~I personally think that playing in free-to-enter tournaments is bad for your knowledge of the game, but starting from a $1 buy-in you can get a good initial practice, and then move to a $10 buy-in, which is actually better.
Yes, it is so. I tried free-to-enter, free-rolls tournaments, even won several times, but i understood fast enough that i see mostly newbies that try to bluff without strategy or playing as it was written in the book "How to win poker in 3 days". In $1 buy-in i saw not so many "allin-ers" but the quality of players was really low. I`m not serious player but it was boring even for me. Now i play with $5-10 buy-in and it is about my level.
But i feel that i need increase it to level up my skills and spend much more time playing.Only don't make another job out of it. Just have fun playing.
$5-$10 buy-ins are about my level too, and although you can still see those all-inners in such tournaments too, you can simply ignore them, because there's only a few of them, one at a table or even less. You can't be ignoring them if there's half of the players like that.
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Yes, it is so. I tried free-to-enter, free-rolls tournaments, even won several times, but i understood fast enough that i see mostly newbies that try to bluff without strategy or playing as it was written in the book "How to win poker in 3 days". In $1 buy-in i saw not so many "allin-ers" but the quality of players was really low. I`m not serious player but it was boring even for me. Now i play with $5-10 buy-in and it is about my level. But i feel that i need increase it to level up my skills and spend much more time playing.
So do you think that you need to buy the poker course in order to level up your skills ?
Personally, experience teaches you many things which books may not be able to tell you. Personally, if I
needed to level up my skills I may find free tutorials for it on internet and youtube and then practice them to level up my skill set. [/quote]
You are absolutely right, especially regarding YouTube. While tutorials feel like dead books to me, recently uploaded videos are fun to watch, and you can learn some latest poker strategies from them.