I was just about to post myself about starting to play online poker. Any suggestions as to which website u should play on?

Use a HUD

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u need to git gud

Try playing at lower stakes tables, to get the feel of the game Gotham City Poker has great micro tables, check them out.

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For a beginner, first familiarise yourself with the game and it's rules I would ideally play with free chips or freerolls Once you have built up enough confidence, I would put someone money on a site where if I am confident if I lost it all, I would never cry about it ! From there, I would practice to 1-2% rule of bankroll management and build up !

Remember, poker is a grind, not a sprint! Experience will teach you more than any book you read at the same time, and don't ignore the knowledge

Manage risk, study a bunch, play a lot, make good decisions, improve on your mistakes, remember the first thing, repeat.

2NL fast fold is a good place to start imo as you will play a lot of hands per minute, good luck.

I‘m not a self-learner, so courses and videos are what help me the most.

2NL, 2PLO etc.

Don’t touch tournaments until you are crushing 10NL or you will join the hordes of losing tournament grinders.

As a beginner, you'll need to rely more on luck than skill, here are my best strategies to increase luck;

1. Always tip the dealer, even if it's a dollar, will increase your luck. 

2. If the dealer is a woman, compliment her, whatever it is, even if there's nothing to compliment.  Example: "Your shoes look really cute today"

3. Say a quick prayer.  You may not be religious, but this trick often works for old people playing slots.  Any God works. 

4. This is my secret weapon.  When you're all in, on the turn, and WAAYYYY behind (less than 5%), stand up, and yell, really SCREAM it out, the name of the card you need.  Trust me, if you were 5% before, then you'll be at least 50% after.  Example; https://youtu.be/xdJwTypU7Wk

#Good luck 🍀 

The biggest mistake beginner players make is playing too many hands. The first thing a beginner should learn is which hands you should play from each table position. You can easily google charts for this.

If you're playing against other beginners, then a good strategy is to just play ABC poker, which is simply to put chips in when you have something good, and don't put chips in when you don't. No need to get fancy or tricky against bad players.

This advice is good for beginners, but you'll need to get into more advanced strategies once you improve.

I assume you are talking about live poker 1/3.

Tight is right

Most players at those stakes don’t understand equity or sizing. They also overcall and underbluff. 3 ways and someone jams, top pair is usually no good.

My most profitable cash game sessions came from getting the nuts and getting paid off and folding to aggression on the river.

When a person over the age of 65 raises pre and you are holding a face card. Fold.

I've heard this a lot. Do you rely on GTO charts or something else? What's the best source?

Try to collect all the reds. It looks amazing. 

"I’d say start with the basics and low-stakes games first so you don’t get overwhelmed and there are tons of free resources online, and casino org is also a good place to learn from others and pick up beginner tips. Just take it slow and enjoy the game while improving.

One of the best skills to develop from the very beginning is to develop the habit of bankroll management, you can checkout my app htttps://managebankroll.com to do the same and track your progress over the years. Let me know if you have any doubts or want a trial.

I enjoy the free to play wsop app. You can get good knowledge of the game and strategies people will employ to find your best suited play style and how to act in scenarios without real money stakes. I am looking to try online tables soon but being able to 10x my money at free money poker tables still takes some skill and strategy that gives me more confidence to play online, though I don't expect over-optimistically for it to go as well.

Invest your time in learning and mastering the game. There's a huge differences between cashgames and tournamemts, so decide for one of them in the beginning and learn the skills needed to beat these games. Play really low stakes in the beginning and try to Grind your way up. Bankrollmanagement is (BRM) is really important to not go broke.

Welcome to the best game on the planet!

If you’ve got what cards you want to play down pat, you can start postflop work with cbetting. It’s a good idea to start getting familiar with pot odds and equity.

Here's a general overview of how to study poker. At some point you've got to dip your toe into the world of reviewing your hand histories and sharing them with a trusted circle of poker friends who know what they're doing when they play.

Let me know if you have any questions and good luck at the tables!

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Go all in, win the hand! It's my most profitable strategy

John little, and black rain on YouTube might get you playing a bit better

Jonathan Little's website (pokercoaching .com) has a free fundamentals course and free quizzes that are a good start to get you thinking about the game in a way that most recs don't.

You must learn GTO strategy and then you can use that knowledge to exploit opponents (if you know their gamestyle).

