Posted by Dr Fro 2:37 PM
I just got back from a weekend at the lake with 10 guys and a lot of beer. I won $ at spades, then won $ at blackjack and then late on Saturday night, we played a $25 poker tournament. We started with $1,000 in TC's, and Beavis hit a flush and my stack quickly fell to $100. I slowly built it up again and ended up winning the whole tournament. All of the other players were beginners, and the beginner's mistake were plenty. The most common two were:

- slowplaying big pocket pairs. It is hard to explain the concept to a beginner that you need to get the money in pre-flop on AA and KK, and it is a mistake I made for a long time. They'll learn.

- overvaluing baby pocket pairs. I think that every pocket pair called every bet on every street last night.

All of these guys have "card sense" just not a lot of poker experience. That helps. Guys that play a lot of spades and similar games tend to pick up poker pretty quickly, and you could see the improvement in their play even over the course of short little tournament.

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