Things that grind my gears.

To elucidate, if I lost my entire bankroll and had to start again, I would use whatever resources available to skip microstakes and go to NL50+. This is not feasible for most because I already have the experience (read: tilt control) and play ability, but microstakes is a waste of time, both in learning and profit made. If I were to teach someone from scratch, I would only throw them in microstakes long enough so that they fully grasp the concepts of the game, then quickly move them up (even if he/she were just still learning). If you were to teach someone powerful poker, would you have them grind 100k hands of nl10/25? Are you someone powerful?

If I lost my bankroll AND my poker ability, I would leave poker. That's my 2 cents to answer the "hi I'm new to poker what can I do to master it?" posts.

lol what's with the chip on your shoulder.

sometimes posting that brutal 2 outer for a 500 bb pot in the hands section is a much better alternative than punting away another couple stacks due to tilt as a result of the hand.

Although I do agree with you about the whine blogs, some people post wayyy too much whine about minimal downswings and haven't experienced true hell yet. Although I'm guilty of posting whine blogs myself (was pretty dark times for me). But hell better to do that then go life tilt hardcore.

1. agree
2. is fine? as long as its not the only hands u post
3. what a joke. micros are lol easy, and to say otherwise is retarded

i don't think 1 is correct, higher winrate does not = lower variance. over the course of 100k hands running at 1ptbb/100 when you should be running at 3ptbb/100 is technically no different than running at -2ptbb/100 instead of breakeven. one just feels a whole hell of a lot worse than the other

but entirely agreed on #3, NL25 is really a blackhole because rake absolutely kills you, especially if you're new and don't have good rakeback or aren't a very good player yet.

Well the variance itself will be mostly consistent based on your playstyle, but relative to the amount you win it's much smaller.

how about ppl who are winners in poker but post blogs begging for free coaching

If you think micros should ke skipped, where do you think one should start ? NL50, NL100, NL200 ? As high as possible ?

On January 07 2011 05:01 By.Elite wrote: If you think micros should ke skipped, where do you think one should start ? NL50, NL100, NL200 ? As high as possible ?

Go from NL 5k and take it from there.

Just being curious... If he thinks there's no real learning to be done at NL25 then where does the learning starts ?

micros are still easy, its the rake thats a motherfucker

my problem with this post is that there's a small handful of mid-high stakes regs like talentedtom and heroes)engage who regularly give good advice. so this rant coming from mr. "i can give you good answers to these questions for x amount of $$" seems a little silly. i guess it's your perogative to post what you want in your blog, but that's my opinion.

I at least try to make my bitching interesting.

wow, do you feel cool now creating this blog? Lol, at trying to go out your way to look for a pat on the back.

On January 06 2011 23:55 exalted wrote: Obviously, I would be a dumbass if I said microstakes were "hard", being a NL400 reg.

Thinly veiled brag?

I guess its already well known but you're a massive cunt

I don't get where is all the hate coming from?

Micros are easy if you are not a micro player,80% of players are regs at NL50 100bb 6Max tables at Stars and you need to beat them for 4bb/100 to just break even. Its easy if you drop down guys, but I am one of them with similar flaws and it really isn't that easy.

lololol

just so you know, i find blogs complaining about people's run bad blogs far more annoying than their blogs.