Games & Puzzles
Poker
Not about reading faces: it is position and pot odds
The screen version is mostly wrong: the substance is position, bet sizing and pot odds, and reading people is a small fraction of it. So it behaves like an exercise in arithmetic, and free software lets you drill hand ranges before sitting down anywhere. Play without money first, since losing it teaches nothing extra.
First stepUse free poker software for a week to learn starting hands by position, then play an evening with friends for chips only.
Barriers
Cost to start
Free
Going deep → $10k–50k
Alone or with people
Anyone will do
Effort
Sitting
Without a teacher?
Self-taught
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
At home
Why people take it up
Related guides
Keeping the spending in checkStarts at Free, going deep runs $10k–50kSkills
BuildsOdds and expected value