Re: Beginners Common Mistakes
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#1 beginning NL mistake: stacking off with a pair. Don't play huge pots with top pair or an overpair unless you KNOW the other guy is spewing chips with something even weaker (and yeah, there are plenty of times at Party $25 NL where you're going to know that).
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Good advice, except I question that last parenthetical a bit. There are plenty of times when you're going to assess the probability as sufficiently high to get all the money in. That's not quite the same thing as KNOWING your opponent has an inferior hand, because total donks are allowed to flop sets too. If you figure your opponent for a range of {set, two pair, flush draw, any top pair, some middle pairs, some pocket pairs} then you can play top pair rather strongly. But every once in a while Villain will catch you with a monster, and that doesn't mean your read was wrong.
Of course true donks slowplay their sets and come alive on the river after at least three suited cards have hit the board, but that's a different topic. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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