JebDolphin
02-09-2009, 07:53 PM
As a new player to texas hold em and online poker i thought i would post some knowledge i have gained to maybe help other "newbies". To most in the forum im sure these are well known ideas and perhaps common sense. As i said my comments are for new players and at the risk of getting tagged a fish i will go ahead and post.
A) Have a list of starting hands you will play and from what positions. These can be found all over the net. (i keep my list by my computer) Remember these are starting hands only. After the flop what may have been a good starting hand can become a second best hand.
B) Discipline yourself to be able to fold that great hand if the flop is not to your favor.
C) Go online and learn the percentages of what a starting hand has of becoming a winning hand. For example odds are you will be dealt two suited cards 1 in every 4 hands. However the odds of those 2 cards making you a flush in 1 in every 20 hands. Know what outs are and how theses outs figure into percentages of making your hand. (Here again i keep a chart by my computer and it will stay there until i have it memorized).
D) I track my play to know what games i do better at. Sng, tourney, buyin, rebuys, freezeout etc. I even track the time of day and what happened that i was out. By doing so i realized that i was losing alot between 0700 and 1300 by some really bad beats. Upon researching my play i found that alot of europeans are playing in this time frame and imo they play diferently then most americans. I mean no disrespect to there play and do not mean to say they all play the same but i saw something and have changed my play accordingly. My point being if i had not tracked my play i may not of caught this. I also found i do better in freezeouts then rebuys.
This also showed me that i kept getting close to the bubble and then losing out short of the money. Here again by tracking what happened i was able to figure out that 2 things where going on .1 I would lose pateince and make a bad bet or 2 would get a good hand and not bet it correctly. Point is I would not have seen this if I had not been tracking my play and why i was knocked out.
E)Use the tags and notes. At first i would just tag a player but then when i saw them again and had no info on why i had tagged them. DUH i now use abreviations in the note section that i picked up online. For example (and i see this alot) a player who plays alot of suited whole cards gets noted ASAP
Any Suited cards Any Position. Or AA Any Ace.
F)Chat. When i see Negative chat i either put the person on ignore or turn chat off. Being new to the game i cant be distracted by this nonsense.I dont want to play on emotions as i am sure to make a mistake. ( i would like to say however that the good chat on this site outweighs the bad for sure, i have met some very nice people)
G)And finally BE PATIENT. The good hands will come. DONT GIVE UP. I have come from the short stack back to the money. Dont just throw your chips in after a bad hand or bad beat. As long as you have chips you can still win. Dont just throw it away and run to another game.
Well now that i have written my first book on poker i will close this post to say that while i am still a donkey I am trying to learn. I will check back here often in hopes that there are more posts to help my game. Because i feel that the better we all become as players the site will be more enjoyable and i wont have to keep replacing my mouse because i threw it after a donkey sucked out a str8 on my aces!!! lol
:wave:JebDolphin
A) Have a list of starting hands you will play and from what positions. These can be found all over the net. (i keep my list by my computer) Remember these are starting hands only. After the flop what may have been a good starting hand can become a second best hand.
B) Discipline yourself to be able to fold that great hand if the flop is not to your favor.
C) Go online and learn the percentages of what a starting hand has of becoming a winning hand. For example odds are you will be dealt two suited cards 1 in every 4 hands. However the odds of those 2 cards making you a flush in 1 in every 20 hands. Know what outs are and how theses outs figure into percentages of making your hand. (Here again i keep a chart by my computer and it will stay there until i have it memorized).
D) I track my play to know what games i do better at. Sng, tourney, buyin, rebuys, freezeout etc. I even track the time of day and what happened that i was out. By doing so i realized that i was losing alot between 0700 and 1300 by some really bad beats. Upon researching my play i found that alot of europeans are playing in this time frame and imo they play diferently then most americans. I mean no disrespect to there play and do not mean to say they all play the same but i saw something and have changed my play accordingly. My point being if i had not tracked my play i may not of caught this. I also found i do better in freezeouts then rebuys.
This also showed me that i kept getting close to the bubble and then losing out short of the money. Here again by tracking what happened i was able to figure out that 2 things where going on .1 I would lose pateince and make a bad bet or 2 would get a good hand and not bet it correctly. Point is I would not have seen this if I had not been tracking my play and why i was knocked out.
E)Use the tags and notes. At first i would just tag a player but then when i saw them again and had no info on why i had tagged them. DUH i now use abreviations in the note section that i picked up online. For example (and i see this alot) a player who plays alot of suited whole cards gets noted ASAP
Any Suited cards Any Position. Or AA Any Ace.
F)Chat. When i see Negative chat i either put the person on ignore or turn chat off. Being new to the game i cant be distracted by this nonsense.I dont want to play on emotions as i am sure to make a mistake. ( i would like to say however that the good chat on this site outweighs the bad for sure, i have met some very nice people)
G)And finally BE PATIENT. The good hands will come. DONT GIVE UP. I have come from the short stack back to the money. Dont just throw your chips in after a bad hand or bad beat. As long as you have chips you can still win. Dont just throw it away and run to another game.
Well now that i have written my first book on poker i will close this post to say that while i am still a donkey I am trying to learn. I will check back here often in hopes that there are more posts to help my game. Because i feel that the better we all become as players the site will be more enjoyable and i wont have to keep replacing my mouse because i threw it after a donkey sucked out a str8 on my aces!!! lol
:wave:JebDolphin