Evolution - from Fish to Formidable inside a year.... (?)
Hello people of two plus two...
Way back when I started playing poker (all of ooh 3 months ago now) I set myself a target of being a reasonable poker player inside of a year - I'm not planning to quit the day job and go pro - but I want to be good enough and bankrolled enough to comfortably play NL$1000 tables or higher so I can make myself a nice little 2nd income.
So far I have gone from clueless newbie little fish - to a slightly smarter fish that is beginning to realise just how big and dangerous the sea is...
It is slowly dawning on me just how complicated poker actually is - especially playing No Limit. If I could go back I start over learning Limit poker - but I am way to stubborn to give up now....
The point of this post is to ask what the average person ought to do to improve their game... and more specifically what I should be doing to improve my game...
so far I have read lots of poker books
HOH 1&2
TOP
SSHE (this was a bad idea - NOW I Know this is for LIMIT HE and NL is much more different than I thought it was DOH!)
and GSIH.
I keep track of my results with PT and try to spend at least an hour a day going through the plays I have made and trying to work out which are good and which are not
I spend at least an hour a day reading 2+2 forums both the current ones and looking through ye olde archives and occasionally post hands for feedback (and most excellent feedback it is too)
I play full ring tables 1 table at a time - I find that this gives me more than enough to keep track of - I watch every hand thats played - I take notes on players all the time...
I don't have a starting hand chart - I used to but I can pretty much remember it all now anyway and I am learning that especially in NL every hand depends on circumstances to a greater or lesser degree so a rigid formula for starting with is actually more of a hinderance.
I don't have an outs chart either - tho there are several in the books I have if I really need to read one - and I'm lucky in that I'm good at mental arithmatic and can work out ballpark figures at the table in no time anyway...
so far so good??
Am I going about learning this fabulous game correctly?
am I making glaringly obvious newbie mistakes?
What else would you advise that I do to accelerate the learning process?
and is my goal of being a reasonably good player within a year actually attainable - or will it take much longer?
Thanks in advance for all the help ..
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