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...

Wes · #8 10-27-09, 10:46 PM

Stayed up past midnight to play the hubble freeroll on stars even though it didn't pay out anything on school nights.

Degen deposited $50 onto party even though I had $0 to my name via debit card. Played 2/4 lhe, lost it obviously.

Not really anything silly playing wise to attest to other than poor bankroll management at beginning.

Gordogg · #9 10-27-09, 11:45 PM

When I was new I thought the game was about bluffing so I'd bluff all the time. I'd go all in pre .10/.25 nl on a bluff and thought I was cool winning the 35 cents, easy money.

I remember when I found out about CBing and thought it was the biggest revelation of the century, on this forum if I remember...

Windbreaker · #10 10-28-09, 04:02 AM

I use to win a lot of play money on pokerroom. I had over 21 million at one time.....it felt like real poker.

When I first started and when I won 1k from a tournament, I got too excited and couldn't sleep for hours. I thought all the people playing 200 dollar tourneys were crazy and would never do that myself. =P

Also my version of playing poker was wait for the nuts while bonus whoring.

lightfungus · #11 10-29-09, 02:41 AM

Someone sent me a word file that was "foolproof." Call with this, raise with this etc.

BlibbityBlabbity · #12 10-29-09, 02:55 AM

...buy Hellmuth's book....shame

PShabi · #13 10-29-09, 03:06 AM

+1

Kurn · #14 10-29-09, 09:05 PM

I don't know what to add, except that when I was first playing poker, Hellmuth hadn't even been born.

DONKafied · #15 10-29-09, 10:12 PM

JDMcNugent7 · #16 10-29-09, 11:17 PM

lol that chart is hilarious, who comes up with those numbers lol?

Gordogg · #17 10-29-09, 11:20 PM

Yes and what do the numbers mean? BB hour?

Zybomb · #18 10-30-09, 03:57 AM

so 77 is -ev from the sb but 44 is +ev?

Edit: and all hands that arent pairs AK AQ or AJ are unplayable from any position!

Talking Poker · #19 10-31-09, 02:32 PM

This must be someone's actual win rate using a far too small sample. Obv, it would greatly depend HOW these hands are played that would lead to the results, but that's my guess as to where it came from.

And while this chart is pretty terrible, I actually think a beginning player who took the initiative to look this up and attempt to use it probably could learn something (about preflop hand strength only) before realizing the chart is crap and throwing it away.

PShabi · #20 10-31-09, 02:44 PM

This was quite "bunnyish."

Akverno · #21 10-31-09, 06:27 PM

Nice Bunny reference Shabi.

Stupid stuff I did hmm, there was a lot of it really. Thought AK suited was as good as AA. Chided my friends for betting / raising on a draw, when they weren't bluffing. Didn't even consider pot size, didn't give up on bluffs (still have a problem with this sometimes). Didn't keep track of win/loss rates.

Considering that I first started playing poker when I was 4 the list is pretty much huge.

PShabi · #22 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.