Joined: Aug '08
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OK. This is my first real scream for an better playing. Ive had few pretty good rolls but everyone of them has gone after a great start and solid playing. My thin red line in poker is that i´m never gonna use my own money, and thats why im here I have 4 kids youngest is about 2 and oldest is about 7. So i really have not that much time to play, or educate myself in poker. I have 14 books about poker, tournaments and cash games. Every time i read one book, my game is so much better. But after a while, i kind of turn my self like my opponents, and i start to loose. If i only play sng´s between 5-20$ buyin i´ve collected something like 650$ in 100-150 games. After those peaks, i became sort of too loose and feel my self too powerfull . Next 50 sngs are straight downhill. This blog and updating this blog, is supposed to get my results better, and give me some good tips for example from you?
Joined: Aug '08
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Yeah, i know its a very small sample, but playing 150 games takes allmost 2months. Funniest thing in my game seems to be too gambler. If i have a clue about opponents cards, i dont believe my self, i start to push. Maybe i think that they fold with only toppair or something. Ihope i can keep my self in shape mentally. I know when im too tired or too tilted to play, but i just cant stop. I´m going to learn this what ever it takes. If anyone has any good tips so please tell me. With my new roll i´m supposed to play only cash NLHE. If someone wants to help me, i can pay profit! Or something like that? Suggest me!
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Posted by raakapaisti: Have u tried them? And results in your game?
Yes i signed up at SitNGoGrinders and result are the same so far But that doesnt mean it doesnt help me, i cant say anything cos the sample size is too low, point is that i feel my game is better now only my roi doesnt show it yet Watching those vids will understand your own game better but more important your oponents game, 90% of low/middle sng players watch only their own cards but the is more offcourse, wot will my oponent think i have? Watch the limpers. Watch the stealers. ect,ect.
I wish i done it way time before the training site
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Posted by raakapaisti: After those peaks, i became sort of too loose and feel my self too powerfull . Next 50 sngs are straight downhill.
I have the same problem. If Im fresh, starting the first game of the day, I can go from $25 bankroll to $50-$80 within 1hour (NL10,). But after that I feel too safe and play too loose. As a result I bust my bankroll (until I stop playing).
Joined: Aug '08
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That is a reason why i try to make limits to my playing. No winning limits but perhaps some reguirements to start playing. Only when im fresh, only if i have time to play (cant really play in a hurry), and stop playing when it frustrates you. Im going to follow those lines. I hope it gets better.
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I had the same problem in the passed with that comfort level, and then go busto. But, then, I found a system for me ( couple years ago) that really helped. 1. I deposit an amount on a pokersite (depending on wich limits) 2. If I won big in a short time, I instantly cashed out the amount above my deposit to my bank, so i couldnt lose it anymore for example : 100$ deposit on a 2-5NL game => into 200$ => cashed out 100$. Result, I had to stay tight and didnt start playing loose and I didnt want to move up to a another level yet. So I only kept 25-40 buy-ins max
==> made me play much better, and I was more aware of my winnings, I did it a couple months, and It saved me around 8000$ in toal. that I cashed out those months. So everybody happy
3. Now years have passed, and studied more, and read books and I also work in the poker industry ( no not affiliate crap ) I have implented another system, but now I dont go play looser
4. I am tourney player S&G and MTT and a cash player, So I also made two seperate bankrolls for cash and tourneys , because the requirements are different : Cash vs Tourney for the bankrollmanagement.
Now, I never looked back again, and never had a problem anymore, besides the afwull beats
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Posted by Flangel: I had the same problem in the passed with that comfort level, and then go busto. But, then, I found a system for me ( couple years ago) that really helped. 1. I deposit an amount on a pokersite (depending on wich limits) 2. If I won big in a short time, I instantly cashed out the amount above my deposit to my bank, so i couldnt lose it anymore for example : 100$ deposit on a 2-5NL game => into 200$ => cashed out 100$. Result, I had to stay tight and didnt start playing loose and I didnt want to move up to a another level yet. So I only kept 25-40 buy-ins max
==> made me play much better, and I was more aware of my winnings, I did it a couple months, and It saved me around 8000$ in toal. that I cashed out those months. So everybody happy
3. Now years have passed, and studied more, and read books and I also work in the poker industry ( no not affiliate crap ) I have implented another system, but now I dont go play looser
4. I am tourney player S&G and MTT and a cash player, So I also made two seperate bankrolls for cash and tourneys , because the requirements are different : Cash vs Tourney for the bankrollmanagement.
Now, I never looked back again, and never had a problem anymore, besides the afwull beats
Can you please make a new thread about this? I think me and many mobsters are very much intrested in ur story
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OK. My next roll has came. You are now proofing a new fresh start to better days
I´ve read about shortstack playing. And thats what im gonna try for a first time in my life. I try not to play sngs , only cash. Does enyone have a good site or column to shortstack? I´ve studied it from few sites and magazines , so it seems to be very profitable if its used rightly. Or should i start with deeper stack and keep my game tag? Dont know yet...
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Doomdy, I can
Tell me where to post it ( in wich section)
------------ @ raakapaisti :
SSS ( Short stack strategy) is good when : 1. U only take full ring tables, with minimum 5-6 to 9 players 2. The average Stack is 2x bigger then yours 3. If U know your positionplay and Hand ranks.
small note / tip : A-K is a drawing hand, and not a made hand, lot's of players overrate AK and dont get focused on it
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I didnt really made a story yet, but a better explanation from the above But my vision on it is quite complicated but then Again, never give the mob a hand when U can start with a finger
So I can post more often these topice
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Posted by xxxbchxxx: Hmmm i to would like to hear some more from you flangle you sound quite interesting... in a poker sense of course..lol
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So, my promise to myself has crashed. I got my bankroll to FTP , but i didnt start to learn cashgames. I hired a "coach" who has playd little longer than me, but he has allmost the same strategy to sngs with me. He gave me few tips and i decided to start over. Last time i played sngs was straight diving from 650$ to allmost zero. So my bankroll management failed bigtime.
Now i decided to be more discipline and controll my nerves. I stop playing if i notice any of these things: Tired , cant consentrate , pissed off , too little time or kids are awake. Main thing here is that i need full privacy when i play. I have to be "there" fully. These things including fresh bankroll management should give me a open road to bigger roll
I analyzed my last games with my "coach" and i noticed that my game sucked bacause i played too aggressive in middlegame. The most of my positions after finishing was close to bubble. I tried to repair my mistakes and kept pots smaller, and refused to play with semihands. Like that my game results got better and i have more time to investigate my opponents. Basic strategy, like so many other players, is to be tight/aggressive in earlygame, in middle i stay tight, but i keep pots small. In lategames i start to raise with most of my hands, depending my opponents... Big help to me was allso Collin Moshmans sng book. I also studied push and fold maths, with sng wizard.
My roll has grown in 75 games including hup, from 50$ to 120$. Roi is then 20% and i know that sample is too small, but hey be patient. It will come down.
Experience is the best teather? it is usefull to play some time and you'll become a better player, I think, As for me, I am based on Sklansky book and he says in it that the book must be pereodicaly reread...
. Next 50 sngs are straight downhill. 
( no not affiliate crap 
