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There's a great thread going about the best advice you ever had, and this one is along the same lines, except it's the best lesson "YOU" ever learned from experience.

Mine was the very first time playing HoldEm, and it was my very first time at a casino cash game, and the first SB of that game.

Blinds were $1/$2, and I was dealt 7-2. I tossed it instead of putting in the dollar, and the flop came 7-2-7. I don't remember the rest of that hand and how it went, I only remember it was a big pot and if I had played, I would have won.

Since that, I will always limp in on the SB if given the opportunity in cash games or early in tourneys. It's paid off quite a few times.
 
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Best advice (tip) i've gotten was a few years ago during the FullTilt 200k double deuce tournament. I was being railed by a few friends. 5 hrs in, I was in a hand where I lost 10% of my stack. a friend messaged me and told me I was acting too quickly, I slowed it down and also stopped showing my winning cards and ended placing 75th out of the 12000 that entered.
 
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My best advice has been, fold everything pre-flop. raise the pairs. Hope for a triple...if u don't have it, someone else does.
 
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Just being patience. I have noticed I start to panic if I am not getting any good hands. So I sometimes jump the gun on something I would not normally play.
 
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I agree with Raving Lunatic. Patience pays off. Sometimes when no cards are falling I get impatient and play cards that I shouldn't have. Just give the game a little time and the cards will fall.
 
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I'm doing normally when I open more tables and somehow does not manage them as you want some end. Just then there begins a winning :D
 
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There's a great thread going about the best advice you ever had, and this one is along the same lines, except it's the best lesson "YOU" ever learned from experience.

Mine was the very first time playing HoldEm, and it was my very first time at a casino cash game, and the first SB of that game.

Blinds were $1/$2, and I was dealt 7-2. I tossed it instead of putting in the dollar, and the flop came 7-2-7. I don't remember the rest of that hand and how it went, I only remember it was a big pot and if I had played, I would have won.

Since that, I will always limp in on the SB if given the opportunity in cash games or early in tourneys. It's paid off quite a few times.


You will like this

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I learned to stop playing when I start to fume about a hand, or I start trying to justify playing crap.
 
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Patience, discipline and do not let greed get in the way.
 
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I was with 82 in SB pokerstars sunday spark, 4 players limps, And I dont know why I folded flop cames 222........... I was shocked when 1 player move all in with 55 other player call with 1010.. I can take the big pot too.. So I know your feelings.
 
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My best experience, and in fact it was recently echoed by a poker guru just a few days ago, was to to be aware of everyone at the table, their actions, their nonactions, their cards, why they are betting, why they are not betting, when they fold, etc... instead of only paying attention to myself and my own cards. Look at the big picture and mine the data constantly.
 
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Blinds were $1/$2, and I was dealt 7-2. I tossed it instead of putting in the dollar, and the flop came 7-2-7. I don't remember the rest of that hand and how it went, I only remember it was a big pot and if I had played, I would have won.
Since that, I will always limp in on the SB if given the opportunity in cash games or early in tourneys. It's paid off quite a few times.
So you have based every other hand on one time hitting an 1100 to 1 shot - solid advice.
 
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So you have based every other hand on one time hitting an 1100 to 1 shot - solid advice.

With all due respect Sir, yes, the 7-2-7 is quite the long shot, but that was just an example.

Just this morning, I had Q-4 in SB, and I got in for a cheap call. Ended up taking 1/2 of one guy's stack and knocking out another. Last night, I was in the same situation with 6-4 suited and flopped a straight, and made out like a bandit.

Besides the (admittedly) small chance of the above happening, if I get raised by BB, I fold, and it may be giving that player (and others) the impression that I'm easy to get off a call if they raise me, it may pay off huge dividends later in the game if I slow-play a big hand.

To me, if it's early in the game and blinds are small, or later in the game and my stack is big enough not to worry about calling a 1/2 Blind, or on a cash table, that measly call has the potential to pay off in many ways.

So, with all due respect, I do take SOME offence to your comment............ Sir.
 
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if you are going to make an isolation play, you need to be in a good position. Making an isolation play when you are acting early can be dangerous because your bet could be called or re-raised by another player.
 
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With all due respect Sir, yes, the 7-2-7 is quite the long shot, but that was just an example.

Just this morning, I had Q-4 in SB, and I got in for a cheap call. Ended up taking 1/2 of one guy's stack and knocking out another. Last night, I was in the same situation with 6-4 suited and flopped a straight, and made out like a bandit.

Besides the (admittedly) small chance of the above happening, if I get raised by BB, I fold, and it may be giving that player (and others) the impression that I'm easy to get off a call if they raise me, it may pay off huge dividends later in the game if I slow-play a big hand.

To me, if it's early in the game and blinds are small, or later in the game and my stack is big enough not to worry about calling a 1/2 Blind, or on a cash table, that measly call has the potential to pay off in many ways.

So, with all due respect, I do take SOME offence to your comment............ Sir.
why take offence when he was offering good advice. People are too results orientated.

So frustrating when people say after a hand OMG i folded 84 when flop 844, in the long run playing crap hands you will lose alot more than you win unless ur in the 0.0001% exception to the rule:D
 
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the best thing i´ve learned is to enjoy always and it gives me the best results,

the best poker session i´ve ever had was when i could relax and not complain about anything just laugh about the badbeats against me, then i could focus and won and won and won, but the hard thing is that is keep in that level the mind, not easy to control yourself when you lose one hand you thing you should win and it happens 2 or 3 times in a short period and in big pots, then i tilt the rest of the session, and lose, lose and lose

then i try to remind myself once and again to enjoy it and not to complain, this is poker and this is life!
 
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Best advise or lesson learnt was when I was playing 250 buy in at a bar in ny, it was couple years ago, I wasn't winning was out 700 , my boss was playing with me, very good player, I went to use the washroom, he caught me outside and said be patient my friend, I bought in back, limp pretty much all the way until I hit aa, and a preflop , trips. Pot was about 5k , took it all in one hand, walked out with 6750 that night but finish it all before morning at the exact same bar lol. It was weird , after your're drunk every round in on you. Lol. Then I learnt the other lesson the next day....
 
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After remembering why i lose so much time of my life playing poker I always play seriously even if it is for 1 or 2 cents or dollar.
 
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Best lesson I learned was patience. All too often players throw their chips in with average hands after losing a big hand which hits their chip stack badly or if they are down to 10BBor less. Pick you time to throw them in and give yourself a good chance to double up instead of any two cards.
 
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I agree 100%
If it's a cheap call, $2 to see the flop, go for it.
If you hit something big 1 in 20 times, you'll make it all back with a $40 pot.

You can lose money 9 of 10 hands, and still make a huge profit.
 
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Play like it's always for big money
 
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Never take anything for granted.

Play to win never to just cash .

One last thing ... When things are not going your way and your feeling tilt or worked up go for a walk or learn when today is not your day , discipline yourself.
 
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So you have based every other hand on one time hitting an 1100 to 1 shot - solid advice.

I've seen players playing this crappy hands like 72 suited or Q4 off at 25 NL!! And guess what, he won big pots with these hands. Imagine situation you know his style but, you are trying to isolate him when you have aces, but this players are hard folding their hands pre. The flop came 44K, and what do you do? You would fold ur aces putting him on Q4? No way... He wins big pot and crushesh your hand. I don't tell that he is getting this flop every time he plays this hands, but he needs only one to win big at 25NL and if he knows how and when to fold, which is not that hard to do(missing most of the flops) he does really great profit at all. And sth more imagine if the player i am talking about is really agressive and never afraid of what u got, you never know what he has, and even more easily you can lose a lot of money playing with him.
 
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