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| For the sake of sanity |
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Wow I'm bad at keeping a blog. Third time lucky to get the ball really rolling? Ok lets go.
As Ive said in earlier blogs, I am a low limit MTT player. As anyone who grinds MTT's knows this can test the realms of ones patience and sanity. Variance is an unholy mistress and can literally make one end up hating MTT's . However the fact that as a purely tournament player, when I sat down to play poker I had no choice to but to set 5 hours absolute minimum aside was really making me fed up of constantly playing tournaments. School work, training, sport and a social life don't exactly fit well in between daily tournament schedules. It was time to give cash another shot.
Previous forays into cash poker had been short lived and unsuccessful. I was, I believe, a much too aggressive player and played full ring which didn't suit me at all. With a bankroll of approximately 800 dollars I decide 2 weeks ago to give six max 25NL a shot. (Ok I'm overolled, but Im both a bankroll nit and underolled for 50nl).
1)Holy crap I forgot how much fun six max is.
2) Holy crap, I thought 4/180 players sucked
3) Being able to leave my house and laptop whenever someone calls me with something cool going down is a great relief.
So far over the last 2 weeks I'm up 10 buy ins over about 5000 hands (4 tabling) and I'm enjoying poker again so much it should be illegal. I'm going to start reading SSNL by skalnsky, miller and malmuth and hopefully boost my bankroll up to 1500 and move up to 50nl.
I'm not completely abandoning tournaments. I'll still play the guarantees, and the better tournaments as my bankroll goes up. However I'm going to play a hell of a lot less. Cash>>>>>>>>>>>>>>tons of 4/180s etc.
Updates soon as long as I can actually learn how to properly blog and such.
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| The Poker Forum disease |
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I haven't written any strategy posts so far and I don't intend to as I believe I need to work on my game a lot more than I need to give anyone advice. However, I've noticed a phenomenon (mainly because a while back it happened to me) that could be deluding people as to the quality of their game.
Poker forums like the ones here at tworags and over at 2+2 can be incredibly useful tools in improving ones game if used correctly. Posting hands, commenting on other peoples hands and discussing general strategy on these forums is great. This is especially true as the level of thinking is often higher than general poker discussion in real life.
The problem I've witnessed is that many people who consider themselves to "belong" in these forums automatically assume that they are therefore a good player. A stage up from this is those who do at least manage to post in the strategy forums but seem to get stuck in a very poor way of thinking.
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| I hate phone companies |
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I haven't posted on this blog for months, I haven't played poker for about 2 months and I'm going insane. The culprit, BT (British Telecom). Somehow, since I moved into a new place for college it took BT a whole 6 WEEKS to get a simple phone line activated. I don't know how many phone calls I made where I was kept holding for an hour, told that something would happen in 3 or 4 days followed by nothing happening. Now that the telephone lines finally sorted I have to wait another week (already waited 1) for internet to be activated.
Anyway, small boring rant over. Hopefully I should be back playing poker and actually keeping a decent blog from next week.
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| Taking a Break |
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This is my first ever Blog entry here so I guess Ill give a quick background on myself first. Also, Im not a great writer so this could come out reading like crap but hopefully Ill get much better as I do more of these.
Ive been playing poker for roughly four years now but would only consider myself being a "serious" player for the last 18 months. I play mostly online MTT's around the 10 dollar buy in range and have done for a while now. My biggest cash ever was just over 4k winning the nightly 10k guarantee 10 dollar buy in about 10 months back (the one thats the 20k guarantee now). I play live from time to time, but in England the choices are limited, I usually stick to a card club in central London known as the Gutshot. An honest estimate of myself would be that Im a mostly break even player whos +ROI comes from the occasional big score. I'm also a bankroll nit.
Ok now on to the point of this blog.
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