Any advice?!?!

[btk202jazz]

I need some advice. I live in florida where there is certain limits on the poker games allowed at the local casino. Limit it highest $2/$2. Which I have had trouble consistently winning at (pushing people out of hands and what not)..However, playing no limit with my friends I usually win. I am losing my friends beause they all owe me money. lol. There is a 135 no limit 9 person table tournament at the casino. Thats is a hefty sum of money for me considering I am only 18. You think I should take this next step? I have researched many books and love the game. I guess i need some guidance, and if there is a certain level you think i should be at and questions i should take into my game...all advice would be appreciated.

[tdarko]

i dont know what part of florida you live in but when i lived in tampa for about 4 months i played at the seminole casino and (at the time) it had better limits than you mentioned. i dont know florida that well though, just trying to help.

[SuitedSixes]

You should do your research on this tournament. I remember reading in a book that the tournament must follow Florida law where there is a certain cap to the amount of money that may be wagered per hand. So the tournament is actually capped at a set number of hands rather than when there is a winner or a certain number of players left. A whole different strategy must be employed.

[Slim Pickens]

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Thats is a hefty sum of money for me considering I am only 18

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FWIW, in retrospect, my greatest volume of truly disposable income came at about the age of 18. Sure, $135 is a lot, but at that age I didn't care if lack of money forced me to live in a closet with two other people and subsist on stolen sugar packets. I say you should figure out if you're good at (and enjoy) tournament poker while the concequences are low, before you have to worry about water bills and buying diapers. Good luck. It sounds like you're serious about wanting to play well, and that by itself probably makes you better than 95% of the people who will enter. Give 'em hell.

Slim

[Scuba Chuck]

Tdarko, is that your girlfriend?

[slydeni]

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Tdarko, is that your girlfriend?

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wow! yeah is it?

anyway... also think about your bankroll. If $135 is a large percentage of your total gambling bankroll...you maybe should wait a bit. Try and build up a bank roll by playing lower limits, and tourneys with less entry fee - on party poker for example. Build this money up, gain experience and move up gradually. The money will come. Don't be too eager to move up. Regardless of how good you are at any time...there are swings in the game that are just paralyzing. If you dont have the bankroll to sustain this...yer screwed!

So... I would say hold off and build up money to a point to where you can say "I am playing in a $135 tourney...and the amount of the buy-in has no effect on me, my bankroll, or my decisons."

Don't play with scared or short money.

gl
sly

[1C5]

Question for the others here:

Any idea how a local $135 SnG would compare to Party in terms of skill? What $$ level would it most closely resemble?

[SuitedSixes]

I get the feeling you don't play on the internet. That is by far your best option for learning to play.
Here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=1668719&page=&view=&s b=5&o=) is why live poker is inferior to the internet.

[btk202jazz]

Defly man, that is a good perspective on things. I mean, I have read Super System, Caro's Tells, Theory of Poker, Hold em for Advanced Players, I mean I know what I am doin..just got to some up the balls. I know I can beat the game and the people. Thanks for the advice.
-Brendan