Re: DeathDonkey is in the well
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Do you make your living out of poker?
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Yes.
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When did you first realise that you were a winning player, and that you could make serious money.
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I felt I was a winning player right away because I was a smart kid who played live with a bunch of old people at the local indian casino and I could see and had read in a book that playing bad starting hands is poor strategy. Being a winning player at higher stakes games is always tougher to judge, but to just be a +EV player only takes understanding why poker is different from a slot machine.
I remember very clearly when I realized I could make serious money at poker. 1.5 years ago I was working over the summer as an intern doing engineering work, and I made a few trips to Tampa, Florida for work. Every night I'd go to my hotel and play poker on my laptop and just about then I took my first shots at 5/10 6 max on Party poker (had played 3/6 full ring limit before that). At the end of my work trip I realized I had made more money running well in the 5/10 6m games those nights than I had getting paid for my daily work on the trip. Soon after that I was 4 tabling the 5/10 6m and taking shots at the 10/20 6m game and with rakeback I zoomed to an hourly far surpassing any job I could get in the "real world".
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I have been playing just over a month, and have learned a lot, but dont seem to be getting anywhere and am getting quite discouraged, even though i'm way better than i was a month ago . What advice would you give me, (i know a month is a very short time, but im expecting to see improvement)
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You expect to see improvement, and you claim you have "learned a lot", so that is the improvement. Poker is a very unique game in that your results have little bearing on your "improvement" and you have to find little ways to congratulate yourself or succeed. If you can be more specific I might be more helpful, are you not winning? not enough? One thing I suggest is playing another game besides limit holdem, just for fun. Play micro limit 7 card stud or something and try and figure out the strategy. For me, I've always felt the best about poker when I was having fun and the money followed.
-DeathDonkey
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