I recommend to start preflop, that is where players make most of their mistakes. I created an app called PreflopAI, which is a preflop trainer with GTO charts for MTT and cash games, and it uses AI to recognize your mistakes and during training put you on spots that will make you better really fast. You can download for free on both app stores if you want to try it out!

How to play poker like the pros by Phil Hellmuth really helped me as a beginner and I think it would complement what you’ve already learned. It doesn’t talk much about maths or counting, but it teaches you as a beginner what kinds of hands you should be playing vs folding and how you should be playing them pre flop, on the flop, and on the turn and river. The two most important lessons I learned from it was to fold more often and how to use raises. If you have Spotify premium you can listen to the audiobook for free

https://www.888poker.com/magazine/strategy/20-poker-charts

If you watch the movie “Rounders” like 9 or 10 times you’ll be on par with this sub knowledge-wise.

I always recommend training sites as a good resource for learning. Run It Once has an affordable (I think it’s around $50) series called “From the Ground Up” that teaches the fundamentals of the game.

I’m trying to remember how I started. I think I started by watching all of Doug Polk’s hand reviews on YouTube and looking up anything I didn’t understand. The first ten or so videos I had to pause and look stuff up every 10 seconds, but eventually, I got to a baseline with the vocabulary.

Welcome to the best game on the planet! Here’s a goofy video in which I attempt to explain the rules of poker in 60 seconds.

Once you’ve learned the basic rules of poker, your first area of study should be preflop. If you’ve got what cards you want to play down pat, you can start postflop work with cbetting. It’s a good idea to start getting familiar with pot odds and equity.

Here's a general overview of how to study poker. At some point you've got to dip your toe into the world of reviewing your hand histories and sharing them with a trusted circle of poker friends who know what they're doing when they play.

Let me know if you have any questions and good luck at the tables!

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Welcome to poker! I love it.

You may find my post on poker bankroll management useful if you want to take poker more seriously: https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/s/u4mH6JEHEO

I hope it helps. 🙂

depending on how much time you want to put in, I think reading the books Biggest Bluff by Konnekova and Poker Math by Alton Hardin are two good starting reads, enjoyable and not too difficult

Learn and grind pre flop strategy for the most part in the beginning. This will elevate your game the fastest IMHO.

As far as YouTube videos for beginners: Jonathan Little, CrushLivePoker, CarrotCorner, 2CardConfidence, and hungryhorsepoker are some good starting point channels.

Practice mentally calculating outs vs pot odds to understand your relative hand strength. Then think about there’s really only ever two reasons to bet/raise: to make an opponents better hand fold, or their worse hand call.

Pay for some BBZ videos and embrace his methodology. Study is hard work, but if you want to improve it’s the only way to get better- put more time in than your opponents- like a lot of sports.

Be properly rolled (i suggest 100 buy-inns). Start with lowest stakes possible (no you dont have to make big dollars while starting). Make a loss and win limit rules. The loss rule (for me its 3 buy inns / exeption is when games are really good and i am not on tilt), this rule made my bankroll skyrocket. Making a win limit probably would’ve benefited me more but i wasn’t disciplined enough (e.g. was up 6k in january but i chased so i lost 3.5k later…)

learn preflop (ranges) until you feel like you think you don't need a chart anymore. That won't be enough tho- learn them for every position in every scenario until they second nature. It's insane how "good" you can be at microstakes just by following decent preflop ranges.

Additionally, I was unable to memorize the ranges by using/learning from classic 13x13 matrix charts.... once I started using/looking up the written form of ranges was a game changer (takes initial time to get used to but its worth)

https://automaticpoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Poker-Preflop-Ranges-Chart.jpg
https://automaticpoker.com/strategy/free-poker-preflop-range-charts-with-printable-pdfs/

If you dont love the game, dont play to make money. If you do, Time and consistency is key.

Ok, I will attempt to give you a serious answer.

If you are just learning to play, it should be a combination of studying and gaining experience by playing hands. For the former, there are both free and paid resources available. For the latter, you should start with the online micros if possible. If that's not a possibility, then see if you can find low stakes live game ($50 or less). This gives you the opportunity to practice the concepts you are learning without losing much money.

Plan on being a losing player for awhile. But if you are putting in the time and effort, you will start see a gradual progression and hopefully become a winning player. As you are progressing, there will be times where you win, maybe even "big". You might be tempted to feel that poker is easy and you are really good. It's not, and your not (at least not yet).

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