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Whether you play free online poker games or play for cash poker can get to be a bit of an obsession and you soon realize that to succeed your desire to win, on its own is not enough, you need to know a lot about the game to win regularly. So yes, you need skills, lots of skills and type of skill yet even then it’s all of limited use unless you play well below your skill level unless you have, in bucket loads, the worlds most important skill (not just good for poker), which, of course, is patience.

Perhaps it will sound like a given, but I really don’t think players getting started (plus more experienced ones even) realize exactly how patient you have to be  or how one hasty move can seriously compromise a hand and ruin your entire day.

A luxury if you play poker online is that you don’t have the tension generated by having to take a seat across from someone while they try to stare you down, look for physical tells you might give away or try to intimidate you with witty banter.

But, whenever you play even free poker online, you need to  wait for other people to make a decision inside the time they are allotted and certain people do love to take their time!

When you think about it a tournament of 500 players can last for hours more than it might need to because players like to wait until the last minute to decide what they are going to do. For example, if 10 players on a table each have 30 seconds per move and each one takes 25 seconds to make their move then you will have 225 seconds between turns.

Which makes it  over 3 minutes before your turn comes around again. Due to this it is easy to  get terribly irritated and make stupid moves which could set you back a large pot and most, if not all, of your chips. For a strategy this type of slow move play is pretty brilliant. This is a legal way to use time as a weapon against other players.

In order to combat what I like to call the ‘slower’ player method (and train your patience) you can take these steps:
1) Get a comfortable chair to sit in.
2) Make sure you have plenty of time to play
3) Stand-up and walk around to keep your blood flowing and your energy up.

You may not have considered patience as a skill in the past, but I assure you it is one of the best  assets you can ever have in your little book of poker skills.

If you are a newcomer to poker, first learn to play and develop your patience as well as game skills. To begin with play poker online for free at one of the best  free online poker sites. Here you can learn to play poker free for free with no risk to your own money and start building a bankroll to cash in for real money when you are all set bigtime and play poker online to win money.