The beginning again.

The day that Rush poker came out I moved from .02/.05 nl to .05/.10 in order to be able to play (with a BR of 140$)

As you can guess it started well until I got the infamous doomswitch, my first ever, actually. Ironically I only started running really bad when my play improved.

Both Pride and the unavailability of lower limit Rush games proceeded to drive me Busto. I always thought the doomswitch was about to end, because how could it go on longer? (a really tilted way of thinking).

HOWEVER, I'm surprisingly happy with the past few days. Sure, I lost my roll, but I have more than 10K hands worth of rake coming in, so I should be able to start micro stakes again.

I think I've improved more in the past few days than I have since the day I began poker. The ability to play so many hands and therefore learn faster has allowed me to drastically reduce my spew and realize how much of an emotional, impatient fish I am (Was!).

My leaks:

I was constantly trying to bluff micro stakes fish,trying to steal the pot whenever my hand didn't connect with the flop, ignoring the fact that it was unprofitable because it felt so good to successfully steal/bluff.

I couldn't put down TPTK unless the flop was super fag, and I played small PPs badly.


Now I'll have a workable roll to begin micro stakes (along with the 3400 FTPs I have no idea what to do with). I will start again, playing solid, patient poker.

Wish me luck.

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After playing 2500+ hands and break even yesterday I have some questions to ask, I'd really appreciate the help.

How many tables should I play? I play four now but I don't really know what's happening on all of them all the time. I can't really get reads on the players' skill levels because I can't watch everybody all the time.

What is the optimal strategy to beat NL5? What software should I get?

I'm starting day 2 now with the help of some advice from Etherone.

Update: Here is the graph.

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I'm an 18 year old student attending my first year of uni at an arts school, right now I'm grinding 6 tables of nl .1/.2 (kinda card-dead right now). I made about 2 mill in play chips before I decided to "borrow" my parents' credit card to deposit 50$ last night(if you want some il sell u 2mill for 7$).

The donkness of high play money and micro stakes seem to match. I'm following Jelle's guide on super-tight play (like folding AJ utg)and it seems to be working, I'm a bit bored being in robot mode since there's no point to analyze peoples play, most are terrible (although I can recognize when certain players have some semblance of strategy).

I have a question concerning turn play, I seem to have trouble getting max value from people, should i bet turn even if there are no draws?

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