Quote Originally Posted by sauce123
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.

Not surprisingly, hearing words of encouragement from a good poker player is nice. Thank you for dropping by sauce!


I am currently working on clearing a bonus on Ultimate Bet. I imagine this is going to take me a while, though in the meantime it certainly wouldn't hurt to create a plan of action for clearing these bonuses.

In regards to the # of tables i am usually running, i have cut down from 6-8 to 2-4 for a while now and probably will continue with that for 1-2 more months. I have already discovered whole new methods of gaining value and minimizing spew since i cut down the number of tables. This is probably affecting my total profit only slightly, since i am playing so much better now that i am focusing more on the actions i am making.

Now that i am actually thinking about it, i do spend a lot more time focusing on making money than experimenting with my game. I play TAG and have not deviated from that strategy in an effort to learn something. I really am at a loss for how to begin playing an effective LAG game. The next time i play i will make it a point to play 300-500 hands much looser than usual and see how things go.