ITH Poker Forum

[Gamblor]

Lets say that tomorrow you get hit by a bus and somehow forget all the lessons you learned playing no limit hold em without injuring yourself in any other way. How would you start learning again? Would you play short handed or full ring? Would you buy in short or deep?

[Radford]

I'd forget about poker and think about rebuilding my life

[Ed Miller]

Hrmm.. well, I'd read my starter NL material first: Getting Started in Hold'em and the 7 Easy Steps to No Limit Success.

Beyond that, I think absolute beginners should start playing full-ring and somewhat short-stacked to get a feel for the rhythm of the game and to begin to develop hand-reading skills. After that, I think the most important skill to work on is fearlessness (of losing your stack), so I'd say medium-sized bluffs are probably the next area I'd really work on. I'd buy in deeper (moving down in game size if necessary to be comfortable), and try to find the right places to launch those medium-sized flop and turn bluffs.

By that time, Professional No Limit Hold'em: Volume 1 will be out, so naturally I'd read that next, along with NLHTAP.

[jeffnc]

Hrmm.. well, I'd read my starter NL material first: Getting Started in Hold'em and the 7 Easy Steps to No Limit Success.

Wow. Fantastic. I'm going to pass that link along to a few friends of mine. That could be a great book in its own right, if publishers would publish small books. I'm not going to pass it along to my buddies in my Wednesday night game though, no way.

[Ed Miller]

Hrmm.. well, I'd read my starter NL material first: Getting Started in Hold'em and the 7 Easy Steps to No Limit Success.

Wow. Fantastic. I'm going to pass that link along to a few friends of mine. That could be a great book in its own right, if publishers would publish small books. I'm not going to pass it along to my buddies in my Wednesday night game though, no way.

Thanks. It's funny you mention it, because fleshing that series out into a 100-page (or so) book is on my short list of potential projects. That's cool that you think it would make a good book.