My first 3 weeks of online poker.

[krubban]

Hi fellow 2plus2ers. This is my first post in the forums but i've been lurking around here for about a month trying to understand some of the concepts everybody seems to know about. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I deposited 50$ about three weeks ago with the hopes of increasing the amount by playing solid poker. Before i even played my first realmoney hand i read HEFAP and WLLHE but had a little trouble understanding since i've prectically never played holdem before and only had a vague idea about what "the button" is and no idea what so ever of what the mysterious term "CO" meant.
I can proudly say that my understanding of the game have been boosted by at least 500% since i started reading these forums [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
So far i've had a great time playing at partypoker 05/1 and have been able to stabilize my game a bit over the last 2 weeks. I nearly busted in the first week after a nasty downswing of 130BB when i just hade worked my way up to 180 BB and felt that i was some kind of poker god. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

My progress have been going up steadily the past 2 weeks and i am now at 415$ after having a great streak with 15BB/hour over the last 1000 hands.
I have also downloaded the trial version of PT which is where i got my stats from, too bad the database is already full but i'm most likely going to buy the full version because i'm very impressed about it so far.

I have played a little bit with dieter01, RED_RAIn, festus22 and zootmurph from the forums. cheers to you! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
If you are having difficulty reading my post that's because i'm swedish and not very fluent in english but I do my best :P

That was my introduction to you guys and I hope you didn't fall asleep while reading it. I look forward to improving my play a great deal during my time here.

Oh, one question for you to finish it off.
I think everybody talks about adding fish to the buddy list at party and i tried that. Is it possible to see which table they are playing at? so far all i can tell is whether they are online or not and it kind of a pain in the ass looking through 100 tables just to find them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

[sumdumguy]

Main Lobby -> Search Tables -> Player Search

[golgo13sf]

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If you are having difficulty reading my post that's because i'm swedish and not very fluent in english but I do my best

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Congratulations on your success, keep it up. Sadly, you write (and undoubtedly speak) better english than most Americans, check some AOL chat rooms if you don't believe me.

[MicroBob]

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Congratulations on your success, keep it up. Sadly, you write (and undoubtedly speak) better english than most Americans, check some AOL chat rooms if you don't believe me.

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i concur....but you dont have to go any farther (or is it further??? har har) than these forums.

evidently, you don't even need to go any farther than this very post!!

[RED_RAIN]

Hello. It's THE_RED_RAIN from empire/party poker.

I just reviewed the 94 hands you have played with me. I don't see any leaks on the weaker hands.

Jeez 41.76 BB/100 in 94 hands with 6 top 10 hands. That's pretty good.

I can't wait to see your data after 10k or more hands.

I'm at just over 15,000 hands and at 4.96 BB/100 after taking a bit hit where before I was always at 5.5 or so BB/100.

Yes get PokerTracker.

Find tables with average pot size $9 or bigger, there are always there.

Welcome to the forums.

Here are my stats at 21 days.

475 hands at $2/$4 down $15 -0.83 BB/100
2301 hands at $1/$2 down $31 -0.67 BB/100
11,389 hands at $0.50/$1 up $661.07 5.80 BB/100

The reason for the bad runs in $1/$2 and $2/$4 were the cards and didn't feel I had my game down yet.

[rigoletto]

Welcome to the forum and good luck!

[klagett]

Hey I played with zootmurph last night at a .5/1 table I had no idea he was from two plus two.

[Inthacup]

I'm at just over 15,000 hands and at 4.96 BB/100 after taking a bit hit where before I was always at 5.5 or so BB/100.

While I don't think this winrate is sustainable unless you are an expert player(even then it's unlikely), if you can keep a longterm winrate over 2BB/100, there is absolutely no reason to stay at .5-1.00. Move up to 1-2 or 2-4 as long as you have a sufficient bankroll. If you can keep a similar winrate there, keep on moving up. Honestly, you're wasting your time and money if you're playing .5-1 with that kind of winrate.


Cup

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Is it possible to see which table they are playing at?

Party has a search function. Go to the *options* menu. You can search by a player's name and see where they're playing. I use it to see which players at my table are multi-tabling.

[t_petrosian]

"farther" refers to distances...
"further" refers to advancing a point or to more of a degree...

Ergo, "further" is correct in this case