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DavidC17

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After playing for over 1 year I have realized that I haven't improved at all for the past 6+ months.

I eventually want to play 180 man sit and go's on pokerstars. Since they start from 2.50$ I'd need a 500$ BR so I hope to start at the 25c 90's and then grind up to 500$ which would be the goal for this year. To grind 500$ from 50$.

What I find my main weaknesses are in these games is final table play. I have played around 100 45 and 90man sng's and I have only won the first one I have played. I have been in the final table many times however I always try to bully the short stacks and end up losing a hand or two which causes me to become the short stack. I have also played 3x 180man sng's in my life and I also won the first 180 I ever played. It was a 1$ hyper turbo which paid 50$ to the winner (I have to admit this is my biggest tournament win since I started playing poker which was last year. Kind of sad. I had 2 or 3 100$ and 200$ pots in hu cash before)

I know it's a lot to ask but I'd be grateful if anyone could list the things that a player needs to learn in order to become successful in poker. By this I mean for example:

- Hand reading
- Pot odds
- Implied odds
- expected value
- Early stage tournament play


etc. This is only a few examples and I know there are many more. It would simplify things a lot for me.

Also what are in your opinion, the best ways to study ?

I often find myself reading a strategy post in this forum and while reading I end up thinking e.g. what I will do this evening. I find it easier to learn from videos as you can see the theory put to work but I know you can learn more from reading however I was never a good reader. Although I always had the best grades in school the only book that I read in my life is crushing the microstakes by blackrain and I have already forgotten most of it.

By the way do you think these games are profitable? Are they worth playing or should I go with 90man knockouts or maybe normal multi table tournaments with fields of 500+ ?

There are a lot of things to learn in poker and I just don't know where to start.

One other leak I have found in my tournament play is when I am playing vs a short stack I usually go all in with top pair weak kicker or a combo draw. I am talking about when I am deep stacked e.g. 2x over tournament average and villain is <10bb deep.

On the other hand when I face people with a similar stack to mine I often get scared away by them. That's right. I am agressive but when villain shows strength I fold right away. I know it is player dependent but what can you do if villain calls a 15xbb 3bet pre and calls 70% flop cbet then an all in on the turn with a flush draw and gets there on the river to beat my set. I feel like it's hard to put anyone on a range online because a lot of the people are just gambling.
 
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hi I was in the exact same situation as you and I found pearljammers review of his sunday million on youtube to be a great help, gives real in depth insight onto what you should be thinking when playing hands in a mtt and the best optimal plays, I also aim to play sit and gos and this has not only helped with my mtt play but my sng play, hope to see you around the tables! :)
 
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is it the 9 part video? Thanks. I'll have a look. I found a lot of videos in "vodsinfo" channel on youtube. It looks interesting. I'll have a look tomorrow.
 
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ya thats the one, he goes through his game as he reaches the final table in the sunday million I found it a great help! haven't looked at any of his others but i'd say they're good too!
 
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There's a lot of variance in those fields. I would say first focus on 9 man sng's and then move up to 27 and 45 first before tackling the 180 mans. If you think about it, every tournament you have to mainly focus on the one table you are currently on.
 
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