| Posted by: Cha Ngo at December 16, 2004, 1:33 am | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | Quote: The best middle ground I have found is pokerschoolonline.com
I will second this.
Excellent site and indeed where I started out so many years ago . . .
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| Posted by: shoesnatcher at December 16, 2004, 12:46 am | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | I got interested in playing poker from a friend at work. Up until a year ago I had never played any form of poker before. I started at the fish hatchery (i.e. Party Poker) and got trashed a couple of times. After a few bad experiences on playing limit hold em I had actually considered giving it up.
I then happened upon Phil Helmuth book Play Poker Like the Pros at the local book store. Big mistake, I started trying to play top 10 hands and suited aces and starved to death at the limit tables. That was when I happened upon Malmuth and Sklansky Holdem for Advanced Players book. IMHO it was the most important book I ever read. It helped me to understand the concept of starting hands and postion (Phil Hellmuth are you listening you book said nothing of postion).
After taking another bad beat or two at Party using my new starting hands, I became disenchanted with limit Hold Em and tried my luck at No Limit Holdem (the Cadallac of Poker). I chose it because I saw the pro's playing it on TV and I... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: tombstone at December 13, 2004, 2:36 pm | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | | I learned how to play poker when I was in elementary along with chess. My dad would play every other saturday night (home games). I learned texas hold 'em from a book in high school. Since then read a lot. 2+2 Publishing has the best books. I use the WIlson Turbo Omaha High-Low Split for Windows. Just purchased that this year. I will probably purchase the texas hold 'em version soon as well. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: Grinder at December 3, 2004, 6:22 am | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | The weird thing is.
I've been playing for 3 years and EVERYTIME I look back 6 months I feel I have learned. I always say - I know so much more now then 6 months ago.
1st you learn the game, then the correct cards, then the correct cards in the correct position, then the correct post flop plays, then WHY you make the correct post flop plays then you learn why the otherplayers are playing the way they do then how to alter your play because of your opponents play and it continues then how to play multi tables and the whole process starts over. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: proxybot at December 2, 2004, 1:03 pm | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | It just takes experience and losing sessions to actually improve your game. When you lose, that's when you realize you have flaws in your game and go back to "really" study those books. I don't know how useful a software would be compared to any book.. the info is already all out there, but it's up to the individual to be able to actually put it all together.
I think it took over 3 months of daily playing before I really started to get completely away from those offsuit trap hands, actually following starting hand guidelines based on position and have pot odds down to where I can actually break it down and teach someone. Also, realizing when to adjust to the type of game you're at. Most books are directed at tighter games, which is not necessarily compatible with loose fish games. Trying to mix the two will lead to subpar results....you must identify when you can limp in with those pairs/Axs and when it's an automatic fold, because someone is going to raise and isolate you. The dynamics o... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Grinder at December 2, 2004, 11:54 am | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | Tons of books and Turbo Texas Hold'm (software). Any book by Mason Malmuth and David Sklansky or Ed Miller. The rest are basically crap.
Then you have to decide on No limit, Limit, Pot Limit and the type of play. Low Limit games are looser and you play slightly diferent cards.
There are a lot of Internet sites that teach plus Party Poker has a teaching area for ideas. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: marshy at December 2, 2004, 9:06 am | | Topic: Poker Research Forum: Bonus Whores | I'm designing a poker tutorial piece of software at uni, aiming it to teach complete newbies the game, run them through some senario based hands and maybe even a pot odds tutorial also. This is all software based.
Im conductiong some research and was woundering if anyone had any ideas / input and could tell me how they learnt Texas Hold'em?
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