BreakEvenPlayer
02-19-2004, 06:02 PM
So it was one year ago on this day that I deposited $20.00 into a real-money account on Pokerroom.com. I had been playing Hold ‘Em for about six months with friends in home games, and like all beginning players, I thought I was the $hit. Well on day three of internet poker I made deposits #2 and #3, 20 more bucks with each dreadful typing of the 16 digit credit card number. Day five saw a deposit of $50.00. A fish was born. I was determined to shed my gills however. I struggled for a few months at Pokerroom’s $1-$2 tables, with no concept of bankroll, pot odds, aggressive play, etc. But I played a lot, stuck it out, and in late May of 2003 I made out a rent check with money I had won from internet poker. It was an incredible feeling, and a signal of things to come. I didn’t play much online poker over the summer, and spent time studying some poker books. I even had a few lucky wins in No-Limit tourneys up at the local Indian casino.
It was September of 2003 that I heard about PartyPoker.com. My initial $100 deposit went slowly down the tubes, but I realized very quickly that this place was a goldmine for a quality player. My next deposit was boosted with a few “Refer-a-Friend” bonuses, and I have never looked back since. It was also in September that I began lurking around the Zoo; although you have to dig some to get quality advice, it’s out there and I’m a better player for it. I will refrain from qualifying my results with numbers like many posters on the boards do, but online poker at Party has become a cake part-time job for me. I honestly believe that the $2-$4 tables at Party have to be about the easiest game to beat on the net.
Looking forward to my next year of internet poker, I would like to continue studying the game and improving as much as possible. I see myself in a similar boat as (Just)Jason, I would love to get involved in the middle-limit games at Party once the second boom comes with the WPT season. Here are some fishy memories from my first year in online poker, I think they will resonate with all of us, because we ALL (even you eugeneel) have been a fish at one point in our lives.
- I remember when I would never raise AA pre-flop as a deception tactic (lol). I also remember taking my AhAd through the river with a board of: Qc-10s[7s-8s-9s] facing capped bets on each street, and then feeling truly pissed that my rockets didn’t hold up like they “always should.”
- I remember talking to my friends about how I would never play hands like K5 because the kicker was too low. Somehow K6 was just good enough (even fish draw the line somewhere).
- I remember when I would play any two cards over ten no matter what I had to cold-call just to see a flop.
- I remember when I was sure online poker was rigged after seeing things like a flop of 6-6-6 followed by a hand where my QQ lost to AA because “Hey, I’ve played like 1,000 hands of Hold ‘Em in my life and things like that just don’t happen!”
- I remember when I thought that the blinds were great because “Hey, I automatically get to see the flop!”
- I remember when I would get drunk and at 3 A.M in the morning I would take my last $64 dollars to a $5-$10 table and donate to whoever the hell was lucky enough to have me sit at their table.
- I remember when I would have 41 Poker Points left in my pokerroom account. I would cash those in at one cent per point, proceed to take my $0.41 to the pokerroom slot machines, proceed to build my 41 cents to $2 on the 10 cent machines, proceed to turn my $2 into $6 on the 25 cent machines, proceed to turn my $6 dollars into $25 dollars by winning a $5+1 SnG, proceed to turn my $25 dollars into $64 dollars playing the $1-$2 tables, and then proceed to get drunk and lose the $64 by the aforementioned means. (All this play would leave me with 41 more Poker Points to attempt the process all over again.)
- Last but not least, I remember when I would fold Qs5s preflop.
Well, it was fun writing that, and getting off on how horribly I used to play.
As for 2+2… I was recently looking at some of my first 130 posts in this forum, and most of them are quick one-liners or vain attempts at humor. The humor will not stop, but from now on I will try to make more thoughtful contributions to the forum, as a handful of posts from several posters have helped me in the past. We all know the kinds of posts that pop up daily in the Zoo, the following table should help guide you through the insanity.
- Whenever a post starts out with the following: “I have been a successful B&M player for 15 years but…”
- It really means: “I am a 19 year old beginning poker player and I can’t get it through my head that I am a horrible online poker player and if I ever want to improve I need to drop the conspiracy theories and study the game.”
- Whenever the post heading is: “Is Party down?”
- The answer is always: “Yes.”
- Whenever the word “affiliate” or "prop" is mentioned in a thread heading…
- It means: Flamewar between Cyndie, Jek, and Lori.
