Jdanz
05-04-2005, 05:46 AM
i've just begun experimenting with 15/30, i've played like 10k hands and am down a couple hundred bucks, doesn't say anything in any direction.
I can give the normal whine that i'm playing against idiots with pre-flop numbers alone that tell me they CANNOT (and i'm not talking even like 35/20 or something but likt 50/10) be winning, but i don't know what to do.
I don't, but that's not the point, cause i know enough that i'll be winning once i get more hands in, regardless of the fact that i'm not playing well enough to win what i think i should be playing well enough to win.
Last summer i was in NYC and got in a lot of live poker, but this summer i'm gonna be in Jersey, not be 21, and well back in Jersey, so not a whole hell of a lot to do.
The point being i'm really going to be putting in some hours, but the money right now is not the biggest concern, i'm much more concerned with increasing my long-term winrate.
I know some people on this forum have moved up in stakes really quickly, and i'm sue they'd agree that it's not about number of months played, but quantity * quality of time really puting in intense mental effort.
So knowing that i'm light years ahead of some of the donks i'm playing with, but not understading the hands that the higher level posters here can't concieve as anthing but standard [responses of schneids, gonores, bike, james, amongst countless others (those are just some of whom i've read A LOT of posts)].
I'm not really asking asking the what's the quick and easy way, i get it, there isn't, i have the great privledge of having been specificlly told this by El D in pms. The thing is that i'm not reall sure how to best spend my time, on the boards, playing 1 table, playing 4 tables, etc. I know it's a combination.
I guess i'm just looking towards those who have gone before to tell me A)what aspects of their game really improved as they started to really beat the 15 for a good rate, or started playing the higher games B) what part of the "learning expereince" did they find most helpful (posting, playing, reviewing hands, pegging people on hands during play, just sitting in an empty room thinking about poker) and well [censored] it C) what were those eureka moments that i'm not allowed to ask for.
I think the gist of what i'm saying is pretty clear, i'm looking to devote some serious time/effort, and just trying to get some thoughts on the best way to allocate it.
PS never thought i'd use brackets in a non-math part of a 2+2 post.
-JDanz
I can give the normal whine that i'm playing against idiots with pre-flop numbers alone that tell me they CANNOT (and i'm not talking even like 35/20 or something but likt 50/10) be winning, but i don't know what to do.
I don't, but that's not the point, cause i know enough that i'll be winning once i get more hands in, regardless of the fact that i'm not playing well enough to win what i think i should be playing well enough to win.
Last summer i was in NYC and got in a lot of live poker, but this summer i'm gonna be in Jersey, not be 21, and well back in Jersey, so not a whole hell of a lot to do.
The point being i'm really going to be putting in some hours, but the money right now is not the biggest concern, i'm much more concerned with increasing my long-term winrate.
I know some people on this forum have moved up in stakes really quickly, and i'm sue they'd agree that it's not about number of months played, but quantity * quality of time really puting in intense mental effort.
So knowing that i'm light years ahead of some of the donks i'm playing with, but not understading the hands that the higher level posters here can't concieve as anthing but standard [responses of schneids, gonores, bike, james, amongst countless others (those are just some of whom i've read A LOT of posts)].
I'm not really asking asking the what's the quick and easy way, i get it, there isn't, i have the great privledge of having been specificlly told this by El D in pms. The thing is that i'm not reall sure how to best spend my time, on the boards, playing 1 table, playing 4 tables, etc. I know it's a combination.
I guess i'm just looking towards those who have gone before to tell me A)what aspects of their game really improved as they started to really beat the 15 for a good rate, or started playing the higher games B) what part of the "learning expereince" did they find most helpful (posting, playing, reviewing hands, pegging people on hands during play, just sitting in an empty room thinking about poker) and well [censored] it C) what were those eureka moments that i'm not allowed to ask for.
I think the gist of what i'm saying is pretty clear, i'm looking to devote some serious time/effort, and just trying to get some thoughts on the best way to allocate it.
PS never thought i'd use brackets in a non-math part of a 2+2 post.
-JDanz