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    Ok, at least you seem to have the right attitude. But you're starting from zero. You need to start by understanding hand rankings. What equity one hand has against another before the flop, and the flop, on the turn and river. You best start by finding out what equity is, and how it is calculated.
    Get PokerStove: Poker Software and Analysis and just play around with it for a while. I would advise against getting Holdem Manager or Poker Tracker just yet. It will just seem overwhelming and not make too much sense.

    For example take J T and AT and run them through pokerstove. Then take some random flop like 93T and see how they rank up now. What about 93T? What about 345 ?
    Every time you see a flop think: what's the best possible hand to have there... what's the second best? What hands could my opponents have, and how does my hand rank up against those hands, and so on.


    Think about simple stuff like: Why are there blinds? What hands would I play if there weren't any blinds? What size should I bet and why? How does the size of the bet I face influence the hands that I can call with? Should I play differently when my stack is bigger/smaller in relation to the blinds, and why?
    Last edited by oskar; 05-31-2010 at 10:40 PM.
    The strengh of a hero is defined by the weakness of his villains.
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    I'm learning the rank of the starting hands by the book I'm reading and their relative win rate. I will get pokerstove and mess arond with it a little bit I really think I need to understand more of the terms of the game as well like VBet and Hero Vs Villian and other trems and phrases like that. I'm learning early position and late postion. One of the biggest things I've learned just in the past week or so was the fact that I was playing to lose and playing hands that I shouldn't even mess around with. I don't know if it's going to matter seeing as I got a Voice Mail saying that Visa and Master Card are compling with some type of Unlawful Internet Gambling Act and that all Visa and Master Card Credit Cards can't be used for Internet Gambling so I won't be able to redeposit any more money. I'll have to see if I can find another way to play on PStars.com. Thanks for the help.

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