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First half, about a dream I had last night.
Last night while I was sleeping, I had a dream. This dream started with me looking through a local thrift store. As I walked by the section with posters and paintings, something caught my eye. A signed wall-sized poster of NaDa. I knew that finding Starcraft stuff at the thrift store was rare (although I did actually find a shirt with the protoss icon on it irl), so I bought it. After paying for it and starting to walk home, I lose my focus and somehow drop the poster while staring at a Tim Hortons. A biker ran over the poster, and I thought it was destroyed. However, i turned it over and looked at it. Turns out it was in some kind of pictureframe with glass protecting it. The poster was safe, and the glass only had a tire track on it. I continued walking with the poster, past a bunch of houses and stores. I come up to another Tim Hortons, with some people playing baseball on the street outside. As I walk by, one of the pitchers hits the batter in the ear with the ball. (This part is a little wierd) For some reason, my dream cuts away to an episode of Mythbusters, and them testing if a baseball to the ear is leathal. I then cut back to me walking down the street. Just as I reach home with my poster, I wake up.
I have no idea what sparked half the stuff in this dream (I am rooting for NaDa in the TSL, so I understand that, and its Canada so theres plenty of Timmies).
Second half, about a poker sit&go tourney I just entered and played in.
I was playing some real money tournaments on Full Tilt Poker. I got down to 11.68 from the 50$ i got from pokerstrategy.whatever. I decided I was done dicking around in the 1.20 and 2.25 sit&gos, and decided to risk it all in a 11$ sit&go. A normal person would never have done this, but I am a little crazy. The sit&go starts with 9 players. At the start I do pretty well, getting the top stack after 3 people are eliminated with some lucky pocket nines. I then start to bleed away money slowly. Once the table hits 4 people left, things get really tense. There is going to be one more person eliminated before cash is handed out. Two of the players were sitting fine on about 4k chips each, I had 2k and the guy to my right had about 1k. I was lucky enough to catch a break where both 4k players and the guy to my right bought into a hand, and one of the 4kers won bringing him up to 7k. At this point I was happy I managed to stay alive until the paid positions. Two or three careless hands later, I was eliminated and awarded 18$ for placing third. I would have kept playing if it wasn't for two factors.
1. Both the opponents were of high skill
2. I was a severe shortstack (1.5k vs 5k and 7k)
Overall though it was a good tourney, helped me tighten my play a bit. Also taught me to hate pocket nines.
 
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man before poker was illegal in the us i would do this so many times, once my stack would get to like 10 bucks from 30 or whatever i would just say fuck it and risk it all.... eventually of course i lost it all and once i played a freeroll, and i had been playing for like 5 hours, and my stack was like top 20 out of a 1000, and like top 200 got paid so i was pretty excited. But then some guy with a huge chipstack went all in 2 times in a row and on the third time i decided that with my stack i would challenge him with like JK off or w/e and he had aces. Playing poker is so tiring lol.
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Reading about the woes and worries of these soft-core poker dudes helps keep things in perspective. 10 dollars, oh no. 30 dollars, high roller there. If you are decent at starcraft and focus instead on poker, you can have thousand dollar swings and not give no fuck, and that's something that's real.
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First of all, playing in 1 and 2$ sit and gos on a 50$ bankroll isn't exactly great bankroll management, you should be playing in to 25, 50 cent ones. Secondly, alot of playing poker is experience, you'll lose money before you win, you learn from your mistakes.
You learn from your mistakes.
You LEARN from your mistakes.
Can't tell you how bloody important that is, it's actually ridiculous. The reason 9/10 poker players are terrible is because they're like, Aw the next guy got lucky or, bleh I'm never going to play that hand again.
Think about everything you do, review your hands, think about what the other guy could be thinking, calculate the odds, think about your betting patterns, could you be giving something away to make the other guy call, can you use that to your advantage?
You have to have an open mindset to learn poker, you have to be patient. I started playing when I was 18 putting in 100 bucks in full tilt and I blew that in like 3 hours. I probably blew around a thousand dollars on poker before I really started to get good, now I have a rather large bankroll on pokerstars.
