Beginner Mistakes

Im told I play well for a new player. But I keep making stupid mistakes that makes me lose money

My question is, is it normal to make mistakes when you are just a beginner?

Yes
keep learning.
learn from your mistakes.
post on here, there is lots of help on this forum.
post hands where you think you made a mistake.

good luck

Like this ^ post for example?

Ok Im On the button with AA fold around to me big stack on BB and I raise 6x the BB and BB calls and hits a st8 on the flop hes has 56h call down my bets.. and says my play is bad....

First thing. Friend him.

You're gonna want to give him another shot.


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IF you want to talk about getting AA cracked I got you beat my friend

And since you raised x6 on the button, this i usually a gooooood sign that you had a nice hand, and I would fold, and the 56 called, Thats great for you! He called with a horrible holding, especially being out of position ( he is 1st to act).
So you really just got super unlucky. Aces are not holdin up like they used to.....

( walks away )

its normal to make mistakes at every level,they call them leaks and sometimes its hard figuring out exactly what they are.

someone calling down a 6x bb raise pre-flop with 56s is not a good player, def freind him he will be a fountain of wealth.

Moved to Learning Poker.

Anyways, of course it's normal to make mistakes as a beginner. It's perhaps not 'normal' per se for an experienced player to make mistakes but it still happens often!

You improve indirectly from making mistakes anyway, so it's nothing to be ashamed of. As long as you can identify your mistakes and make sure they don't happen again in the future, you're set. The best way to start going about doing that is reviewing your sessions and posting hands that you're not sure about on the forums.

Everybody makes mistakes at the beginning. The important thing is that you learn from them.

Don't assume that because you lost a particular hand, you made a mistake. Conversely, don't assume that you played a hand well because you won.

For your benefit of the OP, the top newbie mistakes in poker as listed by the opinons of all us fine fish at CC.

• Being impatient. Forcing action without good ground to stand on.
• Being results oriented - "I lost the hand so I must have done something wrong" or "I won the hand so I must have played it right"
• Not knowing where you made your mistake (assuming there was one). Many players assume they screwed up on the flop or turn and many times they screwed up just being in the hand to begin with.
• Thinking you are a better player than you actually are (newbie or not).
• To be continued by someone else....

justifying bad play rather than taking advice on the chin,
trying to put players on a single hand,
complaining about bad players

Just to add to MediaBlitzs common mistakes:

-Taking offence when better palyers tell you that you played a hand wrong
-Open-limping
-Calling pre too much
-Completing from SB
-Min-betting
- Bet sizing in general is usually completely appaling with no appreciation for stack sizes
-Not having Auto top-up on
-Buying in deep and not knowing how to adjust to 250BB
-not adjusting right against opponents
-not knowing how to play effective stacks
- lack of positional awareness
-Shortstacking
-Only playing their own hand
-Thiking in terms of hands insteads of ranges, never put someone on a specific hand.
-Not thinking about their perceived range
-Not having a plan about what to do if re-raised when they raise
-Not having a plan when they call turn aboout what they will do on river
-Not understanding why they are betting , e.g. I have middle pair and it's checked to you IP on river so betting it for the sole reason of well I have something
-Not considering equity against ranges
-Running at like 25/3
-Thinking 40bb/100 is standard and that yo uare now an amazing player for going on a sick heater
-Not analysing sessions.

I can think of more but that's enough for now.

Thx all for the input I a going to read more and study hands to improve my game..

Wooooow. Is this a serious question?

Well yes it is..... seems some are willing to help If you have something to add Thx.......

I only ask because if beginners didn't make mistakes, wouldn't that make them experts?

Thinking that it could be not normal for a beginner to make mistakes seems counter intuitive...

How can you tell if you made a mistake?

Hint: Winning or losing the hand is not necessarily indicative of good or bad play.

Typical newbie mindset....."He's trying to bluff me"

Oh yes - and often accompanied by the "I SHALL NOT BE BLUFFED" mantra just before having to hit the ATM.

I hate thinking players are always bluffing me..... because I always do think that xD horrid leak IMPO

Great effort and nice tips for the beginners and thanks for that.

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Going to Favorite this a great reference if you need a quick refresher.

It's normal for everyone to make mistakes. As you improve, you'll learn to make fewer and to lose less when you do, at least sometimes.

And to add a couple more things to the list::
- Fancy play syndrome. Making plays that are unnecessary, sub-optimal and/or inappropriate
- Over-shove bluffing. While this does induce folds quite often, those times result in winning small or mid-sized pots while being called leads to maximum losses.
- In tournaments, tightening up when approaching the money bubble and pay jumps.

Nice list from BlueNowhere. I can add a few more...

-not playing strong draws aggressively enough
-calling 3-bets out-of-position
-not backing off your hand when a loose passive player re-raises you
-playing too many tables at once
-chasing bonuses/rewards
-no table selection - you want to be at tables fish on right, nits on left if possible
-not having a stop-loss for a session]
-tilting (obv)
-not having the patience to wait for good hands
-being unable to fold AA/KK postflop
-not understanding implied odds and how to play hands like suited connectors
-ignoring bankroll management
-not reading board textures and adjusting play accordingly so you are bluffing at the right times and c-betting on the right flops etc.

Well he's an idiot ...anybody who calls a 6x raise with 56 hasn't got a clue and will lose overall ...He just got lucky and to have the nerve to say u played bad is laughable.

Past few days I have been doing bad in cash, running into sets like a hooker running into men... Anyways, sadly I have been paying these players off with TPTK or even 2 pair with flush draws and what not, so im not 100% mad at myself, however, i should know better.

None the less, I think this is a extremely hard leak to fix. Because at lower limits donk players are shoving Top pair, ANY kicker a lot of the times so folding top pair best kicker becomes difficult at micro limits.

Over all tho, when a player shoves, now a days, its because they have a very solid holding, rarely will you find a donk shoving AI with a pure draw. They are usually calling you down instead. So bet big

this is being results orientated, if you think you had good equity against their range then dont worry about them turning up with the absolute top of it

Well how exactly did the betting go? Did you bet three times and got raised all in on the river or was it something else? What came on the turn and river? If you bet big on the first two streets and he called, then you might consider checking the river on a wet board.

I bet 6x BB pre flop with AA folds around to BB who calls with 56h the flop comes 2s3d4h dry and I bet the pot thinkin I have the best of it and a wheel draw he calls turn comes 9c... I bet half the pot he goes allin I didnt put him on a str8 and called brick river and lost he says I played it bad i was like

What did you think he had when he shoves the turn? Overpair? 9x? I wouldn't say you played it badly, but this is probably the point in the hand you would want to revisit and think over...

Making mistakes and learning from them is a great way to determine your leaks and to get better. Post hands in the forum for review. You will get better advice if you ask something specific. Also, do some sort of DB analysis with a coach or on your own if you can. Over a large sample size this will tell you where you are making the biggest mistakes and losing money. The HM and PT3 application Leak Buster does a great job with this.

Just keep playing with the best hands and out playing big stacks that play crap, at the end of the day happy with your play win or lose.