rallbritain
04-21-2005, 11:42 PM
I just got through reading some critisism about a McEnvoy article on CardPlayer, thae propted me to make this post.
When I first decided to play online was after a was killing a low stakes friendly game every week. But before venturing online I decided that i shoud read up on some strategy. So I went to the local book store and picked up the only to books that had NL Holdem info. Helmuth's Play poker like the pros and McEnvoy/Cloutier Championship NL holdem. In hind site i would have been better never purchasing these books, not to say i didn't learn a few good things but so many bad things.
They Helmuth book seemed like it was just trying to teach retards not to loose money.
The Cloutier/McEnvoy book I think failed to explain situations fully. I remeber one section where it said that AJ was a trash hand, with no information on the situation. There are situations where AJ can be tricky, like UTG at a full table with deep stacks. But there are many situations where this is a great hand, and for a beginer I think much of the information in this book only confused me.
After reading these books i went on to loose about $250 on PP of the $500 I won at my local friendly game. And also noticed I was not winning near as much at my local game. Once my local game fell apart I quit playing poker for about a year.
I slowy got back in online at the micro limits and started reading 2+2 forums and also picked up HOH vol. 1, I have to say the advice by 2+2, and HOH has dramaticaly improved my game. After a long time of not playing MTTs i decedice i would after i got won up to $200 from my intial deposit of $25 on UB. I played in a 30+3 and finished 16th out of over 400, when my KK lost to AQ in a bad way (xKx,J,T).
I was wondering if any of the MTT beginers have had trouble after picking up some bad books?
When I first decided to play online was after a was killing a low stakes friendly game every week. But before venturing online I decided that i shoud read up on some strategy. So I went to the local book store and picked up the only to books that had NL Holdem info. Helmuth's Play poker like the pros and McEnvoy/Cloutier Championship NL holdem. In hind site i would have been better never purchasing these books, not to say i didn't learn a few good things but so many bad things.
They Helmuth book seemed like it was just trying to teach retards not to loose money.
The Cloutier/McEnvoy book I think failed to explain situations fully. I remeber one section where it said that AJ was a trash hand, with no information on the situation. There are situations where AJ can be tricky, like UTG at a full table with deep stacks. But there are many situations where this is a great hand, and for a beginer I think much of the information in this book only confused me.
After reading these books i went on to loose about $250 on PP of the $500 I won at my local friendly game. And also noticed I was not winning near as much at my local game. Once my local game fell apart I quit playing poker for about a year.
I slowy got back in online at the micro limits and started reading 2+2 forums and also picked up HOH vol. 1, I have to say the advice by 2+2, and HOH has dramaticaly improved my game. After a long time of not playing MTTs i decedice i would after i got won up to $200 from my intial deposit of $25 on UB. I played in a 30+3 and finished 16th out of over 400, when my KK lost to AQ in a bad way (xKx,J,T).
I was wondering if any of the MTT beginers have had trouble after picking up some bad books?