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So I've never seriously played for money opting to spend the last year heavily studying poker with the assistance of my best friend that happens to be in my opinion one of the best players in the world's (finished top 100 of wsop main event). So i believe i am now knowledged enough to go for a deep run in some real tourneys. With my friends advice I will likely be attending Run it Up Reno in October and playing the lower buy in $85 tourneys (not the $565 main event). My friend mentioned he'd likely buy a bit of every tourney, and honestly I'd be so happy if I could around 80% staked.

Now the only thing is I have zero big wins because I've never bought into one. I've never deposited more than twenty dollars into online because while i took the studying seriously I knew the key to profit was a larger investment. I'm finally ready to give this a real chance.

That being said I'm kicking my competitiveness into hyper drive, studying 50+ hours a week and playing 3-5$ buy in tourneys with the hope to back up my wild claim that I am actually someone who takes this game very seriously and not some degen.

Any advice on achieving my goal to be staked would be much appreciated.
 
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My Opinion

A good time to fold pocket aces is when they won three times in a row. Other high hole cards too like pocket kings. Pocket queens you should fold every time they won twice.
 
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A good time to fold pocket aces is when they won three times in a row. Other high hole cards too like pocket kings. Pocket queens you should fold every time they won twice.
No offense, that's not very good advice. Your advice is based on the gamblers fallacy and anecdotal evidence over a likely small sample.




I think the key to being good is to study while playing because you need volume of play in order to build a frame of reference for your studies to make sense. Are you really going to feel confident that raising in the button with 72offsuit is going to be a winning play more often than not if you haven't done it enough times to see it? As I've often been told: Play 50%, study 50%
 
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I strongly agree with the 50% work and 50% play advice. It the same in the business world, A bachelors with 4years experience is better than a Phd with no experience. By balancing learning and playing you will actually be able to apply what you learn and develop your own style of play a perfect it. In play you will learn a good bit which you won't learn from studying.
 
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So I've never seriously played for money opting to spend the last year heavily studying poker with the assistance of my best friend that happens to be in my opinion one of the best players in the world's (finished top 100 of WSOP main event).



Any advice on achieving my goal to be staked would be much appreciated.

Put in the time/volume til' you can show results.

OR... much quicker way >> let your best friend finance you (if he's that good surely he could back a nice WSOP pkg. for you?)

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suited low card like 8 and a 4 can be worth it 5 or 10% of the time but bet low forsure.
 
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I'd play small mtts, some hu sngs and multi-table sngs just to get experience with every type of play and every stack. Know your shoving and re-shoving ranges and thats probably enough to be profitable at the micros. Don't tilt.
 
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