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PokerSchoolOnline.com – Free Poker Courses
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2012-03-05 12:40
Most poker training websites disseminate poker knowledge for money: players have to purchase memberships or they have to pay for the individual courses in order to better themselves and to further their green-felt cause. PokerSchoolOnline, PokerStars’ poker training website and program, has been creating future poker stars for a good couple of years now. The site now offers a free crash course in online poker, endowing those who take it up on its offer with the basic knowledge to generate money at the online poker tables. The free course is broken up into 5 sections. The basics section is about the true poker foundations: hand rankings, rules, etc. The section will also cover play money games.
The Core concepts section is an introduction to the more advanced aspects of
Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha hi/lo and Razz. This section will lecture players on concepts such as starting hand selection, position, odds and outs, the TAG playing style, bet-sizing and bankroll management. Understanding each and every one of these concepts is a must for anyone who ever intends to understand what’s going on around the table.
SNGs represent an excellent bankroll-building option. The SNG section of the PokerSchoolOnline free course will introduce players to everything there is to know about these types of tournaments starting with the early stage strategy and culminating with the post-bubble and heads-up battles.
The MTT course is a similar type of educational journey, focusing on Multi Table Tournaments of the kind that all of
PokerStars’ major weekend guarantees belong to. Those who want to take a shot at the big one (The Sunday Million) should absolutely focus on this part of the free PokerSchoolOnline course.
The last section of the course is the Fixed-limit Holdem course. Fixed limit Holdem plays quite a bit differently from NL games and it does indeed introduce players to concepts unheard-of in NL play. Only a good FL specialist can call himself a truly complete poker player.
Each and every course is followed by a quiz through which players can gain a measure of how well they’ve managed to soak up the teachings of each section.
