General Poker Advice (PLEASE READ)

[Tomturkey46]

Thank you for the nice read, eejit and your advice is very sound!! But I would think that you had a situtation that you landing in that would trap a lot of people. Playing over your head.. The warning is vailid and should be heeded.
Now that can also be placed on small winnings too. I have NOT made any big killings(I don't enter into many events where that would happen) but playing in small events I have made a few dollars which make a very pleasent sight in my bank account. Which I go out and have a little fun with lol

The Turkey

[eejit101]

Exactly...

1- live life
2- play poker.


IF doing 2 assissts one then great, but 2 should never become 1 (unless your sexualy compatible)

[Lilred36]

Very true Tom, glad to see you around.Will be seeing you at the tables soon I hope.I hope most of NDN members read these threads,some people here have seen alot.Wise and talented folks here,learn from there experiences.

[ianleel]

Im learning as I go thank you it will help.

[herlis]

nice post! its exactly what i was thinking about the money here , its all numbers. you wont miss them until its gone.

[ffcowboy76]

Great post eejit. I fell into the same trap with a much smaller win. I hit for about 3600 and cashed out the 3k. With the remaining 600 I went on a small streak pushing it to 800. I started to play the $1/$2 NL which was WAY over my bankroll. Shortly after jumping up to that level I was down to $50. I pissed away $750 in a heart beat. I wish I would of been smart and kept playing at the level that served me best, even if the profits were much smaller.

What happened to you will happen to all of us. The best we can do is learn for others mistakes and try no to do it ourselves.

[ferrengi]

Great post eejit. I fell into the same trap with a much smaller win. I hit for about 3600 and cashed out the 3k. With the remaining 600 I went on a small streak pushing it to 800. I started to play the $1/$2 NL which was WAY over my bankroll. Shortly after jumping up to that level I was down to $50. I pissed away $750 in a heart beat. I wish I would of been smart and kept playing at the level that served me best, even if the profits were much smaller.

What happened to you will happen to all of us. The best we can do is learn for others mistakes and try no to do it ourselves.

Good thing you cashed out the 3K. Most people would not have the discipline to cash out such a big percentage of their big win.

[taylovesthebeatles]

This was a very insightful and helpful post, thanks Eejit. This perspective is definitely a good thing to keep in mind, and we can all learn from it. I think you're exactly right about us all being the same person and poker player, no matter what our current run might be, win or lose.

[kingsnthahole]

thanks for that inspirational story, and i will agree with you 100% that if you play within your limits, you can have fun and maybe once in a while, get lucky and win real big...and you can do one of two things, cash out and make payments on the endless debt that is life, or try and turn that couple thousand into millions...honestly, i do have to say eej, WHY THE HELL DIDNT YOU TAKE 10K AND REG FOR THE WSOP RIGHT AWAY!!! i woulda done this in a heart beat before paying off debts...haha

Iv'e been playing with 45 bucks that i won in a freeroll in feb since then and havent bought into fulltilt since last summer, its all free, i play within my limits, and sometimes it gets down to about 15 bucks, where it is now, sometimes it gets to as much as 200...so im sitting back enjoying playing every day, and honing my skills for live poker....

thanks again eej

[thenutzaa1]

Great post eejit, you hit the part of poker that people don't think about at all. You can win money fast and lose it fast as well. I agree with you 100% and i actually went through this a little. First time playing poker was my freshmen year in college and i lost twenty bucks to my friends. Next day i put 200 on party poker and i got it up to 5000. Beginners luck because i know my skill now and i realized now that i was a fish at high limits online. i eventually lost all the money. Great lesson though because at that time it was just numbers to me and i knew nothing about poker.

Now my poker is mostly live cash game and tournaments and i blog on here to play a little online poker. Because you never know who is behind the computer.

anyways thanks for the post it was a good one.