Learn to Play Texas Hold'em

I started to play for money and I’m reading the book – complicated but very helpful :)

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I know how to play but mastering the game, now that’s a very different story. I seem to blow in the end. Oh well, I still love to play.

I’m going out and buying the Texas Hold’Em for Dummies set next week!! haha

Great way to pass time. I have party poker downloaded on my computer and when I get bored I open it up and play some hold ‘em. Guys are pretty impressed when you kick their ass too.

Bought a pocket guide book on learning the game. Wish me luck!

Think I’ve mastered the basics. Have been practicing on pokerroom.com for play money.

I have to say it’s proving to be rather addictive.

Learning the basics was actually not all that difficult. The difficult part is in beginning to learn the odds, and different strategies etc.

Playing hold ‘em with friends in a game that’s not for cash is really funny. We just laugh and laugh the whole time. Playing online for cash, not fun. The players are slow, you can’t read them, and did I mention the game moves slowly? Right now I favor no-limit but I’m not sure where that will end up once I learn how to play the game properly.

I’ll do this the same way I do everything else I’m really interested in doing, exhaustively. I’ve 5 books in the mail now. Lots to read, mechanics and math to memorize and play around with. My goal is to be good enough that I can buy into a few tournaments with my earnings. I’d be happy to earn a bit each night, that’s my starting goal.

I don’t do yearly resolutions, this plan just happens to be starting around the beginning of the year. My whole life I’ve been taught that gambling is wrong/bad. I’m not the type to throw assets towards a failing enterprise. Gambling will be the same. If I can’t learn to do it profitably, I won’t do it at all. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong about any action. I feel that the ethical and moral implications are bound up in the reasoning behind the action. My reasons for learning to gamble are that I might prove the worth, or lack thereof, of one more revenue avenue in my life. I have studied business, real estate, forex, stocks, and of course for my profession. It’s always fun to learn about how different people make their living and whether or not that’s of interest to you. I don’t plan to do what I do as a day job for more than another 10 years, so hopefully I can prepare for another line of work by then.

The good times are killing me, at least that’s what Modest Mouse has convinced me of.

My husband taught me the basic rules. No, I didn’t know how to play poker. I like to blame it on a sheltered childhood. :)~

did this last friday actually. silly fun times. nothing more amusing than being bullied into going all in before even seeing the cards.