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linda1963
Rising Star
Bronze Level
cardplayer52
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
I think one of the most important things to learn at first is hand ranges. When your first person into the pot come in for a raise. Play tighter from early positons. Learn to 3bet in rasied pots. If you learn a good preflop game this will help out a ton cause if you make mistakes preflop things can get expensive when you get to the river.
0546474
Legend
Loyaler
It is very easy to learn to play poker on your own, but to learn to win on your own is much more difficult !!! You yourself may never notice the leaks you are talking about, or it will take a lot of time to find them !!! With a good trnner you can do it much faster and better !!! If you don't have money for a trainer then try to create a new topic, record a video of your game session and post it for discussion !!! Maybe this will help !!!
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Hermus
Rock Star
Bronze Level
Accumulate a good sample size of hands and look for statistics that are very different from optimal.
Common high impact leaks to begin with are:
As your understanding of poker increases, you naturally find other spots where you might be playing a suboptimal strategy.
During a session, I always mark the hands where I was unsure about my strategy. Reviewing those specific hands will optimise your strategy for similar future situations.
Common high impact leaks to begin with are:
- Opening wide/tight (review VPIP)
- Calling too much preflop (review VPIP/PFR ratio)
- Being passive postflop (review AF)
- 3-betting too tight (too loose is very uncommon but might also be a leak) (review 3-bet%)
- c-betting a lot or not enough (review flop c-bet%)
- calling c-bets too much or not floating enough (review flop fold vs c-bet)
As your understanding of poker increases, you naturally find other spots where you might be playing a suboptimal strategy.
During a session, I always mark the hands where I was unsure about my strategy. Reviewing those specific hands will optimise your strategy for similar future situations.