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  1. #151
    Just read your latest blog entry and wanted to wish you luck on your move to cash games. I don't think you're going to have too many problems. ABC poker can win at all of the levels I've played (25NL-100NL) and probably beyond. The biggest adjustment I had to make moving from SNGs to ring was being more patient. Without the pressure to accumulate chips created by increasing blinds, most players become nittier and hands like TPTK and two pair lose value. You can still win stacks with these hands but usually not without a read.

    A few other thoughts... 1) I wouldn't play more than four tables to start, less if you aren't comfortable with four yet. Once you are winning and feeling on top of four tables, add one at a time. 2) Use a HUD but still try to take notes and develop reads. It might be hard at first if you're playing more tables than you're used to, but don't give up. Bet-sizing and bet patterns are the most helpful I find. 3) There's some great software in 2+2's software forum to help with multitabling (datamining, bet sizing, table mods, etc.). I'm only playing at Full Tilt right now, but if you end up there, feel free to PM me for links. 4) Practice table and seat selection. Your HUD will help immensely with this. Look for tables with V$PIPs over 25 and don't sit to the right of aggro players. Add bad players to your buddy list and search for them. Stand up if you think a table or your seat has gotten bad.

    When to move up, given that you're overrolled? Tough one to answer. I think it should be about comfort. If you're winning, feel confident, can lose a stack or two and keep playing good poker, I think you can move up with as few as 5000 hands at a given level. The difference between 25NL/50NL/100NL is marginal, in my experience. I think the play gets more aggressive as you move up, c-bets are respected less, there's more playing the player, but there are enough fish at all three levels to make them profitable.

    Where to play? I can't answer this one as I'm only playing at Full Tilt right now. It's rockier and taggier than Party was, but on the weekends there are plenty of aggro donks and loose passive fish. That answers when to play too.

    Good luck and keep us updated on your progress
  2. #152
    zook, thanks so much for taking the time to write that, I really appreciate it. That's all really helpful advice, I'll keep it in mind when I start up.

    I'm going to start with two tables and go up from there. And I'll keep you in mind if I do decide to go to FT (which sounds like a good idea), thanks muchly

    P.S. Your avatar makes me laugh every time. Are you a golf fan?
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  3. #153
    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    And I'll keep you in mind if I do decide to go to FT (which sounds like a good idea), thanks muchly
    Since you live in a country with a rational government, there might be softer sites out there for you. I've heard Ongame (I think it includes PokerRoom, Hollywood and some others) is really soft and has good bonuses. I've also heard Party is still pretty soft, although probably not during peak American hours. That could be a good thing... play sites with lots of euro traffic during the day (their night) and sites with more American traffic at night. I dunno. I'm really shouldn't be giving advice about this since I'm in the US and only play at one site right now

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    Thanks. I'm not really a golf fan, I just love that photo. I can't believe they ran it on espn.com.
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  4. #154
    3$/hr.

    psst play pot limit 25 full ring @ ongame during the peak hours (north american afternoons). Your win rate will triple. Plus there are infinite great bonuses to play for. Stars you hardly clear any bonus, and the players are better on avg.

    A tip on 8 tabling @ ongame, join 4 tables, then join a lot of waitlists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TerryToma
    psst play pot limit 25 full ring @ ongame during the peak hours (north american afternoons). A tip on 8 tabling @ ongame, join 4 tables, then join a lot of waitlists.
    I haven't played since the americans left, but this game used to be super juicy. Damn software slows my computer down too much though - I can't get more than 4 tables running.

    (edit - courtie : Pot limit is much juicier on stars too, and there are loads of tables at peak hours, most of them running 35-45%.)
  6. #156
    Okay, definitely gonna go to Ongame since you've recommended it several times already. I shall follow you there!

    What do I need to know to play PL?
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    nothing, because you should almost never be overbetting the pot in nl
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    nice hands. that kqo hand was awful.. fold that preflop. the flopped nut flush you need to bet somewhere on the flop, build that pot baby!

    good job so far, just by being +$$ thats commendable. win rate isnt to shabby either.. just keep building up the # of tables as you feel comfortable. at this point i bet you are dreaming about poker.

    keep up the good work.
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    Haha yeah I played both hands terribly! Especially the KQo hand. I can assure you that I'll be folding that preflop every single time from now on

    Definitely dreaming about poker, it's getting to the "Argh I can't take this anymore!!!" point. Ran really badly last night, and I got way more affected than I should have. Time to take a break ...
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    play more and post hands. Everyone who says "all you need to beat 25nl is a pulse" is kidding himself. You need a fairly solid game to be a big winner even at these stakes.

