Playing poker requires no special skills, except maybe for the most rudimentary of them, but regardless of how you play, the more you know about poker generally the better your chances of returning home a winner. Here I have attempted to cover some of the questions that you might ask yourself when playing poker, and even if you have no particular expertise in the game, I hope you will at least consider some of the questions listed here so that you are prepared for your first poker game of the new year.