General Poker Advice (PLEASE READ)

[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.

[esmordan]

thanks for the post eejit...it was very inspirational.....i learned my lesson when i kinda did the same thing...it was a smaller win of only about 3300 but i cashed it out and then started spending it.....i mean i played within my limits but i played more often and i played more recklessly at the casino

once i lost about 1/2 my winnings i relised what i was doing and have gona back to playing my game tight and stck it to them when they make a mistake...i now have my BR or winning back up to its original 4500 but i know where you are comming from on a much smallerscale...gl on everything that you do and have fun at the tables

[ScareCrowAKA]

Wow very insightful, Good post. Thanks... The falls of gambling. Unlike a sport like baseball or basketball where over confidence in your abilities can help you go on a tear and play at a higher level. Its a little different in a game where no matter how good you play, a amount of luck is still needed to win. Thanks for the post.

[freeringo]

Great story
I know I won't go bankrupt playing poker
because I'm too cheap.
Never having played in a tourney over $12
except for 4-5 +$100 a seat satelites I won.
I have never played in a cash game either.
I did play in 1 live game on my birthday and took third
$25 entry. After 15 years I have cashed for over $13,000
and I have never deposited my own money once.
One month about 3 years ago, I had a nickle left on
my Intertops account. Played penny sit and goes, then
10 cent ones. Within a week I was playing $2 games and
amassed $30 bankroll and then hit a hot weekend.
In 3 days I cashed in 5 tourneys totaling $1350. I cashed out
and left $50, 2 months later I cashed out for $500.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you don't need alot of money and
if you keep it at an affordable level, you can have
years of enjoyment and pay a few bills like I do.

[freeringo]

Too add to my story:
I originally started out playing a weekly free sports
betting contest called FREESB.COM. They payed out
top 50 places with cash into your Intertops account
and hats and t-shirts. Well I have still plenty of hats
and t-shirts around years later. I took second once
for $100 and a first for $250 a year later and alot of $10 prizes.
All my winnings I made sports bets with and was
good at basketball, not good at football. Betting was like a
roller coaster ride and be careful when you think you can out guess the bookie. One day I realized that I could play poker with my sportbook money.
So I started playing. In those days, Intertops was quite
young and had lots of guarenteed tourneys of $100 and $200
mostly and there never were enough players. It was like that
for almost 6 years and then they closed up shop. Months later they re-opened with new software, you all know the details more than I.
They got real cheap after that and my winnings were cut in half.
But during the hay day at Intertops I made alot of easy money
while learning how to play.

[freeringo]

There still is a free weekly sports betting contest.
They only pay top 10 places now and have a $100
top prize. They do offer a year long contest for
huge dollars, too. Another free way to start your bankroll.
Check out Intertops.net for details.
US players welcome cept those few states.