    My roommate has been playing 25nl for months and still is grinding his wheels, having only made like 300 dollars in tens of thousands of hands.
  11. #161
    I definitely need to play more. Or ... in my case right now, start playing again

    I'm gonna write a strict school/poker schedule today. Finals are coming and I need to start having some discipline again with this poker stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred
    Bars tonight?
    I invited you to go clubbing with me tonight, remember?
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    Well ... yeah! So see you there?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigred
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    bigred, why do you go to sleep so early
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  19. #169
    please don't give up! You haven't come this far to be beat by a NL25 cash game.

    I'm still rooting for you
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    bigred, why do you go to sleep so early
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    court aim me if you need help. Im currently helping my roommate beat 25nl, so im actually quite familiar with the way the 25nl games are played.

    Basically, the games play pretty passively. Since passive = "doesn't raise without a very big hand", this means you have to actually lay down some fairly big hands on occasion in order to be a big winner. It also means that you'll need to be checking some rivers with marginal-ish hands like top pair, because often times they will smoothcall to the river with a set or two pair.

    Also, as another result of the games being passive, you'll have a hard time getting paid off on hands. This is because they aren't aggressive enough to put in a raise with the second best hand. The 100bb format of the cash game suggests that even in a raised pot, in order to get all in without overbetting the pot, your opponent needs to put in a raise somewhere. The fact that they aren't putting in that raise means that you'll be making a lot of river value bets with huge hands, instead of getting all in and stacking people.
  22. #172
    Quote Originally Posted by salsa4ever
    please don't give up! You haven't come this far to be beat by a NL25 cash game.

    I'm still rooting for you
    Aw thanks ... I haven't given up, I just need to force myself to get playing again.

    Quote Originally Posted by Renton
    court aim me if you need help. Im currently helping my roommate beat 25nl, so im actually quite familiar with the way the 25nl games are played.

    Basically, the games play pretty passively. Since passive = "doesn't raise without a very big hand", this means you have to actually lay down some fairly big hands on occasion in order to be a big winner. It also means that you'll need to be checking some rivers with marginal-ish hands like top pair, because often times they will smoothcall to the river with a set or two pair.

    Also, as another result of the games being passive, you'll have a hard time getting paid off on hands. This is because they aren't aggressive enough to put in a raise with the second best hand. The 100bb format of the cash game suggests that even in a raised pot, in order to get all in without overbetting the pot, your opponent needs to put in a raise somewhere. The fact that they aren't putting in that raise means that you'll be making a lot of river value bets with huge hands, instead of getting all in and stacking people.
    Thank you for that, Renton, very helpful. How do $50NL games compare with what you just told me about $25NL?

    When I was playing $25NL on Stars, I was playing 3 or 4 tables at a time just because it was so boring to play less and I figured I should just work on learning to play cards and position. After running badly and probably playing badly (and subsequently losing it), I decided to try something different. Today (first time I've played cash in over a week) I decided to play just one table and watch every single hand. Make some reads, figure out how certain people play, make more thought out decisions. I absolutely couldn't do this at $25NL though, the money is too meaningless to me at that buyin, so $50NL it was. IT WAS SOOO BORING. That's really all there is to describe it, haha. I dunno ... maybe I'll do it again tomorrow.

    Thanks for your offer to help, I might take you up on it sometime
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    hey courtie, you should make a post in your blog about how I gave you $20 on stars for your birthday. make sure it has it's own post and that you tell the world how awesome I am, thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
    hey courtie, you should make a post in your blog about how I gave you $20 on stars for your birthday. make sure it has it's own post and that you tell the world how awesome I am, thanks.
    oh ... uh ... you're welcome?
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  25. #175
    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
    hey courtie, you should make a post in your blog about how I gave you $20 on stars for your birthday. make sure it has it's own post and that you tell the world how awesome I am, thanks.
    oh ... uh ... you're welcome?
    I'd send it back. Small price to pay to keep him from reminding you about it all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warpe
    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    Quote Originally Posted by Lukie
    hey courtie, you should make a post in your blog about how I gave you $20 on stars for your birthday. make sure it has it's own post and that you tell the world how awesome I am, thanks.
    oh ... uh ... you're welcome?
    I'd send it back. Small price to pay to keep him from reminding you about it all the time.
    I admit that you make a good point here ... lol
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    That's a hell of an update.

    I think playing x number of hands at a level before moving up is a silly idea. Not that I know from experience, but if you're over-rolled for 100NL, and expect to be a break-even or only moderately loosing player while you're learning then you're fine.

