Secret HQ Poker Forums

Welcome to the I Stacks More poker group geared towards beating 2/5/10/25NL 6 max. I will be your host for the evening if you have any questions just let me know. Let me start of by introducing our members starting with me:

Real Name DC Name Skype ID Age CPL
Hash $tudlani studlani1985 24 5NL
Chris infire infirebalt 26
Ted jtalpha j_t_alpha 23 2NL
Jeremy Chazb0t Chazb0t 23 10NL
Joe regionx8 regionx8 24 10NL
George/Wei weijie Wei.Jie69 19 10NL
Flann wreck27 wreck27 40 10NL
Tony snappievouz snappievouz 26 10NL

For more detailed profiles check out the old thread http://www.deucescracked.com/forums/28-Secret-HQ/25147-2NL-5NL-10NL-6-Max-Study-

Software Requirements:
1.Skype
2.Team viewer
3.Microphone
4.Hold’em Manager or Poker tracker

Meeting Timings:
1. Formal Meetings will be held on weekends Saturdays and Sundays 12noon CST (US Time). These meetings will be structured used to discuss topics assigned in advance. Tentative Schedule below:

Week Topic Time approx.
Sat 12th Sept 2009 Introductions & Software Testing & Ideas 1hr
Sun 13th Sept 2009 Preflop Hands, Spots and Position 2hrs
Sat 19th Sept 2009 Flop Spots & 1 Member Group Sweat* 2hrs
Sun 20th Sept 2009 Flop Spots Cont. & 1 Member Group Sweat 2hrs
Sat 26th Sept 2009 Turn Spots & 1 Member Group Sweat* 2hrs
Sun 27th Sept 2009 Turn Spots Cont. & 1 Member Group Sweat 2hrs
Sat 3rd Oct 2009 River Spots & 1 Member Group Sweat* 2hrs
Sun 4th Oct 2009 River Spots Cont. & 1 Member Group Sweat 2hrs

* Preflop, Flop, Turn & River Spots will all be used to discuss hands submitted by members. Members please send your submissions in .txt format in a pm to me. Be sure to include any reads you have on the villain to help us in our analysis. Even if you feel a topic being discussed is below your level please attend the meeting since your input will greatly help the other members.

2. Informal sweat session and discussions on poker will take place throughout the week among members when they are online. Simply set your Skype status to the group name "I Stack More" to let us know you are available to discuss poker so we can pm you.

If you would like to join this group please fill the small form below:

1.Name:
Skype Id:
Age:
Prior Poker Experience:
Current Play Level:
Goal:
Multitable/How Many:
Previous Study Material:
Current Study Material:
Future Study Material:

2. Other Random Suggestions or Questions:

Name: Ben
Sype Id: sharpie07
Age: 21
Prior poker experience: been playing for a bit over 2 yrs now. dabbled in fr, 6m, and hu. started as mainly a sng player and still play a lot of that today but have played 6m cash and hu but not so much recently.
Goal: improve my 6m and hu game
Multitable/How many: as far as cash games go, 4 tables comfortably
Previous study material: read lots of books and watched several series i cant quite remember the names of
Current/Future study material: going to rewatch/start some of the lower stakes 6m and hu vids

what level would u start of in playing 6 max? also welcome I have added you on skype

i would start at 25nl most likely, maybe 10nl if i feel uncomfortable

Welcome to I stacks more, glad to see more people popping up

Cool, this all sounds good. Now I just have to remember that it's going on on Saturday. Oh, and I've only used Teamviewer once and it took a little to get it going, so probably going to need help with that.

Cool, this all sounds good. Now I just have to remember that it's going on on Saturday. Oh, and I've only used Teamviewer once and it took a little to get it going, so probably going to need help with that.

I can help you with that either on Saturday or before it if i see you online

Well you guys should throw me a party, I played 19/16. Now the bad news I lost 3 buy ins over 45 minutes. Any suggestions, I had aces and kings cracked by 3 bet pots preflop, and i still lost. Help anyone? Other than the donk who rivered 2 pair, I ran into a set of 6s later, and I lost with my kings, i thought tight was supposed to yield more money? Anyways, I am going to start playing tighter, and see whether or not I can get my money back.

well just got $3 of it back, playing my regular style studlani and weijie would recognize, i will adjust really tight when i get up in stakes, or until i can deposit more to get up in the stakes

Try not to be too concerned with short-term results. Both posts sound like very small-samples, and smack of being a little result-oriented.

By the way, guys, for anybody who hasn't seen it, Tubasteve is introducing affordable coaching for 10nl players. I think it would be worth depositing money to jump on this with for any player who is just starting out.

well just got $3 of it back, playing my regular style studlani and weijie would recognize, i will adjust really tight when i get up in stakes, or until i can deposit more to get up in the stakes

You shouldn't be adjusting your game based on results. Short term, and sometimes even long term results cannot tell you if you are playing winning poker. There are so many variables in poker its very hard to look at the game objectively. What you need to do instead of thinking about changing your style of play is look over your hands and think to yourself, could i have done anything different here to play the hand better.

Ok I am usually playing 30/20, and I am running better than my 19/16. A little looser is actually helping me in these 2nl games. I know that when I move up to 5nl and 10 nl that I want to see my stats somewhere in between the two so I will adjust accordingly. I am back to halfway to moving up, want a $50 bankroll instead of $20 to move up to 5nl.

Ok I am usually playing 30/20, and I am running better than my 19/16. A little looser is actually helping me in these 2nl games. I know that when I move up to 5nl and 10 nl that I want to see my stats somewhere in between the two so I will adjust accordingly. I am back to halfway to moving up, want a $50 bankroll instead of $20 to move up to 5nl.

I would recommend 15-20 BIs and not just 10. 2NL and 5NL are very swingy due to lots of all-ins preflop, plus if you get tilted from losing to 2 outers and runner-runners you might spew a little.

Name: Mark
Skype Id: bookie4390
Age: 44
Prior Poker Experience: Have been donking around for several years
Current Play Level: .02/.05 .05/.10
Goal: To become the best player I can at 1.00/2.00
Multitable/How Many: 2 to 4 I prefer two. I am old and slow.
Previous Study Material: Every book known to man. I am old and slow.
Current Study Material: ducescracked. been watching and studying more than ever.
Future Study Material: More ducescracked... much more.

1.Name: Damon Yu
Skype Id: yu.damon
Age:22
Prior Poker Experience:I've played all levels up to 100NL for the past 1-2 years or so. Stopped and withdrew everything to study for MCAT. I decided to get back into poker and just redeposit $50 dollars on stars.
Current Play Level:2NL at stars
Goal:Run my $50 dollar deposit at Pokerstars to as much as I can without withdrawing and depositing
Multitable/How Many:usually 4
Previous Study Material:2+2 and DC
Current Study Material: DC
Future Study Material: DC

2. Other Random Suggestions or Questions:
I figure I would like to help the group with my perspectives and give others some help while seeing others perspectives in certain spots.

As far as the formal meetings go, I will try my best to make all of them, but just looking at the dates, there will be some I will not be able to make.

I've only played for about 5K hands or so since I just took my exam, so I feel a bit rusty since I haven't played in quite some time, but here's my graph of my performance thus far at 2NL. http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5835/graphsofar.jpg