Best Piece of Poker Wisdom

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What's the best advice or poker wisdom you've ever recieved or heard?

Maybe it was from a book you read whilst learning. Maybe it was just a helpful player pointing something out.
There's thousands of bits of information out there nowadays, easily available to everyone, but what's the one thing that's always stuck in your head?


For me it was a line often used by T.J Cloutier in his and Tom McEvoy's Championship series:
"You get two new cards the very next hand"

It's helped me progress beyond the 'but i've got two pair' syndrome and just throw it away. You'll always have better spots.
 
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From my grandfather, not just the best piece of poker advice, the best piece of advice in general: If you lose your head, your ass is soon to follow.
 
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If after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.


Lets you know where you stand at a certain table.
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on a reip tp seattle my father and i played in $45 tourneys the second one a fella told me play the table and people never the cards. in the tourney it was down to the final table with me ahead in chips my father behind me gazing at my card play. blinds were enormous at this point. i took first place and made my father proad a semi pro himself. $500 win and the best expierience i ever had.
 
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[FONT=georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif]"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?"
"All your life, son."
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  • "Michael Pertwee
 
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well said

I know exactly what you mean. When i first started out playing poker
i never threw away two pair. Even if i had pocked kings and an ace
hit the flop i still wouldnt fold it, i would just say to myself hes bluffin
LOL. But ive learned over the years that poker is patience and patience
is everything. You wouldnt think so but it actually takes a while to learn how to fold those big hands. but when your beat your beat. Its like they say, IT TAKES A MINUTE TO LEARN AND A
LIFETIME TO MASTER.
Anyways your statement was well said and i agree.
Goodluck to you on the tables.
hope to see you on the felt soon.
 
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aceup21 said:
I know exactly what you mean. When i first started out playing poker
i never threw away two pair. Even if i had pocked kings and an ace
hit the flop i still wouldnt fold it, i would just say to myself hes bluffin
LOL. But ive learned over the years that poker is patience and patience
is everything. You wouldnt think so but it actually takes a while to learn how to fold those big hands. but when your beat your beat. Its like they say, IT TAKES A MINUTE TO LEARN AND A
LIFETIME TO MASTER.
Anyways your statement was well said and i agree.
Goodluck to you on the tables.
hope to see you on the felt soon.
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You dont ever have to go all in to win. That helped me the most LOL
 
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This quote is from Bryce Paradis which I absolutely love (he made this playing hu): "if you don't know why you'r winning, you'r probably not".

It explains the dynamics of hu so well, its always a rule of thumb for me while playing: you have to have a plan, reason for doing what you are doin- that's how you break your opponent and have an edge.
 
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The best piece of advice I have ever received about poker is to be patient. Another hand will be along in a minute.
 
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A Monkey shows his a$$ and a Sucker shows his hand
 
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Here's 2 pearls of wisdom

Just remember, when you think they are bluffing they are; when they act like they are bluffing, they aren't

Good poker is hard work...Great poker is courage
 
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quote

"its not winning the good hands that matters its knowing when to fold the good hands"
 
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Big hand big pot. Small hand small pot.
 
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cAPSLOCK said:
Big hand big pot. Small hand small pot.
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I read that in Little Green Book(by Phil Gorden),and the sentence I like more is:
Poker is a game of situation.

these poker wisdoms have relation between themselves.
because there are too more variations of situation,so there are too more luck and skill to study.so you have to take lifetime to master poker.
 
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"it is only a small mistake to fold the best hand" Steve Dannemann
 
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you can lead a horse to water but a donkey will follow you all the way to the river.
 
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i would have to go with what doyle says on the POD intro. poker isn't about winning or losing. it is about making the right decision. i remember i never used to know what he meant by that just only a couple of years ago. and you could look at everything you do in this way. all you can do is do what is right, and what happens thereafter is no longer in your hands.
 
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Pushing all in works every time, but once.
 
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"be pacient and dont chase them cards"
 
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Always play your best. Sounds simple, but hard to do. Bring your best game.
 
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"Why move all-in ... when a standard raise might accomplish the same thing".
Too bad I don't always follow this quote by T.J. Cloutier.
 
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