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Fahrenheit451

Fahrenheit451

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Hi !

I'm learning to play Holdem for about 2 months and hope to get some additional income to my pension some day.

I can afford max $40 a month for my poker education.
First month I lost $20 at PS, playing LH.
I choose limit because it is safer, but didn't like it - you play against ton of MT grinders and it's very boring.

Second month I invested $20 in poker770 and raised it to $40 (including bonuses)

As for playing my wins / loses totaled ~ zero.

I play SNG 10 seat tables microstakes, because it is safer than cash games and I can get much more practice for a buck.

My strategy is simple:
1) wait for a bubble (and play only premium hands at that time)
2) when money on the table gets smaller than 15BB - I switch to All In / Fold mode and play increasingly aggressive.
Post flop is nonexistent in such strategy.

That way I win about one third of all games (end in places 1-3) which is not enough.

Here is my learning considerations.

One thing is clear - I must master post flop to gain advantage when bubble comes.

It seems to me that SNG are safer for BR, but harder, because of increasing pressure at the end of tournament while at cash table you can sit and wait for premium cards almost an eternity.

So my plan would be - continue SNG, but increasingly add post flop to pre bubble phase.
That way I would get huge practice for little money and (if all goes well and I could consistently win SNG, say 60% of all games)) I could easily switch to cash games later and start to build BR.

Other learning strategy would be - play micro limit cash games, but I don't see any advantages here.

Any flaws in my reasoning ?
Recommendations & advises ?
Please, criticise me as hard as you can ! :shakehand

Thank you in advance !
 
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First of all sorry for my English. I think the best is to play tournaments in a first stage. I won three good tournaments over 4000 participants at Titan Poker, playing only from JQ or game low pairs, and straight and color, with good prizes, but then I wasted my hard earned money. In TT, of this type, does not make sense to waste your time. The reality hit me hard at poker stars today attempt to resume my old game of few risks and go only with strong hands.
Table play with as little Stack has the disadvantage of another against fat wallets have no problem squandering a hand to dominate the table.
Greetings.
 
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cotta777

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I reccommend poker 770 as a more profitable option for you.

you will be reasonably successful if you stick to non turbo micro sit n go's and stick to your tight strategy whilest always using your position to avoid bad spots,

my advice would be to work on exploiting players.
for example in the micro's your going to find plenty of players that will bet into you without any idea what theyare doing or where they are in the hand.

and for example, if you can watch their game&betting tendancies, and be like this player is never calling witha weak hand here, or this player is never bluffing/always folding without a hand here.

thats exploitable and you can add that to your game and ask yourself how could you exploit yourself. - how would you beat yourself - thats a great question to consider
 
Fahrenheit451

Fahrenheit451

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I reccommend poker 770 as a more profitable option for you.

At the moment I'm not looking for profit as I'm not winning player at any level.
I'm looking for a road-map to fastest learning with lowest price.
Looks like that could be full ring SNG and advancing from micro level up as I progress.
My goal is to switch to regular cash game eventually.

BTW, do you recommend to buy Holdem Manager ?
I am using trial version now and it is very helpful.
Is there any alternative free software ?
 
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