Quote Originally Posted by TheNatural
I was on google trying to find out whether it was correct or not to call a bet when you have a flush draw, and I landed on one of Tyson's essays, I think the pot odds one.

As you can see, I was as green as they come when I landed on FTR. I had never heard the phrase "pot odds" before. I had just put $50 into party poker a few days before and I was playing the 0.50/1.00 limit tables, just going on "instinct". I had no clue about any poker theory whatsoever, but I knew some theory must have existed and I wanted to learn about it. FTR basically taught me everything I know.
Pretty similar for me. Back just after I begun playing limit on Pacific (which is all they had back then), I was searching on google for the odds of one hand beating another hand or something and ran across Tyson's essays on pot odds and outs and all that stuff and was blown away. I was completely clueless about that type of stuff as well. I also learned that there are some starting hands that you may want to fold. ... The tempting Q2o may not actually be the monster it appears to be.

FTR also talked me into switching to NL with its limit vs. NL essay.

I didn't even realize they had a message board until a long time later, though.