    I've run into the same problem as you at 50NL. Sets get no action, folds on the AA/KK. I even opened up my pre-flop game to Laggy with no benefit (although I would get slaughtered playing 100NL that way). I think you just need to play through it, even though there is no motivation to play when you're not winning money (especially since we don't know that we're winning players because of the small sample size ).

    I need to make a similar post because I'm pretty much going through the same thing right now. Also, it's hard to build a roll and have money to live while you're learning the game at a higher level.

    It sucks to hear you dropped your classes, especially when you're so close to graduating. I really hope you go back and finish when things settle down. FWIW, I'm tutoring math now cuz poker by itself wasn't cutting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrhappy333
    coutibee wrote"out of town from jan 29 to feb 8 in eastern usa "

    I live in Eastern USA, where you headed? I'm in CT
    I think PA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swiggidy
    That's a hell of an update.

    I think playing x number of hands at a level before moving up is a silly idea. Not that I know from experience, but if you're over-rolled for 100NL, and expect to be a break-even or only moderately loosing player while you're learning then you're fine.

    I've run into the same problem as you at 50NL. Sets get no action, folds on the AA/KK. I even opened up my pre-flop game to Laggy with no benefit (although I would get slaughtered playing 100NL that way). I think you just need to play through it, even though there is no motivation to play when you're not winning money (especially since we don't know that we're winning players because of the small sample size ).

    I need to make a similar post because I'm pretty much going through the same thing right now. Also, it's hard to build a roll and have money to live while you're learning the game at a higher level.

    It sucks to hear you dropped your classes, especially when you're so close to graduating. I really hope you go back and finish when things settle down. FWIW, I'm tutoring math now cuz poker by itself wasn't cutting it.
    Thanks for your thoughts

    I agree with you when about the # of hands thing. I don't mind being break even at 100NL after 6k hands. Yeah I'd obviously have preferred to make money, but I'm learning a lot and learning for free, so how can I complain?

    You should definitely make a post in your blog about this type of thing. It helps put things in perspective. And it'll give me something to read when I get bored!

    I'm pretty sure that I'll be going back to school this September. Hopefully I'm a bit more financially stable and I'm excited to go back because I'm sick of working all the time. Just one more year ...

    I tutor ninth grade Science What levels of math are you tutoring? Are you tutoring a lot of people? Where did you find the students? I dunno why I'm asking these questions, lol. I'm talking to you on AIM as I write this too, so now I feel even stupider.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrhappy333
    coutibee wrote"out of town from jan 29 to feb 8 in eastern usa "

    I live in Eastern USA, where you headed? I'm in CT
    I think PA.
    yup! It's colder here than it's EVER been in Vancouver since I've lived there. At least from what I can remember. I left sunny Vancouver for snowy Lansford/Philly
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  32. #182
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    Dunno if you'll ever read this ... but what?? You confuse me so ...

    Quote Originally Posted by Eupho
    Dropping your classes was a very bad idea, courtie. Especially so close to graduating. Statistics show youre very unlikely to ever finish now, and if you dont, youve wasted a lot of time and money. 8 credits? Jesus, you could be done next semester!
    You're right, euph ... I shouldn't have done it. My business consultant (aka friend I pay for 'advice', haha sounds so retarded) told me I shouldn't ... my best friend told me I shouldn't ... but I dunno. In the end, I just couldn't keep going to school. I hate it that much.

    Even if I did regret it now, it's too late. All I can do is work really hard this summer and hope that I really miss school and wanna go back really badly because I'm sick of work. I'm confident that I'll finish my degree, just gotta go back in September. It's actually 8 courses, not 8 credits ... but yeah, I can be done after two semesters for classes
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    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    I tutor ninth grade Science What levels of math are you tutoring? Are you tutoring a lot of people? Where did you find the students? I dunno why I'm asking these questions, lol. I'm talking to you on AIM as I write this too, so now I feel even stupider.
    haha

    It's with the student athlete support services. I'm not supposed to say who I tutor, but it's mostly freshmen, so no one of note (yet). Since I don't have class or a job I work around 30 hours a week. I have about 10 students I see once a week, and about 10 I see twice a week (hour at a time). They basically get assigned so I don't have to worry about finding people, or collecting money. I can do most maths (except for the crazy proof stuff) and stats. Most of them are taking algebra 2/pre-calc, or something in the calc I, II, III, IV sequence (we're on quarters here).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Triptan3s
    you're down like 2k in tournies, stop?
    lol maybe i should? i like them though ...

    in my lifetime overall i'm not down in tourneys, i've won some live. but yeah, online my mtt track record is fucking terrible.
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    what's a bad attitude?
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    despite my severe lack of confidence at this very moment, i'm fine with someone telling me "you suck at tournaments, maybe you should stop" if it has some merit. i don't know. i don't think i'm playing badly and someone has been semi watching me from the start, but maybe i'm missing something.

