Play money vs. real money

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Do you play diffrent in play money over real money or do you play the same as a teaching tool? I try to play the same last night i won 8.2 million in play money at pokerstars why couldt that have been a real money:cool game!!
 
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Even if you try to play 'properly' with play money, it seems that no one else does, so it's questionable as a learning tool.
 
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As he said with play money and even freerolls you can learn what wins and what doesn't and the basics of poker. However you won't have a real feel for how a cash game or higher stacks MTT would be played. Play money and freerolls even low end MTT are just people pushing all in with nothing. It's rather unfortunate, but low stakes and play chips can only take you so far after that it becomes a whole new realm.
 
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play money is fake and you can not ususally get real play out of it. even if you play for the read everyone else is in dont care mode.
 
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Play money is good for figuring out how the software works. That is about it.
 
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Play money can help learn poker. But it's not real.
 
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Play money should be used until you can easily count outs imo.

Anything past that to "learn" is a waste of time since nobody takes it the game seriously when nothing is on the line.
 
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.. i think it depends on who you're playing with .. plenty of people i know who are good players do play on ps sometimes just for the variety in private home games , they also play on acr and ignition for money , i would not play the open games and expect anything but the usual shovefest , i also wouldn't expect anything in real money freerolls or micros , it's the same shovefest either way
 
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always found play money game very false tried it when first played poker never play again
 
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your talking applesto oranges, but what youcanlearn from play money is your bet sizing
 
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gambling is the best way to practice and develop your poker skill and dexterity, so I have to start off with what is good and bad, without having to risk real money. This is because instead of playing with real money, you will be playing with virtual chips, with no monetary value. And watch videos on youtube for beginners in poker.
 
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Ok , I don't play exactly the same on the real money tournaments as on the play money ones . But I use the play money tournaments and sngs to get used/familiarize myself with the way to play the positions , the cards to call dependigly on the blinds , my stack etc, to learn grom my mistakes , to study donks , and other things . I think you can learn sth from these , they're not useless
 
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play money is fake and you can not ususally get real play out of it. even if you play for the read everyone
 
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There is so big difference between real money and play money, it's not even good for training.
 
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Play chips, you are practicing the game,and for real money you're playing it.
 
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Learning good money game. But the more difficult to win real money,because the chips are more loosely in the game
 
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I have only used play money as a way to check out the software but using it as a learning tool may get you in trouble at a real money table.
 
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think free rolls are much more useful than play money
 
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Play money is just an all in shootout. I just not play this play moneys. No sense ever.
 
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The low stacks of play money don't help to learn but if you can make it and gain some chips to get into the higher stacks you can actually play with some very good players and that will help you to improve your game.
 
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For me, play money, it is a teaching tool. I am experiencing a variety of tactics and strategy. I try to play a new kind of poker. But the game for real money is very much different from playing for play money. So the game for play money helps train only the first step. I am a little play for play money.
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8millions play chips is like -300$ dowsnwing ::))))
 
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Play money is good for practice. It gives some experience and other players are quite similar to small stake real money players.
 
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This discussion has appeared many times.

Play money is fine to learn the basics of the game. But you can get into habits that seem to work, and get used to players that play a certain way, that suddenly do not work or happen in real money games.

The best way to learn anything is to do it. Compare playing a saxophone to playing poker. Play money is practising in your room. Real money is being with good musicians on stage. For either one, you need at least the basics, but you will be lost without more advanced concepts in the live game/gig.

So if you want to learn how to play in play money games, then just do it. And the same thing goes for real money games. To know how to do it, play real money games. Then get involved in discussion and hand history posts.

Rince and repeat.......
 
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Play money chips are only for practice and fun purpose and it is difficult to get the actual feel of loosing real money so we dont care about loosing play money but it helps a lot in practising and framing different strategies while playing without fear of failing.... And poker is all about practice , focus and study.
 
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