That was kind of an odd rant of things that I just felt like saying but back to you, it sounds like you're just having trouble with bankroll management. People will go into cash games with 50$ bankrolls and play .50/1 Cash games and that's a terrible idea. You never want to risk, in my opinion, more than 1-2% of your bankroll at any one table.
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I've had a few tickets on Pokerstars from freerolls for weekly tournaments for like a year. I would have had 3 if it wasn't for my French Canadian friend who told me they didn't stack, but I guess it's also my fault for believing him. Went out as a bubbleboy in 29th when top 27 get tickets, and I could have easily just gone AFK with the stack I had.
What's more manly, to squeak by and make the money, or to take a risk and become in the top 1-3? I guess in freerolls where you can't really "win" anything on the top that is irrelevant, but having won one before I'll tell you it feels a lot better coming in first than in ninth at the final table.
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Just grind the tables and profit off rakeback.
Good bankroll management usually follows a safe style of play.$50.00 = $0.01 / $0.02 NL if you want to play it safe.Always make sure you are between 21-29 buy ins $2.00 x 21-29= $42.00 to $58.00. If you get to 30 you can try to move up to the next level if you go to 20 you should drop down a level unless you are at the lowest rung. The rule of thumb is use no more than 1% of your bankroll on tournaments. Just use the points you accumulate to buy tournament tickets.
Since it is a free $50.00 you can try to make it big though or play it safe and spend a long time grinding your bankroll up and moving up the limits!
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I wish that you could get that 50$ from pokerstrategy in the us. I tried to play poker so I deposited 10$ grew it to 60~ then bust out the next day. I get 15$ rakeback grow it to 60~$ again and then go broke again. I decided to then play the ftp sng since I was broke and I won 3 sng's the 1st day and then the 2nd day I lost like 10 of them. Hopefully with my next 15$ rakeback I don't go broke but it always feels like I'm freerolling so I play reckless -_-
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You really need to change your approach to SNGs because based on your story it's fairly certain you're a losing player. I suggest you just play extremely tight when the blinds are small and learn to play push/fold when the blinds get larger (when you have 10bbs or less effective stacks with your opponents)
Also depending on the blind levels, 1.5k is not extremely terrible in 3 handed play. When it gets down to short handed, variance is gonna be pretty high but you should be fine if you're push/folding correctly
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On March 24 2011 13:57 Kaal wrote:
First of all, playing in 1 and 2$ sit and gos on a 50$ bankroll isn't exactly great bankroll management, you should be playing in to 25, 50 cent ones. Secondly, alot of playing poker is experience, you'll lose money before you win, you learn from your mistakes.
I would be playing at lower stake tables, but the lowest S&Gs go on FTP is 1.20 for a single-table. And i think I have enough experience (at least poker in general) to understand most of the time when to call/fold. Not to brag, but I have been playing online poker (not for money) since age 7. Im 18 now.
You really need to change your approach to SNGs because based on your story it's fairly certain you're a losing player. I suggest you just play extremely tight when the blinds are small and learn to play push/fold when the blinds get larger (when you have 10bbs or less effective stacks with your opponents)
Also depending on the blind levels, 1.5k is not extremely terrible in 3 handed play. When it gets down to short handed, variance is gonna be pretty high but you should be fine if you're push/folding correctly
I know, the only times I don't play tight during the first few hands is if i pick up three or four monsters in a row. Otherwise I am very passive at the start of a tourney, folding if I don't have a respectable hand.
At the time of the 3-hands, the blinds were 150/300 if i remember correctly. And its not that I didn't know how to play, its because I was in a money winning spot, wanted to get finished and sleep, and overestimated the opponent's skill levels.
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On March 24 2011 12:54 Juxx wrote:
man before poker was illegal in the us i would do this so many times, once my stack would get to like 10 bucks from 30 or whatever i would just say fuck it and risk it all.... eventually of course i lost it all and once i played a freeroll, and i had been playing for like 5 hours, and my stack was like top 20 out of a 1000, and like top 200 got paid so i was pretty excited. But then some guy with a huge chipstack went all in 2 times in a row and on the third time i decided that with my stack i would challenge him with like JK off or w/e and he had aces. Playing poker is so tiring lol.
uhhhhh what? it's not illegal.
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