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Hey guys! Beginner poker player here! ( played poker before, I know what hand beats what)

Poker is an amazing game, there is no set structure of learning Poker.

Where and what do I begin to learn the absolute fundamentals of poker. Where can I build a solid base and understanding of the game? what books are a must read? what should I be doing to constantly up my game?

I find myself jumping to strategies when I know I should be probably learning a more basic strategy.


Thank you!
 
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The best thing you can do is play and learn from the mistakes that you make. The next thing is to read other posts on Cards Chat. You could also read a book. With Cards Chat there are a lot of players who give great advice.
 
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Read Harrington Murman about poker. many books choose what you prefer to read.
sign up for a forum - Cardmates, there's always news about poker
watch educational videos
poker does not stand still, everything changes in it.
learn new strategies and tactics.
do not forget that tactics are tricks for short distances, and strategies for long sessions.
read, see everything that you like, it will all benefit.
But look so that there is no confusion in your head
to reconsider in mathematics and psychology.
good luck and victories at the tables
On CC a lot of useful.
For example, every day I watch poker in psychology of mathematics.
 
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Hey guys! Beginner poker player here! ( played poker before, I know what hand beats what)

Poker is an amazing game, there is no set structure of learning Poker.

Where and what do I begin to learn the absolute fundamentals of poker. Where can I build a solid base and understanding of the game? what books are a must read? what should I be doing to constantly up my game?

I find myself jumping to strategies when I know I should be probably learning a more basic strategy.


Thank you!

Best place to start is at home with a few friends and a giant jar of pennies....
 
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I'm going through the same thing right now, I actually made my start while browsing through videos on youtube, and googleing anything that came up I wanted a closer look at. Might have been an inefficient way of doing it, but as long as you are active about trying to move forward, how you learn is pretty much up to you.

I can say that looking to this forum is a good idea. I've only been a member for about a week, but I'm already making some pretty decent advances. Their articles are helpful, and the community members are amazing.
 
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Thank you for the amazing feedback. Very excited to start the Journey :)
 
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I think if you truely love the game you are in for a ride. I love the game, had some good nights winning and bad nights losing - but the next day always still a love for the game.

Reinforcing what everyone else has said, read up all you can to give you a deeper understanding of the game. Some of the simplest math i could recommend for you is for calculating your outs using "rule of 4 and 2" - this meaning if you have AK and you missed the flop and have no draws - then you have 6 outs, 3 kings and 3 aces...so 6x4 is 24. Now you know if you suspect you are behind, you are going to hit one of your 6 outs about 24% (almost 1 in 4) of the time on the turn. If you are past the flop to the turn and looking to river your outs the percentages becomes cut in half - 6x2 for 12% chance to hit. This is where flush draw odds come from, 9 outs give you about a 36% chance (little more than 1 in 3) of catching your flush on the turn. This simple rule helped me make decisions during a game and develop a better game plan over time.

For me i started off playing small $10 and $20 buy in home game tournanents. Sometimes 10 player sng's sometimes 20 player games. Either way, with a tournament you are not going to lose anything more than your initial buy in. If you start playing $1/$2 cash with $600 in your pocket and you run bad, or just start tilting you can lose it all before you know it. Ive blown my online roll multiple times from tilting and i always know its the wrong thing to do. Its a bad feeling the next day to know how bad yiu screwed up.

Anyhow, if tournament play is just not something you want to do I would recommend for cash stakes you start at no higher than .05 / .10 until you get comfortable playing the game. You can make $20+ in a session where you arnt risking much more than $10 or $20 - because at "micro stakes" - most players just simply cant fold for less than a dollar.

Lastly, if you do start playing cash games at higher (than micro) stakes - the best advice i can offer is to seperate in your mind the value of what you are betting, and just think of it as chips you are playing with - ie: dont play with scared money. Dont think about "well i gotta call $25 to see the turn" - if your hand has some good equity, just play your hand the way you should. I struggled with this when i started playing cash games in my local casinos and my game dramatically improved when i stopped playing with scared money.
 
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I think if you truely love the game you are in for a ride. I love the game, had some good nights winning and bad nights losing - but the next day always still a love for the game.

Reinforcing what everyone else has said, read up all you can to give you a deeper understanding of the game. Some of the simplest math i could recommend for you is for calculating your outs using "rule of 4 and 2" - this meaning if you have AK and you missed the flop and have no draws - then you have 6 outs, 3 kings and 3 aces...so 6x4 is 24. Now you know if you suspect you are behind, you are going to hit one of your 6 outs about 24% (almost 1 in 4) of the time on the turn. If you are past the flop to the turn and looking to river your outs the percentages becomes cut in half - 6x2 for 12% chance to hit. This is where flush draw odds come from, 9 outs give you about a 36% chance (little more than 1 in 3) of catching your flush on the turn. This simple rule helped me make decisions during a game and develop a better game plan over time.

