New Rules
First off, this is not a “I promise to blog more in 2010″ post. Because I’m not promising that. I’m not much on resolutions, so I’m not going to even bother making that one.
But I am going to TRY to blog more. The reason I stopped was because nothing exiting was going on. I was pretty much breaking even in poker and nobody wants to read about that. But I think things are going to start changing. I basically find myself at a point I’ve been at for quite some time. Learn to be better at poker or stop trying. And honestly, I keep going back and forth on what I want to do.
I see the hands Mirage and Johnny and others post on the forum and I don’t see myself thinking like they do. Online poker right now is tougher for me and you have to be so much better than you used to be. I was a winning player pretty much by just playing my cards. Not a huge winner, but I wasn’t losing and that was good enough for me.
But now, there’s so much more to think about…even at the 10NL level that I’m at. It almost doesn’t matter what your cards are. OK, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But there’s so much more going on now…how aggressive your opponents are, what are the stats of the person who just limped, did they limp re-raise before, what about that guy that just raised, what did they raise with before, if someone limped and I raise to steal preflop are the blinds going to defend, what beats me and what are the chances he has those hands, who’s behind me waiting to act, which of my opponents are multi-tabling so they’re more prone to play ABC, who’s here blowing off steam because they stacked off at 100NL, what is this guy’s range of hands who just raised?
I grabbed some training videos and watched some 10NL ones. I saw some things right away and am trying to use them. And Ugi has agreed to watch more of my videos and offer what he can. Which is great, but I’ve been lazy and haven’t made one yet. And he has warned me that he’s going to get busy soon and might not have the time. So, I better get going on that.
I’m also posting more hands on the forum, but they tend to just confuse me more. I’ll post a hand expecting most people to tell me one thing and they end up telling me the opposite. I’m getting frustrated and actually wondered if I’m just not cut out for poker because I don’t think like I’m supposed to.
But, for now, I am moving forward and trying to get better. Again. Hopefully, this time I’ll stick to it. I have a new list of rules I’m trying to follow. Rules I came up with after watching some training videos. What I want to do is start posting them one by one, with my reasons for doing them. So we’ll see what happens.