[Closed] Should I be worried that I am winning? Yes I am aware how dumb that question is..

Raising UTG with A4s is called tilt my friend tilt comes from losing sessions but tilt also comes with winning sessions.

Just stick to the rules and always play when u think u have an edge at the table. Its as simple as that.

Tell me how could he had poker aces if preflop you had A :club:5 and he had AA? You had one A he just hitted on river last fourth ace to have trips by the way.

All i can say is you were lucky. You played ONLY 20 hands and as i readed you won most of them when you were underdog(like last hand A5s vs AA).

Lets go back to last hand. You raised with A5s player behind you raised and someone calls( at least i hope guy with AA raised if he didn't well is his fault you took him money). If that was caise you have easy fold(depends ofocurse how much he raised but if he made 3bet like is common i doubt you(and him) had enought stack left to call EV+).

So yes that was bad play!

Also it sound funny playing just 20hands. Whats the point of it? You just warm up get to know opponents a bit and leave table? I supose you played SSS(here is normal to leave table after 20 hands i supose ♦) so according to SSS you leave table when you have 25BB or more.

I suggest you reread articles since i know for me that they improved my game big time.

And about the title:

Should I be worried that I am winning? Yes I am aware how dumb that question is..

No you should be happy how lucky you were and if you have nice winnings in 20 hands that hardly make you a winning player(even if you played really good game)!

If I could paste my tracker on here I would, but let me just say this and hope it makes sense.

Not long ago I returned to poker after a 2 week hiatus. I had been playing for a couple months with my $50 buy in, (not the one from PS, I'd burned that long ago) but I had been completely break even. One Saturday morning I wake up and hit the Full Tilt weekend donkeyfest in the worst way, and busted out to sick beat after sick beat. That was why I took the break.

In that time I played solely freerolls, hit a couple final tables, had a couple bad beats, posted my hands, and learned a lot. So I convinced myself to buy back in and see what I could do.

Within 5 days I'd profited $150 playing sick SSS, though often breaking the rules and playing 6-max tables. In that time every decision I made was right. Players folded when I bluffed. They called me when I pushed with the nuts. My AK hit against JJ. My JJ held up against AK. I took donkeys down for all they were worth, and I loved every second of it.

Then I hit what they call variance. $100 down in 2 days, and I played well. Really well. But I got rivered like you wouldn't believe. Took all sorts of bad beats. It was just gross. I began to think that I wasn't that good of a player, that I got lucky tot that point. I posted hand after hand and all I got in response was judges and other players wondering why I posted the hand in the first place, that I played it well. I realized then that it wasn't about profit, it was about being a good player. Hard to believe, but they are two different things.

2 weeks later and I'm showing ~$75 profit altogether, winning some/losing some, but playing good poker.

Moral of the story? Don't worry about 20 hands or 20 hours or 20,000 hands. Winning poker is winning poker, and all that matters is making the right decision, the right play.

You play perfect and you win big. Next time you'll play perfect and lose big. Judging by what you wrote you didn't play well, but you still won. That will soon change. Post your hands and read the articles and improve your game and you will become a profitable player.

For now you're just gambling.

Good luck at the tables!

It's called variance, there's no way you're ever going to win something even close to that when you play more hands. You got lucky with A4s now, but you should realise that on average you will lose, because the mistake you made is exactly the mistake a lot of people make so we can make money.

(brag), just look at my graph from yesterday, if I would only put in the last 30 hands I've got the same story as you :P, but I've played ~breakeven the other 1430, and this is quite normal variance. So just play according to the strategy and the SHC and you will win the most longterm.

You're right Silk. I think the Ace was on the flop but I was running out the house so I just typed and run.

Thanks for your advice guys. I know that variance exists but I was more questioning what is more important? Sticking to the planned schedule or keep playing until you start to lose. Actually, I can finally understand why there so many guys who have huge player points.

Odie