A Starting Point for Newbie Texas Hold’em Players
As a newbie to Texas Hold Em, I’m in “learning mode“. My day consists of scouring poker blogs, checking out different free games, reading a couple of books (Phil Hellmuth’s Texas Hold ‘Em and Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book), and reading as many strategy articles as I can.
One of the articles I came across is PokerFox.net’s “Three Days to Better Hold Em” (links below). Being the impatient sort that I am, I jumped directly to Day 2’s strategy, which is very tight play. Misreading the instructions (due to several nights of only 4 hours of sleep), I tried playing only AA, KK, and QQ, as I thought they’d suggested.
This strategy bombed. The previous day, I’d been playing things like AKo (offsuit), AQo, and QJo, and often doing quite well. But the night I tried the tight playing, I must have waited 45 minutes before I got anything “worth” playing under tight rules. My slow fingers grew impatient, and I started play crap - and losing - until I finally gave up and went to bed.
Next time, I’ll read the strategy properly :) However, I did attain a new level of patience, so my experiment wasn’t a complete wash. I’ll be trying again shortly, but starting at Day 1’s strategy: only raising or folding hands.
Links: DrawDead - A beginners course in Texas Holdem; PokerFox.net - Three Days to Better Hold Em.
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pokerpro
January 12th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
good luck on improving as a player. Matthew Hilger’s book “Internet Texas Holdem” really helped me. you probably find it on eBay for cheap.
Raj
January 13th, 2006 at 8:32 am
pokerpro: Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out. I’m hopefully going to put together a “newbie’s library” resource page, if Andy’s cool with it. Any other books you like?