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Old 10-23-2007, 04:16 PM
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At lowest levels, much of the time you will be playing against multiple hands of essentially random cards. If you stick to playing "good" starting cards, you will have a slight edge over a multiple-player "random" distribution, and that edge will take some time to show a profit.

If you take (AA)K hot and cold against four random hands, you have approximately 36 percent equity. That means you will lose the hand 64 percent of the time! Over a long series of trials however, when you do win, you will get more money back than you have lost. In the process you will see some amazing crap pull down huge pots.

It might take an awful long time at micro levels for this to become apparent, but the plain truth in poker is that the odds are real, and if you have the best of it, you will make money.

Playing at higher stakes doesn't change the mathematics, and until you get to significant stakes, the style of play doesn't really approach the style discussed in the serious literature. At the penny levels, you may be the only player at the table who even considers his starting cards.

If you have a strong grasp of the player-independent fundamentals (hand strength on third street, position on third street, value of draws, liveness of cards, pot odds) you might consider moving up to the small dollar-increment levels, where there will be other people who take the game seriously and you may feel less frustration.

No, actually, there's frustration at every level. Get used to it, then move up.

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