A Mentor
Kirk;
Of course, sometimes you look for the hand of someone who has more experience, I don't think I am even close to a mentor, but I have a little knowledge and I could give you a guide that could help you acquire more knowledge.
Are you passionate about poker? Well, in a long way to go full of positive and negative emotions, it is worth going through it and living it.
To enjoy poker and improve your game you must have a certain discipline and set achievable goals, it is like learning to play baseball.
Set a schedule to study or learn how to play poker, that is, look for a book or right here on cardschat watch videos about learning poker, Collin's is very interesting.
Play or put into practice the new you have learned about poker, after your session, reflect on how it went, write the good and the bad, enjoy the good you did and ask yourself why you failed? Why were you afraid to make a certain play And because in other plays you did not take advantage of the hand you had and the position, you can also ask yourself why you played so loose or so tight, yes? It is like a frank confession of your actions.
Collect how many
hands you played, how long your session lasted, summarize how your opponents were, that's a feedback and then continue studying either the book you took or the learning video in which you are.
That would be a small routine but it must be constant to acquire the basic knowledge.
What to learn? Well, the fundamental thing, but not only is reading it or memorizing it as a poem, it is understanding and assimilating it.
Define early what fashion you like the most to play in which you feel the best, Cash, MTT or Sit & go? For me, knowing a little is good of all, but you must choose the one that best suits you because each one has its own specificities that only with experience you can get to know them.
In my experience I started with Sit & Go normal speed, they are fantastic because they are mini-tournaments in which you will learn a lot about strategy, you have control of your
bankroll, they are of short times, the variance is less brutal than in the MTT and every moment there is one per playing, MTTs are frustrating, having a lot of patience with long-term results, I don't think they are convenient when you start to know poker to give you an example Spraggy a PRO of
pokerstars recently showed his results of the last three months in one of his months he played 419 tournaments with an average value of $ 74.00, in that month he only won three (in the first place) and had a 20% ITM, can you imagine that? It is to have a patience and confidence in the game that is only acquired with a good time of experience.
Start there, create the routine, take some time to study, understand the basics, and begin to understand the game from start to finish, each hand in each situation as it starts and how it develops in each street, pay attention to what you do and How your opponents respond and try to conclude after finishing each hand because they do what they do and place them by type of player or write down how they played like that, but the theory studied you will understand why they did what they did, you will be able to classify them and you will learn to adjust to their game and exploit them.
Tell us in a few days what you have done, how you have been and if you feel that you are moving forward, it is not easy but with good disposition and time everything is achieved.
Cheers.
