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jasper5408 United States. Aug 04 2009 00:39. Posts 820

so i only played about 20 hours last month mainly due to exams and studying for finals, but this month i plan to put in a lot more hours.

i went through a little crisis because i thought i was thinking well and playing well, but it didn't seem very high level of thinking. anyway after really re accessing my game, i feel like i do in fact play well, and that i shouldn't have been so quick to doubt my play. that being said i'm sure i have plenty of leaks and that i should look to increase my winrate.

i have 500 on stars and now 500 on ftp. most of my time went to ftp, as i had to build up my bankroll there from about 250. therefore my goals for this month...

just 1K rolls on both sites, i think this should be an ok task, and i do feel confident in my ability to reach these goals. these are pretty much my only goals. i prob won't check back at these forums (which i <3) until my goal is accomplished.

a friend asked me to help him out on poker, as he took up the game so i decided to just copy/paste the advice that i game him.

1) don't bluff
2) seriously, why are you bluffing? when your 2 main opponents are either nits who play AA KK and calling stations who call with any piece of the board why are you bluffing? keeping your triple-barrel bluffing frequency low is probably an easy fix to easily one of the biggest spews/leaks in your game.
3) by the same logic, bet pot or close to pot for value. there is no need to ever ever ever make some high level multi street slow play at these stakes (unless you flop the nuts and crush the deck). For a while the only thing TT posted was "bet flop, bet bigger on turn, and shove river." when calling stations are calling try and bet 3 streets for value. checking the flop is retarded, they probably love to call with draws on the flop, and they only like to call draws on the turn.
4) you don't need a fancy program at these limits. if you can not tell who is a calling station and who is a nit within 2 orbits, you probably should play fewer tables.
5) try and stay within your limits as your bankroll is extremely vulnerable to swings. when you start out with 50 measly dollars, i think decent players will be able to play .02/.05 easy even though that's only 10 buy ins. in my opinion, playing tournaments is the fastest way to grow your bank roll, but only if you are a competent player (which you probably are not yet). Which leaves you .01/.02 where you will painfully grind out a miserable hourly rate.
6) poker will suck, try and shoot for a daily profit of 5 dollars with a 2 hour cap. if it takes you 15 minutes, just go ahead and call it a day. if it takes you 2 hours likewise call it a day. aftter 2 hours of playing in general, your game will start to delcine. so just get up and go. also in general, if you get sucked out you should probably just call it a day :/
7) if you play one month this way you will have 200 dollars. you can now move to .05/.1 and double your win-rate. try and have around 20 buy ins for the stakes you are playing. at 30 buy ins i think taking a shot at a higher limit is almost mandatory at these limits. if you lose a buy in, then just go bak and play your normal limits and wait for 30 buy ins and proceed to take another shot.
8) Try and always think and see the grand scheme of things, instead of memorizing stupid ass/complicated lines. Memorizing lines is analogous to memorizing a build order from a sc replay past the 10 minute mark. obviously the bo is a good starting point, but there is going to be diverging strategies to counter/adapt the opponent. likewise use different lines that you think will be most unsettling to your opponent.
9) be careful what advice you read. lots of advice is probably way above you, and although it is a good thing to always seek and process new information, some concepts are quite frankly way above you. concepts such as "meta game" and "balancing ranges" should not even be considered (imo) until you reach 2/4.
10) i believe ftp emailed me a bit of phil ivey's advice (who is probably the only ftp pro worth listening too, especially after they started a retarded ftp academy) which plainly states, "When it comes to advice about poker, my attitude is very simple: seek it out, absorb it, but while you're at the table, forget it." which you can read more at http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/pro-tip/PhilIvey/125

and finally read these

http://www.liquidpoker.net/pokerarticles/
where it says "beginners,"
NOT the "experienced" and definitely NOT the articles with the words "advanced fundamentals," "blocking bet," "min-raise"

and then even more finally google "phil galfond articles" and reread those every time you successfuly move up a limit.

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