# Tips for first time on-line tourney poker player.

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 14, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-first-time-on-line-tourney-poker-player/489403 "2009-03-14T05:16:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-first-time-on-line-tourney-poker-player/489403/21 "2009-03-17T13:23:24Z")

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Thanks **wintertime** for all the pointers. I’ll think about what you say.

I guess I made some pretty bad rookie mistakes, hopefully I can learn from them. I learned something about my lack of discipline also - I can know that what I’m doing is wrong but still do it anyway in the heat of the moment. I’ll have to work on that first of all.

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**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-for-first-time-on-line-tourney-poker-player/489403/22 "2009-03-17T14:08:28Z")

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**Isamu** , guilty as charged. When I say “don’t do this!”, I also mean to say “I don’t want to do this, again – and this time, I mean it! For real!”

You’re on the right track; it’s crucial that you identify your own weaknesses and work on them. I am, e.g., still far too aggressive post-flop in online games and it costs me money (works well offline … which doesn’t improve my learning curve, of course). Oh,well.

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