[Closed] Faye's Poker... Career?

Faye6891 · 2007-11-28T13:24:24Z

Hi, first of all, my name's not Faye, and I'm not a woman. &diams; It's kind of a long story, but I'm here to talk about poker, right? So here goes a (very) long post about my poker history. I'm new here in PokerStrategy, but been playing poker since March, 2006. So, let me start from the beginning. One day, I'm sitting in front of my PC, kinda bored, and all of sudden, I think "Hey, I wanna learn how to play poker". It was really all of a sudden, I can't really explain why I entered Google and started searching for poker sites, I just wanted to learn how to play. Had no idea there were such famous events like the WSOP and WPT, nor had any idea there were online poker rooms. Of course, I found about it in less than 5 minutes on google! :P Started playing 5 draw first, played a little bit of 7 stud, then I learned texas hold'em (the rules, not how to be a good player, that I'm still learning :)). Up to Mid-April (2006) I played freerolls, but I could never win a tournament, the best I got was 15th out of a 1000 players, and won less than $1. But dude, I was like, WOW... 15th out of 1000 players, I'm getting good!! LOL!! &diams; But then I found a site offering $50 more another $25 bonus, on PartyPoker, and so it began. It just offered the money, no articles, no strategies, no nothing, I had to learn everything on my own, and I'm very lucky I didn't go broke. :) First I started playing FR FL microlimits cashgames only... after all those freerolls, I was tired of tournaments. As I said, a little luck helped me to not go broke, and after I had cleared my bonus, I cashed out PartyPoker and decided to try another room. At the time, Party only offered microlimits for begginers (for 45 days only). I knew nothing about bankroll management, but I wasn't stupid enough to play in $0.5/$1 stakes with a $75 bankroll. :P I looked for other rooms and decided to try Pacific, even though I didn't know much at the time, the very first few days there I could realize players where very bad, I liked it and decided to stay there for a while, at least until I cleared my deposit bonus. And since I was playing at small stakes, and I didn't play a lot of time, it took a long time. In the meantime, I learned a bit about bankroll management, and went up in levels as my bankroll was growing. Well, in January (2007), I finally cleared my deposit bonus and I had a $240 bankroll, was sick of Fixed Limit and wanted to try No Limit. Well, but not in pacific, I went back to Party Poker, sat at NL4 table, and in less than 20 minutes, I was down $15! &diams; That was all ok, at the time I was still playing just for fun, I saw an ad about this new 3d room (yes, PKR), I deposited some money there and started playing NL4 with half buy-in ($2). After losing $15 in 20 minutes, I decided it was better to buy-in for less and risk less, I knew I had an agression problem, and I had to control that. &diams; After making some adaptations (on my own, cause I at the time I hadn't read anything about No Limit strategy), I decided to play with a full buy-in. It was around February when I really got addicted to the game, Feb. and March... I played on average 5-6 hours a day. I was on vacation from college! :) Went from NL4 to NL10 still in PKR... but now I was starting to play more for the money and not only for fun, and PKR software was very slow, around 40-45 hands per hour. So I decided to try another room. Then I met bodog, started at NL10, after I got the hang of it, decided to try 2 tables. Yes, I was all this time, only playing one table at a time. But that made learn something, I developed the patience of a saint, sit in one table while paying attention to the game for 2 hours and a half without playing a SINGLE hand and you get what I mean. &diams; (That doesn't mean I don't tilt.) Things were good at NL10, my bankroll had increased, ok, let's try NL25. Started with one table until I was feeling comfortable, then increased to 2 tables, then 3 tables. (and that's bodog's max number of simultaneous tables, at least for now they say.) Everything was all nice until October, my bankroll had reached $1250 and I thought, OK, let's try NL50. (Yes, I only move up after my bankroll has reached 25 buy-ins instead of 20, feel more comfortable.) I was kinda tired of only playing 3 tables, so I thought, let me try another room, and there I was, back at Party Poker! :tongue: Started playing NL50 there, one table only to get used to it, and then came the first barrier, players at party are better than players at bodog, and I started facing some difficulties. But that's OK, I was not losing, but about breaking even after 2 weeks, and then that day came. October 16th. Tuesday. I had a flu, my face was all red and itching, what I thought was some kind of allergy, I was not feeling well, didn't go to college in the morning and stayed home all ...

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Faye6891 Topic starter

Joined: 09.11.2007

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28.01.2008, 15:49 0

I'm an angry guy with aggression issues...

Or maybe I can never find the call button.

Poker is just like sex: Everybody thinks they are good at it, but only a few know what they are doing.

_Anonymous_

28.01.2008, 15:57 0

Two bad properties if you hope to keep a girlfriend ♦

_Anonymous_

28.01.2008, 16:01 0

Originally posted by SonicXT
Two bad properties if you hope to keep a girlfriend ♦

Haha, that made me laugh.

Faye6891 Topic starter

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28.01.2008, 17:01 0

LOL!!! Good one sonic! ♦

Poker is just like sex: Everybody thinks they are good at it, but only a few know what they are doing.

Faye6891 Topic starter

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05.02.2008, 02:45 0

Well, after rereading some articles I decided to make some adjustments to my PF play and have been playing according to it.

It's been around 3k hands and my winrate is around 12BB/100.
Too bad it's still a small sample size. But I think this strategy has been working fine, I've been taking down a lot of small pots PF and on the flop mostly on bluffs, and still keeping a tight image and getting paid off on quite a few of my big hands.

The only thing that's getting me a little worried is my AF, it's on 6.21 on these 3k hands. Oh, well, I'm gonna play a few more thousand hands and see if it gets me into trouble.

Poker is just like sex: Everybody thinks they are good at it, but only a few know what they are doing.