I’ve been playing poker seriously since August 2007. To clarify when I say seriously, not professionally, but with a sound bankroll management system. I started with $1 and built that just over to $100 on .01/.02 by January 2008, then started playing SnG’s and MTT’s.
Since January 2008 I’d dabbled in ring games with absolutely no success, I showed a net loss in this area for all of 2008.
After a dismal performance this month in poker in general, I’ve finally realized that I am going to need to learn how to play cash games effectively if I’m going to be doing this as a profession in the next couple years.
With extensive research now done and a few trial runs on multi-tabling ring games I believe I’ve come up with my ultimate approach to beat cash games.
February 2009 will be a testing ground for me. I have Poker Tracker up and running now and will be getting help with my HUD installation shortly.
My plans are to play 4 tables every day for anywhere between 60-90 minutes. At the end of the month, if I show a profit, hopefully a substantial profit, ill continue with my endeavor. If my new found system fails, I won’t quit, I’ll just have to get some guidance from a successful player at my limit, most probably via CardsChat, I already have the fellow in mind.
I’ll still be multi-tabling my SnG’s to keep my skills up there but February for me is really about proving to myself that I can beat cash games.
I’m setting no type of monetary goal for the month in this area, as I don’t really know what would be considered average, good, great or kick-ass. I just want to grind it out to the best of my ability, show a few other players and get their feedback on things like my BB/100 (whatever that means, I still have a lot to learn).
The end of the day, if I see green I’ll be happy.
Here are a few hands from today’s warm up session.
1 good, 1 bad, and 1 fucking lucky.
The Good.
The Bad.
Seriously, WTF was I meant to do there, do I just cop that one on the chin and move on?
The Fucking Lucky.
I'm buggered if I know if I played this correctly, what do you think?
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Good luck with your cash game experiment. Try to watch the user made videos at CC, they are great. I am sure people in the microstakes thread will help you as well, it's a fantastic group.
Hand 1 don't check the flop. You are betting your sets and never slowplaying them.
Hand 2 is a pure cooler. As you move up you'll have to learn to enjoy these for $200 pots like I do now.
Hand 3 in fullring people just don't stack off 100 big blinds deep with less than QQ. Typically stackoffs are KK, AA, AK and thats it so not a good place to stack.
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