Learning to Play Poker

[Student]

It's true, because you're integrating limited experience with your readings! I too am a rank beginner, and I knew I had no basis for understanding, except that I'd watched TV poker for a couple of years, before I began playing poker for money (tiny amounts) starting April 6th.

I've now played about 5,000 hands, which I understand is just about nothing! Yet I have somewhat of a fair basis for readings now, based on ENRICHED experience. By comparison, there are those who have 100,000 hands, and just about all of these hands have been on an unenriched basis. They're just not getting the full experience, not to belittle the considerable amount of time they've devoted to their poker.

I'm 67 years old, and new to poker. I just don't have all that much time to waste, if I would obtain my income goals, and then apply this income generating capability over maybe 30 years of income producing play (ahem!!!). Then too, who of us has time to waste?

The majority of the approx. 360 posts I've done to 2+2 represents serious efforts I've made to learn NL HE, and in a hurry! Documented are the travails of a true beginner, yet it's being done by a person who has been a scientist, and an inventor of a number of major mathematical conceptions. To say I'm thinking outside the box is something of an understatement. In this thread I'll shed light on the learning process, consistent with my 2+2 alias, namely Student. More can be learned by simply reviewing some of these 360 2+2 posts, though many of them are somewhat lengthy. But learning is the game, isn't it? I'd think a lengthy useful article would contain more educational content than a brief one, all else being equal. You decide!

Dave