is poker gonna be held this sunday?
what do you guys think of paradise poker? i might start putting money into that just because.
yes
everyone reg for the event tomorrow on pokerstars
there should be a thread about it. iāll join.
there is its stickied on the top of the forums
man i really hate online poker. u guys can say that i suck whatver cuhz i donāt suck that bad. iāve been getting beaten by turns and rivers with huge probability advantages. FUCK ONLINE POKER
can someone do a trade with paypal and stars chips? thanks.
thats poker in general. not just internet pokerā¦
stop crying about it, coz more people will say you suckā¦
but yeaā¦ I honestly think for most of you, internet poker should be used for WHORING bonus purposes onlyā¦
there would be NO reason for me to play online if not for that.
i guess the article is correct :wonder: i should start studying my mistakes and hopefully i can learn from it.
again, i just wanna participate in the SRK tournament. if yaāll donāt mind me giving a trade for paypal for some money on Stars
edit: if i may ask, i was wondering if anybody has time to coach me or something. maybe some sessions or giving me advice would be good while we play. i feel that itās the only way i can learn besides reading and listening. thanks iād appreciate that
Without ever having seen you play, I would imagine that you play too many hands and especially play too many hands in poor position.
Probably the best way to fix this is to track your play. The best tool by far on the internet to track your play with is Poker Tracker (www.pokertracker.com ). The fee is a little steep, but if youāre serious about online poker, itās an invaluable tool.
The main thing you want to do with PT is check the % of hands youāre playing and to check the profitability of the hands youāre playing. Ideally on a 10handed table you want to be voluntarily playing 15-21% of hands. The less experience you have, the smaller this number should be. For example, my VP$IP is sitting at 17.81. Iām slightly tighter than optimal, but mostly because I try to stay away from trap hands.
Which is the second thing you should be tracking. How are you playing the hands that you have. For example when I first bought the program, I looked through my stats and noticed that after 30,000 hands, AKo was in my bottom 5 hands! It shocked me because itās a premium hand and yet I was losing money with it. It showed me that I have to learn how to play overcards better and not take it too far.
Also I learned that I was losing significant amounts of money with trap hands. As I sit right now, KJs is at -0.12 BB/100. QJs is at 0.29 BB/100. QTo is at -0.09 BB/100. K9s is at -0.09 BB/100. JTs is at -0.31 BB/100. JTo is at -0.04 BB/100. These stats tell me that Iām playing my trap hands too strongly and too often. The numbers are crawling up slowly and maybe someday theyāll recover back into positive like AKo did for me. But thereās still a lesson to be learned here and if I want to improve Iām going to have to start plugging these weaknesses. Itās not that these hands donāt have value. They do. Just that Iām overvaluing them and playing them in situations that donāt turn a profit. This is what PT has taught me.
Also you can use it to keep statistics, notes and tendencies on your opponents, but thatās not nearly as important as looking inwards at yourself. Again, if youāre serious about playing poker online and improving your play, this is worth itās weight in gold.
EDIT:
The second best thing you can do is join a poker forum and start posting hand examples. 2+2 is some help, even if it does usually degenerate into juvenile bickering. I use ITH (Internet Texas Holdem) to post hand examples and that helps out tremendously. Most of the time the posters give good advice and can really help you out if you have a problem on a specific hand and will give you a place to build from. Hereās an example of a post I made and I got a lot of quality responses, even if it did kind of degenerate into an online cock contest. http://www.internettexasholdem.com/phpbb2/too-weak-with-kings-or-good-laydown-vt26563.html
Good luck to you.
āJay Snyder
Viscant@aol.com
First of all when you watch poker on TV (which you should be if you arenāt) actually pay attention. Watch the hands people are playing and what they do with them.
I dont have any advice for limit games because anyone that plays suited connectors will win big pots whenever Iām involved with them. Thats why I play No Limit cash games with low stakes.
Anyways just because people are successful it doesnāt mean that you will be too. I can gurantee you arenāt being patient enough with your hands. When you see people winning like $500 a night, itās not because theyāre winning every hand, its because their limits are probably 5x the limit youāre playing and theyāre waiting for hands. If you can win 1 big hand an hour with a few small pots here and there, you should be able to win money. Unless you have a really bad run, which happens and is unavoidable sometimes.
now that i look closer at what i did wrong, i agree with everything you guys said. pretty much 99% is true about the way i played. and especially that AKo storyā¦those turn out to be mostly non-profit for me too. i guess i should understand a little better.thanks guys. much <3
some hands that really bums me are hands like KK and AAā¦betting all-in when someone else has lower pairs, and i lose on the river (i told DreadedFist my other hands and he seems to agree with me). but like yaāll said, itās my problem and no the cards.
Wtf do you do when you just canāt hit cards, like i played a 10 man sit and go today and the best thing i hit all night was a pair of kings. I managed to bluff a few hands, but not for that much money and itās not possible to bluff every hand you have. Even the hands i was folding before the flop nothing that came up after would have helped me.
You lose. At a cash game, you try not to lose too much money.
There are times when Iāll lose big and think to myself āwow I played great!ā because I could have lost so much more. Sometimes you are just destined to lose and the best you can do is minimize the damage. Nobody wins all the time.
wow i couldnāt said that better myself 
congrads to the winners
hey yaāll i just wanna post up that iāve been playing on Stars for sometime now. and iāve kept all of your advices. my game is actually improving. i play hands that are more stronger/marginal than usual. i stopped playing low cards because wellā¦i found out it was NOT profitable. suited connecters usually draw me into pots, but now i avoid them and thus saving loads of chips =). iām being more patient now to my game and iām considering a lot of things from the Theory of Poker. but most importantly, thanks u guys for showing me the light.
it was about 1 week after u guys told me, but i feel that my game has changed already. :tup:
Wow, thatās the best poker posting I have ever seen. Iām no pro, but one thing Iāve relized about poker is that in the end, you always lose. Sure you might be up some money here or there, but in the end a better player will come to take it. There are no real Masters of poker; there are just too many variables such as luck, and being outplayed.
Not saying there are not poeple that win, or there are any people out there that canāt get good at it, but it is all a gamble in the end. Poker is one of those few things where you could make the exact desicion you should have made, and still end up losing. Although a good way around that fallacy is to whore internet bounuses.
I just started playing on Pokerstars last night.
First hand is A-A. I do moderate raise, one person gets out.
Flop comes out A-K-A.
That was fun.
Edit: Is there a guide of the hands that I should play in various positions? I only know to play the āgood handsā (pocket pairs, AK, AQ). However, I donāt know how to play them from various positions, can anyone here shed some light on this subject?
Too bad youāre wrong, thats usually what poker scrubs say as a copoutā¦