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True enough..you can learn all you want, but obviously each hand is different. My belief is that EXPERIENCE is the best teacher.  Start out by simplifying.....try to play with mostly good hands and play tight....feel everyone out...this takes lots of PATIENCE...cuz you wanna play!  Then, you can start to play some so-so hands but carefully watch percentages..Percentages is very important thing to know, BUT, sometimes that means diddily squat too....I find if I'm on a roll the flushes, straights, etc come out all in the same night.....gotta make ya wonder...is it mostly luck?   I think a little of both....and you have to know how to bluff when the time is right.  Check out our Forum on Tips, Tactics & Strategies...there's some good info there!

Best of luck to you at the tables!  Hope to see you in one of our next tournies!

FUN

to many books out there only serve to confuse the novice.as fun says experience is the best teacher.find your style of play first then read up on how to play that style.

I fully agree that many new players try to do too much too soon.  They want to make the fancy plays right away, so they start doing so without building a solid game as a foundation.  It's easy to fall into this trap since plays do work fairly often - an obvious example being the big all-in overbet bluff. 

I don't blame the availability of lots of books, videos, etc.  It's the players themselves.  They're intelligent people, but don't or won't look at their game objectively enough. 

Hi,

I think there's no problem in reading books when you are starting, but off course only when you join that with some experience you will be more successfull.

I think that's a cicle of learning, you read, you try, you analyze...imo it's the best aproach!

I usually do more of the trying and less the analyzing but shouldn't be that way.

A good aproach is also go back to books you read after a period of playing to ciment the concepts and easially fit the concepts in your game.

Last but not least, watching poker it's a great way to learn, and off course all the sites that provide video learning have a lot of customers and success!

It's up to each one of us to find the best balance for ourselfs!

Good luck at the tables!

freitich

yea......i have win three books at cardoza poker and they are stupid is better at fun play

so nothing interesting in these books? i would like to have him too to take a look

maybe who knows