How to keep the fun in your poker games (part 1)

September 27, 2006

With all the online poker tourneys, land based events and such, it is hard fro many poker players to recall any recent poker games that they played when it is more fun than stressful. While any casino game should always supply its players with some percentage of entertainment and fun, it is not always the case – especially when you are vying for so much cash.

This multi part online poker article will cover the subject of who to add more fun back intro your poker games. So, make sure you read the whole article and all of its parts.

Recently, I was in a casino with a friend who was not into poker, meaning they hadn’t played before. Many of you in this situation may have said, okay I will catch up to you soon, I‘m going to sit in on a game of poker to our unskilled friend. Not me, I decided to take a little time to walk my friend through the basics while watching a game that was already taking place. We were in a casino that had a great atmosphere, the table was a low limit poker table and one that no one seemed to care that we were watching it together and I was commentating (quietly) to my friend from behind the action at. Why I guess you could say that the atmosphere was already setting the tone of putting fun back into the game of poker.

After I set the pace for my friends growing interest in the game of poker we then realized that there was a tournament taking place at the same casino. Most casinos, especially in Vegas, have daily tourneys where all levels of players can get involved with a very low buy in. This particular tourney cost us just over twenty bucks each to enter. This tourney even allowed one re-buy per player. Again, the fun was starting to hit me and my friend was getting excited at the chance to join a low key affair. This immediately made the fun start becoming palpable again.

This tourney was taking place during the slow period of game play at the casino. This is to say that we were not playing at 8Pm at night in the casino, but the fun was still in reach. In fact, less than a dozen other poker players had even signed up for the tourney we were going to play in. This also put my newbie friend at ease.

Even though the vibe was so low key, it was in fact my friend’s first ever poker event, so it was a big event in out eyes. Again, are you getting the fun aspect of this whole situation?

I could clearly see that while the game event was getting underway and the others were chatting and testing the waters, my friend was a bit nervous to say the least. Imagine trying to be cordial to other player’s BS while you are just trying to get a grip on hand ranking! This was getting good. One thing I did understand about my friend was that he did not assume everyone could beat him just because he was a newbie. This was a very good sign. After all, he didn’t know the others and maybe they were in the same shoes as he was at the time.

Be sure to read part 2 for more…

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