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Originally Posted by raze
buuuuuump cuz I'm going home for the holidays & probably won't be playing too much; I'd like to write a part 2 for the OP but I need more suggestions on topics if yall are interested
Let me add my thanks for your post. Great information. My hope for your second part is to explain how you structured your learning.
I am fairly new to the game and only got serious about learning around 6 months ago when I read SSHE and realized the level of complexity there is to the game. I have a well paying job that will continue through next Aug and then I will be unemployed and am hoping to have learned enough over the coming year to make poker into a modest secondary income.
My problem is that I haven't found a good balance of reading books/ reading online (forums etc)/ playing micro limits/ learning how to use PT etc... I find what usually tends to happen is I read and reread a lot of the same information on the internet in various forms and at different sites purely because there is so much available and pretty soon I realize that the entire time I had allotted to poker is gone. Don't get me wrong, I have learned a tremendous amount from reading this forum (I am constantly amazed by experts such as yourself who are willing to spend the time to pass on so much good free information) and I plan to continue doing so but I think that sometimes it comes at the expense of actual playing experience or at the expense of fully digesting the information in the books I have such as SSHE.
In other words I would like to know the following things:
1. Approx what percentage of time did you spend playing, going over past hands, reading online, reading books and/or anything else poker related when you were first starting out?
2. How much time in general were you spending at poker each week before you made it full time?
3.Out of curiousity, where did you learn to play short handed limit? (I keep reading about how 6max tables can be more profitable but I haven't figured out all the adjustments that are needed)
In general, I am just looking for suggestions on the best balance of my time over the next year to prepare me for a more serious go at it. I know these type of questions have been asked many times so I appreciate the patience and wisdom of those of you who point us in the right direction.
Thanks!