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Hello im Ronnie and im new to the forum. not only that but i'm quite new to poker in general. I have been playing poker quite a bit but i seem to have reached a certain level and don't seem to be getting any better. Other players seem to know extctly when to raise, fold, ect while often i'm just stuck and they wipe the floor. Does any one have any advise on how to improve my game. I really like playing but it would be good to get a return.

Hi Ronnie,  welcome to Blonde

I am sure everyone will be able to offer you good tips on improving your game,  I won't even try as I am a first rate fish and would probably make you worse  :D

What sites do you play on mate?

hi, reading a book would help you learn basic strategy and you can build your game from there. harrington on holdem is the best in my opinion for tournament poker.

Hi and welcome to blonde

You have found the right place

Read some of the posts on here for example the Hnad Analysis board, listen to good players if you have access to any,discuss hands and tourneys with your mates(!), read books if that is your thing..put some work into studying and see if that makes a difference

Blimey Ronnie Blimey!

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Have a look around and read some of the hand analysis threads on here.  They'll tell you one thing (if nothing else), there's rarely one 'correct' way to play poker!

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Hi Ronnie,
Have you read any books? If not you should, as mentioned Harrington's is right up there but depends on how much of a beginner you are.

Play as much as you can, but not above what you can afford
Try to think what you did wrong and be honest with yourself, learn from your mistakes.
Educate yourself - there are lots of good books and articles in mags, web sites etc
Find good players & talk to them - This forum is a good start
Figure out your own game, don't copy others.
Learn to take defeat well especially in Tournaments even the best players find wins hard to come by.
It will take time but if you want to improve your game you will. But make sure its FUN.

Oh and don't listen to me I never win.  ;noflopshomer;
Hope to see you in a card room near ME soon.  ;kev;

Welcome to blonde..

Not much more I can say that has not already been said. Enjoy it and join in

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Nothing more to add, but ask any questions you need answering :)

welcome aboard.

Welcome... This board has helped my game no end, even if your not a serial poster (or even obsessive like Kinboshi), read the advice, especially from the good quality players here...

Hi Ronnie,

welcome to blonde :)

Ronnie Blimey, you sure! You haven't just taken up poker in the Vic have you? LOL

Hi Ronnie

I don;t have much advise for you apart from be patient and ry to play only premium hands.

learn to fold when you need to

best of luck

Terry
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HI Ronnie
My only advice is don't read TKs diary. it will put you off poker for life!!Seriously it's well worth a read just to see some of the rubbish plays he makes and hopefully you will avoid.

Good luck mate

Thankyou guys. A few of you mentioned that i read. Who is this harrington guy? any other titles for a beginner that you can recomend?

don't bother with Harrington my friend..it's evil...truly, truly evil and so is anyone who advocates it.

Read some of the pokermagazines to begin with..they are fun, have some great freerolls in them ussually and are not too long and boring to read. Blonde is a great source for info any question you need answered someone can answer for you (even some who really shouldn't hand out advice (like myself) will do so..as witnessed by this post)
the hand analysis thread on here is very good if you want different points of view as to how a had can be played.

The main advice is, try to get to grips with table position. If I had started wth hand selection and position I would have saved myself a lot of money..and probably even made some.

If you are looking for books to read get supersystem 2. It's great for Hold em and has all other major pokergames in it as well.

Keep having fun and pay attention to what other players at your table are doing...and don't ever talk to kinboshi no matter what he promises you'll only end up hurt and heartbroken ;)

I agree with pretty much everything Boldie has says.  Depends on how you like to learn really.  I much prefer learning 'on the job', so using resources like the PHA board here on the forum, discussing hands with friends, watching other people play and dipping into magazines is pretty much how I learnt.  I've never read a poker book and never intend to.

That said, I play poker for fun, not to earn money, and I doubt I'd ever get to a level where I'd be good enough to win money unless I was prepared to go that step further.  It seems from your posts that you want to win some dosh, so books might be the way to go, not only to help you out as you learn the game, but to get an idea of how other people might be playing (if they've read the books too, like).

Best of luck!

I call and leave messages, I write letters, I email, and you never get back to me....  :'(

Oh, and you should read the Harrington books, even if it's just for the fact that a lot of the people you'll be playing against have already read them.