    i haven't even read all of the hoh books. i've read book one but only part of book two. so obv that means i don't know how to play tourneys ... !!!

    but yeah. if i don't know tourneys, what the f do i know? sure as hell not cash games. so all this time i've been pretending i know how to play poker but really i know shit

    haha maybe i'll go back to playing $55 sngs on stars. but since stars is impossible right now, i'm sure $55s were as hard as the $22s are now and i'll end up playing $11s.
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    Hey courtie,

    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    the money isn't significant for me unless I play 100NL, but I definitely cannot be playing that right now. At least not on Stars, it's way too hard for me. So therefore I should be switching sites to play the game somewhere else, but I am still so reluctant to do so because I'm in love with the Stars interface. This is so retarded
    It's not retarded - the feel of a site is a real comfort blanket in a game whose very essence is rooted in uncertainty. And there is a real sense of displacement and "wrongness" when you start somewhere new - your brain notices all the differences, you get annoyed at any relative lack of functionality, and even minute differences in speed, placement of virtual chips etc. is much more unsettling than by rights it should be.

    This tends to be exacerbated when you start off at a new site by losing - you're more likely to get angry or tilty, and blame the interface or the players or whatever. So when you do move - and it sounds like you should, if only to get out of this rut - you need to have double the discipline and concentration, at least until it becomes normal.

    Once you get a few winning sessions under your belt - and if this happens immediately after a move it's amazing how much of a psychological difference it can make - you'll be fine wherever you are. The key thing here is that you do something to force you out of your current unsatisfactory situation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by biondino
    Hey courtie,

    Quote Originally Posted by donkbee
    the money isn't significant for me unless I play 100NL, but I definitely cannot be playing that right now. At least not on Stars, it's way too hard for me. So therefore I should be switching sites to play the game somewhere else, but I am still so reluctant to do so because I'm in love with the Stars interface. This is so retarded
    It's not retarded - the feel of a site is a real comfort blanket in a game whose very essence is rooted in uncertainty. And there is a real sense of displacement and "wrongness" when you start somewhere new - your brain notices all the differences, you get annoyed at any relative lack of functionality, and even minute differences in speed, placement of virtual chips etc. is much more unsettling than by rights it should be.

    This tends to be exacerbated when you start off at a new site by losing - you're more likely to get angry or tilty, and blame the interface or the players or whatever. So when you do move - and it sounds like you should, if only to get out of this rut - you need to have double the discipline and concentration, at least until it becomes normal.

    Once you get a few winning sessions under your belt - and if this happens immediately after a move it's amazing how much of a psychological difference it can make - you'll be fine wherever you are. The key thing here is that you do something to force you out of your current unsatisfactory situation.
    biondino, thanks very much for writing this. What you say makes a lot of sense, and I definitely understand what you're saying. I guess this is just a human nature type of thing that I need to overcome, and then it will be alright. Saying that increased discipline and concentration are necessary makes perfect sense.

    And you're right, I def need to get out of Stars to help get myself out of this "rut".
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    You're not listening to me, courtie. $100nl on Party is incredibly soft.
  44. #194
    Is it softer than tribeca or ongame?
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  45. #195
    I couldn't tell you since I've never played those rooms.
  46. #196
    I'm leaning towards PP only because it has resizable windows and I'm spoiled by that playing on Stars.

    Have you tried AP, warpe?
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  47. #197
    Yeah, I've tried AP but I hate their interface plus there's so many short buys playing it's ridiculous sometimes.
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    They keep checking for the thong pick.
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    Quote Originally Posted by euphoricism
    AP is shortstack central because the "default" buyin is like 35bb.
    Ew I didn't know that. Isn't the max buyin 200bb too?

    Quote Originally Posted by swiggidy
    your comment thread has 13k views, wow
    That's a big number. Maybe I'll go see how many views Lukie's thread of randomness got and make it my goal to beat it ...



    Quote Originally Posted by Trainer_jyms
    They keep checking for the thong pick.
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    P.S. swiggidy, you have the best avatar on FTR.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fnord View Post
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  53. #203
    Quote Originally Posted by gabe View Post
    http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=164800
    I really wanna know what this post was. I also kind of want to know what my old blog said, but not as badly.

    Quote Originally Posted by gabe View Post
    it seems inevitable you move to cash games
    oops
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    yeah I had too much time on my hands tonight. But it was a very entertaining read for me (and almost certainly won't be even 20% as entertaining for anyone else reading this)
    Quote Originally Posted by Fnord View Post
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