For me i started off playing small $10 and $20 buy in home game tournanents. Sometimes 10 player sng's sometimes 20 player games. Either way, with a tournament you are not going to lose anything more than your initial buy in. If you start playing $1/$2 cash with $600 in your pocket and you run bad, or just start tilting you can lose it all before you know it. Ive blown my online roll multiple times from tilting and i always know its the wrong thing to do. Its a bad feeling the next day to know how bad yiu screwed up.

Anyhow, if tournament play is just not something you want to do I would recommend for cash stakes you start at no higher than .05 / .10 until you get comfortable playing the game. You can make $20+ in a session where you arnt risking much more than $10 or $20 - because at "micro stakes" - most players just simply cant fold for less than a dollar.

Lastly, if you do start playing cash games at higher (than micro) stakes - the best advice i can offer is to seperate in your mind the value of what you are betting, and just think of it as chips you are playing with - ie: dont play with scared money. Dont think about "well i gotta call $25 to see the turn" - if your hand has some good equity, just play your hand the way you should. I struggled with this when i started playing cash games in my local casinos and my game dramatically improved when i stopped playing with scared money.

Thank you for the feed back, boss. I am currently playing NL 2/5. I hope to get as high as you are in stakes =]
 
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Read a lot, go to pokerstars school, and start to play wherer u feel more confortable
 
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The more you play, the better understanding of poker. Ability will come with practice.
 
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Hey. I need practice. Even when reading books and watching videos, I make mistakes.
 
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Hey. I need practice. Even when reading books and watching videos, I make mistakes.
The one who goes to the goal will cope with the road
there is no way without mistakes and the experience you will have with time.
you just do not give up.
this is the most important thing to begin with.
 
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Congratulations and welcome to beautiful game of poker learning. This is a very in depth game with many layers of psychological and critical thinking . For beginner I would suggest playing some sit and go's as this will teach you very basic fundamentals. Such as card ranges, value of position, short handed play and value of hands at certain stack sizes. These are amazingly valuable things to learn it also may not hurt to grab a book or watch few tables on youtube with cards face up to get idea on card distribution. Also when i was learing I took deck cards dealt then face up in kitchen tried to figure out what best play should make each hand every position. After you get an idea of these things get in their and play some poker and learn your own style of play the best way to learn is practice. Good luck to you at the table I wish the best of luck to you unless your playing against me. Hope this advice can benefit you.
 
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Hi! Welcome to CC fórum....Studying and playing freerolls are the best way to improve your poker.....GG!!
 
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I would start with Phil Gordon's Little Green Book to start. This is an easy read that will start you off with easy to apply fundamentals and strategies.

Then I would play for a bit to use those strategies.

Then I would read the Harrington on Holdem Series while playing to really deepen your fundamentals and understanding of poker and how to look at the game.

I think it is important to play some first before reading Harrington so you can grasp what he is trying to teach you.
 
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If you really want to learn its easy. There are millions of sources that you could learn from. When you are already here, CardsChat is a great place to learn fundamentals. Just search through the forum and you will find everything you need.

Youtube is another greaat way to learn. You just need to pick the right channels from which you will learn.

Books by some great poker players are going to polish your game and you will learn some finesses of poker there. Thats what makes a good poker player, a great one.

Good luck!
 
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Beginners advice

Hi my friend and welcome!

As i beginner, i would strongly suggest you look at this link and read the various beginner articles - https://www.cardschat.com/poker-strategy.php

I would also suggest that you consider joining twitch and watching some online content there - watching pros can also speed up your learning as a beginner and also chat with other players who can share advice and links with content..

Being an active member of cardschat will help you enormously, ask questions, make friends and soon you will develop your game..

I wish you every success

regards

pirateglenn

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Articles are much like here on the forum and the Internet. Here the main thing is to consolidate your knowledge in practice. That's the strategy you will develop yourself. By its successes you will understand the correctness of your actions. Club players play very well. So practice will be good.
 
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Articles are much like here on the forum and the Internet. Here the main thing is to consolidate your knowledge in practice. That's the strategy you will develop yourself. By its successes you will understand the correctness of your actions. Club players play very well. So practice will be good.
I agree. personal skill must develop.
I played here 1 time with the players of the freeroll club on Saturday.
it was not easy as in a normal freeroll. there are already players of a different level. it's nice. there was a spirit of struggle. Here we must try to gain experience of the game itself and the theory of learning must be read more
 
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