
Really though you have an amazing opportunity, with a huge wealth of poker knowledge shared now in books for you from some of the greatest minds in Poker, use that rather than playing initially. TL DR I'd recommend picking up a few books, read them, then play some play money or low stakes cash. It's extremely hard to unlearn a bad habit and there is no better way to pick up a bad habit than to jump into something you have no idea about and end up getting lucky. I think a huge percentage of poker players who are winning players will tell you all of their initial bad habits from learning the game which they had to then go unlearn over the years.

Don't learn the way a lot of people do by playing first. Honestly you're a blank canvas, and my biggest piece of advice to learning poker as someone who hasn't played before, is learn it the right way. Once you've finished reading some basic books, you can move onto more advanced books, Jonathan Little has several great poker books, Essential Poker Math by Alton Hardin, The Raiser's Edge (Old but still good), etc.

So some things with the relevance as these as a learning tool to consider:

Your best bet would probably to download a poker video game, something like governor of poker or Poker Night at the Inventory. I'm sure other reputable ones offer play money options too.Īs for a client that allows for offline and online options, I don't think one exists from my knowledge. So pretty much all of the major online card rooms offer play money to learn how to play the game, pokerstars, 888 & partypoker.
