help me improving my game

Hey guys.
I started playing poker 2 weeks ago. I made a deposit of 25€ and the money was gone in 1 week. i play no limit hold'em cash games.
It was first time i played real money and i didn't understand some things so i guess it was expected
So i started to read some stuff online and some books, Harrington On Hold'em which i think is a great book but it is about tournaments, Internet Texas Hold'em Winning Strategies From An Internet Pro - Matthew Hilger - i also enjoyed it but it is about limit and i also read Theory of Poker.
After reading this books i felt more confident about my game, so i make another 25€ deposit. It starts weel, playing 0.05/0.10 i won 15 euros that day, next day i made some stupid mistakes and i had some really bad luck and lost almost everything

i need some tips, what should i read online some books about cash games no limit, i know you learn the most by playing but i want to study some theory first, i don't have much confidence about my game right now

Thanks in advance

Lots of good stuff written by people here. Id suggest....

This thread has links to a lot of other good threads....
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/learning-poker-57/5k-post-1kish-compendium-cc-threads-192979/


This thread is especially helpful for beginners.
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/learning-poker-57/5-rules-beginners-who-want-make-155326/


GL .

The first thing you should read up on is BRM - bankroll management.

playing .05/.10 with 2.5 buyins is asking to go bust, the best players in the world could easily go bust with only that many buyins for a level.

Bankroll Management is the most important thing here.
Limiting the amount that you can lose at any one time, will allow room for some variance (specifically, bad luck), and you'll still have some more money to play with.
If you are serious about trying to improve, and learn a bit about all aspects of bankroll management, you will see that it is virtually impossible to lose all of a $40 (or euro) bankroll in one day (it's also unlikely that you will win $15 in one day with a $25 bankroll) but the key point of BRM is to not go broke!

Good Luck

The key is not to go broke.

How true is that?
Poker is 1/3 cards, 1/3 psychology and 1/3 money management. You can win if you can handle the last two when you don't get the first.

i think tourneys are easier at first

you could blow through 25 bucks in a few hours playing even micro cash

you also have to make more decisions in cash game, since many more hands go to showdown

tourney you can play 20, $1 tourneys for your 25 ... and you can stick to premium hands and a tight aggressive style

books are great, but only part of it ... you need to start seeing hands, lots of hands and real hands, not play money hands

good luck

plx said:

After reading this books i felt more confident about my game, so i make another 25€ deposit. It starts weel, playing 0.05/0.10 i won 15 euros that day, next day i made some stupid mistakes and i had some really bad luck and lost almost everything

i need some tips, what should i read online some books about cash games no limit, i know you learn the most by playing but i want to study some theory first, i don't have much confidence about my game right now

Thanks in advance

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Yes, yes, yes to BRM and keep reading ( a LOT of stuff written is for tourney play, so if you don't want that find the cash books).
But I am going to jump on what you said above. We all do it (or at least have done it) - STUPID MISTAKES. It's really part of the process of learning the game. It's REALLY easy to do with poker. You play smart, get ahead, then think that earned you some sort of license to "try some things". Okay, sure, but the sin isn't making mistakes, it's not learning from them. So get yourself a little notebook or journal and start jotting those mistakes down and what you learned from them. This will cause you to constantly be in a process of reviewing your hands - and you will NOT grow much or very quickly without it.
More than once I will review a hand (often times the last one that got me ousted from a tournament or losing my stack at the ring) when making that long walk back to my car, muttering to myself. Sometimes I find my playing was all correct and I did what I should have done and just didn't see the results I would have liked or expected. More than once I beat myself up because everything I needed to know was staring me in the face and I ignored it (REALLY!?! I thought my 99 would hold up against the nit who kept folding to 3 bets, even though this time she came over the top of me with an all in with her KK. IDIOT).
But don't just review the hands that ended badly. Be sure not to overlook calling the flush board with two pair just because you rivered a boat to take all the nut flush money. Should have folded that one - just got lucky.
There are lots of things to do to get better, but self review may just be one of the most efficient and quickest ways to get there because it deals directly with where you are at right now.

adityaa said:

Do work on right way. Its a gambling way if you loss but after sometime you increase your money.

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Golden ^

If you're depositing 25 you should really only be playing 0.01/0.02 I'd suggest playing a few thousand hands at this level before moving up (regardless of bankroll).

Good luck in your venture. As mentioned above 25 is not enough to be playing 10nl.
There are some great strategy articles here:
https://www.cardschat.com/poker-strategy.php

thks for the advice guys.
i'll try to review some hands from now on
there was a special tournament last sunday in party poker i joined to see if i could get some money, i won $50
right now i'am playing some sit and go $1 turbo and i can't seem to earn much, some times i make top 3 some times not, i play 4 tables at a time, my br has not increased a cent playing this -.-
i think i'am going back to cash games, there must a lot of luck involved in those sit and go turbo and i heard that the rake is too high in party poker, is that true?

thks

I don't know what the tourney fee/rake is on partypoker micro SNG's, but do know that if you've only been playing for 2wks. then 4 tables is wayyyyy too many. imo, you should only be playing on ONE... then after a bit, make it TWO. You want to learn the game > focus on the play of the other players, think through each play. If you're jumping in & right away playing 4tables, I think you'll lose alot of oppurtunity to learn. (plenty of time to add tables later).

Poker Orifice said:

I don't know what the tourney fee/rake is on PartyPoker micro SNG's, but do know that if you've only been playing for 2wks. then 4 tables is wayyyyy too many. imo, you should only be playing on ONE... then after a bit, make it TWO. You want to learn the game > focus on the play of the other players, think through each play. If you're jumping in & right away playing 4tables, I think you'll lose alot of oppurtunity to learn. (plenty of time to add tables later).

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I have to agree with Herr Von Donkenschnitzel