Our two-part series gives you a few tips when you first enter a casino in Las Vegas to play poker there. In the second part, we give you a few tips for the behavior at the table.

If we for the first time in a casino goes before you are quickly overwhelmed a bit. Countless players crowd around the tables, everywhere one hears the cries and screams of the winners and losers, phones ringing everywhere, and colored lights flashing.

A casino is a sensual overkill. No wonder that startled when one first enters such an environment.

If you then enter the poker room, it is usually not much better. On the walls hang rows of television, and anywhere people sit in front of stacks, casino executives and managers running around, in between time and again be security guards.

If you are not careful, you can be distracted easily. I have written this article so that you, the transition from online poker to the casino a bit easier.

Before you sit down

1. Write your name on the waiting list. If possible, you just call the casino and can be put on the waiting list before one makes on the road. Normally one of the poker room can be an hour after the call. After this we should have checked.

If there is a waiting list, you do not sit around and wait for a place, so you may run the risk of playing one of these typical casino games.

2. The check-in. Go directly upon your arrival directly to the poker room and get informed about the situation. When the waiting list is relatively long, sometimes you get a pager that notifies you when your place has become vacant.

It offers itself especially if you want to look around a bit first. If you have questions about buy-ins or the like, is jetrzt the right time.

3. Avoid the typical casino traps. I think it is worth it explicitly hinzuweisen.Sie are poker players, and as Pokerpsieler you should not bother with-EV games. Do not waste no money and no time.

Sit down a little bit more comfortable, you watch television or browse the booklet in poker magazines. Just do not come up with the idea to take up with your buy-in times just at the blackjack table.

4. Learn the rules. Familiarize yourself with the peculiarities of the casino. Most if not all poker rooms have their house rules posted somewhere. Often there are small differences between individual areas, so you should always watch the rules so you do not have any unpleasant surprises. 5. Grab your chips you are. You can even get your chips from the cashier in order to save some time. Of course you can also wait until you sit at a desk, and then give the dealer your money and / or to bring the chips. However the other you use the time you have übrgi and even reasonable.

6. Put your money on the table. If you want to transfer your money to staff that you get used to, simply put the money on the table. Casino employees are encouraged not to accept money directly from the hands of the guests, so you put the money to themselves, and they will then just take it from there itself.

7. Pay attention to the announcements. You will probably be called over loudspeakers. If you have not received a pager, so you should listen with one ear always to the announcements. You missed the call, you will be removed from the list.

If your name is your turn to ask an employee to select where your place is, and he will lead you there.

We are already at the end of the first part. In the second section we will go to things like the behavior at the table, dealing with the chips and a few other things.