"Where are you now" Micros thread - Page 4

fizzle · #31 08-30-2005, 01:43 PM

I started playing hold'em almost 3 months ago. I started at .5/1 but quickly moved to 1/2 to clear bonuses at a much better rate. The bonuses plus free gifts from PSO were enough of a reason to play even if I was going to start as a losing player. I also took a quick stint at 1/2 6 max to get a feel for how to play SH to apply it to my full-ring game (and it definitely helped). I wasn't a losing player.

I've read this forum at work for considerable amounts of time and I've been reading poker books on my 1 hour bus ride to and from work. I've read SSHE 3 times, TOP, Weighing the Odds, SS2, ITH, Hold'em for Dummies [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img], and am currently working on HEPFAP with Inside the Poker Mind coming up. I also received tutoring from a pro which helped tweak my game and to give me confidence in my skills.

I'm currently playing 2/4 and winning at an ok rate for 10k hands, but I know I've also been running bad. One 200 BB downswing and one 150BB downswing, followed by a couple 100 BB upswings. Variance is making me go insane.

Oh and I'm now trying to post more as I don't feel like a total idiot in this game anymore.

Rev. Good Will · #32 08-30-2005, 03:04 PM

probably playing diablo II/ Counter strike/ fighting games

now all the time i would spend playing/refining those games, I play poker/refine my poker game instead.

I wish I found poker sooner

Wetdog · #33 08-30-2005, 03:15 PM

OOT will suck a lot more out of you than time. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

A year ago I found poker on TV. I saw Ferguson and Matusow wearing Full Tilt shirts, so I checked it out. I played a little at the free NL tables, lost my 1st 1000, reloaded and went on to win over 35,000 in a weekend. Poker is easy, right? So I put some cash in, maybe $50, and start to play $10 NL tables. Inside of a week the money's gone. Next payday another $50. Whoosh, gone in a week and a half.

In a chat with Howard Lederer I asked him what book I should read. He tells me to read ToP. Right away I get on Amazon and order ToP and HEPFAP. I figured that if I read ToP I must be advanced, so I got HEPFAP. My loss rate started declining until January when I actually started to be a breakeven player. That was when I switched to limit.

Some time in Feb I started lurking around 2+2. In April, armed with SSHE but still in a downswing, I attacked Paradise, got my granny bonus and left with the money I put in plus another $50 or so. On to Party with $500. Still in a slump at the start, I managed to get out with about $700.

I had left about $10 in Full Tilt and so I added another $90 and started playing .25/50 then .50/1. I withdrew the $90 a week later and still had money to play. I wasn't worried about being under rolled because I had money in Neteller. A month later I took out another $250, leaving about $60 there. That was an insane rush there, only playing about 3000 hands with $300 in profit.

With my new found riches I am doing 1/2 and, if I cant find a decent 1/2 game, .50/1 at Paradise for the AugMill bonus.

I guess I've done ok in the past year, the 1st 6 monts paying tuition, the last 6 collecting from the students.

aK13 · #34 08-30-2005, 03:22 PM

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probably playing diablo II/ Counter strike/ fighting games

now all the time i would spend playing/refining those games, I play poker/refine my poker game instead.

I wish I found poker sooner

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This is funny, since I was in the same boat. But I still play counter-strike...

Rev. Good Will · #35 08-30-2005, 03:24 PM

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probably playing diablo II/ Counter strike/ fighting games

now all the time i would spend playing/refining those games, I play poker/refine my poker game instead.

I wish I found poker sooner

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This is funny, since I was in the same boat. But I still play counter-strike...

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I lied, I still play CS [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

@bsolute_luck · #36 08-30-2005, 03:32 PM

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But I still play counter-strike...

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funny thing: i quit counter-strike because i kept getting so mad at cheaters and even the lucky headshots from good players. now i play poker....and get mad at suckouts [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] go figure [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Wetdog · #37 08-30-2005, 03:57 PM

Isn't there some character called servbot on CS? I ask because I played against someone with the nom de poque of servbot. I said in the chatbox that it was a little unnerving playing internet poker with someone/something called servbot. He saidit was something to do with CS. I replied "All of your base are belong to us."

UATrewqaz · #38 08-30-2005, 04:04 PM

I'm currently stuck in a no man's land.

My roll is way too big for .5/1 or 1/2 but my game and my emotionally stability is not ready for 2/4 or greater.

MacGuyV · #39 08-30-2005, 04:17 PM

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I'm currently stuck in a no man's land.

my emotionally stability is not ready for 2/4 or greater, therefore my role is not too big for 1/2 .

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FYP

deception5 · #40 08-30-2005, 04:24 PM

I didn't find this board until February or so, but I started playing last August at .05/.10 on Pacific with $20 (which I got 2 free books for) after reading SSH. I kept track of my sessions in PokerCharts and followed Mangatang's step by step plan (http://www.kingscascade.com/OnLine.html).

Just moved up to 3/6 6-max as of last week.