Beginners Guide - Page 2

some stuff is old but still a lot of great articles for beginers, post #4
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55/...rums/2-2-nl-anthology-v1-down-346801/

Well-Done

Is there a probability chart that tells you to raise or fold??

On March 15 2011 13:47 empressivlee wrote: Is there a probability chart that tells you to raise or fold??

There is an M chart that is used in tourneys for when you should shove all in or fold depending on your stack size in relation to the blinds, position at the table and how many orbits (M) you can survive for.

For cash games not really.

Graph looks standard, if you consider earlier shots (big losses in few torunaments) the "epic downswing" was just cumulation of 2-3 smaller swings which occured around 120#, 180# and so on.

nice start page, i´m looking at this for the first time

This reminds my my graph then i was mass playing 5$ hu games and once i had all stakes tab on and was lookin 3/4 ppl registred and acidently registered to 200$ 4 player hu sng. I lost but next day i won 4$ 180 man sng. Had siminal cliff jump on my graph

Very informative post and this actually helped a lot...

Thanks!

monster up and down

Boring freeroll hunter are boring

On December 29 2009 16:37 Jelle wrote: Show nested quote + On December 29 2009 14:41 ELTON JOHN wrote: Hi you all ,i like playing poker and usually i play at Heracasino . has anyone any thoughts on building a roll from HU sngs. Using the principles like that off doubling up on red in casinos on roulette. But with poker HU SNG. Less variance of course because it's pretty hard to lose more than 5 HU sngs at once. Unless ur really bad. Any thoughts? ie. $1, $2, $6 , $10 , $20 etc if you are talking about martingale strategy (always betting just enough to get slightly ahead) or another betting strategy, it doesn't work most of them are structured such that they will maximise your chance of having a winning session, but at the same time making your losing sessions so severe that you end up with the same longterm results (as in the graph)

martingale works, you just need infinite bankroll for it :DDD

if i had a trillion dollars i'd martingale vs the US government...busto the government and own the USA

sorry mate, one trillion is not enough - according to xkcd money graph

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lol

i just starte this week playing. when is the right time to start with real money? i am just scared of loosing. :O

when did you guys start?

If it is not for just registering for a freeroll... here is an answer.
Quite a lot started playing with playmoney and next sold it for some real money and started from there playing micros.
If you don't want to go through playmoney (which is understable), start at the lowest stakes, and don't move up until you feel very comfortable and beat it easily.

wow thank you very much for your help.
i know i sound very amateur (and i am!) but i really appreciate you helping me out as i believe you all know it better than me! thank you very much!

just out of curiosity: whats so bad with freerolls? as i understand its a tournament withouth entry fee right? that doesnt sound that bad. and can i change playmoney on PokerStars too?

freerolls are not any bad. It's just that sometimes liquid poker hosts freerolls and some people sign on the site just to be able to play them.