Zynga Poker for play money is a game all unto itself. Realize as well that you can in no way use Zynga Poker as a training ground before taking the leap into real money. This is why people playing Zynga Poker frankly play like idiots they’re emotionally detached from the money and are willing to gamble it up. Sure there’s still some emotional attachment to the “money”, but no where close compared to when it’s real money. People do stupid things like this when playing Zynga Poker because it’s play money. In a real money game, you wouldn’t be raising or even calling 6-7 offsuit or A-10 when you’re first to act in a hand for example, yet people do this in Zynga poker all the time. You’re probably emotionally attached to this money and play very conservatively with it (or at least you should be unless you’re a seasoned veteran that can play a very aggressive game because you’re good with exploiting players’ tendencies and good with math and know when you’re truly getting your money in good).

When it comes to real money, well, you’re playing with real money. There’s a huge difference in play style between playing Zynga Poker for play money and playing poker for real money. So once all the bad habits are flushed away and you can incorporate the advice here, give yourself a week or two of some decent hours of play time and let us know how you’re doing. I know it can be extremely hard for people to adopt a strategy and just toss away their bad habits over night, so i would think it’d be a very rare person that could probably read this and automatically forget the way they had been playing up till this point. Just one favor though please be honest with yourself that you were indeed following the advice given here to a tee. I would really like to see people leave comments and say how they have done. I challenge anyone to disprove it doesn’t work when followed to a tee over a 2 week period or so. This entire strategy will simply be one single entry to this blog.

This is not to say that there is nothing from real money strategy that works, it’s just that things need to be tweaked a bit and that’s what I’m going to explain to you here. This is Zynga and it’s an entirely different world from real money and it needs to be played as such.

Some blogs try and attempt to explain winning strategy in Zynga No Limit Hold ‘Em Poker, the secrets of Zynga poker, the Zynga poker “cheats”, etc., but the problem is that they try too much to adapt real money strategies into the play money game of Zynga Poker. (2020 edit: I haven’t played this game in years and came back on a whim to see what’s new, and I have some new thoughts on the strategy portion at the bottom of this section)

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