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Criplgamer
Rock Star
Silver Level
*disclaimer*I am not a super frequent poster and when I do post I try to speak in a conversational tone. I feel if most poker coaches could break down the game to a conversation then we could make the game easier to understand.* I am not a professional but I do have 16years on the felt. *
Be flexible at the tables and Learn AWAY from the tables please God don't take other players advice unless they are winning players and you have proof of it.
If you can't change the fact that you fold to a small raise from the button when the blinds hit 500/1000 when the entire table folds to you then YOU are who I'm talking to.
An EXPLOITABLE AND INFLEXIBLE PLAYER!
You've played for years! It's not your fault you aren't cashing more! It's those damn kids and their aggression with 10/8suited !
It's always someone else!
Never you. Ever. The fact that you DO call those bets sometimes but that damn second queen hits the board and you just won't chance a weird 3 bet reraise because that's a losing strategy and you are beat anyways ! with no supporting evidence!
Stop.
You have to change it up.
You have to raise more.
Get information with your chips and out your damn phone down!
Flexibility :
At the tables is simple. If your Villain/table is loosening up, tighten up. If your table is tightening up loosen up! Tournament stage be damned. Stack sizes be damned. Your goal is to steal the damn chips(legally) from everyone at the table with or without a premium hand.
*Try this exercise your next small micro buy in NON REBUY Tourney or 1R1A or 2R1A tourney or freeroll. Or your local home game ~$40 BUY IN .
Commit to raising when it's folded around to you atleast 50% of all hands FROM THE HJ TO SMALL BLIND.
When the blinds hit the following levels start raising more from middle and early position.
500/1k
1k/2k
ECT. It's a mental thing for all players we tighten up at these levels and if you look at hand history of your own it's likely right there in front of you. You are all telling the same boring ass story. You are too scared to double or triple barrel bluff . Chicken shit at the tables and I am going to eat you alive.
Become HATED:
Your best and most profitable times are when you are HATED for not following the crowd!
Stop listening to people and their damn poker advice at the table! If there is one thing I learned in 16 years I WANT them to hate my game! If Alex Fitzgerald taught me anything is it is I don't want to be patted on the back and told I did X thing right as I'm headed to the rail , AGAIN.
Call me a donk, I don't care , because donk raising is needed at times. Call me a fish. I don't care. I'm out for blood . You are mad because I just took money or chips from you with a non socially acceptable hand or method and inside I'm laughing ..... HARD.
I'll cash, or likely win the whole thing while you bitch from the rail.
Education/Study and you are who you hang with:
You want to win? Stop taking advice from losers. Find someone who wants to get better and get better together.They are seriously hard to come by. Not everyone thinks listening to a 5 minute clip 15 times and picking it apart is their idea of fun.
You can get better LIVE or at a private online table. Great Apps out there(PPPoker, PokerBros, ECT) pick your poison, where can create your own digital poker club or even just use it as a study group.
I can give you advice all damn day on how you played a hand right or wrong. Yet many people here cannot understand how they reached that point! You must study with purpose.You have to STUDY. As much as you can and with purpose .
How did I blind down and miss the money by 20 people in a $400 rebuy tourney with a $300k gauranteed prize pool?
How did I always SEEM to fold the winner to some asshole who flips over 3/7 offsuit just to rub it in when you didn't DEFEND YOUR BB or decided your J7s isn't a hand you are suppose to 3 bet or 4 bet with!
When are you going to stop being one of the 95% of players who are losing players over time?
Today.
Your game is stagnant.
You stopped learning.
You don't play for the right reasons .
You arent playing in your element , i.e. you are a winning live player but a epic loser online but just can't stop feeding the machine! It's that damn RNG! It's bots!
No.
It's YOU.
You quit going to practice.
Your team is weak. -(weekly home game)
You are predictable .
You care about the embarrassment of getting busted bluffing. You would just die if you were caught.
Your game is stale. Dead almost.
Either walk away or get serious about it.
You CAN win at this game. It's not hard. Hell if I can do it, just a good ole boy steel mill worker from Alabama , then anyone can. Period.
No I'm not a millionaire, Im not a poker coach however I am a winning live player at the levels I play and I study DAILY.
I am serious about my hobby.
Get OBSESSED WITH POKER.
Heard that new song? NOPE. My radio is playing Alex Fitzgerald's the Myth of Poker Talent OR Exploitative Play in Live Hold em'.
Seen this show? Prob not, because I'm analyzing my mistakes from the local underground game I played in or the notes I made during or after the game on player tendencies. Generally after because I play with the same people mostly and have for 16 years now. 3 of them semi pros. 1 is a multiple circuit event winner/final table player whom I learn a ton from.
Yes. You can get better through just playing. I suggest playing as many hands as you can a month in any way you can using apps, home games, casinos ECT. Hell I still play on some free apps with the always crazy play.
You NEED to keep variance in the games you play. Even complete idiots who thinks all in is their only move.
It's a must. You need to have those idiots who push every hand in Zynga poker . Why? You can actively use it to examine your Push/Fold ranges.
I know this post was long and I hope it kept your attention. I just feel like with all of the math, ranges , charts, solvers, and jargon floated around we tend to lose the fact that this is a game. In the end. It's a game. Our purpose of playing is to Win more than we lose!
If you do or try all of the above and still don't get it, can't win, or you cannot break into the black.... it's time to step away from the game and go fishing. This ain't your game. Try Omaha , or go fish.
With PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE and study everyone can be winners here. This entire site. I am here to help if you want it.
I cannot help you get better if you can't help yourself .
I am not Alexander Fitzgerald.
I'm not a professional.
