Need Some Help Please

[TMLTM]

Hi All.

After having a really bad end to my poker year I was pointed in the direction of Blond by a friend at a cash game. I am looking to learn about 2nl but don't really know where to start have read a few post online but they all say different bits like raise 11% and call X%... some say to be really aggressive others say play like a nit...

If anyone could point me in the right direction or just point to what I can read on this would be a great help.

Cheers
Tim

[Doobs]

Hi All.

After having a really bad end to my poker year I was pointed in the direction of Blond by a friend at a cash game. I am looking to learn about 2nl but don't really know where to start have read a few post online but they all say different bits like raise 11% and call X%... some say to be really aggressive others say play like a nit...

If anyone could point me in the right direction or just point to what I can read on this would be a great help.

Cheers
Tim

When starting playing like a nit is right.  Don't think I am been controversial by saying virtually everybody starts too loose and plays too many hands. 

You don't run before you can walk is very right.

If you just play big aces and pairs you aren't going to be far wrong for a beginner.  Only when you have worked out how to play them should you be expanding your range. 

[tikay]

Hi Tim,

Try posting a few random questions in PHA, which is here.....


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0

Make sure you include adequate info about what stage of your poker journey you are at.

You will get a wide range of advice from some very good players, much it it conflicting. Your job will be to sort the wheat from the chaff.

There will be no advice from me - I'm not good enough - except you MUST make your own decisions.

When folks say, for example, "you MUST raise 2.2x or you MUST NOT raise 3x", that is all bollox. You must do what works for you, not what everyone else does.

[jgcblack]

Hi Tim,

Try posting a few random questions in PHA, which is here.....


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0

Make sure you include adequate info about what stage of your poker journey you are at.

You will get a wide range of advice from some very good players, much it it conflicting. Your job will be to sort the wheat from the chaff.

There will be no advice from me - I'm not good enough - except you MUST make your own decisions.

When folks say, for example, "you MUST raise 2.2x or you MUST NOT raise 3x", that is all bollox. You must do what works for you, not what everyone else does.

correct.

You will find many 'fixed' answers from certain people but most of them come from some maths formed answer.  Sometimes even from different calculations trying to show the same thing.

From experience of coming to online from live I would suggest being 'insanely tight' all over and slowly open up your hand choices starting from the button.  Generally you will get very good, well targeted advice on the poker hand analysis (pha) page from a wide range of players, many of them big winners in a wide range of stakes and games.

There is a dedicated 2nl thread on a rival site but for the most part, many on here will answer the same as they would any limit.  There may be people in the same games as you who can advise on what and how they play and their experiences of that, even results.

For the most part, in my experience, the main difference between live and online is the realization of how 'big' and 'long' the life game is.  How those 100 hands you might play in one session at a casino are covered by 4 tables in 6 minutes of online poker.  Suddenly it seem like a tiny game in a wide ranging universe of opinions and ideas.

Good luck with online and persevere with it, it is not easy. Not at all.

jb