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Some guys on another forum also recommended super system 2, so i've gone out and bought it. it seems good. I've took an interest in Doyle Brunson, check him out on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle_Brunson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doyle_Brunson) he is an absolute legend! He has another book that has caught my eye, its called "online Poker" (also by cardoza publishing) its seems geared up for beginners. Do you know this book? have you any thoughts on it?

Sly Spam????? ;carlocitrone;

Do we still have the Blondepoker link to Amazon? Maybe try to order your books though there.


Welcomme to Blonde BTW

hmm the guys on the other forum must be smart if they agree with me..wonder what forum that is? All I get here is grief from Kinboshi or "The Welsh virgin" as you might know him.

I haven't read "online poker"..(but maybe I should judging from my results lately) so can't comment on whether it's any good or not.

Over the last few evenings i've been watching late night televised poker. I've found this very educational.  You get to see everyones hands with percentages and the commentator analyses throughout.

Ha ha - is this a joke?

Has to be a joke. i watched a late night tornenment arond a week ago with debee mcgee and some page 3 girl on. it was awfull.
On the online poker book buy brunsen, it is ok apart from that it is a blatant marketing tool for his poker room

Ronnie, hi and good luck.

If you watch TV poker don't take too much attention of games with Pro's in it like High Stakes Poker or Poker Superstars, your better off watching the open on Sky poker as you will get advice on how to play at the lower limits and see how people play at that level.

My top three tips would be position, position and position.

Two good books to read are Killer Poker Online by John Vorhaus and Online Ace by Scott Fischman. Both of these are enjoyable reads and give you good advice on how to play poker generally rather than focusing on how to play specific hands or styles. The problem I have with Harrington is that it is too specific and reads too much like a text book.

Poker on telly can be very good as a learning tool..the main thing is that you should realise what and who you are watching. There's a big difference between watching the GUKPT and watching some Celebrity poker tournament. The celebrity poker ones you can mainly learn what NOT to do, whereas on a GUKPT tourney you can learn some fancy moves  (which will be in-effective against most players as they don't play at the level of the opponents on the GUKPT players table).
Also don't take the commentators word for something being the right or wrong move..think about it..Some commentators are completely full of it sometimes and just hype something up to make it sound interesting..so think about what the commentator says.

Finally (and probably the most important thing) any televised show is showing highlights of a tourney and even final table..this is not how the players have continuously played through the tournament. The highlights for TV mainly include big hands clashing with other big hands and people moving All-in. It's how you play the small hands that gets you to the final table..patience is not a skill you will be tought when watching poker on telly.

Having said all that...it's wonderfull, isn't it? Anyone who can not learn from watching someone else play poker is himself someone who will never understand the game. You can learn what not to do from a poor player just as well as you can learn how to play well from a good one..as long as you think about why they do what they do :)

It wasn't a joke, it was good it learn the basics.

You are correct about the marketing in the brunson book but what is really suprising about this is that the people who publish the book, cardoza publiching actually have there own poker room. They must be stupid advertising someone eles site. Also, it appears that they have been working with brunson for years, surely before the advent of internet poker. i wonder why they didn't team up with him to create a site. Doyals room is massive while there's....well...

I think you will find that the brunsen book was published before the advent of Cardoza's Poker room. Cardoza have now Released another book which is very simular to the Brunsen one, Only this time the screen shots are of the cardoza website.

You are right though, it is very much a missed opputuntity not teaming up with Brunson for endosement, because i don't think that cardoza as a brand is a well known enought brand to catch peoples attention, even though they publish many books that every serious poker player wil have heard of.

Play plenty of stt's in the early stages make sure they are cheap to enter, avoid cash tables early on,and make notes of hands you win and lose with and how you play them and try to learn from yr mistakes but as the saying goes Poker takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.

Personally i read quite a few books early on and some are good some are bad depends on your style which only you can dictate.

If pushed on advice I'd say play tight and when yr in on a hand try to put your opponent on a hand and keep trying surprisingly you can get it spot on especially if you  play the same people regularly even when yr not in on the hand try and put all the other  opponents on a hand rather than aimlessly watching as the only info you get is when you actually see their cards.

Good Luck