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playing texas holdem with my family is kinda lame because they're not very good. my 10 year old sister is pretty good tho, and my dad usually is, but that's about it. still fun for a while tho.

[ChyFDjfed]

£5 buy in, 10p/20p blinds for the first hour, 20/40 for the second hour with my friends every sunday night...

[AdipexAdipex]

I've been playing 5-6 handed 0.5/1 NL for the better part of a year, I began playing for money almost two years ago and have gone up the stakes ladder pretty conservatively, partly because I don't play that much (maybe 10 000 hands a month).

I gave 1/2 a shot in June but I dropped something like nine buyins there, and this was followed by dropping five more in 0.5/1, and since then I've been on a long breakeven stretch the whole time, for roughly 40 000 hands. I've been maintaining my bankroll on rakeback and bonuses.

While it fits within variance, I suppose, I've been trying to work on my game and sticking to 0.5/1, I'm pretty copiously rolled for it still. I think the problem is in my horribly weak-tight play, which I've been espeically concentrating on as of late. I hardly ever make any moves at pots or make any kinds of plays especially in smaller pots. I am way too aggressive on the flop but I sort of shut down always past the flop unless I have a really good hand.

This leads to me winning a hand almost always if it goes to showdown, but in pots that are not shown down I'm losing about as much money. So that's how I end up breakeven. That kind of style works beautifully in the lower limits, but I feel that in 0.5/1 and 1/2 and upwards you need to have some game in your... um, game. When I gave 1/2 a try I played only a miserable 14% of my hands when something like 18 to 22 would be better, for example. Most telling is that I won the hand when I saw the flop only 30 % of the time, when something like 40 % would be better for a tight aggressive player.

The regulars in that game just ran me over by kicking me out of pots and getting away from me when I finally kicked back, because it was obvious that I finally had something.

I've also played a bit of HU SNGs, I enjoy heads-up play every now and then but the rake and variance in cash HU is outright murderous. Figuring out your opponent in a heads-up game really helps when you're developing reads in other kinds of games, in my experience.

The drawback is that it's kind of difficult to study HU games as much, because every opponent is unique in their own way. Of course you can group players into certain categories, but everyone has their idiosyncrasies, especially really bad players.

I think I've got the basics of a good solid small stakes NL game learned, but I just need to learn a little more to really start crushing the game and to build the bankroll to give higher limits a shot. So I've been experimenting with 2nd or even 3rd barreling, stealing, reraising and restealing preflop etc.

Also figuring out and discussing hands, watching instructional videos, reading books, that sort of thing, but I think I also need to play a lot more, because that's the best way to learn if you can just analyze your own play properly.

[MannyLopez]

Kassi, I'll get back to your post later, since I'd have to read it again. What could be going wrong, well lots of things. If you're a tight player, you should either change your style, or at least adapt to the table better, or get better value, extract more bets. This was my problem for quite some time, I wasn't getting the maximum when I had the goods. I used to slow play when I was supposed to be betting, I bet too much etc. So strategically you should focus on how to get the maximum value out of your opponent when you're a tight player and have the goods.

I think you need to analyze your game, use one of them applications to do it, count your ev's and see where you're at. For .5/1 tables you shouldn't be going for +-0 and get the profit from rakeback and bonuses, you should be getting more.

ANyway, I have to go to the couch and rest a little bit, ate too much

[kennyguitar]

A friend of mine plays professionally in Vegas and he plays limit hold 'em because he doesn't get enough action in no limit.

In his opinion, in order to win in no limit (cash game), you have to be much choosier with the hands that you play. Taking this tact, no limit is a somewhat boring game. So probably, your tight game is good. But maybe you ought to work on stealing the blinds.

[WepKeyday]

dans, so to not make any mistakes here, I'm talking strictly low limits or microlimit online games. The ones where all the losers hang out and dream of playing better or sleeping with a real woman .

One of the things I'd like very much is after I get enough experience and go few levels higher and when I get my bankroll strong enough is to be taken under a wing of a real professional. That's what I'm looking for, maybe in few years, perhaps. Then go on a rampage and see if I got it or not.

[assohillA]

I try to play twice a month in tournament home games, NL hold'em. I played last night at an old-friends place and won $70.

I host a game once a month, invite 9 of my friends, and its a good time. I often invite people who are less knowledgeable, as it's easy money. We try to teach them the game too of course, but for them its more of a social outing.

I play on Fulltiltpoker when i'm bored, but don't take it too seriously. Mostly try to play it to keep myself sharp on odds and such, make sure i'm not seeing too many flops.