The best (poker) advice you have ever received?

[Quads]

Curious to know the best advice others have received.

My poker mentor told me when I was starting to play:

"Jasen, here are the two things I can't teach you enough of:
In low limit, play the cards;
In mid limit play the chips
In high limit / no limit, play the people.

The other thing is this:
When you are in a hand, you either raise or fold. No hand should be called. If your hand isn't worth raising, then fold"

[Robert]

Never had a poker mentor. Just started playing one day. Nobody ever gave me advice, either, except my wife (who's never played poker). Best advice I'd ever heard of anyone getting, & she repeats it every time I leave for a game.

"Have a good time."

When you are in a hand, you either raise or fold. No hand should be called. If your hand isn't worth raising, then fold.

Your buddy there must have been a friend of Sklansky, only Sklansky says it a little different. I think his version is..

"If the hand is worth a call it's worth a raise."

[Quads]

Nope, he never knew Sklansky.
His lesson was fold or raise, don't call.

[araymond]

"Don't put in good money after bad. Staying too long on marginal hands is where players lose most of their money. Don't be afraid to get away from a hand that's gone bad." Whether I follow this advice as often as I should is another question.

But my new personal favorite has to be: "Pair on board - danger sign!"

[Quads]

To quote him exactly, it's:

"Board Pair!!... Danger Sign!!!!!"