Need to improve my skills

Originally posted by fjuws
Anyone has any suggestions what I should or can do to improve my skill in the game of poker?

Thanks
Mat

Hi Mat !
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com !

My suggestion would be to first get some of the free poker money, then sign up with an affiliated poker room.

Once that is done go through the strategy articles and videos using one of the courses. Even if you're not a rank beginner, I recommend the NL Beginner's course since it is a well-organised walk through the material.

Even if you "know it already" it is still a good idea to do the material.

Best of luck, and great to have you aboard!
--VS

Hi Matt,

Definitely practice makes perfect in poker. Keep working on your game and refining your strategy.

Good luck!

Key of success 9/10 hard work, and 1 talent - Albert Einstein.

Reading books always helps. The quickest and easiest way for me though was to just watch training videos and emulate what the pros were doing until I understood why.

I definitely advocate all the training material we have on this website. As Vorpal said beginner's course is the perfect introduction and even valuable to those who have been playing for some time.

I disagree with Jmm256 in terms of emulating the pros because their wealth of knowledge and experience leads them to do some plays that wouldn't be very profitable for beginner's like this play here. Instead try to watch videos where the players actively explain their reasonings and try to understand what concepts led them to make certain plays and then try apply these concepts to your own game. Then when you have these hands post them to our hand evaluation forums (have linked an NL hand evaluation forum for reference) and our coaches will give you valuable feedback. Hope this helped.

Regards,
Luke

Yeah looking back I don't think my advice was how it should be. Perhaps I meant to say understand why the pros in videos are doing what they do...then emulate

Gold Academy. Best thing I ever saw in mine life.

If I didnt have status, and know what I know now, I would buy gold just to watch that.

Originally posted by Jmm256
Yeah looking back I don't think my advice was how it should be. Perhaps I meant to say understand why the pros in videos are doing what they do...then emulate

There are a load of poker blogs out there...check out the section on this site dedicated to the blogs and take a few pages out of their books..ost of the stuff is pretty good reading so def not a waste of time

Originally posted by fjuws
I watch Poker channel everyday

If you mean poker on TV - quit that right now. 0 value for a beginner and possibly a source for tons of misconceptions about the game.

Great! i am new to this site as well. Seems its a great site for the beginners because this site provides so many articles, coaching materials and also video coaching. Its great. I think these things altogether will help increase our understanding level of the game with great extent.

Originally posted by ChondroKotha
Great! i am new to this site as well. Seems its a great site for the beginners because this site provides so many articles, coaching materials and also video coaching. Its great. I think these things altogether will help increase our understanding level of the game with great extent.

No doubt about it

no hearing from you fjuws
whats the current status of your poker and related thoughts