Improve Your Poker Skills with the Latest iGaming Innovations

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Caption: four of a kind Aces in a hand of poker

When Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web in 1990, he wanted a way for everyone to share information in a more efficient way. Although the internet is awash with a lot of useless stuff these days, it’s also one of the most valuable sources of information we have. Indeed, if you look at almost any industry, you’ll find that online platforms have become the best way to enhance your skills. For example, in 2017, DCU launched an online tool so that students could create virtual portfolios of their achievements. The idea behind this innovation was that it would allow them to identify their strengths and weakness as well as give employers a better overview of potential candidates.

This ability to teach people using the internet has been embraced by a myriad of industries in recent years, not least poker. Being a game where learning new skills is paramount, brands, developers and experts have all worked to create a variety of training resources for players of all skill levels, four of which we’ve profiled below.

Advanced Poker Training: Active and Passive Training

For novices, Advanced Poker Training is a website that offers two types of training: passive and active. In the first instance, videos and live broadcasts from professional players (see screenshot above) outline a range of concepts through a combination of theoretical discussions and practical scenarios. Video has long been an effective way to teach poker players, as it allows viewers to see how a pro thinks in real time. Indeed, when you look at a platform like Twitch, it’s easy to see why it attracts 15 million active daily users. As well as providing a way to learn new skills, Twitch streams are also entertaining. This dual purpose has crossed over into the poker industry thanks to sites such as Advanced Poker Training.

Building on these videos, subscribers can also access a variety of training scenarios where they get to play 500 hands against computer simulations. At the end of each game, a player can have their decisions rated in a weekly report which outlines what they did well and where they need to improve. This level of granular training is something that wouldn’t have been available to poker players 20 years ago. When the likes of Doyle Brunson were coming up, they had to rely on snippets of knowledge from their peers as well as trial and error. For modern players, trial and error comes for free (other than the price of a subscription to a training site) and, more importantly, with high-level feedback.

Poker Fighter: Training at a Granular Level

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