Best and worst poker advice

[Shells]

As a beginner poker player, we often look to others who are more proficient, in the game, for advice from time to time.

When you look back to the early days of your poker journey, what was the best and worst poker advice you received?

 

[Mortis]

I honestly can't think of the worst poker advice I've received.

Best advice I probably got was not to be "results oriented." Learned that right here at CardsChat. Also how to manage a bankroll.

 

[Flyer35]

Discipline, it's ALL about discipline.

 

[Canaldo Kao]

Don't be afraid to play any tournament regardless of the price! The fear of losing takes away the chances of winning!

These were the tips from two professional colleagues I know in poker❤️

 

[MishkaZL]

As a beginner poker player, we often look to others who are more proficient, in the game, for advice from time to time.

When you look back to the early days of your poker journey, what was the best and worst poker advice you received?

I have a friend who considers himself a semi-professional player, if not a professional one. His professionalism lies in the fact that he makes a deposit every week and loses an average of 20-50 dollars. When I started out, I didn't realize how "professional" my friend was, so I listened to his advices. Some of the worst ones were "always play aggressively with an ace" and "always play aggressively from position, regardless of the strength of your hand". One of the best pieces of advice my other friend, who doesn't consider himself a professional player and yet withdraws money steadily and regularly, gave me was "just don't play with junk".

 

[hardongear]

Worst advice no idea as just before I started seriously playing online a read just about every book published by 2+2 publishing so there was no worst advice. My first ever was Phil Helmuth's "Play Poker Like the Pros"

The best advice that's easy. It was to focus on these few things: bankroll management, patience, mental/toughness and tilt control. Why was this the best advice because without doing these few things decently to good it doesn't matter how good you are at actually playing poker. You could be the best player in the world with the most talent and yet without bankroll management, patience, mental toughness and tilt control you're just another long term losing player.

Cheers!!!

 

[Ogma]

Always wash behind your ears and don't buy a white chopping board if you're going to cut red chilli peppers.

 

[wrzlbrnft]

The feeling after loosing two times my bankroll in my early days was the best advice I ever got

 

[Dmitriy_rus7]

As a beginner poker player, we often look to others who are more proficient, in the game, for advice from time to time.

When you look back to the early days of your poker journey, what was the best and worst poker advice you received?

The worst advice is “if you get AA in your hand, go all in and don’t worry”😂🤣

 

[puzzlefish]

Worst; Always defend your blinds. (This is actually a great way to bust out and lose money.)

Best: Think of it as if you're playing for a bunch of rocks/stones rather than money. (A way to overcome being scared money.)

Not sure where I heard the last one, but it was from a poker show where someone was playing for very high stakes

 

[Igor G]

The worst advice is ‘Don't waste your time on freerolls because they're not worth it’. Best advice - ‘Always follow the bankroll management and never exceed the spending limit’.

 

[Debi]

Best advice:

"Folding hands will win tournaments." - courtesy of Katie Stone

Worst advice:

"Play sng's" - my poker coach a long time ago

 

[Mag_P1e]

From my experience, the best advice was to pay sufficient attention to theory, and, accordingly, the worst advice was “play a lot and it will come by itself”

 

[istbno]

Manage your bankroll wisely, study diligently, and stay disciplined. These qualities will sustain you through the inevitable ups and downs of the game.

 

[Propane Goat]

Best advice: don't assume that a bad outcome in one hand invalidates all of the strategy advice on how to act in that situation. Example - you call off your entire stack with AA in the big blind and lose to KK. This doesn't mean that calling off your stack with AA is a mistake.

Worst advice: the opposite of the above, the bad outcome does invalidate all of the strategy advice and the sample size of 1 determines everything. The old geezer smoked three packs a day for 50 years and never got lung cancer, so that's why he says all of the doctors and health organizations are wrong about smoking causing lung cancer.

People often forget that these situations are probabilistic, which means that there is no guarantee of what a single outcome will be. Instead, results of a huge number of samples of scenarios over the long term will trend toward a probability distribution that gives the likelihood of a specific outcome.

 

[mssmotilda]

As a beginner poker player, we often look to others who are more proficient, in the game, for advice from time to time.

When you look back to the early days of your poker journey, what was the best and worst poker advice you received?

The worst advice is to listen to the advice of those who play freerolls.

 

[Yanko57]

The worst advice is to listen to the advice of those who play freerolls.

I have to disagree about that. Most CC freerolls are high quality FR.

 

[Edu1]

The worst advice is to listen to the advice of those who play freerolls.

here where many play or played freerolls and give good advice... why you think that away?

 

[Yanko57]

Best advice: listen to your inner voice. When it says it's time to go, GO. Now. No one more orbit (in cash game obviously)

Worst advice: Play higher levels if you want to play against higher quality players and your bluffs will stand.

 

[Rmi]

My best advice was to always study, aside from doing hand analysis to see where the error is

 

[pentazepam]

Best poker advice: Find the Fish. Don't be the Fish. And it's all Relative who is the Fish.

Worst poker advice: Bet or raise for Information to find out where you are in a hand.

 

[martDdart]

Best : only play strong hands until you are comfortable playing Worst: Make a deposit and play with the pros

 

[yuriko oyama]

Having only played online to date, I have been self-taught since the beginning.
What really was my advisor was the frustrations, which unfortunately are many in our daily lives.

 

[infonazar]

The best advice I've received is to play poker just for the sake of a good and high-quality game. But I just didn't listen to bad advice because I intuitively understood that something was wrong with it

 

[Iryna Stryzheuskaya]

As a beginner poker player, we often look to others who are more proficient, in the game, for advice from time to time.

When you look back to the early days of your poker journey, what was the best and worst poker advice you received?

As a beginner player, I heard or read (I don’t remember, it was a long time ago) a phrase that I didn’t understand right away, but it seems to me that it is important.
“The worst thing that can happen to you as a new player is if you win a lot of money right now.”