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"Reflections from the fish tank"
The catharsis of fish (lucubrations of one who wants to stop being fish)
By Carlos A. García.
Hello people. There are times that, like every beginner, I question things that I suppose that the 10% of winning players in poker (or whatever percentage) will have exceeded them.
I will be exposing here my doubts as a rookie (bah, 10 years ago I played double or nothing semi-professionally but today's poker is another, so 5 months ago I feel like I started from scratch again).
In reality, poker is no other, the players are others, because there are preflop tables even on toilet paper and years ago only Carreño's books and the occasional forum or school were in Spanish.
Being out of work (I'm a taxi driver and I'm almost 59 years old, so my wife only gets in my car and I take her temperature first haha), I play poker thinking about money and I think that's a problem (I'm convinced that "whoever plays out of necessity loses out of obligation").
So the question is: is poker a game for people with money? Because you play freerolls, suddenly two or three shit rooms are closed to you and they keep half your bankroll, and go to court in The Hague ...
Freerolls are clearly part of the poker bankroll learning and training curve but: how do you know when to jump into bigger challenges, call it cash, sits, low buy in or spins (never played these)?
10 years ago we played double or nothing of 5 euros with my wife and we lived almost a year of them, but we played benches (or as you say in English) and we were swindled (I was always pretty dumb for the money).
Today the dons are not profitable, so to something else butterfly.
The fish "reflection" of today is: supposing that I choose to play cash (I am thinking of it to complement the mtt) I have not seen many strategies for NL2 (to top it off I am from the old guard and I have a hard time adapting to 6 max).
Let's see, and I say this with the deepest respect (remember that I am only an inhabitant of the fish tanks wanting to stop being one): in all the strategies I have seen they talk about OR, 3bet, 4 bet, etc, etc . But the reality, at least in the zoological hospices where I have played cash, is that it cleans the entire table and if you do OR it matches you up to the dealer, it does not matter if you raise 2.5 blinds or 456 blinds. So you are going to see the flop with 4 or 5 other animals from the jungle.
In short, the question is: if everyone cleans and cold calls, whatever you do with your hand, how the hell do you read them or isolate yourself against these laboratory test tube characters?
Or should we wait for a cannon, pray to Saint Doyle Brunson and put allin preflop?
Thank you very much for your attention.
More "reflections from the fish tank" coming soon.
P.D: Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards from Buenos Aires.
The catharsis of fish (lucubrations of one who wants to stop being fish)
By Carlos A. García.
Hello people. There are times that, like every beginner, I question things that I suppose that the 10% of winning players in poker (or whatever percentage) will have exceeded them.
I will be exposing here my doubts as a rookie (bah, 10 years ago I played double or nothing semi-professionally but today's poker is another, so 5 months ago I feel like I started from scratch again).
In reality, poker is no other, the players are others, because there are preflop tables even on toilet paper and years ago only Carreño's books and the occasional forum or school were in Spanish.
Being out of work (I'm a taxi driver and I'm almost 59 years old, so my wife only gets in my car and I take her temperature first haha), I play poker thinking about money and I think that's a problem (I'm convinced that "whoever plays out of necessity loses out of obligation").
So the question is: is poker a game for people with money? Because you play freerolls, suddenly two or three shit rooms are closed to you and they keep half your bankroll, and go to court in The Hague ...
Freerolls are clearly part of the poker bankroll learning and training curve but: how do you know when to jump into bigger challenges, call it cash, sits, low buy in or spins (never played these)?
10 years ago we played double or nothing of 5 euros with my wife and we lived almost a year of them, but we played benches (or as you say in English) and we were swindled (I was always pretty dumb for the money).
Today the dons are not profitable, so to something else butterfly.
The fish "reflection" of today is: supposing that I choose to play cash (I am thinking of it to complement the mtt) I have not seen many strategies for NL2 (to top it off I am from the old guard and I have a hard time adapting to 6 max).
Let's see, and I say this with the deepest respect (remember that I am only an inhabitant of the fish tanks wanting to stop being one): in all the strategies I have seen they talk about OR, 3bet, 4 bet, etc, etc . But the reality, at least in the zoological hospices where I have played cash, is that it cleans the entire table and if you do OR it matches you up to the dealer, it does not matter if you raise 2.5 blinds or 456 blinds. So you are going to see the flop with 4 or 5 other animals from the jungle.
In short, the question is: if everyone cleans and cold calls, whatever you do with your hand, how the hell do you read them or isolate yourself against these laboratory test tube characters?
Or should we wait for a cannon, pray to Saint Doyle Brunson and put allin preflop?
Thank you very much for your attention.
More "reflections from the fish tank" coming soon.
P.D: Sorry for my bad english.
Best regards from Buenos Aires.
