I bought it when I first started playing and thought it was well worth the money. I got as many hours of practice against varied styles of players as I wanted without learning the bad habits you pick up playing at the "play money" tables of an online site.
It probably would have helped even more if I had the patience to fully explore all the options. I think you'll be satisfied.
It probably would have helped even more if I had the patience to fully explore all the options. I think you'll be satisfied.
Thanks Quick...I had my first winning night at foxwoods sunday night on the 5-10 table, after being beaten like a baby seal on the 2-4 table the last 4 or 5 times where they play no fold em holdem and was getting a little discouraged.
I thought by playing 5-10 people would play a tighter game, which they did, so I could concentrate better on basics like position play.
Now, I made $325 in about 4.5 hrs play on a $200. buy in.
In your opinion playing 5-10.What is a good goal to shoot for playing with those parameters?Should I shoot for 50% more than what I bought in for to consider it a succesful session? ($100.)Whats a reasonable goal?
(I just started playing/learning right after our beloved Patriots played and won their annual super bowl game.)
I thought by playing 5-10 people would play a tighter game, which they did, so I could concentrate better on basics like position play.
Now, I made $325 in about 4.5 hrs play on a $200. buy in.
In your opinion playing 5-10.What is a good goal to shoot for playing with those parameters?Should I shoot for 50% more than what I bought in for to consider it a succesful session? ($100.)Whats a reasonable goal?
(I just started playing/learning right after our beloved Patriots played and won their annual super bowl game.)
Patriot-
Congrats on your strike! Before I give my opinion about session expectation I want to mention that $200 isn't much of a roll to buy in for at $5/$10. You need a minimum of 12 big bets in case you catch the stonemortalRomanpure nuts and want to cap every street. I like to buy in for anywhere from 30 - 50 big bets. A big stack tends to intimidate your opponents a litle, too. Any edge I can get...
What is a good goal to shoot for playing with those parameters?Should I shoot for 50% more than what I bought in for to consider it a succesful session?
I try to never set any goal for myself. In my opinion, stop/loss is just as big a mistake as stop/win. The only guideline I use is that I'll play as long as the game is good. How I define "good" is any combination of the following:
The table is loose enough (I like 4+ people seeing the flop on average)
I'm playing better than my opponents
I'm having fun
I feel alert; playing my "A" game
There isn't much of a connection between those things and winning or losing.
Tonight I played really well. About 600 hands at two sites. I finished the evening down exactly $24.25 and am quaffing my second ale as I type. I had a boat beaten by quads; trips runner-runner'd by a straight; two flushes rivered by boats, etc. I could have been up a couple of hundred except for a literal handful of cards over 600 hands. I could just have easily been down an extra hundred, though. Who cares? Nobody including me.
It's part of the reason I love the game. Phil Helmuth once said, "If it wasn't for luck I'd never lose." It's a good line. He's wrong, of course. If it wasn't for luck he wouldn't have anybody to play against! We wouldn't either.
I can remember the exact time that I realized that there was more to poker than I thought. I caught a queen on the river to give me a set and I beat some guy who had two pairs, aces and kings. He went absolutely apebleep at me. Of course, I just loved that...I almost giggled in his face. He stalked off; after he left a woman sitting at the table said to me, "Nice catch... 22 to 1." I said thanks.
I had no idea what the hell she meant! I was one clueless mofo. When the villain came back to the table I was pretty uncomfortable playing there so I left. I bet the rest of the players yelled at him for scaring the fish away.:biglaugh:
It's all one long game. No expectations for a session means that I can quit when I'm down, surf th RX, and think about baseball for a while before hitting the hay.
By the way, you should be able to hammer the smaller game at Foxwoods just by playing tightly, pushing your good hands, and not playing after the flop without a made hand or a primary draw.
I could be talked into making the trip to meet up with some Rx'ers after the good weather gets here.
Congrats on your strike! Before I give my opinion about session expectation I want to mention that $200 isn't much of a roll to buy in for at $5/$10. You need a minimum of 12 big bets in case you catch the stonemortalRomanpure nuts and want to cap every street. I like to buy in for anywhere from 30 - 50 big bets. A big stack tends to intimidate your opponents a litle, too. Any edge I can get...
What is a good goal to shoot for playing with those parameters?Should I shoot for 50% more than what I bought in for to consider it a succesful session?
I try to never set any goal for myself. In my opinion, stop/loss is just as big a mistake as stop/win. The only guideline I use is that I'll play as long as the game is good. How I define "good" is any combination of the following:
The table is loose enough (I like 4+ people seeing the flop on average)
I'm playing better than my opponents
I'm having fun
I feel alert; playing my "A" game
There isn't much of a connection between those things and winning or losing.
Tonight I played really well. About 600 hands at two sites. I finished the evening down exactly $24.25 and am quaffing my second ale as I type. I had a boat beaten by quads; trips runner-runner'd by a straight; two flushes rivered by boats, etc. I could have been up a couple of hundred except for a literal handful of cards over 600 hands. I could just have easily been down an extra hundred, though. Who cares? Nobody including me.
It's part of the reason I love the game. Phil Helmuth once said, "If it wasn't for luck I'd never lose." It's a good line. He's wrong, of course. If it wasn't for luck he wouldn't have anybody to play against! We wouldn't either.
I can remember the exact time that I realized that there was more to poker than I thought. I caught a queen on the river to give me a set and I beat some guy who had two pairs, aces and kings. He went absolutely apebleep at me. Of course, I just loved that...I almost giggled in his face. He stalked off; after he left a woman sitting at the table said to me, "Nice catch... 22 to 1." I said thanks.
I had no idea what the hell she meant! I was one clueless mofo. When the villain came back to the table I was pretty uncomfortable playing there so I left. I bet the rest of the players yelled at him for scaring the fish away.:biglaugh:
It's all one long game. No expectations for a session means that I can quit when I'm down, surf th RX, and think about baseball for a while before hitting the hay.
By the way, you should be able to hammer the smaller game at Foxwoods just by playing tightly, pushing your good hands, and not playing after the flop without a made hand or a primary draw.
I could be talked into making the trip to meet up with some Rx'ers after the good weather gets here.
Quick I bought in with $200. and and had another 200 in my pocket for 2-4 in case I got schooled in a hurry.,,,my buy-in for right now I consider tution or my starter kit..lol....Nice tip though about the intimidation factor with big chip stacks...maybe I should do that instead of trying to shuffle the chips with one hand at the table like the pros do (I never tried that I'm afraid I'd spend 15 minutes crawling on the floor picking up chips)
Yeah thats what I got to learn,I'm just starting to know what I don't know....Lots of layers involved in the game and I'm going to learn all of them.
Thats what I did. I played tighly according to position and it payed off and if I could see the flop cheaply with a decent starting hand I would and would fold if nothing was there and wouldn't chase.I had one guy who thought he was a wiz sitting to my left and would raise on nothing so I would check/raise him when I had the nuts and beat him everytime.
Thanks for the advice...talk to ya later.
