discard, from zero to five cards. And you're only playing against 4 other players at the most. There's a lot more room for skill and for luck to determine how often you can win.
In Texas Holdem, you can't discard. You're just given two cards, to play against the five table cards that you share with everyone else. So basically, of 10 players, one player will be handed the best pair of cards in each round. Pretty much your odds of getting those two cards are 1 in 10. And everyone else knows whether their hand is likely to win against yours or not. To play the Perfect game of Holdem, you pretty much would need to fold 9 times out of 10.
Also, in Draw poker there's a lot less betting rounds in each hand. That means that if your cards aren't the best, you won't be dragged through a long series of betting rounds the way you are in the other games. It also means that hands go quicker, and if you just fold and wait out the hand, you won't get bored and impatient to overplay as readily as in the other games.
I think the odds are more in your favor in Draw poker, than in the other games that play strip-tease with your hand, so you have to keep betting and betting before you can even know what your actual hand will be. The number of betting rounds in the other games can equal two or three hands of Draw poker.