- Whenever a header says “Hey Gaming Club guy”
- The decoded post will read: “Hey I’m broke could you please do that OIC thing again because I really want another free $50 to lose playing piss-poor poker.”
Alright, alright, I think I’ve written enough. I would like to wish everyone good luck (skillz) with their poker playing, and I hope all consistent posters will step back from the politics that any forum inherently contains and make a helpful post every once in awhile. See you all on the tables.
- BEP
P.S. Ulysses can I get my pattern map now?
It was September of 2003 that I heard about PartyPoker.com. My initial $100 deposit went slowly down the tubes, but I realized very quickly that this place was a goldmine for a quality player. My next deposit was boosted with a few “Refer-a-Friend” bonuses, and I have never looked back since. It was also in September that I began lurking around the Zoo; although you have to dig some to get quality advice, it’s out there and I’m a better player for it. I will refrain from qualifying my results with numbers like many posters on the boards do, but online poker at Party has become a cake part-time job for me. I honestly believe that the $2-$4 tables at Party have to be about the easiest game to beat on the net.
Looking forward to my next year of internet poker, I would like to continue studying the game and improving as much as possible. I see myself in a similar boat as (Just)Jason, I would love to get involved in the middle-limit games at Party once the second boom comes with the WPT season. Here are some fishy memories from my first year in online poker, I think they will resonate with all of us, because we ALL (even you eugeneel) have been a fish at one point in our lives.
- I remember when I would never raise AA pre-flop as a deception tactic (lol). I also remember taking my AhAd through the river with a board of: Qc-10s[7s-8s-9s] facing capped bets on each street, and then feeling truly pissed that my rockets didn’t hold up like they “always should.”
- I remember talking to my friends about how I would never play hands like K5 because the kicker was too low. Somehow K6 was just good enough (even fish draw the line somewhere).
- I remember when I would play any two cards over ten no matter what I had to cold-call just to see a flop.
- I remember when I was sure online poker was rigged after seeing things like a flop of 6-6-6 followed by a hand where my QQ lost to AA because “Hey, I’ve played like 1,000 hands of Hold ‘Em in my life and things like that just don’t happen!”
- I remember when I thought that the blinds were great because “Hey, I automatically get to see the flop!”
- I remember when I would get drunk and at 3 A.M in the morning I would take my last $64 dollars to a $5-$10 table and donate to whoever the hell was lucky enough to have me sit at their table.
- I remember when I would have 41 Poker Points left in my pokerroom account. I would cash those in at one cent per point, proceed to take my $0.41 to the pokerroom slot machines, proceed to build my 41 cents to $2 on the 10 cent machines, proceed to turn my $2 into $6 on the 25 cent machines, proceed to turn my $6 dollars into $25 dollars by winning a $5+1 SnG, proceed to turn my $25 dollars into $64 dollars playing the $1-$2 tables, and then proceed to get drunk and lose the $64 by the aforementioned means. (All this play would leave me with 41 more Poker Points to attempt the process all over again.)
- Last but not least, I remember when I would fold Qs5s preflop.
Well, it was fun writing that, and getting off on how horribly I used to play.
As for 2+2… I was recently looking at some of my first 130 posts in this forum, and most of them are quick one-liners or vain attempts at humor. The humor will not stop, but from now on I will try to make more thoughtful contributions to the forum, as a handful of posts from several posters have helped me in the past. We all know the kinds of posts that pop up daily in the Zoo, the following table should help guide you through the insanity.
- Whenever a post starts out with the following: “I have been a successful B&M player for 15 years but…”
- It really means: “I am a 19 year old beginning poker player and I can’t get it through my head that I am a horrible online poker player and if I ever want to improve I need to drop the conspiracy theories and study the game.”
- Whenever the post heading is: “Is Party down?”
- The answer is always: “Yes.”
- Whenever the word “affiliate” or "prop" is mentioned in a thread heading…
- It means: Flamewar between Cyndie, Jek, and Lori.
- Whenever a header says “Hey Gaming Club guy”
- The decoded post will read: “Hey I’m broke could you please do that OIC thing again because I really want another free $50 to lose playing piss-poor poker.”
Alright, alright, I think I’ve written enough. I would like to wish everyone good luck (skillz) with their poker playing, and I hope all consistent posters will step back from the politics that any forum inherently contains and make a helpful post every once in awhile. See you all on the tables.
- BEP
P.S. Ulysses can I get my pattern map now?