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I have been playing online for around 3 years now. The first 12 months I was a small losing player. The for around 6 months i was break even (with rakeback). The next 6 months I started to win and after that I was a consistent winner.

Don't worry about winning at these small stakes now. think of this as your apprenticeship. Play heaps of hands, practice handreading, try to improve... and if you can do that and still be a small amount in front then think how good you could be in a few more months with training and practice.

Oh, and join deuces cracked premium and watch videos...

haha played a $5 sng and I got busted by some a hole. calls my all in with a flush draw. more than half his stack on a draw. he definitely wasn't getting the right odds to call. this is what I mean, he was lucky so he wins. I wasn't lucky so I lose. bottom line. thats how it always is..

you are completely right. i hate it when players call with worse hands too.

haha played a $5 sng and I got busted by some a hole. calls my all in with a flush draw. more than half his stack on a draw. he definitely wasn't getting the right odds to call. this is what I mean, he was lucky so he wins. I wasn't lucky so I lose. bottom line. thats how it always is..

If it's always like that then why don't you start calling with the worse hand all the time? You'll be making big bucks in no time.

I started 3 years ago, i played on full tilt and was a break even player playing a few times a week. after 2 years i wanted more, i joined here and was a winning 50nl player on full tilt after only 3 months of watching vids and chatting here. after full tilt went down i took a few months off, then found a site that accepted us players. i won 1.50 in a freeroll and built it up to over 6k in only 2 months and won over 20k after 5 months. i struggled for a long time at 10nl and only through DC i was able to get through it. frustrating as hell but through the help of lots of guys here, 3bet, assgtjigglin, all the super super coaches that respond to us all the time for FREE. i now play 200nl on a regular basis and am very happy with how far my game has come and how far i know i have to go.

i only tell the story to let you know you don't have to quit, i didn't do crap right but listen to these guys and learn from sooooo many mistakes and br stupidity etc etc. just keep playing and post hands

by all means ask questions, when you get an answer and still don't understand, ask them what they mean and how they came up with it

lastly don't play more than 2 tables, you need to think every street, every decision, even when your not in the hand.

good luck to you and DC is the best

yeah, i'm just gonna cross post this.

im convinced that low stakes poker is impossible to beat. You can't "beat" a game where everyone calls everything no matter what they hold. its just unbeatable period no matter what you say

Yes you can.

From the few posts i read OP you kinda sound like me when i first joined DC. By that i mean ONLY and i repeat ONLY in that i thought i knew more about poker than actually did. I had read 4-5 books. You know the old 2plus2 books (which btw was all there was when i first started), I was good at sng's, tourneys, crushing micro stakes/small stakes on party and even running the occasional money up at 1000nl. One night i had even played two tourneys for the fist time ever live against random people at this bar and out of roughly 60 people each tourney, i won both. Everyone including myself was shocked. It was crazy awesome. Man, i knew how to play poker. i wasn't stupid just like you and i was already winning.

You know what happened when i found DC? I originally signed up to learn a few tricks to help me make some more money. I mean how freaking complicated can poker be?? I got into a couple of arguments over situations with players who looking back now, clearly had more experience than me and was told i was wrong. I started to be like wtf?? I thought i knew poker?? Why am i so wrong or not getting it??

I started to figure out it wasn't just about learning a few tricks to make money. it was much deeper than that. I then decided to start at the beginning with all of the beginner video's and move up from there. Really build a solid foundation of knowledge. When i got to 50nl i hired a coach and he not only helped me learn how to think about poker, but also got me into participating in the hand history forum. Over this time i fully immersed myself in poker 24/7 for over a year. I was at work all day and secretly on the hand history forum doing hand historys all day. Haha if they ever checked the internet logs, they would be pissed that 90% of my time was on there. Good thing that job sucked and i moved on to bigger and better things. anway, I improved my game a ton and found out i didn't know what i didn't know. I went from 25nl to 200nl 6max in about a year which would have been back in 2009. Sure, other players have obv done far better than my results, but not bad for playing part time with a full time 8 - 5 job. it's not as easy mental wise as you might think.

You know what i kept thinking to myself while i was immersing myself in poker? Even with the success i already had, just wow, i had no freaking clue how to play poker. So glad i did this. My point is, you have no clue how deep this rabbit hole goes and it's very apparent.

From what i've read, you aren't looking at the big picture. Saying stuff like "3/6 limit game and that is a joke and a half. it is literally impossible to make money at 3/6 unless you catch a ton of cards. in order to play no limit live poker I need a few hundred bucks and I dont have that." isn't the correct mindset to have at all. Its far from a professional mindset. Poker is about the long term. It's not about going out gambling trying to turn that $300 into $1000. It's about playing solid poker and over the long run winning more than you lose. Making less mistakes than your opponents. You think some players get more lucky and that's why they win? It all evens out bro. Every player over the long run will have the same amount of "luck" as the next. And speaking of luck, i guarantee your "good play" is probably filled with fundamental flaws and mistakes. I guarantee it! It's LOL at how many players blame bad luck for their failure and i see for my own eyes it's clearly a lack of understanding.

Anyway, this is what i did. i became open minded, started at the bottom because i wanted to build a solid foundation of theory and fundamentals. I'll repeat a solid foundation of theory and fundamentals. I wanted to understand why we do something and not just, i saw a coach do it so i want to.

I'll repeat this too. Despite what i thought, i had no freaking clue about poker and you don't either. 100%. That's not an insult, saying you are stupid, or anything against you, it's just a fact.

Well, sorry for the errors. Probably just wasted my night typing this rather than watching a tv show, but what the hell i felt like rambling. This is all i'm going to post on this and i won't be back for arguments. Take it or leave it everyone.

only when you thought you knew more than you actually did...... same here man same here and its probably still true but at least im aware of it and don't play thinking i do it all the right way.

humble yourself, learn and win


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