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Five Common Beginner Mistakes Part 2

• 31.06.2025 1:22 pm
• Helen
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If you dream of becoming a victorious poker player, you have to understand perfectly well that each single mistake you commit costs you some cash.

This article is the second and it discusses three more of the common mistakes most beginners usually make. Incase you missed it; get familiar with it at part one of this article.

The first part explained searching for coin flips plus overplaying your hands; although the two are mistakes highly costly, they are not the only mistakes that cost starters cash at the felt.

You should not be focused on avoiding to make these mistakes only; but also to compel your rivals into committing them.

3) Drawing on some Dangerous boards

The moment you play any drawing hand, you are playing with an aim of hitting your draw, and then stuff the pot the time you do this. You do not play any drawing hand aiming to hit, and check.

Therefore, the moment you hit a draw (either flush draw or maybe straight draw) your commission is putting cash into the pot. The cash is going to be either a small amount or your whole stack.

When you have paid for a draw on a given dangerous board, hitting is sometimes the worst of all things that can happen. The best example as far as this is concerned is drawing to any flush on any paired board.

The moment you end up hitting your flush, whoever will be willing to put some big cash amount into the pot remains with a high chance of having a full house literally.

If you pay to draw dead, there is nothing worse than it. Chunking off the stack think you have just hit a quality card is another worse thing. Where there is a tangible chance that draws hitting is going to leave you nothing, but the second-best hand, all you need is make an effort of keeping this pot very small.

Unless there is a way you can read that the hand you have is the best, it's never wise to assume or even hope.

2) Playing on scared cash               

Doyle Brunson says “The key to No-Limit … is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.” In short, there is need you be willing to putting your rivals all-in, and them procced to make an all-in call at any time.

A good number of beginners play on what's known as short roll, or without a roll altogether. Due to this, the players play knowing that they literally can not in any way afford losing the money they have put in play.

This is known as playing on scared money. In-case you are reluctant to risk the whole of your stack, your rivals exploit this fear to simply run over you.

To play successfully, you need to disassociate your money in play with any other in the checking account. It should not be very difficult for you losing in full a buy-in at a given No-Limit table than buying something like a hamburger.

It goes without saying that not spending the money would be preferable, but understand that what you have to do has to be done.

Until you are genuinely able to simply disconnect from the cash amount you would like to reserve for play, it is never possible to play correctly No-Limit poker. You have to play the games, and within your roll, then approach the game with a sound mind-set if you dream of playing proper poker. Understand that making cash is simply an outcome of game winning.

You never go to play poker intending to make cash; you simply go aiming to play a top quality game. Cash is simply a way for players to keep score.

1)     Illogical ( Transparent) Bet Sizing

Incase you give your rival a clear picture regarding the hand you are holding through the bets you make, your rivals are never going to make any mistakes. Where they are not making any mistakes, there is no way you can make any money.

A good number of beginners think of a single aspect in regard to betting, and that is ignoring the rest. Due to this, the best sizing they ever have ends up become a shortcoming and not an asset.

For instance, where you have any decent hand, for example 2 pair on this flop, you are the first one to act, and you simply need to make a decision on the amount to bet. A good number of beginners only think about the bet sizing aspect.

If you bet 10 dollars into a 60 dollar pot, you complete successfully the main objective, but understand that your opponents have gotten 7-1 odds of drawing against you.

In real sense, the size of your bet should be very small to ensure it gets a call, but large enough so that you can cut down all pot odds to a rival who is drawing a hand that is better than the one you have.

A second example is whereby a given beginner who has a strong hand makes a bet aiming to protect the specific hand, but the size is irrationally large such that making some money on this hand is impossible. A common happening:

In a $1/$2 game, the beginner player happens to get dealt some pockets aces regarding big blind. One of the players limps, and a second one ends up raising to $10, then every player choosing to folding to this beginner: he/she ends up moving all in for 145 dollars.

The pot has $15 and the beginner has raised to the $145, it's usually never the best of ideas to have a raise above 9.5 times this pot. Its true he succeeded in protecting the hand and therefore won this pot, but the beginner just extracted a lowest amount from it.

Any moment you end up playing a given hand and in a way that simply extracts little value than it's possible, you always commit a mistake and then lose money.

You simply have to size all of your bets in a special way to maximize each mistake your opponents make.