Everyone can reach their goals in poker but you do need some kind of initiate. If for you playing winning poker is important then first of all you need a good foundation. If you already have some poker potential you will reach that goal faster. Everyone who started poker has gone through phases from newb to journeyman to pro to superstar, they all have had a solid foundation.

Poker is much like life when you learn the fundamentals the limit is the sky. When you have those fundamentals you can add stylistic touchs that make your game represent you more. When you know these fundamentals, you can start to improvise in games. If you think of it poker is like jazz too, the good jazz players are always improvising but with what they know and learned of the fundamentals. The product of this improvisation is sweet and beautiful poker skills. But to achieve this you need to play lots of games and be very experienced.

The poker game is surrounded around blind and antes. When you start of every player will try to get the ante or blinds. An Ante is a small portion of a bet contributed by every player to seed the pot at the start of the hand.

A blind is a forced bet made by one player or several before any card was dealt that is why  it’s called a blind. In Stud games, players usually ante and in Omaha Hold’Em, Texas Hold’em players use blinds. Whatever the game uses the game needs seed money to start the action. Before that poker would become a rather dull game. People would just wait for the best hand to come up and then taking the pot.

Playing for an empty pot would not make for a fun fast poker game but rather slow and boring. Blinds and Ante serve a very important purpose. They serve the same purpose though, to tempt and entice the players into the pot, creating action because there is a monetary target to aim for.