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Gigabeef United Kingdom. Feb 11 2010 11:58. Posts 111 | | |
Hey all, first blog. Well basically I've posted a few times here but I mainly just lurk because I don't have much to contribute to most discussions really but that's fine.
So I started totally from scratch playing 1/2c NL with a limited bankroll in the hope to learn the basics of ABC poker gameplay on the cheap which has worked for the most part. Put on $20 with FTP (the only poker site that works at university) and together with rakeback and the bonus, have increased that to over $40 so far after initial losses for a bit that I figured were to be expected (seen as how I'd played poker before maybe 3 times...).
I can't imagine that I will want to update this a lot (like anyone cares anyway  ) but I just wanted to put a few thoughts down here so maybe I can get some insight from others.
1) Hands.
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From a totally new player's perspective it seems so difficult to get enough hands in to do anything at all really. It would be nice to look at an overview and say 'oh look I'm winning x amount here I must be getting better' but in reality when you don't play many tables and have other commitments (aka studying) then its real hard to get statistically significant numbers of hands down!
2) Number of tables.
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Usually I just go for 2 but have tried 3-4 a few times more recently and although it does seem easier to focus on what is going on on every table than it used to when I attempted 4, I still don't feel like I have the total overall grasp of the players on all of the tables, and have most of my success with 2 tables.
However at 2 it really does take a long long time to get hands down (like 200/h or something). I have been playing a lot more recently that I did right at the beginning and I am more confident now that I can beat nl2 but I don't know how much by and I've only played 16k hands lifetime ANYWAY so who knows?
3) Tilt.
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I think I'm actually ok at not tilting which is probably an advantage. I mean I get a little frustrated when someone hits something ridiculous on the river but I don't usually let it bother me much. Occasionally I brainfail on the next hand and insta-do something when I shouldn't but most of the time I think I'm pretty diciplined (not that I've had a really mega rough time yet so that remains to be seen). Like today some guy flopped a really disguised straight when I made a set, but I just kinda went 'tut' and that was that.
I seem to get more annoyed at things like 2 pair on the river (8's and 3's or some bull like that ) beating tptk than things like set over set and AA/KK.
4) The eventual move up.
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Obviously the next stage is 2/5 and I want to stick to the 20BI rule really, however $100 is a long way away, especially in time. So I have been tempted to reduce that to something a little earlier but not sure if that is the right way to go about it (most of the temptation is due to the apparent similarity of 1/2 to 2/5 and maybe even 5/10 from seeing videos and reading what people say about the micros, how the players are still very bad and that its just a larger bankroll required to play to ride out the variance).
5) PT3/HEM.
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Well I don't have it because it costs like 2x my BR to buy and I'm not sure how much use it would be at micros anyway. But obviously with everyone using it all over the place to help with individual player analysis it's crossed my mind as to what point it would be worth buying it. Not really a priority though because of the cost more than anything else.
That seems to be about it, depending on what happens I might put some more nanostake thoughts up at some stage.
Bye for now 
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Jas0n United States. Feb 11 2010 12:30. Posts 1866 | | |
I would recommend you find some way to play on Stars instead of FTP if you're playing nl2, because FTP will rake you significantly more than Stars does even with RB. |
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qwerty67890 New Zealand. Feb 11 2010 12:38. Posts 14026 | | |
Welcome
first off, id prolly take LPs $8 free offer on 888 if its still open to take.
1: You just need to focus on the fundamentals for now, dont worry about getting huge sample sizes and logging monster sessions. Play because you enjoy the game
2: Sticking to 2 is a good idea for now. Once you get more comfortable playing, decisions will become more automatic. Then you can start adding more tables. There is a slight misconception that "ur a n00b unless u 24 table 6 max hyper-turbo tables" - just play however many you feel comfortable. Most people should be able to handle 6 comfortably.
3: Tilt is hard to measure, because youll never run "the worst ever" it just keeps getting periodically worse. If youre getting your money in good, take the beat and accept that every other time that comes up youll be makin bank in the long run. If youre putting in money behind (like the disguised straight) you have to decide whether its a cooler, or whether you can get away from the hand (set at 2nl is ultra-nuts so i wouldnt sweat it)
4: Keep logging hands, if you feel youre consistently beating NL2 easy enough take a shot. 20bi rule is good, but dont let ego block you if you run bad and need to drop down. Set a stop loss of 3bi or so.
5: Youre outlevelling yourself on this one. No one at NL2 will be using a HUD/Tracker. Consider getting one around NL25. Theyre useful but you can crush the games just as easy without them and youll be a better player for it.
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Thall Switzerland. Feb 11 2010 13:30. Posts 355 | | |
5: I'm pretty sure u can get HEM for free if you use some kind of code on stars when u sign up, at least thats how i got mine, and it only took me like 2 weeks of NL2 to get the amount of fpp u need |
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