Poker Online. Play or Earn?. Ilgizyar Akhmetzyanov

with other players. This is still far away. As for me, at this phase I prefer using under a modest and hardly memorable nickname made up of a set of random letters and numbers that gives very little information about me. It will hardly be remembered by the players, unless they take some notes, as I usually do, but we’ll come to that later.

      Now, regarding your avatar. I would recommend to google for most annoying images, because in poker much depends on self-restraint. That who sooner loses control, will most likely become at outsider and will most likely lose. Perhaps you should consider remaining rather unnoticeable.

      Normally, all the images are submitted to testing before being attached to the user. The administration reserves the right to reject any image that they deem inappropriate. The time taken to test the image depends on how many new images are downloaded. It may take up to five days to get the image approved.

      Please note that you can easily change your avatar from the list in a gallery as often as you wish, with a restriction of using only two different avatars. Any new image chosen automatically deletes the previous one.

      Well, I think, you will have no problems with the registration. Let’s move on.

      4. Settings and their Peculiarities

      Having signed up, you get to the main page. Here you can see the photos of famous poker players, who are members of the professional team of this particular poker room. It is worth reading their biographies.

      I would particularly like to mention the best of all poker players who have ever lived, in my opinion – Daniel Negreanu. This man is a walking proof that one can earn on poker, and this is no accident. Why should you read about the poker stars? The answer is simple. You need to know about them, so as to be aware of their capacity and who they actually are, should you happen to face them. And at this stage of becoming a professional, it is better not sit down with them at the same table at all, to be on the safe side. If however, some of them happens to sit down at yours, its is safe to get “lost” as soon as possible. The nicknames they use to play and earn are well known – there is no problem to find information about their biographies on special websites, or at least through googling. It’s unlikely that you will happen to face them at this stage, with the stakes being rather small, but in the future, when you have developed your skills and start to play for high stakes, do not forget to do this, and the sooner the better. It is the same when you learn the history of your state and its heroes. You, as a future professional, are simply bound to know the history of the emergence and evolution of poker and its “heroes”, because this game is going to be your daily bread.

      The main page of the poker rooms usually has a link to a kind of a “competent”, or “safe, or “responsible,” game. Let’s try it and see what interesting things there are. Be sure to read what is written here as it will certainly be of use to you. To the left you will see the Setup Menu (by all means, take it seriously). I will outline the most important settings related to the poker room I have selected:

      * Automatic currency conversion. When this option is enabled, all the funds will be converted from one currency to another at the average exchange rate, thus letting the player not have to bother to approve each buy-in. This feature applies to those players who reported multiple currencies in their accounts. The winnings will be automatically entered after the game and converted into the initially selected currency upon leaving the game.

      Besides, you can be sure to have chosen the currency you want in the Cashier. To do this, open the Cashier and click on the left-hand “Menu” button. Next, you will see the “Deposit” button, your Balance and the “Cash Currency” buttons. By clicking on the latter, you can choose your preferred currency. This is necessary when you are not sure which currency to choose first and to avoid confusion each time when translating it into yours, when calculating your profit and loss.

      * Time zone. Be sure to pick up your actual time zone and check the program time with your watch – it is important, because in the future, many of you will get registered in the tournament in advance, and it would be rather upsetting if you happen to confuse the time and will be late. By losing your time at the initial stage of the tournament, you will put yourself in a very disadvantageous position.

      * Get yourself hidden from being found through search. The Administration offers you an opportunity to protect yourself from the players you feel uncomfortable with at the tables, by using a function of the client software letting you be hidden from the search. It is necessary to ensure that you could not be found by other players. I recommend to tick it.

      * Idle time. This function is well described, but I would recommend you to put more time, because it often happens so that you are taken out of your account earlier than you would expect.

      * Disable automatic deregistration in tournaments like Sit-and-Go. This option will help protect you should the connection be lost before such a tournament – the system will automatically cancel your registration in this particular tournament in case you have lost your connection for more than a certain amount of time. The connection loss time depends on the type of a Sit-and-Go tournament, and will be set separately for each specific event.

      This options aims to protect the players who signed up for the Sit and Go