Tales from the Noob Side

[azreal1]

you sound like every other female player, n00b or no ure an idiot, the character in the story is an idiot thus please stop playing poker n get back in the fkin kitchen

[Magyk]

Feel free to ignore this egotistical pig... the rest of us do on a regular basis

[zzxxbbaa]

Interesting story. Does this story continue?

[royalpat]

you sound like every other female player, n00b or no ure an idiot, the character in the story is an idiot thus please stop playing poker n get back in the fkin kitchen

it is a great thread so just stay out of it why do you put down everything

[royalpat]

Interesting story. Does this story continue?

yes very nice reading so pls continue with it one of the best yet

[rghy2]

I like this story, and it covers some of the very basic concepts that I work to ingrain in my own playing.

[Wiresunderneath]

The story continues on every table, in every freeroll or low stakes tournament throughout the land, where ever the noob sits own to play.

For example...

[Wiresunderneath]

A noob sits comfortably in an MTT with enough BBs to virtually ensure not getting short stacked for several blind raises.

Now our young noob believes that she should choose her spots wisely (like the guy in the google article said), and try to pick off chips from those who are starting to feel the heat.

The noob picks up a BB here, a SB there, even though she isn't seeing any great hole cards.

Slowly, patiently, the young noob maintains a decent spot in the tournament, keeping pace with the blind increases in terms of stack to blind ratio.

Well, mostly patiently.

Well, patiently enough.

Well, come to think of it, the noob was patient in a sort restless, rip your hair out kind of way.

She eyes the leader board and the payout structure a few times, and then it happens.

AA!

Cards to play!

A smaller stack goes all in and the noob instacalls for maybe a quarter of her stack.

But hark! What's this? One of the tournament leaders also calls from late position.

How dare he? Those chips belonged to the noob!

The flop comes a rainbow of low cards and the noob bets half the pot. She wants to bet bigger but she'd have to push and she doesn't really want to push. Wasn't this supposed to be about just picking up that one guy's chips?

The monster stack pauses for a moment, then calls.

Comes the turn...

[Wiresunderneath]

The board pairs.

The noob briefly considers checking to give the monster stack the opportunity to tell her whether he has a monster hand, but decides instead to bet half the pot again.

The monster stack comes over the top to put the noob all in.

The noob calls.

And thus the noob learned to proceed with caution when the board pairs.

[jcla6985]

I could of done without this thread lol no hate tho