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Posted Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:59 pm GMT by Johnny Chan the master
ive had about equal success playing ring games, sit and goes, and mult-tables. i used to play only multis then played only sit and goes... now im leaving with more than i started with everytime i play a ring table. im just kinda curious to see how everyone else makes their money.
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Posted Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:35 pm GMT by jonesyb
Didn't you just take a big hit off Jamie Gold?
I don't know what your problem is?
Posted Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:35 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
Cash games > SnGs
Big MTT wins are the best though.
Posted Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:41 pm GMT by ninetensuited
| LeafsFan1122 wrote: | Cash games > SnGs
Big MTT wins are the best though. |
amen to that
Posted Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:24 am GMT by Fat Tony
It doesn't matter to me how I win my money. I do get more personal satisfaction from winning a MTT or a SNG thou.
Posted Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:12 pm GMT by Sharpy
I just go by how I'm playing... Last month I played 0 ring games.. 150 SnG's and 2 MTT's. Placed in 77 SnG's and won both MTT's. This month I started off 0-10 on SnG's and decided to play some 1/2 NL and have been doing well.SO ill stick with that untill I start playing porrly or my luck goes horrible.
Mix it up or you will get board and wont play like you can.
Posted Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:50 pm GMT by tame_deuces
Ring games, I don't like tournaments because shortstacked NL bores the living daylight out of me and FL tourneys are boring. I play both full ring and 6-max NL&FL pending on the mood.
Posted Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:48 am GMT by MrDarling
I'm now in place that I will be happy with any money coming in 
Though I have to say I find MTT very exciting - I rarely find the time to sit 4 hours + playing poker..
Posted Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:56 pm GMT by JonnyBoy
Live 9 handed limit games at the card room. Mostly 6/12 with some 4/8 and 8/16 mixed in. Live limit tourneys have also been profitable for me.
Put the on-line stuff on hold a couple months ago and focused strictly on limit poker. This fixed a few problems in my game. Switching back and forth between limit and no-limit screwed me up.
I'll probably jump back into the pool here this winter. (Long here in Minnesota) and focus on big medium-buy-in ($20-$40) multi tournaments. See how it goes....
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:09 am GMT by Pokerdealz
I just made a great discover, on the way I play, and have adapted to a new strategy (if you could call it that).
I joined a new poker room recently.
I used to play a lot of S&G`s and MTT, but never really spent much time on ring games.
For signing up at this new room, I got a bonus gift if I played 250 raked hands.
I thought fair enough, deposited the minimu $50, and thought I will play really tight and if I break even, I still get my free poker table.
After playing for the 250 hands I had got my bankroll to $300, playing $50 tables.
Till now I had not really had the confidence to play on bigger tables.
I ground it out and reached $1000 after a few weeks.
I decided to try moving up a level the £100 NL tables, only to find the standard of play was no better than at the $50 tables.
I always used to buy-in with the table max limit, thinking if I get the nuts, I can double up more money. Now I tried something different.
The theory I came up with is this........
I play really tight, so normally win when I make the move.
People tend to read you on the size of your stack and how much damage they can do to you.
I decided, if I am going to stake $100 in a session, I now join a $300 session with only $100.
Some of the bigger stacks at the table, do not regard my raises as threatening, so many call my bets when I make a move.
The conclusion as I see it is that to me what is good profit when I double up, is to them not really significant damage.
I dont get greedy, when I have doubled up, I leave.
It seems to be working at the moment, does anyone else have think this is a good or bad idea?
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:55 am GMT by Jefecaminador
so you hit and run... can't say I like it.
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:18 am GMT by weirdofreek
| Jefecaminador wrote: | | so you hit and run... can't say I like it. |
At a friendly home game I'd agree with you but online to make money nothing wrong with it in my eyes.
Posted Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:35 pm GMT by LeafsFan1122
Personally I do not think this strategy is a good one.
Buying in for the max amount of money is most advantageous for the obvious reasons. Although you've been having sucsess thus far, I find it very hard to say that it will continue. Your strategy is quite easily exploited and although I don't play stakes that high, people at my lower stakes seem to be trying the same thing. When a small stack buys into the table, they obviously want to double up or win a large amount while risking the least amount possible. When you start to play a lot more agressively against these players, I find that they blow up and lose their small stack by usually playing scared and nitty.
Others just get in the first 50-50 all in PF race they can find.
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