The benefit which is potentially the most important has less to do with how you are playing Texas Hold’em and more to do with how the competition chooses to play. With play money, just about every player will stick around to see the flop. This also leads to inordinate amounts of bluffing, so much so that the game becomes essentially unplayable. At real money poker sites, even at the micro-limit tables, players tend to play in a much more reasonable way. This will save you a ton of headaches and be immensely more useful in terms of helping you improve your web poker skills in a way that translates to all other real money poker situations.
