Beginner aspires to be like you guys

beak · #1 03-13-2007, 06:45 AM

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Build your roll up. Play a whole lot of hands. Reply to many posts here, and let us tell you how good and poker you are. Don't let your win rate fool you into thinking you're good, or even a winning player at the nanolimits.

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Thanks, will do. I wasn't reading anything into 1k hands, I think it was Socrates that said "the only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing" which certainly describes me. Will continue to *try to* reply to hand posts etc. and will see you in another 99k hands or so...........

thanks to you and everyone for taking time to give a newbie a leg up

Beak

martybonus · #2 03-13-2007, 06:55 AM

beak,

Todd gives some good advice there about multi tabling and moving up.

Another school of thought is to *not* multi-table as a noob at all.

If you have the roll to try it, give .25/.50 a crack and see how you get on. there will be fewer fish but still enough to be profitable. you'll maybe get rivered less frequently as well.

pjrobertshaw · #3 03-13-2007, 07:45 AM

been lurking on the forum since xmas '06 and learnt so much. thanks all.

beak - the advice to drop down to the basic level (0.05/0.10) game has proved invaluable to me. prior to that i, like you, went on that amazing beginners luck run. then i predictably lost the lot.

then i took advice from the beginners forum and for the last month i played nothing but the lowest limit for 2 hours a night and supplemented it with study. simply playing ABC poker i've learnt how to play the right cards the right way (most of the time). and when i do make a stupid play, it doesn't cost me and i learn (sometimes this takes a few attempts).

the only better advice i've had is 'Patience'. truck loads of it.

first post. woo-hoo [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

martybonus · #4 03-13-2007, 07:49 AM

welcome bobbyshaw.

just a question: what do you mean by ABC poker? I'm trying to figure out what diff people mean by this. hear it said lots but hardly ever does anyone go on to flesh out the definition.

fretelöo · #5 03-13-2007, 07:58 AM

Bet when you have it, fold when you don't. Playing TAG-style, really.

pjrobertshaw · #6 03-13-2007, 08:00 AM

well i guess my definition is playing strong cards pre flop. by strong i guess the slansky groupings 1 through to 4. fold on the flop if don't make a set or draw flush/straight and been raised. all the obvious stuff. v boring so multi-table to stop drifting into playing a hand out of boredom.

actually, PerformancePoker.com was a big influence in completely plugging the holes in my game that leaked my bankroll. (actually got another question about 'performancepoker' i'll post later)

Be very interested to know what others take on 'ABC' is.

Todd · #7 03-13-2007, 09:02 AM

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beak,

Todd gives some good advice there about multi tabling and moving up.

Another school of thought is to *not* multi-table as a noob at all.

If you have the roll to try it, give .25/.50 a crack and see how you get on. there will be fewer fish but still enough to be profitable. you'll maybe get rivered less frequently as well.

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I waited to multitable until I was comfortable at a limit, and not playing with scared money. Then as I said, I incrementally added the next limit up.

The most important thing I learned multitabling was that I was only going to be up in ~70% of my sessions, and as such when I have a few tables open, I usually have a couple that hover around the buyin and one that hits big. THis helps, psychologically, since you can see how streaky things are, and get a better understanding of variance, as it pertains to the short run of 100-300 hands on a single table.