Quote Originally Posted by Vi-Zer0Skill
My only problem with what i see in your thread is that i can sit at a 100nl 6max or full ring game running fairly good and put together a run 0f 10bbs+ on 15k samples.
You dont seem to run much better than 5-6bbs/100 even at bets which suggests you need to work on post flop play.

Theres little doubt you are a winning player, but at the moment i see you as a numbers grinder rather than a player with a much higher skill level than those you play with.
Maybe its just the games you play in, but even on stars when i run good i run 10bbs/100+ good even versus good players...

I agree that my postflop is average at best. Since Wednesday when i finally signed up at cardrunners.com, i have seen probably a dozen videos and taken 3 or 4 tips away from each one. I have tons of scrap paper all around my desk with new lines and notes on good/bad c-bet flop textures. I hope Massimo doesn't mind me reading his thread after my little fit.

I actually am happy, but not content, that i am a winning player. I recall posting a hand when i first joined where i called 3 streets OOP with A-9 (TPTK) on a monotone flop against an unknown (i didn't have PT or take notes ). Everyone was like, "dude he has a set", and i was like, "no he was bluffing i wuz sure of it" . I think i dropped about 15 buy ins at 100NL before i started to turn it around (no PT to document it, but i know i blew through all the money i won playing SNG's that summer and a lucky cash in the Sunday Million). I feel i have come a long way in the last 7 months (ty FTR).

My table selection has improved dramatically in the last month. I can now find 1-2 fish at any table i am sitting at. I am also actively isolating them now. So hopefully it isn't the games i am sitting in anymore that is hurting my BB/100.

The thing i am most happy about today with poker is that this time, unlike a few weeks ago, i have zero doubt i can win at 200NL.

GL on ur goal to get to 400nl and im sure you will man. I consider myself pretty motivated to become a better poker player and one thing i should definitely work on is taking notes and tips on different things. I have no doubt that with the time you spend digesting videos on cardrunners combined with ur dedication to move up that you will succeed. couple tips I have that I would follow if I was to grind up from 100nl again:

1. Whenever possible combine ur poker playing with clearing a bonus until you have exausted the big deposit bonuses out there. This is just free money.

2. At a certain point I think its important to ask urself whether you want to make an optimal hourly rate or if you want to improve as a poker player. I would say at lower stakes the way to achieve an optimal hourly rate is to play 15/13 to 21/16 poker, usually settling on a 19/17 type area. This is just because many of your opponents aren't using PAHUD and a tight preflop strategy will allow you to add more tables and will somewhat lessen any mistakes you might make postflop because of the strength of your preflop cards. Obviously if you want to learn/experiment take certain days and 3 table at 30/20 as you want to develop your hand reading skills. I just remember that when I was playin 100nl i thought anyone who played under 22/18 was just a huge nit and the worst thing in the world i thought was to be a nit.