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when you can beat the top pair on the board, bet your ass off. when the board puts 3 of a suit up, get ready to fold to a bet if you didnt hit your flush.
dont play the smaller cards. dont play one big card and one small card, unless they are suited and there is no raising. by big here i mean the A, K, and maybe Q.
play all your pocket pairs, but dont give the smaller ones much credit unless you hit 3 of a kind on the flop. if you do hit your 3 of a kind, try to find the best way to get all the money in the pot as fast as possible...even if the flush is up there, you may hit your full house when the community cards pair themselves.
play almost everytime you have two big cards. and, raise with them if no one else has yet.
most of your "friends" WILL love to bluff people off pots. dont stick around in a pot past the flop unless you hit something like top pair or better. fold most of the rest because your buddy is planning to push all in on the river when he misses his hand by then.
by the way, big cards are 10 and higher, to me.
another thing...be ready to take a lot of bad beats when you had the best of things. thats poker. you will likely only be playing about 30 hands per hour. your "bad runs" could last not hours, but weeks. keep that in mind. dont change your game because you had a bad night and lost to T7 of spades that hit its flush against your AK. it will be easy to get bored when you are doing all that folding, but stay the course. tight is right.
most players here play online and see about 75 hands per hour, conservatively. plus, they have the ability to play between 2 and 12 tables at the same time. that gives them anywhere over 150 hands an hour, minimum. they will play in one hour what you will play in 5+ hours. and THEY go on "bad weeks," too.
just remember you will be playing FAR less hands, and it will be easy to get discouraged when the deck is running cold to you and hot to your friends. start out slow, read everything you can here, and gain your experience. you will be outplaying your friends very quickly.
good luck!!
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and I'm just getting a handle on the order of play, blinds, betting rounds, etc. I have gotten my friends interested and my first game (NLH with $10-$20 buy-in) will happen shortly. I also plan on playing in a free weekly game at a local bar. They play 3 days per week and it should be good experience.
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