Tip #2: Streaks and Odds

When you play poker long enough you will eventually see lots of ‘rare’ events, sometimes coming in streaks of good or bad ‘luck’, depending on the circumstances: two four of a kinds, or kk being beaten 10 times in a row type stuff.

You’ve got to be willing to bust out on a good hand because you know most of the time you will win; once calculating the odds of the the strength of your hand verses the bet and size of the pot. Not to mention the player.

This is what a bank roll is for: to take the swings. You better start getting used to it as quickly as you can.

My partner has just gone through the process of developing his game some more and it has finally taught him that this is the way the poker gods seem to want him to go. (We even happened to watch Rounders again if it wasn’t poetic enough) We turned 20 bucks in 250 in two days so not a bad start

Of course we lost another 100 during the week when the real sharks were out, but it’s all good tuition

~ niamh brown~

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Poker Bites!

Hej Der Folks!

I started this blog, as I start a lot of projects, with one idea and then it faded into the back of mind and got lost. But recently it came to my attention that the process of playing a lot of tournament and small stakes online poker, playing with friends and living with someone who has played twice as long as me, has led me to ponder and analyse my game more.

I’ve found by discussing it with my partner that between us we share a lot of insight into how to keep yourself and your bankroll afloat, when you are struggling to poke your head out the barrel of fish that is online poker.  So at random points I’ll start collecting poker tips that have shown to be affective and made sense during our struggle to the top. (Sorry I can’t promise how often, but it will be as often as thoughts occur to me and the means to type them persist)

I’m not claiming to be some huge poker professional or anything, but I’m willing to put in my 10,000 hours, lose my first 40 games and start really playing. I know I have the bug.

Anyway, to leave it off here is tip #1: Balance the Books

Don’t try to make money straight away. If you can play games and come out even, then you will have won enough to compensate for the blinds of all the rounds you’ve played. You will be up but it just won’t look like it. Learn to keep your buy-in floating for as long as you can before you try to squeeze more from it. It just like a free-roll tourney, how long can you make those chips last.

~ niamh brown ~

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First Live Cash Win!

Well sometimes you have to brag a bit

I run a poker game with some friends from work (sit and go rebuy). The last two nights I won both games. I have to say I felt good about the way I played, I got lucky a few times, once with a hand I probably should have folded, even though we were heads up. I had help from the bullets to win me the last game. It’s been good fun!

I’ve not don’t any more updates yet with the master list yet as I’ve rather naively found the YouTube playlists and there is a good version all in order (see 2005 WSOP Main Event here), so I will rethink what I want to spend my time on here and if this is the best use of it.

You may notice gaps between posts. Don’t worry, this is the fact I am a project junkie with limited time and a chronic disorder that is a drain on my energies sometimes.

Anyway don’t want to end on that. I love the world of poker, I’m learning loads and will post back soon once I’ve collected some recent thoughts into a more presentable manner. Before I leave you I want to pass on this from the new links page that I’ve been sent: http://www.bestpokermoments.com/

Niamh

PS: Yes I know the title doesn’t quite makes sense with regards to strict poker terminology as I understand it, but sometimes you have to play with words when you write

(As in ‘live cash’ refers to when you have money instead of chips in front if you, but we were playing a sit and go so that’s not the same thing, but what I mean is with people in the same room, not over the internet)

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