I have been playing in a consistant live game for 3 years. It is always a great time and I absolutely believe that I am a very good solid live game player. On any given night, there will be a bot 2 donks at the table. Then it becomes a race...Who will get the donks chips first!?!?!? This makes the table go crazy for the first hour of the game usually. All in 1 out of 3 pots in a cash game. It is really bad, haha. Tight players come out to try to catch the fish and loose players play borderline crazy.
I really enjoy the game and the people I play with, but I believe that if I give online more of a chance and more of my time, I can really make a lot of $$$. Even though I am technically playing higher stakes live, I will be playing at larger stakes online very soon. While my stakes online become larger the live game will always be the same. I recently switched my accounts from full tilt to pokerstars. I had a lot on full tilt, but I only placed $150.00 of it into my pokerstars account. I joined pokerstars for the the very large tournaments.
I have played the cash games...not too well so far. I also tried playing a lot of micro mtt's with very little success until I won a 4.40 180 man sng for $216.00. Until I am more comfortable online, I will be staying away form the cash games...I just feel nervous on any decent sized pot I am in and it effects my play dramatically. Right now I am at about $280.00. I plan on playing a lot of 4.40's and then also a lot of $10.00 sng's to build my bankroll. I would also like to be in the 100k guarantee every Sunday so I will now try to free up space during my Sunday afternoon for it. Winner usually ends up with 18k for a $10.00 buy in ( Yea, sick I know.) I don't plan on winning it, but final tabling the event would result in about 1-3k payday and much more for 4th-1st.
I believe I play very well live. I think I have great reading abilities to determine the hands that my opponents have. The only part of my reading abilities that I believe I need to improve on is understanding betting patterns to determine what opponents may have. That is why I think I have not hit a big payday online. Online poker can only give me betting patterns and betting speed as a read. I plan on playing more online poker to get to the higher stakes and to improve my reading ability with betting patterns. Wish me luck. Sorry, to the live game players that this may effect.
- DC
- Illinois, United States
- "Poker's skill...You start with the worst hand and you go uphill."
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Your Heart and Your Head
Recently, I have been busy from classes, being a R.A., and being the president of a voluntary organization, but I still have had time to think about poker. Should I have the time to be thinking about poker right now? No. My full focus should be on the other 3 things that I have mentioned above.
I have a planner for everything that is coming up and while I do not do all of the things that I say I should in my planner, I still have a poker game weekly as long as there are enough people coming. Once again, should I be doing this and not the other things that have already been planner out? No. I think I use a planner to keep me as focused as possible. I look at it and I say to myself, "I really have no time to play poker today and I need to get these things done!" Then I find myself at least watching poker on tv at some point of the night.
Why is this happening to me? It is my heart. My brain says that I should focus on this and on that and then my heart comes in and says, "Hey, what the hell are you doing. Don't you know you have been consistantly making money in poker for the past 2 years??? Play!"
I am in a point in my life where I have very little time for poker, but I have made a lot more time for it than I should have already. It has always been a great dream to go to a large live event and take it down for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I know that it is just that...A dream. I am not the only one with this dream and I am sure that I am not the best player in the world with this dream. I am playing low stakes online, while others are playing for 1k a pot. So, once again, here comes my head in to say, " Come on, if you are that good, why are you still playing for $6.00 pots instead of the higher stakes?" What can my heart say to that? Nothing.
I think that the heart and the brain are perfect for each other. They don't let each other take over. If my brain had taken over by now, I would have stopped playing poker even as a winning player and focus more on getting straight A's. If I let my heart take over...maybe I would have taken a shot at a big tournament by now even though I don't nearly have the bankroll for it. Then again, maybe I would have had a bigger bankroll if I let my heart take over for awhile...also I may have wen't broke because of it as well.
I finally won one of the 4.40 180's and that is why I began to think about this again.
Just confused about all of this and wondering if any of you have ever had similar thoughts...How did you eventually make the choice between the 2 and was it a good one or a bad one?
I have a planner for everything that is coming up and while I do not do all of the things that I say I should in my planner, I still have a poker game weekly as long as there are enough people coming. Once again, should I be doing this and not the other things that have already been planner out? No. I think I use a planner to keep me as focused as possible. I look at it and I say to myself, "I really have no time to play poker today and I need to get these things done!" Then I find myself at least watching poker on tv at some point of the night.
Why is this happening to me? It is my heart. My brain says that I should focus on this and on that and then my heart comes in and says, "Hey, what the hell are you doing. Don't you know you have been consistantly making money in poker for the past 2 years??? Play!"
I am in a point in my life where I have very little time for poker, but I have made a lot more time for it than I should have already. It has always been a great dream to go to a large live event and take it down for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I know that it is just that...A dream. I am not the only one with this dream and I am sure that I am not the best player in the world with this dream. I am playing low stakes online, while others are playing for 1k a pot. So, once again, here comes my head in to say, " Come on, if you are that good, why are you still playing for $6.00 pots instead of the higher stakes?" What can my heart say to that? Nothing.
I think that the heart and the brain are perfect for each other. They don't let each other take over. If my brain had taken over by now, I would have stopped playing poker even as a winning player and focus more on getting straight A's. If I let my heart take over...maybe I would have taken a shot at a big tournament by now even though I don't nearly have the bankroll for it. Then again, maybe I would have had a bigger bankroll if I let my heart take over for awhile...also I may have wen't broke because of it as well.
I finally won one of the 4.40 180's and that is why I began to think about this again.
Just confused about all of this and wondering if any of you have ever had similar thoughts...How did you eventually make the choice between the 2 and was it a good one or a bad one?
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