ZRTaylor
Enthusiast
Silver Level
(This is a repost of the post I did in the introduction section, but it also had some learning poker elements to it and I thought this board might be slightly more trafficked. Feel free to offer a boot to the shorts if I screwed up.)
Friendly greetings any and all. I'm a poor college student looking to learn the mechanics of poker, how to play it well, and glean from it whatever side lessons I can. I have no interest in making money on it yet (with my record in games of both chance and skill that would be an asinine idea at best) but I do want to see how far I can take my skills and what I can make out of myself.
My initial leaning is toward Texas Hold 'Em for entirely popular opinion reasons and also because it seems to be the most fundamentally intriguing to me (the fact that you only have two cards and the rest is pure probability.) However, I'm wondering what game would be best to dive in to poker as a discipline from a starter's standpoint, what are the concrete fundamentals that I need to gain, develop, and are trainable, and what methods I need to pursue to become a better player in regards to winning?
I'm looking for suggested reading, both in book form as well as articles, and I've begun delving in to the play money sections of Full Tilt as well as Zynga Hold 'Em in Facebook. I'm having trouble finding a starting point though and just need some guidance as to a good, solid place to plant my feet, somewhere I can build on and develop from. Thanks in advance for the insights.
Zach T.
Friendly greetings any and all. I'm a poor college student looking to learn the mechanics of poker, how to play it well, and glean from it whatever side lessons I can. I have no interest in making money on it yet (with my record in games of both chance and skill that would be an asinine idea at best) but I do want to see how far I can take my skills and what I can make out of myself.
My initial leaning is toward Texas Hold 'Em for entirely popular opinion reasons and also because it seems to be the most fundamentally intriguing to me (the fact that you only have two cards and the rest is pure probability.) However, I'm wondering what game would be best to dive in to poker as a discipline from a starter's standpoint, what are the concrete fundamentals that I need to gain, develop, and are trainable, and what methods I need to pursue to become a better player in regards to winning?
I'm looking for suggested reading, both in book form as well as articles, and I've begun delving in to the play money sections of Full Tilt as well as Zynga Hold 'Em in Facebook. I'm having trouble finding a starting point though and just need some guidance as to a good, solid place to plant my feet, somewhere I can build on and develop from. Thanks in advance for the insights.
Zach T.