But beginners would be well-advised to limit starting hands to premium pairs (J or higher), trips (of course), three-card flushes and three-card straights that contain at least one face card. Stay away from just about anything else while you're learning. You can eventually start opening up a bit once you start figuring out what works and what doesn't.
Fold the three-card flushes/straights if you brick fourth street and someone bets into you. Or fold them if you end up heads-up, as you won't have sufficient pot odds to draw to them. Don't take the big pairs too far if you don't improve and someone with a premium door card is taking the betting lead or reraises you along about fifth street.
Piers and Juskimo are correct. If you decide to play a hand, it's best to play it for all it's worth. Don't be timid.
But I'll have to disagree with them on the examples here. Piers' play here seems to me more maniacal than solid. You can get lucky like he did and take down some big pots. But more likely, you'll go broke fast playing hands like that.Statistics: Posted by flafishy — Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:57 am
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