Poker Do’s & Don’ts (#1)
#1 Poker Do: Play Fewer Hands
Probably the biggest mistake beginning poker players make is that they play too many hands. When you’re just starting out playing poker, you want to play, folding is no fun. This often means you will stay in hands when you cards just aren’t very good. You want action!
But playing more doesn’t mean winning more, just the opposite is usually the case. What you need to do to fill your time is to work on reading your opponents, that is what you do when you are not in a hand and that will make you a winning player a lot more quickly than playing that Q10 offsuit from under the gun.
Now if you really are an action junkie, what do you do? Well in a live game you can just try out the “maniac” style. Play nearly any hand, raise almost all the flops. You may find you are a naturally uber aggresive player, on the other hand you may just lose and lose. But fear not there is another solution. Get yourself an online account and play four tables at a time but only at micro-limits. You will nearly always be in a hand with halfway decent cards and you can’t lose a lot of money. Eventually you will get over the need for action and decide to learn to play some good solid poker.
-this is Beginner’s Poker Blog Post #207
