Best Free Poker Coaching is a new No Limit Hold 'Em coaching site that just opened up with a handful of instructional videos good for those of us who've mastered the basics of the game or who need a refresher on some of the finer points of theory and handling our ring-game opponents. Every coach on their dossier has a ton of experience and they are among the brightest young minds who have moved up to conquer the mid-stakes games over the past few years. I highly recommend checking it out.
I was listening to my college radio station, and they started to play a Kanye song, but then the DJ interrupted it with, “Kanye, I’ma let you finish, but” followed by silence. IMMD.
A useful tip from 2+2 member High Pockets -- I really need to go thru this OpenYale course. Some nuts and bolts Game Theory education will help me tie the loose ends together on my thesis proposal, imo.
Do you know why it is going to end in the red, Conan?
Yes. Because, I got stuck 3 Buy-Ins on Friday night (in out-patient?)...
And?
And even though I have a 3BI downswingstop-loss, I waited 20 minutes and started playing again. And lost 3 more.
But you didn't stop playing then, did you?
No. I kept playing.
And you lost even more, right?
Ah, yep.
But you've learned your lesson this time, right?
Man, I sure hope so.When I am playing bad, and start mentally trying to chase loses, I only ever play even worse. Playing Texas Hold 'Em to win requires patience, and even though I play fast -- and probably because of it -- when I lose the correct sense of patience, I lose maney. So when I start a session, I need to have a stop loss in mind and I need abide by it.
I took the day off of work to play a little afternoon poker, expecting the tables to be full of 9-to-5ers, TAGs, who I wouldn't be able to get a wooden nickle out of. But, nope. If anything, the games were softer than they've been in prime-time lately. My motto's always been: when it's right, it's right. Of course, it never hurts to be an "unknown" in the timezone and I did throw in some "I'm a donk" advertising to work up their appetites.
I didn't even put on pants until around hand ~500.
Started out this morning feeling so polite
I always though a fish could not be caught who wouldn't bite
But you've got some bait a waitin' and I think I might Try nibbling a little afternoon delight.
You know, getting ban-hammered from 2+2 is close to the best thing that ever happened to me if my luck keeps running like this. Not bad for 9.12 hours work....
I cashed out some of my roll at hand 2,600, doom-switched obviously. AA < KK, KK < 88, and a few other unmitigated disasters, but at least I played through the last session and got it green. I can handle 200 or so hands of doom if I still come out of the session at 6ptbb/100+.
I really like 25NL now that they have 50BB min tables (thanks Dashornman!!). It really simplifies my poker life to not have to put up with pushbots and short-stackers and try and figure out the betwixt/between of them. Besides, at this level it's nice to run horribad and check PokerTracker and see I'm down all of $20. Where I live you pretty much can't walk down the street without spending $20, and so no psychological effects or tilt gets to me here. I suspect that I'm going to hang down at 25NL for at least a few more weeks until my next 50NL shot.
Two months. Two Million. Awesome show. I'm like this close to actually getting the G4 network on my cable even. I can name four people in this screen shot from the WSOP 40K final table audience.
A hardcore regular I play with a lot at 25NL on Pokerstars suggested to me today that merely being happy at outdrawing an opponent and expressing such happiness in the chatbox, is poor etiquette.
This is a poor state of mind, I believe. A long long time ago, I used to feel genuinely bad when I caught an unlikely card to win the hand, especially after all the chips went it. When I played $5 sit and go's, this was a regular occurrence -- both that I got my money in behind a lot since I was incompetent, and that all the chips went in because of the steadily increasing blind structure. But you know what? I've gotten over it.
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles, let not your heart exult,
Lest the LORD see it, be displeased with you, and withdraw his wrath from your enemy.
But in poker, which is, after all, only a game, our villain's misfortune is inherently our good fortune. Running around feeling bad about your own good luck is a pointless exercise. When the Poker Gods smile on you, be happy. To quote the bard: Bing Blang Blaow!
Lording victory over a hapless opponent isn't kosher, of course. But when I win a big pot and I'm happy about it, I'm going to say I'm happy about it. In a live game I sure couldn't hide my feelings. Am I wrong?
Ah, exile. It took the mods over at the 2+2 forums a little over two years, but at last they figured out what a horribad person they had on their hands.
But, all is fair. 2+2 was a big time-sink anyway, and now I can play more Texas Hold 'Em, get out more, work on my thesis, and, if nothing else, plan my invasion of Poland. Good times!
Still, I need an outlet for my poker brags, other ramblings, and at least the illusion of human contact, and so a blog is born.
Best Free Poker Coaching is a new No Limit Hold 'Em coaching site that just opened up with a handful of instructional videos good for those of us who've mastered the basics of the game or who need a refresher on some of the finer points of theory and handling our ring-game opponents. Every coach on their dossier has a ton of experience and they are among the brightest young minds who have moved up to conquer the mid-stakes games over the past few years. I highly recommend checking it out.
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