The Well: ama0330

[BevillTheDevil]

have you ever recieved any coachin?? if so do you feel it helped a lot?? Also, the vids here on 2p2 are great but ive also have heard that cardrunner is really good. You ever try it out, if so do you think its better for the complete newb or good for just about anyone???

[Check_The_Nuts]

[censored] he's gone.

ama favourite posters in uNL?

[holdme]

is poker rigged?
why can't i win?
are you sure its not rigged?

[samwallistea]

What amount of hands do you think you need to win at before you can think of yourself as a consistent winner at micro stakes? Im running at 13BB/100 hands over 5.8k hands at 10+25NL how much more do I need to play in your opinion to be able to say without doubt Im a successful micro limit player?

Also a completely non-poker question but something that never understood on this site, how do some people get themselves custom titles?

[losingdonkey]

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How do you keep yourself from tilting when you're not running so hot

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...;gonew=1#UNREAD


I almost never tilt these days to the point where I lose money because of it. I get pissed, but I never donk off money. Such an essential thing to control.

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hadn't seen this before - thanks, you may have just saved me a ton of money

[HighSteaks]

I've always played FR, just switched to 6 max- played 12k hands won about 12BB/100, so I'm off to 25NL- what's the single biggest difference and where should I focus my efforts now?

[TheStinky]

Assuming you have no reads on villain, do you always try to get it all-in pf with AK? Are you always 3betting with it? Calling a shove? Shoving as a 4bet?

[Capone]

Firstly I'd like to thank you for taking the time to do this I really appreciate it.

I'm trying to grasp the concept of the semi-bluff raise preflop, and I posted a thread on it and I want your take on it:

For instance, say we are playing .25/.50 NL. An aggressive deepstacked opponent raises to $2, it is folded to us and we get 75s on the button. Now usually we would just fold this hand, but we can semi-bluff raise in hope for the opponent to fold his worst of holdings, re-raise if he accually has a monster, or call with anything in between.

So basically we are trying to win his raise, but if he calls, we are in position with a hand that could potentially flop a monster. If we miss, we can give up or c-bet to try to pick up the pot if he checks. If we hit a monster well we can extract. Notice how 75s was used in the example not a hand like KQs which has calling value. The whole point is that usually we would just fold 75, but since it has little calling value, we can semi-bluff raise in hope to win the raise or flop a monster.

[bozzer]

ama,

well is looking good so far. there haven't been enough uNL wells. questions:

if you call a 3bet with AK, what, if any, flops are you getting jiggy on when you whiff?

why are you called ama0330?

are you a massive ozzie sports fan or not really?

did you realise I was levelling in the durrr thread? if so, were you releveling me? (pretending you thought i was being serious??)

cheers.

[ama0330]

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have you ever recieved any coachin?? if so do you feel it helped a lot?? Also, the vids here on 2p2 are great but ive also have heard that cardrunner is really good. You ever try it out, if so do you think its better for the complete newb or good for just about anyone???

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I have never been officially coached per se, but I have recieved a lot of help and I should acknowledge those who have helped me.

Jay Riall, the SSNL UK baller, gave me a couple of free sweat sessions after I met him IRL. These sessions were hugely beneficial for me, even if it was just once or twice. He's a great player and really helped me out.

True, the MSNL madman, gives me help on IM from time to time also. He thinks so differently about the game to anyonne I have ever known, and his insight is invaluable, it just twists your mind to try and get around his thought processes. The man is a genius and he has my thanks.


I got a couple of great sweat sessions from tufat23, I've met him IRL and he is a genuinely good bloke and now a huge baller. I would IM him some hands and get some feedback and he is a very talented player who gave me some great advice. I remember also that I was going to hire him as a coach but I had to pull out because I couldn't dedicate the time to it, being so busy at work. Its a shame because he is a really solid player and I would have loved to be his student.

Of course there are lots of ppl who have given advice over IM and the forums like Gelford, dbitel and everyone else and I thank them all.

I signed up for Cardrunners and I believe it is excellent, but I cancelled my sub just because I couldnt justify the cost, when most of the videos and advice are for the higher limits. I think that if you cant beat 25nl for a least a little bit without cardrunners help, then you need to work on the fundamentals of your game, and 2p2 is more than enough to achieve this. I hesitate to recommend that people sign up because it feels to me like recommending someone take a bunch of pills instead of eating right and excersising.

I think that cr is really useful once the games get hard ie 200nl and above. But the problem is that for micro players, cr is such a huuge drain on your bankroll (the sign up fee alone is like 4bi for a lot of us) that it becomes not really worth it until you can beat 50nl decently.

Having said all of that the videos that I did watch from cr were excellent, and once you have a solid game, I would recommend signing up.