Hi to all
Firstly i must say that i am very positive surprised with pokerstrategy and i just want to say thank you guys, you are doing a very good job.
Secondly, i just want to point out some issues from my short poker play, which you experienced players already know, but just to remind myself sometimes that i wont forget and for players who are just staring to play poker.
I have started to play poker in August 2007 when i first registered through some friend in Titan and deposited 100€, i started before of course playing with chips to get used to online poker, but that seems "not a poker" but "chip all in fest" :).
I started to play limit 10 and i was doing good, i have read some books like Sklansky , Lee etc.. I moved then to NL full ring, as Limit was boring and then to NL10 full ring - 6Max and NL25 - 6max and i lost everything
beacuse of:
- i was moving up to fast also from Limit to NL full ring and to 6max without much experiences.
- i didnt respect BRM!!VERY IMPORTANT FOR ALL NEW PLAYERS!
- i was tilting (to less experience).
- i was playing to loose VPiP>30% and raising to less PFR <10%
- and many other things which i didnt know, until i dint find about pokerstrategy.....:)
Then i signed in November 2007 and start playing in FTP. Until then i had >20.000 hands on Titan but my BR gone..:(
I have read many articles here, watched videos (i still didnt post some hands, but i will...;) in the future:).
As i was playing NL10 6max i started to play like this also on FTP with SSS (little adopted for opening more hands beacuse of SH tables) and after 5.000hands i was on equal:( so i said "damn" what is wrong, so i went once on 2$ SNGs and i won and and so one...2nd SNG i was 3rd...., i also played 3 times 5$SNGs and i was once second...I was doing surprisingly well at SNGs, less then 100 SNGs and my bankrool grow to 100$ and i said...nice....i will play only SNGs, but then came one week i was doing bad and came back to 85$. I have read many threads here and i agree that even you can do very good on SNGs on long term your ROI will be not more then 20 - 30%, so i said OK and as SNGs are boring to me....lets go like strategy sais: Full Ring NL, obey SSS opening chart, have discipline, take notes on oponents, reduce tilting, watch videos (thanks undercover82, you have very nice videos for beginners) etc...and...:) good, i am doing well again and after 3 weeks playing like this my BR grow to 116$...I am playing MTT 4 tables, as i know i can, i am not tilting so much :), i have better felling about opponents, about play in general, even that notes are still not helping, as players in FTP are changing so much but i think i am doing well, i will be gold i think in the next week already:)..
My plan for the future is to FIRST BUILT MY BRM! grow to limit NL50 with SSS and then switch to BSS and after that switch to SH tables....I think it is a good plan?..i will read-reread all articles possible and watch all videos as possible as players will post, try to post some interesting hand and i will play SNGs only occasionaly.
In the end i just want to say apart of every failures you will made at poker carrier "stick to BRM" and everything will be fine.
Have fun playing poker and good luck at tables
Drach