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MIDNIGHT115
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hello,
I have been studying poker: reading articles, watching training videos, and reading the forums. I have been playing $1/$2 no limit with absolutely no success. It is very difficult to play $1/$2 with people who don't really think. I am a very tight player and I don't mind waiting, waiting, waiting & waiting for a good hand before I jump into the action. At $1/$2, even if someone raises it to $20 pre-flop that player may still get 3-4 callers (because the odds are so good is what I hear them say). And that same person wins the pot calling a pre-flop raise out of position with Q-3 or something similar. There are a lot of crazy stories. But my point is, because we are so short stacked, I play ABC poker waiting for a good hand, that gets sucked out by people who call you so quickly and shoves all in when they hit bottom pair.
I'm really beginning to think there is no way to win at this level, that you have to be really lucky to win any money (which I am not). Most of my cards are never higher than a 7. Because of that and the way the people play, I spend a lot of time folding, and I spend 95% of my time at the poker table trying to put people on hand ranges, but action moves so fast, they don't even take time to think about the action, they just throw out their chips, that while I still thinking and trying to pick up tells, the action has already moved to the flop and is on the 3rd player to act. I try to calculate pot odds and outs. I am okay with that.
I want to get so much better at poker, but I REALLY CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE LOSING MONEY, because my AK didn't hit, and the kid next to me who called with 7-3 off, continues to win chips because the pot odds were so good he had to call. Not to mention, I'm continuously getting blinded out. I may call with AJ-AT, KQ, and maybe T9 if I'm on the button, and maybe I might call an A9 + if I'm in the blinds, but those hands don't come around very too often. I don't dare call or raise with Speculative hands. Not deep enough, and "MY HANDS" never hit.
When I try to bluff, which isn't very often (maybe once every 2 hours), I still get called, and I'm never deep stacked enough to continue to barrel. Which in my case is good, because people call crazy all-in bets with one pair weak kicker all of the time.
I have not played enough hands to get a feel at where I am at. But most of the hands I have played, I lose. I will say I have lost about 87% of the hands I played. And the hands I have won, were not substantial wins. The loses always hurt way more than the wins. More goes out than are coming in.
I have been studying poker: reading articles, watching training videos, and reading the forums. I have been playing $1/$2 no limit with absolutely no success. It is very difficult to play $1/$2 with people who don't really think. I am a very tight player and I don't mind waiting, waiting, waiting & waiting for a good hand before I jump into the action. At $1/$2, even if someone raises it to $20 pre-flop that player may still get 3-4 callers (because the odds are so good is what I hear them say). And that same person wins the pot calling a pre-flop raise out of position with Q-3 or something similar. There are a lot of crazy stories. But my point is, because we are so short stacked, I play ABC poker waiting for a good hand, that gets sucked out by people who call you so quickly and shoves all in when they hit bottom pair.
I'm really beginning to think there is no way to win at this level, that you have to be really lucky to win any money (which I am not). Most of my cards are never higher than a 7. Because of that and the way the people play, I spend a lot of time folding, and I spend 95% of my time at the poker table trying to put people on hand ranges, but action moves so fast, they don't even take time to think about the action, they just throw out their chips, that while I still thinking and trying to pick up tells, the action has already moved to the flop and is on the 3rd player to act. I try to calculate pot odds and outs. I am okay with that.
I want to get so much better at poker, but I REALLY CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE LOSING MONEY, because my AK didn't hit, and the kid next to me who called with 7-3 off, continues to win chips because the pot odds were so good he had to call. Not to mention, I'm continuously getting blinded out. I may call with AJ-AT, KQ, and maybe T9 if I'm on the button, and maybe I might call an A9 + if I'm in the blinds, but those hands don't come around very too often. I don't dare call or raise with Speculative hands. Not deep enough, and "MY HANDS" never hit.
When I try to bluff, which isn't very often (maybe once every 2 hours), I still get called, and I'm never deep stacked enough to continue to barrel. Which in my case is good, because people call crazy all-in bets with one pair weak kicker all of the time.
I have not played enough hands to get a feel at where I am at. But most of the hands I have played, I lose. I will say I have lost about 87% of the hands I played. And the hands I have won, were not substantial wins. The loses always hurt way more than the wins. More goes out than are coming in.