Getting Started

[sclipson1]

Hey everyone @ Leggo,

A bunch of my friends have been playing a home game of $.25/$.50 NLHE this Summer and every so often I join them. However, every time I've played with them I lost! They relentlessly bust my balls about it and I thought it'd be a nice surprise if I returned to their home game and made 'em all go broke :P. I do understand that it takes a long time to get a good handle on the game, but I'm patient.

I know enough about cards to be dangerous (I've been playing Gin with my family for a long time) but barely anything about poker. My friend (he's not from the home game, thankfully) referred me to this site, but I don't know where to start. Being a newbie to the game, point me in the right direction so I can graciously return the favor to my friends.

Muchos Gracias.

[Probability]

Hey,

There are some free sample videos you can watch HERE

You can also look at some hand histories in the micro limit forums to get an idea of thought processes HERE

There is also a getting started post in the same forum that will give you access to a lot of great resources HERE

Good luck, have fun crushing your friends.

[robbyd86]

I would check out Probability's free video on getting started at leggo. Not just saying that to suck up cause he posted in this thead, but I thought it was a good intro video to see all of leggos features whether your a subscriber or not.

[Probability]

I wish I did it. I think it was Tickner who made that one.

[robbyd86]

Oh snap your right. My bad, you did the HEM one, that was good too. But yeah check out Tickners vid.

[sclipson1]

Thanks for the advice. I'm not 100% sure what most of the statistics mean when talking about certain hands, like 40/20/10, or whatever it is. Is there anything with a little bit more of a building the basics?