New, looking for guidance/advice etc.....

[sublime]

Hi Guys/Gals,

With the advent of poker on TV, I imagined that it would draw more fish to the game. I have little knowlede of the game and started by reading Jones' book. However limit bored the living hell out of me. NL on the other end seems a tad bit more exciting.

I am not looking to make a killing or anythign like that, I just want to learn the nuance of NL hold em so that I would be able to enter Internet games/tourneys etc...

Any advice/feedback is apprectaied....

thanks

[slavic]

Poker played well tends to be Boring. I hate to tell you that but it tends to be true.

Now to your question. Search this forum for Mason's book reviews. There are a couple of books on NL tourney and ring play that he rates fairly high. The other book you'll want to get is Tournament Poker for Advanced Players if you want to seriously take on tournaments.

I find them fun to play but a bit pointless for the time spent.

[OnlinePokerCoach]

You might want to learn limit first anyway. For one thing, if you ever want to play live casinos, no limit is harder to find. I do not have it anywhere near me. Limit holdem on the other hand is everywhere.

[SirArthur]

Go to Poker Stars, start an account, play on the play money tables until you get a feel for the game.
They have daily freeroll tournaments (many NL) where you can gain some valuable experience for free of course.

Then when you feel comfortable playing for real money, deposit the minimum ($50) and begin playing the 1 cent/2 cent NL games. PS is one of the few sites that has these micro/micro games.
Pay for your tuition as cheaply as possible, and fortunately PS affords that opportunity.
Move up slowly in limits until you feel comfortable at your new level and have the BR to support it.

Good luck...

[krazyace5]

Boring is right, I played about a 200 hand session today and only won 8%, 16 hands. Just try to keep focused,

[sublime]

Thanks guys.....

LL is just to boring for me, I Understand how the game works and all and dont want to get in the habit of becoming to tight of a player. I feel that NL is going to get more and more popular and hence tha +ev is going to increase.

I was persusing "supersystem" earlier and the chapter on NL seems like gold....very aggresive though....any thoughts?

[asdf1234]

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I Understand how the game works and all and dont want to get in the habit of becoming to tight of a player.

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If you don't play sufficiently tight, you're not going to win.

[HDPM]

You probably should not start playing poker. You will probably be a loose aggressive loser. I don't mean this as an insult, but your expectations are way out of line and your posts seem to indicate you have an attitude about the game that will lead to trouble. You haven't played much but limit is too boring? You haven't played much but worry about being too tight? Just want to learn the nuances of NL? Well, devote your life to learning poker. That's all it takes.

My guess is that you will make a better tournament player. Learn when to shove your stack in and get the thrill of gambling. You probably won't win. But you will have some big wins along the way and some thrills. You never know, you might win something huge. I don't see big no limit cash games in your future. Sorry.

If you apply yourself a little you should be able to stay in action in the small internet games tho. You probably won't find these exciting enough.

[Homer]

Boring is right, I played about a 200 hand session today and only won 8%, 16 hands. Just try to keep focused.

A good player should win around 8% of his/her hands. Just wait until you win only 6-7 hands in a 200 hand session. This will happen, and much more often than you might think.

[blackaces13]

I've played 200 of $.5/1 and won O hands. I'd imagine this is fairly common, I only voluntarily play about 20% of hands and if there is a lot of preflop raising I play less. So you sit down for 200 hands, get bad cards, play maybe 30-35 hands, and win none. It happens.