Hound's Poker Adventure Day #1
Okay,
Everybody has heard from our resident house poker goshu Dave Scharf about his excellent run at the WSOP, but now your going to get to here about my big bad poker adventure, a rookie who has just started playing in his very first steps of online poker. I hope you all enjoy my rants and feel free to share some of your own bad beats/good beats
I'm not going to go nuts with these posts, and if the administration would like me to stop posting about my adventure I'll more than glady cease and decist.
So before I get into my first day, I find myself asking "What the hell am I thinking?". Well to be quite simple I'm still not sure, all I know is that I'm having fun, and what the hell.
My first table is on pokerstars (their rated the best poker site for online poker by pokersitereview.com so I decided to go with them), I'm sitting in a 0.25/0.50 blind level NL Hold'Em table. The avg pot is around $8.00, and with myself sitting there is 9 people gathered around this table.
So you all know, I play notouriously tight. I like think I play tight agressive poker, but I know better than that. There wasn't much action from me in the beginning except a call I felt compelled to make, I brought the maxium amount to the table which is $50.00, and I'm about third in the money count not that it matters, I get down to about $45.00 after about 20 mins, made a big call but folded out on the river when I saw too many overcards...
I finally get a good hand, I get J8o in the big blind, not a huge hand but it turns big in a hurry. I check to see the flop for "free" and the flop comes down 8c-Js-4d (I'm thinking nice, top two pair), I raise and have two callers. Turn card is another Jh, i'm thinking awsome full-house, and after the turn i have a full house Jacks with the 8's, I anaylze this for about 10-15 seconds and feel very good about moving all in. Turns out to be the worst decision I have ever made playing online poker, one of my previous callers folds and I'm left with a maniac who calls, I'm thinking sweet huge pot...until the river comes down with a 9, he shows J9,.I show J8 and loose the pot, down my first $50.00 in total.
I'm not going to lie I was pissed, so I go bring in another $20, and play tight, I chizzle and dime my way back and make $21 and some change the next hour. So after my first two hours I'm feeling more comfortable and down $30.00 on the day from my all-in antics earlier (learned a good lesson about all-in, never go all in unless you have the 100% nuts when your playing against a manaic, my short experince anyway.. on another note I don't feel that bad about the call I made, if i had have seen the nine before the river I wouldn't have moved all in on fourth street, I honestly believed I made the right descion, maybe just a more consertave raise would have been more approaite than my "all in" Chris Moneymaker impression but I still feel that I made the right choice. And I know (your down 30 after your first two hours? you suck!) but you know what without that bone headed raise I'd probably be up a few dollers right now so I'm going to go back and try to not make too many more big errors.
So even tho I'm down thirty I feel pretty confident if I don't make any "noob" mistakes over the next few hours I should be straight by the end of the night. (knock on wood and break out the roseries boys)
I'm also happy to be grabbing some food, and done of the idiot to my left who kept yelling ALL IN all afternoon at other players who were taking their time to make a decision. (did discover you can disable chat, too late tho)
I know there are many of you that will argue that a first time onliner shouldn't be anywhere near a NL table, I would disagree, as one who tends to learn best from experince or "hands on", I am learning that online poker is a different beast then house and casino poker and one that deserves equal respect, as I found many of the players at my table strong.
I check my stats and find out that I only see the flop on avg of 26%, probably very low, but I'm a tight player so this is what I expect. Anyway, off to grab a drink and browse poker stars FPP cataloge and will probably have the climax of my night written tommorow if I can beat this dog back to even by the end of the night.
Cheers
Hound
(Hounds Poker Adventure Day #1)
Everybody has heard from our resident house poker goshu Dave Scharf about his excellent run at the WSOP, but now your going to get to here about my big bad poker adventure, a rookie who has just started playing in his very first steps of online poker. I hope you all enjoy my rants and feel free to share some of your own bad beats/good beats
I'm not going to go nuts with these posts, and if the administration would like me to stop posting about my adventure I'll more than glady cease and decist.
So before I get into my first day, I find myself asking "What the hell am I thinking?". Well to be quite simple I'm still not sure, all I know is that I'm having fun, and what the hell.
My first table is on pokerstars (their rated the best poker site for online poker by pokersitereview.com so I decided to go with them), I'm sitting in a 0.25/0.50 blind level NL Hold'Em table. The avg pot is around $8.00, and with myself sitting there is 9 people gathered around this table.
