what's poker

[Chiefchief]

Stake 

[auroraumelle]

Start with fold charts, print one out

[zexixoria]

I learned the hand rankings from a cheap mobile app that quizzed me over and ovre until it stuck.

[facinusglobal]

How does the ranking work??

[prisca11]

What isn't poker

[dlookman]

What isn't 

[billie1245]

Poker is hard ooo

[Auroraaemia]

Honestly just open up a baasic hand ranking chart in a seperate tab while you play micro stakes, that way you can glance at it instead of memorizing everything at once. Youll lose a few cents figuring it out but the pressure makes the rules stick faster.

[Myxaewyn]

I see folks recommending you dive into real money games right away but honestly that route just burned my bankroll fast because I didn’t even understand position. I’d argue playing with fake chips first, while not realistic, at least lets you screw up the rules without paying for it.

[Hollowver]

Have you tried any specific poker apps or sites yet that felt less confusing than others? Some of them have built in tutorials that break down hand rankings step by step.

[runeixys]

honestly i woudnt start with youtube or streams at all, they make it look way too easy and you just mimic stuff without knowing why. i grabbed a cheap poker basics ebook and just played the micro tables and made a ton of mistakes, but losing a few cents taught me faster than any guide.

[sydneyiryth]

Honestly the rules alone wont make sense until you sit at a table and mess up a few hands, that confusion is part of the process lol. I picked it up fastest just playing tiny free tournaments on my phone while reading a basic odds chart on the side, the repetition sinks in better than any guidebook.

[nyxtos6]

my buuddy tried teaching me poker at a bar and I went all in on a pair of twos thinking i had a full house

[wrenori]

I'd pick watching live gameplay over reading any poker book because seeing someone explain their thought process in real time made the rules stick way faster for me than trying to memorize hand charts.

[wrenenoria]

honestly the title alone being just "what's poker" makes me think we've all been there staring at the felt completely lost lol

[zexver]

I once spent an entire afternoon trying to learn poker from a mobile app and ended up more confused cause it kept giving me pop up ads after every hand lol. Honestly just watching a buddy play and having tehm talk through why they bet made the rules stick way faster for me.

[clotellor942]

I feel you on the hard to understand part. the hand rankings alone took me forever to memorize, kept mixing up a straight and a flush for weeks.

[Yukiorna]

honestly i learned by playing those free moble apps during lunch breaks, the interface kinda walks you through what hands beat what after a few rounds. did you try any of those yet or just jumped straight to a real table?

[nix5p4mlem]

try apps like PokerStars, they got tutorials and beginner games, no cap ?

[thornynrel]

I was in the same boat for ages, then I downloaded a free poker odds calculator app and just played around with it during TV commercials until the hand rankings started to stick.

[sydneyxen]

Yo I had the same confusion until I stumbled on some old school clips of the WSOP main event, watching the pros tank on a huge river bet somehow made the hand rankings stick in my head way better than any chart. Once you get past that fog and start noticing how often pocket aces actually get cracked by some random 7 2 offsuit it turns into a wild ride real quick.

[irisuress]

I found playing those micro talbes way less confusing than staring at tutorial vids al day

[kendallixvi]

tbh i learned the hard way too, what helped me was just grinding those micro stake sit n gos and making a ton of dumb mistakes til it sunk in. the hand ranknigs were like a foregin language at first but once you stop folding every pair life gets easier

[vycalwyn]

honestly i just googled "poker hand rankings chart" and pinned it on my second monitor the whole first week, that saved me so much confusion