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

I think this is correct

I've been playing a fair few friendly live games and feel that this has been the most educational. I have been playing with people of a variety of standards, really paying attention and also getting a kind of summary or analyisis off the more experienced players after many hands.

How many seats with how many legs are on the bus? How do we know if all of the girls have two legs and if all the cats have 4 legs?

The thing is it was a free bar

That answers everything...

i would agree. many people just do not know there limits and also what happens to them when they go over.

lol

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

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...

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.

I won £20. Really good as they put me on a freeroll.

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he raised me all in

i was lower than him so i'm all in

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Thanks for the advice, i finnished second and took home a bit of hard cash. Maybe it was beginners look though

On friday night i am playing a live texas holdem tournament with 4 other players. I am a beginner, two of the players have been playing occasionaly for 6 months, one is fairly experienced and the other guy seems very experienced, apparently having played in the WSOP. Someone said to me that i should probaly fold unless i get delt a 10/Jack. What are peoples opinions on this? any other advice on the game?

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

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 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?

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?

hi guys, not only am i new to blondpoker, i'm fairly new to poker and in need of advise. Basically, i've been playing for about three months, i'm really enjoying the game but my skills don't seem to be progressing any further. it would be nice if i won more money, so if any of you  has some sound advice for someone in my possition, then that would be great!

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.