BETTER GET THERE - A JOURNEY
The purpose of this blog is to teach myself (and all the readers) how to become a successful poker player. This means starting from $2000 and working my way up to big games.
I will post statistics and strategies as well as stories and facts from the "real life" away from the computer.
Getting to be a successful poker player is not just about playing poker and thinking about it. It's also taking care of your health (both physical and mental), planning your future and other things that have nothing to do with poker.
Journey to big games starts now and I ... better get there.
 | | I was playing in a $30 rebuy live tournament last Saturday ending up third. When we were three handed (three got money) two situations came up where our third, most inexperienced player made two tactical mistakes. I thought that these common situations are known by almost everyone and I can count on people playing accordingly.
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We were three handed and blinds were 500/1000. I had 30k, 2nd had 13k and third had 1k. Guy with the 1k was on button and folded. I was... | Junior Member | |
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| | Oh yeah, six more hours and I have four days of grinding time ahead of me. I have played a lot of tables at the same time and it seems that I keep losing because of that. So maybe I need to cut down the amount of tables to get my win rate positive.
During this four days I think I'm gonna use one day to try out some sit'n'go's and maybe some texas HU instead of grinding omaha.
I also play more MTT's because I don't have to wake up for work so early. Hopefully I have... | Junior Member | |
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| | As I wrote in my last post every serious player should know how to calculate hand equities and everyone should also know those equities in common situations. One common and important situation is playing aces in reraised pot when there's still (much) more than pot sized bet behind. Omaha is a flop game (pre-flop edges are small) so it's crucial to know equity of aces and how to play them depending on the flop texture.
In the following examples I make few assumptions which are: 1)... | Junior Member | |
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| | Yesterday I played FTOPS #8 6-max knockout and after a nice start I ended up card dead and placed out of the money. I also got seat to FTOPS #10 which I decided to skip to be able to get to work early enough. Today is #11 which is limit texas, the variation of hold'em I started with, so I'm definitely playing that. Nice bonus is that it starts early enough...
About omaha and equity. Every serious poker player should now how to calculate hand equities. For omaha I've been using ProPokerTools... | Junior Member | |
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| | At least it seems so. Sky is gray and sun is nowhere to be seen. Depressing in a way...
At least now I can get back to grinding. I have already played few thousand hands of PLO100 dropping 10 buy-ins. I still make even big mistakes and I decided to start writing down every one of those. That means we all get to learn about keeping pots small when our equity seems to be terrible.
FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) started yesterday. i wish I had bankroll to just... | Junior Member | |
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