To the New, Aspiring Player

[Aaron W.]

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This very nice post goes well with your other very nice post which has tons of excellent links buried in it that will take a long time to read through.

I really want to emphasize this paragraph (my empahses added):

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When you’re just starting, it doesn’t make sense for most players to be playing a ton of hands. If you’re not studying at least twice as much as you’re playing, you’re doing yourself a HUGE disservice. Read and reread the books everyone here talks about, post hands, discuss hands, do math, think about hands away from the table, etc. There are plenty of things that go on in a 100 hands or so, that will give you something to think about, post and learn from.

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It's especially solid advice in light of this recent post (which was a little confusing - most people answered the question in the subject and not the question asked in the poll).

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Bump plus some instructions. A lot of the links don't work right now (probably due to the recent upgrade). You can still find the links by changing the "forumserver" to "archiveserver" in the URL.