Good Evening All

I have posted here before and got some sound advice.
I AM GOING TO start playing micro stake poker games. I have taken my my play money account from 10,000 to 18,755 playing 5/10 limit hold em. I have implamented new stragergies as outlined in various book (although some of the pocket cards in the correct position show -EV on my calculator). This worked very well for a while, so I started multitabling (to see if I could handle it), this also went very very well. Recently for the last 3week I have been logging on I have been consistantly losing money or just breaking even. I have just given up on multitabling for analysis reasons. But still I am losing. I am wanting to know weather or not I have just hit some varience and its not my play that has effected this.
I believe I have started losing cash because.
- I have had very poor pockets card (thus folded), when i got dealt good pocket cards I was out of position and did not call them.
- When I have had a drawing hand on the flop, the odds have either been incorrect to warrant a call or my hand has missed the majoirty of the time
- I have suffered a few bad beats on the river with win odds of 0.6-to-1 and so on.
- I have called some drawing hands with incorrect odd, although not many.

Do these sound like varience reasons or bad play reasons?

Also I have been trying to understand an arthour explaination or expected hourly rate based on knowing weather or not you have your opponents beat. I am having a hard time understanding this and would appreicate if somebody could point me towards an easy to understand reference.

Time to hit the tables.

Thanks for your time,
Good Luck with your game.

Originally Posted by Xopods

Play money has nothing to do with real money. Even huge money losers can win at the play money tables... that's the whole reason poker servers bother to have them. Inexperienced player comes along, sits down at the play money table, goes from 10,000 to 10,000,000 in a week, thinks "god, I could make money at this," deposits, and goes broke.

Sad but true... I killed the "Play Money SNG's" and thought I could do the same at the real money SNG's... I was wrong, very wrong.

But I did learn from my mistakes...

Thanks for the great replies.
I think i have good begginer(maybe intermidiate knowledge) or stratergy. I would like to know alot more about the maths. My plan of action is to read alot of books as sugestted, Use tution software and hit the game hard for playing exprience.

One last question that I have if i may.
I use Pot odd and out odd when i hit my drawing hands to see if i should call (and call is all i ever do as i am unable weather or not and when to raise in these situations). I have been reading that u should call when u a 3to1 favorite if the pot is xxx and you would win in the long run. Do I use this data in place of pot odd, Or only when I dont have a drawign hand e.g trips. Or do i use these two figures when deciding a drawing hand.

Sorry for all the questions but I asspire to be a poker god and will contribute as much as i can with these forums.

Kind Regards

I like your goal.. becoming a poker god. That's awesome.

I think what you need to decide is what kind of player you are.

Are you a math guy? Do you calculate pot odds before making every call? Do you have a sound understanding of what pot odds actually are? Do you use implied odds to make poor calls that most other people wouldn't make?

If so, then you are what I like to call a "calculator". These players usually sit and think about every call they are about to make. Over the long haul, they are typically winning players, but are easily frustrated when the numbers don't work out.

Here is another type of player. Do you read your opponent? Did you watch their every move and figure out what their poker strategy is? Do you attempt to put a player at the table on a hand every hand? Will you then change your play and make moves that you feel will work?

If so, you are what I like to call a "strategist". These players are usually the more dangerous of the 2. They have more of a gut intuition than mathmatical understanding of the game. Only problem is when the gut is wrong, it's costly.

Every poker player starts as 1 of the 2. It's when you can master both worlds and combine them that you can achieve "poker god" status.

Good luck

Thanks for the reply wallace. Ideally I would like to become both, as I have begginners knowledge of stratergy I would like to concentrate on the numbers until they are mastered then become a master stratergy player. I have been doing lots of reading (and re-reading of chapters) the last few days, and im having trouble knowing what type of odds to use in which situations. I am looking for some help again. At the moment I am concentrating on using pot odds and effective odd (I will begin using implied odds once I have these mastered). Once I have made my pre-flop decision. Do I use
1) win odd V pot odds when all cards are dealt (and possibly drawing dead)
2) out odds(planning to outdraw) V pot odds with just the river to come
3) effective odds with the turn and the river to come.

An answer to weather I am using to correct odds in the correct places would be awesome. .
Also does anyone know of any good odd training resources?

Thanks all and Have a good game.
PS learning to play proper poker is hard! xx

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