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#1
09-28-2004, 11:50 PM
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Help!
I just don't have the balls to play NL.
I have no problem putting 1500 cash into the 30/60 game and I clean up - it's easy to think in terms of bets rather than cash. But the thought of losing it all in one hand makes me play scared and thus awfully. What the hell is wrong with me? 
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#2
09-28-2004, 11:54 PM
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Re: Help!
You are missing balls. There are pills you can take for that. Or join wrestling, and get in the situation thats on my avatar. Er, i guess thats if you want to be gay by force.
.... POWN!
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#4
09-29-2004, 03:07 AM
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Re: Help!
You asked: "What the hell is wrong with me?"
My answer could not be simpler: Nothing. Only fools regard poker as a macho contest. The idea is to win, and to do it you must objectively compare your strengths and weaknesses to your competition. Since you don't "have the balls to play NL," but clean up at 30/60, there is only one intelligent course of action: Play 30/60. Regards, Al
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#5
09-29-2004, 06:41 AM
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Re: Help!
Word.
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#6
09-29-2004, 07:27 AM
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Re: Help!
No Limit is not a big deal. Most hands are as straightforward as limit. The chance of losing your whole stack when you end up second best with a huge hand is real but then you should be playing No Limit as you play limit, within the bounds of your bankroll.
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#7
09-29-2004, 07:51 AM
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Re: Help!
Word up.
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#8
09-29-2004, 09:48 AM
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Re: Help!
I played NL (smaller stakes) for one year and eight months. It truly is a different game than Limit. Sometimes the decisions are easier in NL, ie get all your money in pre-flop and there is your decision. May the best hand win. Sometimes, the decisions are tougher - it is easier to run a bluff or be bluffed in NL. I think you have to be a lot more versatile in NL. That said - if you are cleaning up in a 30/60 game, I am not sure why you would want to move over to NL, except for the challenge, maybe. This much I can tell you - if you are playing as low as $100 buy-in NL and flop trip aces with two suited cards on board and thirty bucks in the pot, and shove in whatever is in front of you (let's say you have $150) I can assure you some tard will call you down.
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#9
09-29-2004, 10:06 AM
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An important rephrase of the question
I have decided I would like to improve at NL.
But when playing NL, I don't feel I'm good enough to play NL at stakes that have any significant meaning. So, I decided to start low (PP $50 NL and UB/Stars $100 NL) - but since I regularly play mid-high stakes limit, I find myself less interested in the outcome of NL hands because the stakes themselves aren't interesting enough to keep me focused. But there's little doubt I'm a losing player at 5-10 NL and up. So the question: When you regularly play mid-high stakes LHE, how do you undergo the task of learning NLHE when the small stakes aren't interesting, and the large stakes are a big money-loser?
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#10
09-29-2004, 10:09 AM
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Re: Help!
You asked: "What the hell is wrong with me?"
My answer could not be simpler: Nothing. Only fools regard poker as a macho contest. Of course; but it is well-established fact that playing NL with scared money is suicide. Please see my rephrased question post in this thread for a better description of my problem; i could use some professional help [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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