NayteS
Rising Star
Silver Level
I recall learning what I thought to be winning poker at the time..
I started getting into poker in late 2007. I figured out how to shred people in our home games. Wanting to learn more..I started buying books and reading them over and over again until I thought I had a good idea of what it all meant.
About two years ago I felt confident enough to go to a local casino and play some live cash games. I was busted within an hour...
My thoughts were "Wtffff, I've been playing online for like 6 months! and I've gobbled up every bit of game theory that I could get my hands on, how am I losing"..
For over a year I lost money playing big boy poker.
Then one day I had an epiphany. It seemed like every hand I've ever played, every table, opponents, like all of my acquired knowledge suddenly subconsciuosly-manifested into this feeling of really knowing what poker is all about. I FINALLY GOT IT! My Ace-Kings were no longer invincible! I learned how to lay down AA when I knew I was beat. Folding my tiny pocket pairs in multiway raised pots.
I thought for the longest time that since I could wreck shop at my home games and because I had read a few books that I was a winning player. Wellll I thought wrong.
The past 3 years and finally becoming a winning player have made me realize more than ever how the game of poker is undoubtably
90% SKILL and 10% LUCK.
I started getting into poker in late 2007. I figured out how to shred people in our home games. Wanting to learn more..I started buying books and reading them over and over again until I thought I had a good idea of what it all meant.
About two years ago I felt confident enough to go to a local casino and play some live cash games. I was busted within an hour...
My thoughts were "Wtffff, I've been playing online for like 6 months! and I've gobbled up every bit of game theory that I could get my hands on, how am I losing"..
For over a year I lost money playing big boy poker.
Then one day I had an epiphany. It seemed like every hand I've ever played, every table, opponents, like all of my acquired knowledge suddenly subconsciuosly-manifested into this feeling of really knowing what poker is all about. I FINALLY GOT IT! My Ace-Kings were no longer invincible! I learned how to lay down AA when I knew I was beat. Folding my tiny pocket pairs in multiway raised pots.
I thought for the longest time that since I could wreck shop at my home games and because I had read a few books that I was a winning player. Wellll I thought wrong.
The past 3 years and finally becoming a winning player have made me realize more than ever how the game of poker is undoubtably
90% SKILL and 10% LUCK.