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jhasper
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
Posts: 12
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: How do you learn the poker games?
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Im running a survey now on how players begin playing.So that new players can get an advice from the expert.hoping your warm response on this.Thanks!
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friscosardines
Joined: 22 Dec 2005
Posts: 6
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:
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I pretty much learned by playing and losing, watching others play (I had a very good seat, the dealers box at the Las Vegas Hilton 4 years and the Mirage for 9).
I saw a poker video program that gave you the expected return for holding particular cards. I think something like that would be a good starting point, then add to that some way of quantifying what your opponent might have, and how it might effect the out come of the hand. Good luck it sounds like a very difficult task. Of course I perfer letting them learn the old fashioned way by lossing to us old players a few bankrolls before they figure it out.
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toxin
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
Posts: 1
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject:
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I started when my mom gave me a CD Rom game called "Casino" on this game was 7 card stud, I liked it, I was always winning.
I moved to Yahoo! Games and played there, kept winning.
Moved to PokerRoom, played for free, was always winning.
Made a deposit, lost my ASS
Kept losing real money games, all the time, first 2 years. I finally got smart and went to my local library and checked out every single poker book they had (all 4 of them...small town)
Started reading, studying, slowly became a winner.
Now I'm rolling in the dough1 (NOT) but still, I am a winner now even if I do stil
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teddyfist
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
Posts: 7
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:
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Learned basic poker (5 card draw, stud) from my dad when I was a kid. Always knew the hand ranks, general rules of betting, knowing when to fold, etc. "never draw to an iside straight, Son" that sorta thing. Always liked a good nickel dime game of poker growing up.
Got into blackjack at the local indian casino in college with ol' JohnnyHarp. In the little card room they had three blackjack tables and two poker tables. We watched the poker games and didn't know what form of poker they were playing and had to ask someone. Then I watched rounders. I suggested that we forget blackjack and start a weekly poker game with our friends. It was difficult but I managed to scrounge a game up a few weeks in a row. The trouble was that I kept winning and after a few weeks no one wanted to play anymore. Except JohnnyHarp. Even though now he is a much more experienced player than I, at the time I thought it was downright hilarious that he actually accused me of buying and reading a poker book in my spare time, right in the middle of a hand at our game. Ha! Well, I had never read a poker book and I don't think I was anything special of a poker player, especially at that time. I was just better than everyone else at the table and sometimes that's all it takes to be a winner. I chalk it up to having a general understanding of the game as a kid.
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BigAl
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 30
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:
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I learnt playing with friends at college, throwing around loose change and attempting to persuade girls that Hold em' features a "Strip" rule...
Seriously though, I learnt some forms of poker that were more 5 card draw, but moved to Hold em' as soon as I started hearing about it on cable.
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DeepBlue
Joined: 19 Dec 2005
Posts: 15
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:
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I learnt from playing at school, then college where it was for a little more than loose change.
Moved up to small time casinos recently and am doing alright, though I haven't got the balls to go for anything involving too much money so all I really do is make a few bucks for beer, but hey I enjoy it all the same and that's what it's all about for casual players like me.
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BigAl
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 30
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:27 am Post subject:
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Beer money is always a worthy cause You should try it sometime though, just put $250 and head for a high limit table and try it. I've read some of your posts around here and you seem to know how to play a pretty tight game so I'm in no doubt you could handle the bigger pots but you also get more of an adrenaline kick with them.
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