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This is a thread for all the beginners who come to CC looking to improve their game and get into the many freerolls offered on here. The biggest piece of advice that I can give you is: Don't play like everyone else. Why you may ask. Because chances are that they don't know what they are doing either and they just started playing like everyone else: They limp with hands they want to see flops with, they raise with slightly stronger hands they want to see the flop with. They cold call pre-flop with any hand they want to see the flop with. After the flop, they play fast with two pair of better. They pot control with one pair. They fold high cards. That is pretty much the extent of their strategy. They wait for monsters and try and get value but they often won't unless they are in a hand against another monster. The Mandalorian would say -- This is NOT the way.
If you are new and want to get better, and more importantly get profitable, then you have to study the game and your opponents: What do your opponents open? What do your opponents cold call with? What do your opponents bet the river with? How do your opponents check out of position when they didn't hit the flop? What do your opponents do with draws on the flop? Has your opponent ever raised in a multi-way pot without a huge hand? And so on. Use the information you gathered. Play pots you wouldn't have played before. Make laydowns you would not have made before. This will lead you to success and you will leave those others that are still playing the same old way that everyone else does in the dust.
There are SOOOO many resources to study: CC has a great beginner course here that I am actually a graduate of. I have been with PokerCoaching.Com for years but I also follow strategy advice from other places as well because there is so much to learn and there are different ways of employing different strategies in the exact same situation. Some people are full on GTO, some people are committed to exploitative poker and there are even some unicorns like me that want to learn everything about both styles so I can use those strategies back at the people playing those strategies. But, it doesn't matter what you pick -- just choose to educate yourself and get ahead of the game.
If you are new and want to get better, and more importantly get profitable, then you have to study the game and your opponents: What do your opponents open? What do your opponents cold call with? What do your opponents bet the river with? How do your opponents check out of position when they didn't hit the flop? What do your opponents do with draws on the flop? Has your opponent ever raised in a multi-way pot without a huge hand? And so on. Use the information you gathered. Play pots you wouldn't have played before. Make laydowns you would not have made before. This will lead you to success and you will leave those others that are still playing the same old way that everyone else does in the dust.
There are SOOOO many resources to study: CC has a great beginner course here that I am actually a graduate of. I have been with PokerCoaching.Com for years but I also follow strategy advice from other places as well because there is so much to learn and there are different ways of employing different strategies in the exact same situation. Some people are full on GTO, some people are committed to exploitative poker and there are even some unicorns like me that want to learn everything about both styles so I can use those strategies back at the people playing those strategies. But, it doesn't matter what you pick -- just choose to educate yourself and get ahead of the game.
