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whitetailbuck10
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Kenzie 96
Legend
Loyaler
Experience is still the best teacher IMO, record & study your hands, how one plays is much more important than your results, especially starting out. Many sources of information on the internet, try to find someone who advocates a style of play you are comfortable with at least at first. For instance should you be an action junkie, trying to play really tight probably isn't going to work until you figure out for yourself that folding a hand isn't an indictment of your manhood, or womanhood. So study someone who teaches a more loose aggressive style. Mostly keep in mind that if you use decent bank roll management & pay attention to what you are trying to accomplish you will get better. In poker it's the journey not the destination that matters.
That ought to be enough platitudes & cliches to get you started, good luck & enjoy.
That ought to be enough platitudes & cliches to get you started, good luck & enjoy.
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ZefaPoker
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I really think books are a bit outdated.
From my experience as a professional, I would say the 5 best sources to grow as a poker player are:
1.) Experience (nothing beats doing)
2.) Training sites (investing in a training site like runitonce skyrocketed my game)
3.) Active hand discussions online or with friends
4.) Study away from the table, even practicing using just calculators like PPTOddsoracle, not necessarily solvers like PIO
5.) Coaching... this one is kind of hit or miss though.
From my experience as a professional, I would say the 5 best sources to grow as a poker player are:
1.) Experience (nothing beats doing)
2.) Training sites (investing in a training site like runitonce skyrocketed my game)
3.) Active hand discussions online or with friends
4.) Study away from the table, even practicing using just calculators like PPTOddsoracle, not necessarily solvers like PIO
5.) Coaching... this one is kind of hit or miss though.
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77ecos
Visionary
Bronze Level
It helps me a lot to see how the pros play on twitch, I really like to see and understand their reasoning and I have improved my game a lot with it, but there are many more things to learn, videos, hand analysis, ranges, etc.
lukovnikofff
Visionary
Bronze Level
It seems to me that books about poker are irrelevant now, in my case, watching videos with professionals where they talk about their hands and I begin to understand his actions and logic help me the most! And of course more games that bring you an experience that can not be replaced! Good luck at the tables!
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FlushKings311
Rock Star
Bronze Level
BetterThanAvgButNotByMuch
Visionary
Bronze Level
You could use a pay service like Advanced Poker Training or PokerSnowie to advise and practice certain hands/situations.
Advanced Poker Training is old school poker and will make you focus on learning starting hands and situational poker against bots. It will rank your play so you know where you are and give instructions on how to improve.
It will track your play like your win rate with certain hands so you can find out what hands you have trouble playing. You can tell it to play Tens from UTG or the CO or wherever and every hand you play you'll be dealt a pair of tens to practice and it will store your results. But it will not advise you to play questionable hands like Poker Snowie does.
They're both good products that will help you but the best thing to do is to study a particular weak spot in your game then set it up in one of the programs.
So they're really good but very expensive. ATP used to have a lifetime membership for like $500 now that only gives you 4 years which isn't bad for about a Netflix bill at that rate but the bots get bland after awhile. Don't get me wrong they're not bad and will keep you on your toes especially beginners but after awhile you will know when to fold and when to shove on them.
And the point isn't to beat them but to understand what they're trying to do and work on strategies to counter them but that a another for another discussion.
Look into those two sites and I think both sites will give you your money back if you hate them I think you have 2 weeks to cancel but not sure so send them an email. If you want to try them there might be a code for a discount on the web so you dont have to pay their high monthly fees.
If you were going to take the money and deposit into a poker site and you're a beginner then I would advise you to take the money and put it into one of these sites and play the AI and bots instead of messing with the poker sites or playing live.
GL
DiegoRamos
Legend
Loyaler
Study in a group with people of slightly different levels than yours, so you will evolve faster.