So you all know, I play notouriously tight. I like think I play tight agressive poker, but I know better than that. There wasn't much action from me in the beginning except a call I felt compelled to make, I brought the maxium amount to the table which is $50.00, and I'm about third in the money count not that it matters, I get down to about $45.00 after about 20 mins, made a big call but folded out on the river when I saw too many overcards...
I finally get a good hand, I get J8o in the big blind, not a huge hand but it turns big in a hurry. I check to see the flop for "free" and the flop comes down 8c-Js-4d (I'm thinking nice, top two pair), I raise and have two callers. Turn card is another Jh, i'm thinking awsome full-house, and after the turn i have a full house Jacks with the 8's, I anaylze this for about 10-15 seconds and feel very good about moving all in. Turns out to be the worst decision I have ever made playing online poker, one of my previous callers folds and I'm left with a maniac who calls, I'm thinking sweet huge pot...until the river comes down with a 9, he shows J9,.I show J8 and loose the pot, down my first $50.00 in total.
I'm not going to lie I was pissed, so I go bring in another $20, and play tight, I chizzle and dime my way back and make $21 and some change the next hour. So after my first two hours I'm feeling more comfortable and down $30.00 on the day from my all-in antics earlier (learned a good lesson about all-in, never go all in unless you have the 100% nuts when your playing against a manaic, my short experince anyway.. on another note I don't feel that bad about the call I made, if i had have seen the nine before the river I wouldn't have moved all in on fourth street, I honestly believed I made the right descion, maybe just a more consertave raise would have been more approaite than my "all in" Chris Moneymaker impression but I still feel that I made the right choice. And I know (your down 30 after your first two hours? you suck!) but you know what without that bone headed raise I'd probably be up a few dollers right now so I'm going to go back and try to not make too many more big errors.
So even tho I'm down thirty I feel pretty confident if I don't make any "noob" mistakes over the next few hours I should be straight by the end of the night. (knock on wood and break out the roseries boys)
I'm also happy to be grabbing some food, and done of the idiot to my left who kept yelling ALL IN all afternoon at other players who were taking their time to make a decision. (did discover you can disable chat, too late tho)
I know there are many of you that will argue that a first time onliner shouldn't be anywhere near a NL table, I would disagree, as one who tends to learn best from experince or "hands on", I am learning that online poker is a different beast then house and casino poker and one that deserves equal respect, as I found many of the players at my table strong.
I check my stats and find out that I only see the flop on avg of 26%, probably very low, but I'm a tight player so this is what I expect. Anyway, off to grab a drink and browse poker stars FPP cataloge and will probably have the climax of my night written tommorow if I can beat this dog back to even by the end of the night.
Cheers
Hound
(Hounds Poker Adventure Day #1)
Comments
regards,
CO
Ummmm... on the hand where you made the full house with J8, it was your opponent who made the mistake, not you.
I think pretty much the exact opposite is true. Against a complate maniac or chronic calling station, you're going to have to get involved (sometimes for a lot of chips) with many *more* hands than usual.
In fact, I can't imagine *any* kind of player you could be possibly be playing against where the optimal strategy would be to wait for the absolute nuts.
Don't get me wrong, tight and conservative play is often the right way to go, particularly for a relatively new player. However, you can't possibly dislike getting all of your money in with the top full house and one card to come.
It's not necessarily wrong to start with NL. You should play whatever game you feel you are best at and know the most about.
This hints at what I think is a dangerous way of thinking. Poker is one long game. Except under bizzare circumstances, you shouldn't enter any specific short-term session with a specific monetary goal in mind. Your goal should be to make the right decision every chance you get.
Chasing money tends to make that money speed up and run away from you more quickly.
ScottyZ
NO!
that would mean no more posts about monkeys
EVIL :twisted:
I will say one thing that ScottyZ brought up that does hit home...A few times after my disapointing experince with my Full-House low kicker due to a really crappy river :evil: I found myself playing too tight in fear of something, And missed out on some really nice pots which after I would have won, anyways...I've inclinded to think Scotty brings up another great point when he says
I would have to say I believe that to an extent as well, I'm not forcing myself to be up, but I defiantley want to err from going down any further to much extent!
Anyways, always nice to get some positive feedback and some good constructive critizem, bring it on!
H.