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As players, we must all start somewhere. Some go straight in at the deep end with money to burn and decide to learn as they go, but most I feel, start off in small stakes cash games with their friends. I know I certainly did, and I believe it has shaped me as a player immeasureably. What began as Five Card Draw for silver coins, progressed to Holdem for gold ones and so on. These two games remain my favourite to this day. Whichever direction our poker learning takes, I think it invariable that our strengths will lie in the roots of our learning and the games we love most.

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This is the main reason that I hold such admiration for winners of HORSE events, because to master four different poker variants takes a huge amount of dedication and skill.

The same can be perhaps be said of live players and online players. there is no doubt an increasing amount of players who almost always play online and started out in this type of game will be less comfortable with live play. Although this does not mean they cannot become adept at live play, they are certainly likely to be weaker at it.

As a player I would always advocate learning new types of poker games, as it helps to expand your knowledge of the game as well as helping to ensure you do not lose interest. Also, you never know when you might discover a new type of game which appeals to your type of play and which you can learn to make money at. The important thing for me will always be both to experiment with new types of games, and to remember the very games that first got you started playing poker. If you revisit these games you can often find yourself surprisingly skilled at them with some play to refresh your memory.