MrConceit

When you blow it off in a few days are you playing at the same level limit or do you move up to try earn it back? But it's mainly just something you're gonna have to adjust to I'd think. That the money and chips online are as real as live play, even if it isn't as much fun as the live play, .I don't often cash out too much money because I'm in the building the bankroll stage, I only take out money when I absolutely need it. I guess it depends what your playing online is for. Is it to build up for higher stuff online, or just to have fun and try to earn a little side cash while doing so.If

Yeah, losing to runner runner stuff like that is horrid. Although yours were allin preflop, so it isn't quite what I'm used to in terms of thinking of a runner runner where they have to call on both streets. Though your guys would have in any limit game anyway, they wouldn't have known you had a set. I've had plenty of hands like that, but never in as quick succession as you had them, that utterly sucks.I can remembe 2 off the top of my head if we're swapping.Someone raises in early I 3bet with TT. Flop was AT6. I'm in heaven, pretty sure she has AK or AQ. She gives me huge action never

While I agree with your cautionary post 100 percent, I think a lot of your premises are way way offbase. I think it's far harder to try to turn pro purely off the tournament circuit. That's a far far more difficult road for all that it's all over TV and that's what people see and brought them to poker. If you know much about Daniel (since he's why half of us ever came to this site or this forum over RPG or 2+2), he played in cash games for forever before ever playing in tourneys. Big cashes in tournaments can take forever. What is one to do in the meantime between a big cash?Next, the or

His point is utterly valid, all joking aside. The typical Partypoker person will never play flopped trips fast, ever. And they don't believe you ever would either. And if your table is LAGy it works even better. I had a hand yesterday in 15/30 in BB where I flopped trips with 86o. I saw the flop for free. The flop was 636. I bet, got raised (now quite often the play here is to flat call at that point, sometimes referred to as a stop'n'go), I 3bet he called. Turn was a 3, which is perfect. I mean sure he could have the case 6 but I didn't think so, and now even if he does I'm not outki

Oh you're in Chicago? So am I. I haven't checked them all out yet, but Aurora and Joliet have poker rooms in casinos. I _have_ checked out Trump Casino in Gary Indiana, which isn't a far drive depending on where you're at. It has a great poker room. I've played in the 3/6 there, because most of my money is online haha, plus the friend I was with only wanted to play that. I played there twice, once losing solidly (first time I'd ever played a low limit live for a length of time, before that I played like 6/12 as my lowest in vegas, and not much of that), and the second time winning 300 b

I agree with you on this, but I don't find it difficult to tell which guys I think are attractive and not. Most (american) males are afraid to even CONSIDER that thought in their mind because they would never want to be gay, or thought of as gay. Even ones that weren't strictly brought up in a religion that says homosexuality is wrong. My ex-gf and I used to comment on people of both sexes we passed as far as activeness. I don't see it as a big deal. But most guys seem to. *shrug*Now opinions about cute/attractive can differ, but that's the same with 3 guys talking about a woman.For the

Well, I'm actually more like you in a way, if you're referring to "Sessions" as time at a table. I play 15/30 doing 2-3 tables at a time and I'm always in search of better tables. It's not just higher pot averages, that's just the easiest to go off of. I'll quite often sit at a table, take a dead blind (or whatever it's called) in CO and decide by the time my BB comes around that the table sucks (by my standards) and leave. In a typical 5 hour session I will have played on 16-24 tables on average. That's with say doing 1.5 tables a time on average. And my average time at a table is only

First are you wishing wanting to try more online or more B&M live or both?I'm much more knowledgable on the limit cash games online, but I've done some tourneys and NL/PL ring also. Though I've made a couple other final tables my only "big cash" was in a 20+2 buyin multi where I won 2.4k. I've only played live like 5-6 times total ever, so others will have to give you more exacts on that. First, the most important thing, is to make sure you are playing within your bankroll. If you have a good job and are doing this more for fun it isn't as important because you can just take another 10

I've read a number of your posts and you're pretty knowledgable from all I can see justblaze, but what do you mean with the not forced to show online? PartyPoker (and any poker site I've looked at) always shows in hand histories if it went to showdown. You can look on Party just by clicking on the thing, even it if "mucked" during the actual hand in showdown. I heard they do this to be in with the "a player is able to request to see a hand if it goes to showdown" blah blah, and it's just easier to make it there in hand histories. I always check hand histories to see what people play and ho

I just had to comment on this. First let me say I'm sure at some point the higher limit players do get largely filled with MOSTLY good players, but 3/6 isn't it, and 15/30 where I play mostly isn't it on party. There are more horrid players in 15/30 than you would believe. Now don't get me wrong, they're really tricky sometimes, but it's (on average) tricky bad. And between 1/2 to 2/3rds of them seem unable to lay down a mid (perish the thought of KK or QQ) PP regardless, unless it's a raising war between 2-3 other people.And lastly, I'm in 100 percent agreement with Smash (about PartyPoke

I just had the swingiest most annoying day ever yesterday. I always play through my downswings unless I'm affected mentally and it was a doozy. And _I_ don't think the online sites are rigged after yesterday...Check this out.I play 15/30, anywhere from 2-4 tables depending on how good the LAG tables are at the moment and my mood.So I have 3 hours of straight hell, I lose to every improbable stupid draw, and all my monster draws miss. Long story short, within 5 hours of playing 3-4 tables simul I'm down literally 3.6k. That's what? 120BB? So I grind and grind and go at it, and I work my w

Well, I've read numerous places that Phil Ivey is intentionally playing a really fast-aggressive approach to either build chips or bust. He wants to either destroy the tourney or play in the lucrative cash games supposedly. Since he can make so much at the high end cash games.Check out http://www.barrygreenstein.com/pivey.htm and look specifically at the first _long_ paragraph. Ah heck, I'll quote the appropriate part, or some of it "And when he has played in a tournament event, he has played tired because of the cash game the night before. (I know because I have been in the games with hi

First off let me say... I'm in NO way trying to usurp Daniel on writing reviews, I just have about 30 times more time than he does, and I'm in the mood to give some reviews. Anyone is of course welcome to agree/disagree or flame. I've already given 3 starting books for playing low limit hold'em in a reply to another post. Here I'm going to post some more general books. Either covering multiple types of games, or not a literal how-to book.Theory of Poker by SklanskyI won't go into a lot of detail, I see others have talked about this. I will say I believe this to be 100 percent necessary f

I've played poker for about a year, moving from 1/2 to 15/30, I nowadays play on Party and skins because of the large amount of bad players and LAGs. I'll name some books and my opinions on them.These books I'm first talking about will be geared more towards limit hold'em, ring/cash games.Winning Low Limit Hold'em by Lee JonesAs mentioned already, the Lee Jones book is reasonably solid. I do think it has you playing a bit weak-tight, though that's not a bad approach for a true beginner. You will learn a lot from if this is your first poker book. It actually was mine. You will beat low li