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Old 02-05-2006, 06:50 PM     Post subject: CodeRed's Rules #1 (permalink)  
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 Rule Number 1:

Don't berate people at the table that suck. I don't care if they just runner runnered your Aces with 72o and is laughing at you, you don't say anything. There are only two things I say at the table:

-"nh" after I either just got pwned or he has a royal/straight flush; those deserve it
-after I suckout I'll say: "want fries with that" if they are berating me for my play

HOWEVER, there is an exception to this rule. That is, if one player is making fun/berating the play of an even worse player (like the only reason you are at the table is because an 80/20 is on your right), then I will make fun of the first player to get his attention off the fish. I will do this by saying "you suck xxxx" or "you're the worse player at the table" and if he asks for an example just spout off a recent hand he played and say it was bad, eevn if it wasn't. Also, call him a "jackass."

I'm real tired of other people getting rid of my fish because they have tilt issues.

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Old 02-05-2006, 07:01 PM #2 (permalink)  
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 Rule Number 2:

Play as many hands as possible with appropriate seat and table selection no matter how much you have won or loss. Even this is hard for me sometimes.

Everyone knows that you can't win money without playing hands; yet people still expect to make money without putting in the hard work. If you win 50 BB in 500 hands, congratulations! But, guess what? You are going to lose it back anyway. Why? Because the amount of money you win directly relates to the number of hands you play, not how much you take home at the end of each night.

If you are one of the lucky people that can make 3 BB/100, then if you make 50 BB in 500 hands, guess how many hands you are going to have to play before you will theoretically make any money? 1200. Sure, you can play the 1200 later, but why not now? You will only gain when you play more hands.

Thus, after having an ungodly run of limit where you win like 150 BB in 2000 hands or something, expect to lose. Embrace it, its variance. And stop telling me your bad beats because at that point, you deserve it.

There are only two reason why you should stop playing in a night:

-The tables are bad
-You can no longer play your best


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Old 02-25-2006, 05:14 PM #3 (permalink)  
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 Rule #3: Plus ça Change

The more things change, the more they stay the same


I remember back when I first started playing LHE, .25/.5 on Poker Stars in September of 2004, that Poker Stars was a weak/tight site. The Limit games there were hardly anything to happy about. Times change, and we must learn to cope with the change.

Poker games have changed, are changing, and will continue to change in the future. We must be willing to accept these changes. The 3/6 full game was rocktastic a long time ago, then it was a fish fest and now its back to being filled with rocks. Nehmer posted the other day on how he has played 300,000 hands of 3/6 full ring over the last six months, averaging over 2 BB/100. Congratulations, you just wasted 5 months of your time. In my opinion he should have moved to 5/10 6 max 5 months ago and he'd be beating 10/20 or higher right now. His inability to change to where the poorest players are has set him back months, I just hope he moves soon.

I've had to change the limits I play as well. After my first ever 500 BB downswing stretching from 30/60 to 15/30, I had to regroup and get my own confidence back. I've made mistakes in there that only now I am regrouping from. The 15/30 game no longer is as juicy as it was when I first played it back in July of 2005. I struggled to get any hands in with good table conditions so I have moved to 10/20 6 max for the time being. Since they have added 20/40 6 max and more 15/30 6 max tables, there is no reason to play a full ring game online. At one point, 6 max games were hard to find. Party only had 1/2 and 5/10 6 max and at that point, the 10/20 6 max game was a rockfest. Things have changed.

I guess this rule of mine hasn't been defined yet. So I will do it now. Be able to change with the games. If your goal is be a professional poker player, then you cant be stubborn. If the idiots are playing Omaha hi/lo, learn Omaha hi/lo. If the games on Poker Stars aren't that good, go to Party Poker. If Party isn't any good, there are only 200 poker sites out there that I'm sure you can find a good game at. If you aren't willing to learn a new game or switch to a new site, then you are in the wrong profession.

I've received several PMs from people asking me what and where is the best place to get started in Limit. My answer has not changed the past 5 months, and thats get into 6 max. But, that doesn't mean my answer wont change in the next 5 months.

