Many poker players are desperate to play online poker but don’t want to spend a vast amount of money in the process. We fully understand this and so we want to draw your attention to the hundreds of free live games of online poker which are going on every second of every day! It is not necessary to spend all your wages in online poker rooms! The free live game of online poker is taken fairly seriously by many poker players. There is an argument that if people play online poker for free, they won’t be quite as careful with their poker chips and so you aren’t getting the practice in by playing at these poker tables. However, playing in a free online poker game is better than not playing poker at all so we highly recommend it. There are two ways to play internet poker for free:

Play Chips

Many internet poker forums offer the chance for you to play live poker games at their online poker tables with ‘play chips’ which cost you nothing. You can usually get an unlimited amount of play chips and so many poker players will go all in in a reckless fashion. However, some players take this very seriously and if you are at a table with these people, the free game of live online poker will really help your online poker game. The more chips you gather together, the higher the table you can visit and the free online poker game can get quite exciting when you have built your virtual stack up all the way! I had 100,000 play chips once, after starting with only 1000 and I eventually placed quite a high value on them! When you get to this stage, the free live online poker game becomes almost as valuable as playing at a high stakes poker game with huge stakes.

Freeroll Tournaments

Arguably the more useful and realistic free live online poker game, the freeroll tournament means exactly what it sounds like. Everyone enters the competition for free (so there are usually lots of poker tables, full of players) and there is a small prize for the top few (usually a prize pool of no more than $50). However, in our experience, you need action points to enable you to enter this free live online poker game, and action points are accumulated by spending a little money at the cash tables. So you could say that freeroll tournaments, whilst free at the point of use, do not technically come within the definition of the free live game of online poker.

Once again, may people go all in without much consideration. However, the further you get towards the end of the free online poker competition, the more serious the play becomes. Once again, this free live game of online poker really prepares you for the real cash tournaments and they provide an invaluable opportunity to practice.