What was the best advice you heard?

dirtyoldog · Feb 8, 2014

don't eat the yellow snow

zEric7x · Feb 8, 2014

Play more hands in position and stop cold calling and check calling. Other words stop being a calling station and raise more.

RickAversion · Feb 9, 2014

It seems the number one advice is "never call, always raise".

Is this intended to reduce the number of hands you play?
In other words, only play hands that are so good that you can comfortably raise? Forces you to not play marginal hands.

Or it it intended to improve your fold equity? You're always going in strong, so more people are going to fold. Getting you more pots.

Or is it a combination of both?

IPlay · Feb 9, 2014

Ladybugger said:
A slow play will crush your precious "position" every time.
It's vastly overrated. Having a boat will win regardless of position.

Bet sizing is key. Position is not.

How often do boats happen and how often can you have position on your opponents?

If you play poker just waiting for a boat, blinds are going to beat you in the long run.

joelcai · Feb 10, 2014

The money you dont lose is money that you win, if u have a small stack on a cash table, leave it and enter to otherone with a big stack

oooo · Feb 10, 2014

"Full ring is a boring game!" That helped me a lot to see that I'm really a lot better playing with 4 or less player on the table.

"You can't win a tournament on the first hand." That one got me thinking about flips with AK are just not Worth it. If can see the flop, go for it.

goodgameme · Feb 10, 2014

That you don't have to be the best poker player in the world. You just have to be better than the majority of the players at your table. Great advice for table selection.

starting_at_the_bottom · Feb 10, 2014

vinylspiros said:
Sorry but this advice is very VERY poor and if you do not realize that, then you really have ALOT to learn about the game.

x2 and then some.

Stevepdx · Feb 10, 2014

inchworm/alm

Jared Tendler's explanations of the adult learning model and the inchworm concept really helped me in my study.

I'd be trying to absorb everything new without making sure I firmly, firmly, firmly understood the simpler things before moving onto the most advanced.

I'm currently working on the back end of my inchworm so that the front end can move up more. This consists of going over all of the fundamentals again...7 years into my poker career. It's refreshing and good.

edit: http://jaredtendlerpoker.com/instructional/book-excerpt-inchworm/

Stevepdx · Feb 10, 2014

starting_at_the_bottom said:
x2 and then some.

I'd like to pile on here.

"Cards are everything" ....no, no no no.

If you sit around waiting to play only good cards, you're going to both be blinded off and you're not going to get any action when you do play if the villains at the table have 2 brain cells to rub together.

It's not "cards, cards, cards," it's "position, position, position."

IM deusXmachina · Feb 10, 2014

"If you think are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won't.... Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can."

C. W. Longenecker

This is two excerpts actually, that get me a little emotional as it pertains to my life, and not just poker. It is from a poem Longenecker wrote called the Victor, and put me in a particular mental state of being that helped me tremendously after a motorcycle accident left me in critical condition for some time many years ago.

HaNz17 · Feb 10, 2014

Real wealth is in the poker game, money is a mere coincidence!

Enviado desde mi C2104 mediante Tapatalk

crusinnn · Feb 11, 2014

Stevepdx said:
I'd like to pile on here.

"Cards are everything" ....no, no no no.

If you sit around waiting to play only good cards, you're going to both be blinded off and you're not going to get any action when you do play if the villains at the table have 2 brain cells to rub together.

It's not "cards, cards, cards," it's "position, position, position."

Lol @ "2 brain cells to rub together" this made me giggle

rugby0 · Feb 11, 2014

Stay awake or stop playing. Dave haynie

RickAversion · Feb 15, 2014

Best advice you ever heard is found in this article about a bot that beats most human players.
The advice has already been stated in this thread, but talk about validation
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/poker-computer.html?hp&pagewanted=all

lost2qandisa · Feb 15, 2014

It is better to win a small pot than to lose a big one. Slow playing hands allows players to draw out on you. Be aggressive and take the small pot instead of slowing playing and letting them draw out on you.

RickAversion · Feb 15, 2014

lost2qandisa said:
It is better to win a small pot than to lose a big one. Slow playing hands allows players to draw out on you. Be aggressive and take the small pot instead of slowing playing and letting them draw out on you.

You're basically espousing the whole "Always raise, never check" addage?

OMGjustinBIEBS · Feb 17, 2014

Never pay to much to see the flop

-Chad Batista-

comparecasino24 · Jun 26, 2014

bet when your in front and fold when your behind

joe777 · Jun 26, 2014

Be patience and mind your position.

JamaicanKid · Jun 27, 2014

comparecasino24 said:
bet when your in front and fold when your behind

Makes sense....wise advice...u sir win the internet today

rickypr18 · Jul 1, 2014

Git a spelleeng and grammer coash. Is worked out graet for mi.

rickypr18 · Jul 1, 2014

If you playin' tight, you playin' right. If you playin' loose, you gon' lose.

theRaven68 · Jul 1, 2014

be calm and patient

IM deusXmachina · Jul 1, 2014

I also like " to the aggressor go the spoils" of poker of course...

What was the best advice you heard?

dirtyoldog

Legend

zEric7x

Visionary

RickAversion

Visionary

IPlay

Bum hunts 25NL

joelcai

Enthusiast

oooo

Enthusiast

goodgameme

Enthusiast

starting_at_the_bottom

Legend

Stevepdx

Rock Star

Stevepdx

Rock Star

IM deusXmachina

Rock Star

HaNz17

Enthusiast

crusinnn

Rock Star

rugby0

Visionary

RickAversion

Visionary

lost2qandisa

Rock Star

RickAversion

Visionary

OMGjustinBIEBS

Enthusiast

comparecasino24

Rising Star

joe777

Legend

JamaicanKid

Visionary

rickypr18

Rock Star

rickypr18

Rock Star

theRaven68

Legend

IM deusXmachina

Rock Star

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