Stuff you did when you first started playing poker...

JDMcNugent7 · #1 10-27-09, 06:10 AM

Saw a thread on 2p2 about this that was funny, one guy clicked soft w strong hands to not give away and tells lol

I added up the cards and if they were over 20 they were worth playing no matter how big of a raise in front of me, aces worth 13 obv.

my hands shook playing .1/.2 limit with my last $5.

parents took comp away cuz i stayed up till 4 am in high school playing and started sucking at school, so payed my sister not to tell every night i took hers and hid under my bed till I went to "sleep".

BlibbityBlabbity · #2 10-27-09, 09:44 AM

At one point, I would be playing multiple freerolls on the same site and if I noticed a good flop for my hand at one table (on the other table), multiple hands in a row, I would start playing any garbage that hit the flop on the other table for a while.

Talking Poker · #3 10-27-09, 02:05 PM

I had such a strong desire to be results oriented in the very beginning that when I would fold a hand preflop on one table, I would pretend the flop on another table is what would have come.

I think this was more a way of me working out the game in the head by thinking through various card combinations and preflop hand strength, but that's still pretty funny.

Invigilator · #4 10-27-09, 08:30 PM

limp and chase, limp and chase.

Loved CR with KK and AA as a standard play.

PShabi · #5 10-27-09, 09:35 PM

I was reading Ken Warren's book on LHE. He had his starting hands broken down into categories. His suggestion for hands like J10s or KJo was "don't call two bets with these hands." I didn't understand "two bets." So, I'd be at the casino playing live 1/2 and it'd be 5 limpers to me and I'd look down at J10s. I counted the 5 limpers as 5 bets, so I'd throw it away cause if I couldn't call two bets I surely couldn't call 5.

When I first started online it was .25/.50 on Pacific Poker. I'd be in the SB and have Q2o. I'd call with any face-rag hand in the sb because the hand was "half good."

JDMcNugent7 · #6 10-27-09, 09:57 PM

Just remembered another one, went to store to buy a book to learn NL. Got half way through it before realizing it was a Limit book.

Zybomb · #7 10-27-09, 10:06 PM

Completed from the SB with ATC.
Axo and Kxo were playable for a raise
In tournaments would go all in (super over raise) with small pairs so "the overs don't get there"

More Im sure...

PShabi · #8 11-10-09, 12:58 AM

We would play nickel, dime, quarter dealer's choice home games when we first started. Someone would be 20 cents, it would get called by 6 people, the last guy would raise it to a quarter and everyone would throw in another 5 cents and never bitch, lol.