As soon as you get your hands on a new device or a new game, you want to get the most of it straight away. If you happen to get a new iPad and download a poker app for the first time, you can be stunned by the multitude of new things you'll need to embrace. Don't rush with it, because your haste can affect not just the outcome of your first game, but also your attitude to mobile poker in general.

If you have never played poker on any type of device, iPad casino poker may seem to be confusing at first. It's a good thing that you usually have a choice of whether to play for money or stick to free games for a while. At least you can figure out without hurting your real bankroll which button is for raising and which one is for folding.

Those who are used to playing on their desktops or laptops, usually complain that the quality of the picture and the sound are not as good as they want them to be. Well, naturally, an iPad screen is a bit different from a 27 inch monitor and the sound is different from Bang & Olufsen speakers, but sometimes it's not the device that has to be blamed. If you downloaded a crappy poker application, it wouldn't present you with a nice graphics and clear sound even if you could run it on a PC. Look for a better mobile poker room or a poker application developed by a decent provider, otherwise you'll have to bear with mediocre image and farting noises. iPad casino poker is not that different from online poker, you just need some time to get used to it.

If you play mobile poker for real, you depend on Internet reception. Although Internet coverage is getting expanded at a considerable pace, there are still some places where you will be able to play only in offline mode. If you don't want to be annoyed by such interruptions, note those places where the signal is poor. Very soon you'll be able to either avoid this travel route, or put off your real money game till later, when you are at the place where Internet is fully available.