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Message: [QUOTE="Bombjack, post: 417859, member: 11914"] I found it really helpful playing play money Sit and Goes on Partypoker. And I still sometimes do just for fun. When you can win these or at least top 3 every time, you should be good enough to start playing for real money. Second tip - are you playing the right starting hands? I found some research online showing what the best hands were (they were classified "starving", "tight expert" etc) and used these to tighten up my play by printing out a chart. Most beginners will play junk like A7 or K5 suited. It also helps if you're playing a cash ring game to play 2 tables at once, which makes the waits less boring and it easier to throw away marginal hands. Third, cliche, but play tight but aggressive. If you raise and no-one else bets the flop, bet the pot, as you might actually have the best hand even if you missed the flop. Hopefully you raised from a late position so you can see if anyone else bets - if they don't, your unpaired AK may well be the best hand anyway, and it certainly has potential. Otherwise you'll appear weak and the other players will either steal or draw out to beat you. Be wary of callers though because they might be slow-playing... however given your position you have the opportunity to check to the river yourself, and see if they bet then. Most player play a straightforward game at this level - ie give anyone betting the flop credit for at least top pair, although they'll try to slowplay trips or better. Fourth, look carefully at hands where you made and lost money. What did you do right or wrong? Helps if you have a database like "Poker Tracker", which is $50 or something, but well worth it. $50 probably isn't enough to start. I lost my first $50 in about 20 minutes (really). So I went back to play money and played there for a while, especially the sit and goes, because the "cash" play money games are generally silly. Although if you play only the $0.02/0.04 game you'd have to be pretty bad to lose ten buy-ins consecutively. If you get poker on TV where you are, watch that, as it's really helpful to see the pros play. Finally you could ignore my 2 cents and buy a book on the subject or get one from the library if you haven't read any already. Good luck... [/QUOTE]

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