how do you know i have been playing for long?
and what do you think about blackrains book?
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The thing that has been bugging me a little lately thag should i move up the stakes!
I deposited like 300$ 5 months ago on my site and after grinding a lot (a lot really!)
At 1/2$ plaging Nl holdem and omaha hi/lo and playing some 50 and 100$ tourney my bankroll is at 22000$.
Now i have 110(100bigs) buy in for 1/2 and i was thinking about moving to 2/4 for which i have 55 buy ins.
But i am really tentative about it.
Should i move up or should i keep playing 1/2 and focus more on high buy in tourneys?"
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Post from you in Moving Up Up and Above
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Just want to mention I bought about 200$ worth of poker books when I started again this year after 10year break.
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After I watched this: I threw them all out of the window. Poker is moving so fast and it's so dynamic that you can forget about learning a specific range per position or standart tactics. The game is all about relative knowledge, so chances are that everyone you are playing against in 100NL has already read Harrington and the Grinders Manual and is fiddling with PIO solver or Pokersnowie. No edge to be had here.
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Blackrain is Micro only, meaning he's playing exploitative for the most part. It won't help you much if you play 50NL+. Also - as I said - it did not help me much to read a book, memorize the general tips and tricks and try to apply them in game. You need to play around 1k hands just so you get 100 samples of your specific trouble spot and it takes ages to get better.
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I decided for advancedpokertraining.com because it's easy to practise tough spots over and over again. 3betting AQo in the SB? If you like you can play this hand in this specific spot 500 times in a row untill you got it down. Also the AI is playing close to GTO at the highest level so you can play against extremely tough opponents while getting your leaks tracked.
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So when I have a specific spot I'm losing money in, like AKo OOP in a 3bet pot, connectors in MP or low PP from the BB, I just tailor the AI to this and practise it untill I understand the dynamics of the situation. The number of repetition is crazy high compared to other methods of training, so you get better extremely fast.
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I really recommend it.
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