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 Rule #4: Make only the same mistake once.

Sklansky says in many of his poker books how much we underestimate the cost of each mistake we make. Although he's refering to live games where theres a lot less hands played per hour and even 1 BB worth of mistakes per hour can mean you break even, his logic applies to online play as well.

I've always been a proponent of "perfect poker;" playing my best both post flop and preflop but sometimes I make mistakes. Mistakes come in many forms, whether that is missing a bet, folding, calling down, sitting in the wrong seat, on the wrong table or even in the wrong game. I continually strive to limit the number of mistakes I make at all times. I'm very proud to say I'm playing in the right game, at the right tables and in the right seats; which ironically is probably the easiest thing to do that effects your winrate that many people do not take advantage of.

But I can't be afraid to make mistakes either, because then we change our game. If I get afraid to make mistakes (we all do) then I start losing my 'edge' as a player, otherwise referred to as my instincts that many professionals consider the "it" factor. Sometimes you just get that feeling that your opponent doesn't have shit and so you continue to bet into him, even if he raises you on every street you don't believe him. It is when you start bringing in the chips that you reaffirm your mental edge.

One mistake that I don't make is folding; as most people know that if I have any reasonable chance to win a pot HU then I'm looking it up. I believe people underestimate how many stupid players are out there and how often even your marginal holdings are better than you think they are. I've been known on several occasions to run greater than 40% went to showdown and win over 50% over 1000 hand blocks.

So in conclusion, don't feel bad if you made a wrong read. Pick yourself up, realize where you went wrong and learn from your mistakes. Have the balance between thought and intuition, if you make a mistake, so what? Learn from it and move on as poker is just a game.


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 Rule #5: There is always room for improvement

It has been a long time since I posted one of these, but I think the time is right. When I created the last post, I just got through an awesome march, but I spent most of April breaking even as I frantically made adjustments to my play. It wasn't until May and June did I really perfect my own play and I had a very nice stretch of hands where I ran and played perfectly.

Now it is August, school will be starting soon and one thing I've learned this summer is that even 2000 hands a day is hardly enough to make it as a professional poker player. I played 55000 hands in July and I am very proud of it as a Professional Poker player, but I also stopped improving my own game. Hence, this is what I am doing before I make the jump once again to the high limit games.

Don't think that you play perfectly or that the only reason why you are losing is because you are running bad; because it is not. Sure, I go through days where every river gets raised when I value bet and everytime I check behind I lose a bet. Shit happens. But I've always kept my head straight and realized what I did wrong, even if I don't fix it until later. Professionals in every sport go through periods where they aren't playing well, and poker professionals are not excluded. It is how long it takes before we make the adjustment that seperates the truly good poker players from the merely average ones.

If you continue to do the same thing and realize you are losing, then change it; there is nothing wrong with that. I already mentioned in another rule you can't be afraid to make a mistake, and if you are already losing doing that play then what is the harm in changing? Back in May I was playing perfect blind play, but I had a problem with my lower pocket pairs. Seems like my biggest loser for two months were 55, 66, and 77. And, its not from 3 betting most opponents either, its all postflop. Fnord made a comment on a hand history of mine over a year ago that still applies today, and ironically it was about pocket pairs. The one single secret that corrected my mid-pair play from big loser to winner, was folding to a raise on the flop instead of calling and folding the turn.

So, I've gone on enough on how I was able to improve my game by just simply making an adjustment, and you can improve yours as well. However, most people don't even know what is wrong or why it is wrong when they look at Poker Tracker. Well, here is a secret, if it is in the red, you are probably doing something wrong. Blind play is huge in 6 max play, if you consistently have blinds higher than -.15 and -.07, then there is an improvement you can make. Are you too tight, too loose, don't defend enough, defend too much or think everyone is bluffing? Well, thats where the real skill is.

I will leave this thread with the saying: "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for today; if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." Poker is the same way. If I tell you what is wrong you'll fix it today, but if you learn how to find out what is wrong, then you will be able to fix things you never knew what was wrong.


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