This is fair. The proportionality thing was simply to tell beginners here that they don't have to scale up from winning a $20 pot to a $80 pot to a $150 pot, which is more the level you'd expect beginners to be playing, I think. Read more

I played a little 2/5 NLHE when I was a broke moron kid and had no business at that level. Played a few pots around $2000; won a few, dicked myself on a ~$2500 one, was enough to get me to go play somewhere less stupid. Now I just mess around at 1/2 when I'm trying to fill hours in a casino or at a home game, but I've… Read more

Yes, this is correct. I've never seen this in person, but I'd hope a more experienced player would put a hand on a newbie's shoulder and tell him to think about doing this, though. Read more

This is a good place for a note about casino games, especially lower stakes like 1/2: Don't worry about smaller chip denominations for the blinds; you can just put out the $5 chip, and if you say nothing, the dealer will take it as a call. Read more

Shit. Yes. Read more

This is generally for Hold'em, Stud, and Omaha (though I forgot to mention that beginners should really stay away from the PLO games, even though they look like fun). Yeah, hold your cards in Draw and similar, but those games are rare enough these days that I didn't want to confuse things. Read more

Outlier advice, but not wrong. Read more

See, like this. Read more

"One time" is OK when you are rooting for a despicably bad beat on one of your friends for a non-mortgage-ruining amount of money; otherwise yes. Read more

For a few people, I guess? But you're underestimating how unbelievably obnoxious all poker players are, outside of etiquette, and how trained everyone is to ignore that. Mostly you're just being annoying and no one will ask you back. Read more

Here and there. Read more

Yeah, this is in the doc. Read more

This is good criticism. Read more

Pretty bad fuckup, huh? Read more

This is EXACTLY what the world asked for! Go away hater!!!! Read more

I like this Kobe idea. Read more

Nah, fuck you. Read more

Joke's on you: That's Ron Mercer, and mixing up his garbage Bulls players will annoy him even more. Read more

Hold on what. Read more

Just going to put in that whenever we're poring over stats and use endpoints the highest rung of achievement—usually looking for some way to isolate something Durant or LeBron or similar did—Dantley is almost always in there. He's got to be one of the players whose statistical footprint most vastly outreaches his… Read more