F**K BODOG!

$9 dollar tourney =/= “good players”

ive learned to never slow play aces or kings online i push and push hard with them, if i lose its obviously to a better hand

Like Joes said, you are seeing 60 hands a hour which is typically 4x what you see at a casino. Also, playing low limit anyone with $50 can throw it on there and play anything so people paying only $1 or even $5 raise to see a flop will do so more.

1/2 the game is knowing when to fold. So many people don’t want to get away from pocket pairs or even two pairs or get good cards and try to double up right away instead of grind it out. Put your money in when you have the best and fold when you are not sure. You can still read peoples play. Also download a hand anayzer and let it track players. You can see players stats and how they do, which ones dump a lot of money on weak hands, even tables to stay away from with constant allins.

Again, all it takes is $50 to get onto those sites. Someone with some extra cash will figure they get a shot at it. This is why I never play online unless I am playing super tight and only higher limit tables.

:lol: That is fucking awsome - I noticed that too. You should really check your story over before you post it up.

how about this scenerio… had j9 and was dealer only one call right before me, i call 60 with j9 hearts

big blind raises double (120), guy before me calls, i call, small blind folds

flop there are 2 hearts
big blind bets 120 again (flop was 2 hearts and ace)
guy in front of me folds, i call
next card is a heart, guy pushes all in i call, he had trip aces and loses to a lousy j9 of hearts… if he only made a decent raise i would have folded preflop and he would still be in this tournament that you took 73rd in out of 82 :wink:

My bad I was still pissed off it was junk not a king and I was in a rant

Ok you want me to push all in when they have been getting destroyed all day. There is not perfect way to play them. I think I played them pretty fuckin good

Fuck you earl, I was sick of people playing like donks and was still pissed off from the last tourny. Your one of those douche’s i’d hate to play against ha just kidding he played that stupid

lol I love threads like these. Clearly nobody in this thread understands poker. The main theorem behind poker is that every time your opponent makes a mistake you win and vice versa. Obviously, nothing in poker is 100%, it’s just a percentage. You’ve merely run into what is called “variance.” It exists in live poker too.

To all you morons saying “go player higher limits, there’s less fish/donks/newbs/whatever there.” If he can’t beat the micro tables (presumably) you really think he’s going to stand a chance at the $1/$2 or $2/$4 tables? I’d rather play fish that make -EV mistakes all day than solid players who set traps and know where to get value.

Real genius strategies guys. It’s fish like you that make this game profitable still :slight_smile:

Also JoesTypeS your little part on bankroll management makes no sense at all.

I like how everyone is saying the perfect way to play poker, it makes me laugh honestly. I use to play loose as hell and that would work sometimes, ask earl how many times I raped people that played the “good hands”. I’ve played super tight and a little in between. There is no set way, I know how to play poker, I’m no pro but definitely not an idiot. The whole game is statistics and if you know all of that and the probabilities then you have a damn good chance of doing good consistently, luck runs out if you play loose and tight.

There is no set formula for winning consistently at poker. I play 6-12 tables online at a time. Some tables I’m a super tight nit, other tables I’m LAG. You have to adapt to whats going on at your table. Sure at the micro stakes for the most part you can ABC Poker your way through things but to gain the most profitability you need to adapt consistently and correctly.

A lot of you on here don’t put enough hands in to say any of your styles are profitable. It’s either a heater or a cooler for all of you and that’s what you make your judgments based off of.

Also, tournament poker is a lot different than cash games. Insta-shoving everything in cash games is retarded. Cash games you are 100BB+ deep, in most tournaments you are lucky if you have 15BBs so tournament poker is more about push/fold mechanics and understanding ICM (independent chip model).

Bottom line: You’re going to have your good runs and you’re going to have your bad runs. If you take your $2000 bankroll to the “$2/$5” limits and have a couple coolers and lose 4 buy-ins you’re busto. And 4 buy-in swings are pretty normal. I have had days where I’ve lost 12 buy-ins, and days where I’ve won 20. Solid bankroll management is how you beat variance. Rule of thumb is for SnGs its 100 BIs and for NL cash games it’s 20-30 BIs (depending on if you play 6max or full ring).

I agree. I just avoid games that anyone can get into so at least people use logic. Its not always teh case tho becuase I have played a 10-25 limit game and watched a guy call and cap out all the way to the end with ace high and won a pot which blew my mind but hey, its a game. If its easy, people would be doing it for a living and it wouldn’t be hard.

The bad beats come with the good wins. The ups come with the downs. To be good, you need to learn to ride it out and know when to walk away and when to go all in.

It’s poker, you’ll take bad beats /Thread

Also I play on Full Tilt. Mostly tournaments since I don’t like playing cash games online. My name on FT is Roush97 if anyone wants to look me up sometime.

When I am on there, I am playing Holdem tourneys or pot limit omaha hi $.50/1 or 1/2.

My name is Boxxakid on FTP

Rage where do you play/whats your username?

20x buy in ($2/5 sit w/ $500) is a pretty LOW bankroll management rule of thumb… edit: ANNND my math sucks :wink: don’t what I was multiplying

I’d be more than happy to play you HU if you think i’m a donk. $100/$200/$500 game, LMK

So 20 buy-in rule of thumb is bad but 4 buy-in ($5x100BBx4bi=$2000) rule of thumb is good?:picard: Also, anything under $5/$10 is not low stakes. $3/$6+ is considered high stakes and $1/$2 and $2/$4 are definitely not low stakes. Those are hard games to beat profitably (I’m talking online, not live).

Never said you are a donk. Just said your poker advice lacks.

I won’t post my names on those sites as I belong to a few poker communities where we all remain anonymous except our handles on the forums. Most of us are ex-Starcraft players and prefer to smurf.

As far as the sites I play on, I currently play FTP and PS. Considering jumping to Cake Poker for the 33% RB and it seems a lot of Americans play there which is always +EV. I currently play between $50NL and $200NL as well as $55 STT turbos. I currently work full-time and I try to get in between 25k and 40k hands a month, but I hope to eventually switch to part-time work and be “semi-pro” and play a lot more by the middle/end of this year. If this does happen I’ll be starting a blog through one of the more popular poker websites.

like I said the post above my math was wrong.

Also I don’t know where you get limits but no poker room in any casino considers 3/6 high limit…shit the lowest limit in the high limit area at bellagio is like 25/50

Didn’t see that. But if you read my post you would see I pointed out online not live. Online high stakes are “lower” because a majority of the people that play those stakes are playing at least 4 tables and the games are much tougher. $3/$6 online plays like $25/50 live from what I’ve heard.