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Greetings fair traveler,
Today we visit a noob with a tiny bankroll, won from freeroll MTTs. Our noob, filled with confidence from having outlasted many hundreds of similar noobs, even if just on a few occasions, sits down at a cash game in the hopes of increasing her meager allotment of pennies.
Having played only no limit and pot limit, our noob decides to plunk down a buyin at a sure-to-be easier fixed limit micro table.
DUN DUN DUN
[Part Two]
Slowly but surely, our noobs stack of pennies drifts outward from in front of her, to the stacks of her opponents, who seem to play every hand and bet or call to the river at least half the time.
But hark! Our noob, having heard of pot odds and having a basic understanding of them, notices that she too is calling all the way to the river with outrageously bad hands, all because after the flop the bets are so small relative to the pot size.
"Surely it must be correct to call these turn and river bets if pot odds favor it," our noob thinks to herself... as more and more of her pennies migrate to enemy stacks.
[image of flying pennies and a dejected noob]
And thus did our noob discover the importance of taking future betting into consideration when contemplating the flop.
Lol this was awesome... Best of luck with your noob decisions sir!!
Slowly but surely, our noobs stack of pennies drifts outward from in front of her, to the stacks of her opponents, who seem to play every hand and bet or call to the river at least half the time.
But hark! Our noob, having heard of pot odds and having a basic understanding of them, notices that she too is calling all the way to the river with outrageously bad hands, all because after the flop the bets are so small
Thats the reason why they would even posts them too. :)
lol way too funny!
At least this noob is learning lessons and will no longer be considered a noob.
lol. I like this thread. :D
One day perhaps. With diligence and even perseverance, the noob may rise to mediocrity... but that day is not this day, because...Quote:
Originally Posted by WILD
One fine evening, young (let's just say young) noob signs up for yet another freeroll with a field of thousands.
The television is on, but BBC America has been repeating the same show all evening, so it's not really a distraction.
Though quickly doubling up off a flopped monster flush, the little noob starts out playing what she considers pretty tight, and ends up having well over double the average chipstack heading into the dreaded "time of the antes."
59th place. 92nd place. 148th place. Suddenly, out of nowhere, and for no reason, the noob has gone from 40BBs to under 10.
The noob decides to push sometime soon.
K10s come the hole cards.
No, decides the noob. Not good enough.
5BBs+SBs+Antes*9.
Q10o UTG.
No, definitely not, especially not UTG.
4...
A6o, middle position with no callers!
Not yet. Not yet.
The noob eyes the bubble. So close! If only a few more people would bust out. The .30 could be hers!
3...
It doesn't look like the people ahead of her noobness have any intention of playing any hands. Curses!
2...
Q10o again, once again UTG.
Finally, the noob pushes.
4 callers and the noob exists a few places from the bubble.
And this is how young noob learned you can't continue to play super tight through a whole tournament and expect not to get blinded out.
Tight Aggressive is great, when you have the stack to do so, but getting short, tight is the wrong answer. It will take time and experience to learn how loose you should have your range, and for every person that will be different. But as long as you learn, I wouldn't consider you a n00b. N00bs don't care to learn.
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
Feel free to ignore this egotistical pig... the rest of us do on a regular basis
Interesting story. Does this story continue?
it is a great thread so just stay out of it why do you put down everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by azreal1
yes very nice reading so pls continue with it one of the best yetQuote:
Originally Posted by zzxxbbaa
I like this story, and it covers some of the very basic concepts that I work to ingrain in my own playing.
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...
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...
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.
I could of done without this thread lol no hate tho
I think its entertaining, and I'm sure this is a vent process as well.
I have Donk Tales, but that would take me forever to type................
Keep those Donk Tale going. I love reading these. AA is pretty difficult to fold. Against random players, you seriously don't know what they are playing especially true in low limit holdem games.
Lmao that was too funny! Noob this noob that! lol!
I'm glad some people are enjoying these.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magyk
They are definitely a venting/self-flagellation process.
I also think the act of typing them out is helpful in reducing repetitions of the noobish behaviors.
welcome to po good luck to you at the tables
welcome noob and good luck to you at the tables
tight is good is good in many ways ;) if yanaowatimeen