I'm just a guy who takes his hobby seriously and wish YOU would to.
The mother effing end.
PMs welcomed and any criticism is taken seriously.....
maybe.
Be flexible at the tables and Learn AWAY from the tables please God don't take other players advice unless they are winning players and you have proof of it.
If you can't change the fact that you fold to a small raise from the button when the blinds hit 500/1000 when the entire table folds to you then YOU are who I'm talking to.
An EXPLOITABLE AND INFLEXIBLE PLAYER!
You've played for years! It's not your fault you aren't cashing more! It's those damn kids and their aggression with 10/8suited !
It's always someone else!
Never you. Ever. The fact that you DO call those bets sometimes but that damn second queen hits the board and you just won't chance a weird 3 bet reraise because that's a losing strategy and you are beat anyways ! with no supporting evidence!
Stop.
You have to change it up.
You have to raise more.
Get information with your chips and out your damn phone down!
Flexibility :
At the tables is simple. If your Villain/table is loosening up, tighten up. If your table is tightening up loosen up! Tournament stage be damned. Stack sizes be damned. Your goal is to steal the damn chips(legally) from everyone at the table with or without a premium hand.
*Try this exercise your next small micro buy in NON REBUY Tourney or 1R1A or 2R1A tourney or freeroll. Or your local home game ~$40 BUY IN .
Commit to raising when it's folded around to you atleast 50% of all hands FROM THE HJ TO SMALL BLIND.
When the blinds hit the following levels start raising more from middle and early position.
500/1k
1k/2k
ECT. It's a mental thing for all players we tighten up at these levels and if you look at hand history of your own it's likely right there in front of you. You are all telling the same boring ass story. You are too scared to double or triple barrel bluff . Chicken shit at the tables and I am going to eat you alive.
Become HATED:
Your best and most profitable times are when you are HATED for not following the crowd!
Stop listening to people and their damn poker advice at the table! If there is one thing I learned in 16 years I WANT them to hate my game! If Alex Fitzgerald taught me anything is it is I don't want to be patted on the back and told I did X thing right as I'm headed to the rail , AGAIN.
Call me a donk, I don't care , because donk raising is needed at times. Call me a fish. I don't care. I'm out for blood . You are mad because I just took money or chips from you with a non socially acceptable hand or method and inside I'm laughing ..... HARD.
I'll cash, or likely win the whole thing while you bitch from the rail.
Education/Study and you are who you hang with:
You want to win? Stop taking advice from losers. Find someone who wants to get better and get better together.They are seriously hard to come by. Not everyone thinks listening to a 5 minute clip 15 times and picking it apart is their idea of fun.
You can get better LIVE or at a private online table. Great Apps out there(PPPoker, PokerBros, ECT) pick your poison, where can create your own digital poker club or even just use it as a study group.
I can give you advice all damn day on how you played a hand right or wrong. Yet many people here cannot understand how they reached that point! You must study with purpose.You have to STUDY. As much as you can and with purpose .
How did I blind down and miss the money by 20 people in a $400 rebuy tourney with a $300k gauranteed prize pool?
How did I always SEEM to fold the winner to some asshole who flips over 3/7 offsuit just to rub it in when you didn't DEFEND YOUR BB or decided your J7s isn't a hand you are suppose to 3 bet or 4 bet with!
When are you going to stop being one of the 95% of players who are losing players over time?
Today.
Your game is stagnant.
You stopped learning.
You don't play for the right reasons .
You arent playing in your element , i.e. you are a winning live player but a epic loser online but just can't stop feeding the machine! It's that damn RNG! It's bots!
No.
It's YOU.
You quit going to practice.
Your team is weak. -(weekly home game)
You are predictable .
You care about the embarrassment of getting busted bluffing. You would just die if you were caught.
Your game is stale. Dead almost.
Either walk away or get serious about it.
You CAN win at this game. It's not hard. Hell if I can do it, just a good ole boy steel mill worker from Alabama , then anyone can. Period.
No I'm not a millionaire, Im not a poker coach however I am a winning live player at the levels I play and I study DAILY.
I am serious about my hobby.
Get OBSESSED WITH POKER.
Heard that new song? NOPE. My radio is playing Alex Fitzgerald's the Myth of Poker Talent OR Exploitative Play in Live Hold em'.
Seen this show? Prob not, because I'm analyzing my mistakes from the local underground game I played in or the notes I made during or after the game on player tendencies. Generally after because I play with the same people mostly and have for 16 years now. 3 of them semi pros. 1 is a multiple circuit event winner/final table player whom I learn a ton from.
Yes. You can get better through just playing. I suggest playing as many hands as you can a month in any way you can using apps, home games, casinos ECT. Hell I still play on some free apps with the always crazy play.
You NEED to keep variance in the games you play. Even complete idiots who thinks all in is their only move.
It's a must. You need to have those idiots who push every hand in Zynga poker . Why? You can actively use it to examine your Push/Fold ranges.
I know this post was long and I hope it kept your attention. I just feel like with all of the math, ranges , charts, solvers, and jargon floated around we tend to lose the fact that this is a game. In the end. It's a game. Our purpose of playing is to Win more than we lose!
If you do or try all of the above and still don't get it, can't win, or you cannot break into the black.... it's time to step away from the game and go fishing. This ain't your game. Try Omaha , or go fish.
With PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE and study everyone can be winners here. This entire site. I am here to help if you want it.
I cannot help you get better if you can't help yourself .
I am not Alexander Fitzgerald.
I'm not a professional.
I'm just a guy who takes his hobby seriously and wish YOU would to.
The mother effing end.
PMs welcomed and any criticism is taken seriously.....
maybe.