When you are going to play any poker game it’s very important to understand that poker is not just one game, but a huge family of games, so when starting to play any one of those games it is very important to understand that the key to success is not in the hands of fortune, as many people tend to think, but it is totally within our reach, and in order to become a truly professional poker player you need to undertake quite certain steps. One by one you should take them and in the final score you will reach the result you were looking for. So the first thing to do is choosing the game you will play. Look through the descriptions of the games and through the rules for each game. Choose the one which seems to be the most attractive one to you. Choose just one for the time being, do not hurry. In fact it should not be hard to choose a game. Now when you have made your choice you should read up on poker rules and regulations. But just learning those doesn’t make you a poker expert. No, there are still some steps to go. So, in order to be successful you need to learn even more about the strategy of the game. And having learnt those theoretical aspects you ought to start practicing your skills. Otherwise even despite all your knowledge you may make a very unfortunate mistake which will bring down all your effort and make you lose the game in the final score. Only having gone through all those stages you should consider playing the game for real money.