What do you think is the most important thing when starting out?
Obviously it is learning the rules of poker.
- Card Rankings, from deuce up to ace where ace can also be a "one" for a wheel.
- Number of cards, 13 for each colour making it 52 cards in total.
- Hand Rankings, from "Highcard" up to "Royal flush"
- That always the best five cards count, there could be used zero,
one or two of the cards in your hand plus the community cards to make the best five.
- The meaning of the dealer button and the smallblind and bigblind
- How the rounds of betting are executed, preflop, flop, turn, river.
- The chance to bet as much as you want everytime the action is on you.
....
Very basic concepts:
- "Premium
hands" vs "Good Hands" vs "Drawing Hands" vs "Trash" with a reminder that 40%-80% depending on position is trash.
- Good Draws(OE-Straight- and Flush Draws) vs Bad Draws (Just one or two overcards, Gutshots with no overcards)
- Positional awareness ...
- Stealing from Button (and CO) ...
- Defending from Blinds ..
- General art of 3betting ...
- General art of
bluffing ...
Continue with Cardchat 30days Course
etc.