ChubbySin
Rock Star
Bronze Level
ACESOVEREZZZ
Visionary
Bronze Level
mistake
1 thing I have noticed is sometimes a player will get caught up playing against another player instead of playing his or her cards. Seen many times where there is that player that always pushes and plays rags that everyone wants to know out. Again plau YOUR CARDS not another player .
1 thing I have noticed is sometimes a player will get caught up playing against another player instead of playing his or her cards. Seen many times where there is that player that always pushes and plays rags that everyone wants to know out. Again plau YOUR CARDS not another player .
jsnake716
Legend
Bronze Level
Stuck at a "stake" , this is a very good question. I know in my case, I had moved to the top of the micros, at least in my opinion. I was winning at 5/10cent cash and mtt's up to 5.50 buy-in. I had the bankroll to continue, I was feeling pretty confident and it just never happened? Over a period of a couple of months it seemed as if I lost my motivation? I still do not know if that was the case or did I have some deep rooted fear of failure? My poker playing just tapered off, I had 1000's of life excuses. Suddenly, I was busy, I could not find the right schedule for the new stakes, etc.... and on it goes. So a good question that I cannot nail down a good answer. I think this year I will put another effort into bringing my volume back up and see where it goes.
HeshamTwix
Rock Star
Bronze Level
The mistake i see alot of new players do is: Playing Too Many hands
This is one of the main mistakes that new players make, which is feeling the need to play every card, and this is a mistake that occurs as a result of them losing their patience or feeling bored even if their cards are weak, this game needs patience, intelligence and a good strategy.
This is one of the main mistakes that new players make, which is feeling the need to play every card, and this is a mistake that occurs as a result of them losing their patience or feeling bored even if their cards are weak, this game needs patience, intelligence and a good strategy.
DanS87
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Biggest mistakes made by new players, imo:
1) not enough aggression
2) too much aggression
So the trick here is to learn how to pull off passive-aggression through the medium of poker lol.
In all seriousness though, I definitely fell into the former category. It's something I've been working on and I've seen the strength of my play improve just through being slightly more aggressive.
dallam
Legend
Loyaler
Thank you for this wonderful feedback and self-analyse.
We are pretty much the same shoes, but from your words I'm pretty sure you could make that step. You mentioned that you have a strickt schedule - let's stop here, and think about it. I was questioned myself as well that maybe my game is not as effective as it used to be, when I did the bankroll challanges and taking down to FTs. Then I realised that there's a basic game which I can offer, and some habbits are changing around it. I can just strenghten you that its possible to play your buyins great even you expended the time you playing them. If you don't have time to play, but have time to watch poker, its great too.
One additional thing is that on every side of the life, even with hobbies and family, we can lost ourselves, but if we love them, somehow we manage to become the old one again, maybe even better.
I lost thousands of my winning dollars having no bankroll-management and suffering to handle dollar cause my country a dollar means around 320HUF. And being a student worker for 9 years, mainly being a cashier its hard to calculate the whole day, and have a virtual money which is x320 less than it is. Even I'm crushing the micros too. So as I had 5 succesful bankroll challanges of 6 (only few dollar minus on the 6th), I'm doing a thread where I pre-organise my games and collecting the games of the year. Which means I will be not lost, and so as my money.
To answering my question, I think motivation to be better, and knowledge to stuck at the levels.
Wish you many happy moments, and let poker be again a great and profitable hobby (or work) just as you want.
C
Clutchdenier
Rock Star
Bronze Level
1. Players spewing after losing a pot
2. Losing patience
3. Bad understanding of position and ranges from their position
4. Limping
5.not being able to fold top pair
6.bluffcatching too often
7. Incorrect bet sizing
8.being too passive (calling stations) which inevitably leads to them being very readable and playing "face up" poker
9. Usually the time it takes them to make a decision can have key info
10. Playing too many pots in bad positions
2. Losing patience
3. Bad understanding of position and ranges from their position
4. Limping
5.not being able to fold top pair
6.bluffcatching too often
7. Incorrect bet sizing
8.being too passive (calling stations) which inevitably leads to them being very readable and playing "face up" poker
9. Usually the time it takes them to make a decision can have key info
10. Playing too many pots in bad positions
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LetterRip
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Common mistakes
1) lack of positional awareness, - the close to the Button the more hands you can play because it is less likely a player will have a strong hand.
2) overvaluing hands that were good preflop, but have lost value due to the flop or turn
3) unable to lay down premium hands in general - always going broke when they have an obvious AA/KK or AK and losing to someone who has a set or flush.
4) slow playing too much - minreraise with their AA/KK preflop to induce someone to reraise them. checking their bottom or middle set on the flop. Not betting their AK when they hit the A on the flop.
5) Bad bluffing - not being aware of how their bluff looks, such as not representing anything, desperation bluffing when they miss the river.
6) Preflop limping too much and splitting their range (raising their good hands, limping their weaker hands).
1) lack of positional awareness, - the close to the Button the more hands you can play because it is less likely a player will have a strong hand.
2) overvaluing hands that were good preflop, but have lost value due to the flop or turn
3) unable to lay down premium hands in general - always going broke when they have an obvious AA/KK or AK and losing to someone who has a set or flush.
4) slow playing too much - minreraise with their AA/KK preflop to induce someone to reraise them. checking their bottom or middle set on the flop. Not betting their AK when they hit the A on the flop.
5) Bad bluffing - not being aware of how their bluff looks, such as not representing anything, desperation bluffing when they miss the river.
6) Preflop limping too much and splitting their range (raising their good hands, limping their weaker hands).
Phoenix Wright
Legend
Loyaler
Most common mistake is probably playing too many hands.
Probably my biggest mistake when I was starting out (also a common error with beginners) is trapping too often and not value betting/raising/re-raising. If I picked up pocket Aces preflop (best possible starting hand preflop), then I'd often open-limp or just call behind; I'd do it partly for "deception" and partly out of fear any raise by me would make them fold.
No, no, no. Today, I'm almost always open-raising and especially so with AA. This isn't to say I do that 100% of the time (as I do believe there are times to open-limp with a hand like AA or even weaker holdings), but raising should be the default play when you hold a strong hand. We want to build the pot, so we win more chips the times we do win
A common problem across all levels of play (but especially so by recreational players) is also poor bankroll management. You can get number specifics by researching poker bankroll management, or by researching variance etc. but basically, you want several buy-ins in your reserve to handle the natural swings of not winning every time (or not often at all in some cases, even if you are a "winning player.")
