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#21
10-31-2005, 12:01 AM
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Re: To the New, Aspiring Player
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Need to go into the beginners forum too. [/ QUOTE ] I wasn't even aware of the exist of a beginner's forum. Perhaps I should read the links at the left at some point in my 2+2 life! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] Yeah, that probably would have been the best place for it. 
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#23
10-31-2005, 12:13 AM
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Re: To the New, Aspiring Player
I remember a post a while back that someone mentioned you should be post 3 (I think) responces for every one thread you start. Was that Grunchcan? I can't remember at the moment.
For example: I rarely start new threads. That really underlies how awesome I am. Behold the awesome power of Gregatron!
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#24
10-31-2005, 12:33 AM
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That was one of the best analogies about the game of poker I have seen. Golf and poker are the two toughest games I have come across, maybe why I love both of them. [/ QUOTE ]
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#25
10-31-2005, 01:09 AM
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[ QUOTE ] When I started, I was reading about 3 hours a day, averaging about 30 posts a day and playing about 2 hours a day. It was about 3 months of this before I felt like I was a small winning player in the party poker 2/4 game, and I’m not a slow learner. [/ QUOTE ] how do you average 30 posts a day??? i've barely gotten my first 30 and people are already telling me to post less... [/ QUOTE ] Since I was one of the ones who called you out on this, let me copy what I posted in the other thread: [ QUOTE ] You should really start fewer posts and start responding to other posts. [/ QUOTE ] The benefit of this forum is not having people tell you how you should have played such and such a hand. Rather, it is that your thinking patterns become exposed as you try to give other people advice, and then those thought patterns can be corrected. It's the whole give-a-man-a-fish thing.
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#26
10-31-2005, 01:52 AM
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STOP MULTITABLING! Most likely, you’re not even thinking about half the things you should be thinking about even if you’re playing only one table. Playing four and more tables when you don’t need to is only going to stunt your growth. Plenty of things generally happen in a hundred or two hundred hands that you'll have plenty to think and post about. [/ QUOTE ] its been a while since you were down here posting a lot, but I swear you were a 8tabler, and still are playing a limit lower than your skill level
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#28
10-31-2005, 09:13 AM
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Re: To the New, Aspiring Player
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[ QUOTE ] STOP MULTITABLING! Most likely, you’re not even thinking about half the things you should be thinking about even if you’re playing only one table. Playing four and more tables when you don’t need to is only going to stunt your growth. Plenty of things generally happen in a hundred or two hundred hands that you'll have plenty to think and post about. [/ QUOTE ] its been a while since you were down here posting a lot, but I swear you were a 8tabler, and still are playing a limit lower than your skill level [/ QUOTE ] Yes, I was an 8 tabler then, and that has never changed. To answer the following question, I just started 4 tabling 15/30, so I'm trying to work it out. However, I had my reasons for being at small stakes for so long. I was in a diferent position though than a lot of people starting out. Mostly because of the fact that I needed the bonus whoring money, and that was the way to clear it the fastest. However, I tried as much as possible (and still make sure I get in at least a few hours a week) to single table. When I do this, I make sure it's undistracted time, no music, surfing, etc. and just focus on my opponents and playing the best I can. I keep a tablet handy, to write down thoughts and hands to review later. I'm convinced I would have grown more quickly had I been in the position to play a single table more frequently...2 at the max.
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#29
10-31-2005, 10:48 AM
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Re: To the New, Aspiring Player
QTip,
This may be one of the most important posts that I've read here. After playing about 35,000 hands I've really started to think that putting the hours in and getting "experience" is what I needed to do. The past month I would berate myself for not playing enough hours, or playing the MLL games (which although I new wasn't a waste of time, don't contribute any $$$ directly). Your post made me realize something very elementary. I don't need the money. However, if I want to be a serious player, I do need the education. I've been trying to play the tables like it's a job and to some extent I think that's good to get an idea of what the "pro" life would be like, but as far as learning goes it's not helping me much. In many of the books they talk about the value of "experience" in HE. However, I'm realizing that 2000 hands of multitabling/surfing 2+2 doesn't necessarily constitute "experience". To be honest, I kind of looked down on guys that had a ton of posts and not very many hands because I thought if they just dedicated half there time to playing instead of posting they'd be that much better off. Well, I did dedicate that much more time to playing and I'm not that much better off. Yes I have read the books alot but I now know not enough. I have a ton of favorite posts that I "just haven't gotten around to". In my October goals, all the reading goals are down the toilet, but my hands played goal isn't that far off. I'm starting to think that my priorities are askew. In short, thanks for waking me up.
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