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04-16-2004, 11:28 AM
Post subject: Starting out
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Flush
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Isle of Man, GB
Posts: 264
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Hi
I'm just starting out in this game after watching quite religiously on British TV, but I don't seem to be able to really get going at the $25/.50 tables. I've been doing the $5/1 tourneys, and have been pretty successful at those (I won 2/3 last night, and went out to someone calling with a flush draw on the other), but that's because I have a tactic I use in those.
I try to follow your advice, but always seem to get called, I'll bet with top pair, and end up getting someone calling me with a draw (and with my luck they usually hit it). I usually start on the tables with $15, but that either seems to go pretty quick, or rise pretty quick, do I need more patience? (More rhetorical that one I think)
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Toasty
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: England UK
Posts: 1,522
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Hey i'm in the UK too, only thing i can say is buy the rated poker books they are deff worth the money. Also if you paste in your hand histories the better players will advise you on them.
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Poker is all about the long long long long long long long term . . .
Barney's back . . . back again . . .
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xbones
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Flush
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Isle of Man, GB
Posts: 264
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I think I can do that, I started out on Coral Eurobet, before I discovered here, and now I can't join partypoker, but the hand histories look exactly the same, and so does the layout of the poker software.
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mike4066
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,943
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Xbones,
Make sure that when your betting its large enough that they don't have pot odds to call it.
If the pot is $8 and you bet $2 of course they will call on an open straight or a flush draw. They are getting 5:1 on their money.
I hit top pair/kicker on an $8 pot I would at least bet the pot or larger. Thats the agressive part of "tight agressive"
You have the best hand right now and need to make them pay for it.
You'll end up taking down more hands on the flop with bets like this too.
The smaller $3-4 pots you take down like this will help you more than the 1-2 big onesy ou hit a night.
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