A ramble - and relevance of older books these days? + other assorted noob questions
01-31-2018
, 07:58 AM
There's a tl;dr: down there...
Hi all, been playing off and on. Got 20 bucks from a friend on PokerStars years ago which I slowly ran into the ground playing mostly lowest stake limit hold'em. Read Theory of Poker and halfway through Small Stakes Hold'em. A year ago picked up on play money spin and gos and currently hover in the 2-4 mil range playing 100k and occasional 500k. Few days back decided to cut the crap and injected big money ten euros (about $12) and started playing 9 handed NL2 hold 'em (NL2 is 0.01/0.02 blinds right?) with the min buy-in of $0.80. As the 3-handed spin'n'go shenanigans is way different than 9 handed cash I played very ABC for the first couple of days, booked small wins every session and one big money almost $4 session. After that I felt pretty great, had a good night's sleep... And started playing "tricky", making stubborn calls with whatever connected with the flop, bluffing way too much, always thinking "what would Andrew Neeme do?", tilted (without even noticing I was tilting) after being felted a few times and finally ejected from the tables with around six bucks left
Felt like a donk afterwards, took a one day break and yesterday managed to return to ABC for a short sesh and eke a meager win after 30 mins of mostly folding.
The thing is, I'm quite a competitive gamer and I loathe being a losing player in poker. I am willing to put in the time and effort to study and learn, but the landscape has changed for me. Back then the advice was "get SSHE, read it, apply it, rinse, repeat". Now I try to google and everyone seems to shy away from books and recommend upswing, or pokersprout, or coaching in general... And I totally feel like I'm playing for pennies here, am I gonna shell out 50 bucks a month for coaching?
I'm not trying to go pro here, just want to get my poker game up a level.
So I returned to scrounging through 2+2, and ran into WCGRider's old post about being a losing player, http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/show...5801&fpart=all
and started going through it. Feels like good advice still, but the thing that made me wonder the most is googleit123's advice of reading and rereading SSHE, which is yet again the advice I mentioned in the previous paragraph.
tl;dr: For a noob wanting to go from losing to winning at the lowest of stakes of NO-LIMIT hold'em, is reading and rereading SSHE a good/the way to go in 2018? There's also Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em in the market these days, and Crushing the Microstakes - would these be more than marginally better than SSHE? Or are there other books I could benefit from?
Assorted questions:
- hand2note seems to be free up to NL25, am I missing something here regards pokertracker?
- playing on PokerStars, any other/better sites I should know about (I'm from Europe)?
Thanks,
Pekka.
Hi all, been playing off and on. Got 20 bucks from a friend on PokerStars years ago which I slowly ran into the ground playing mostly lowest stake limit hold'em. Read Theory of Poker and halfway through Small Stakes Hold'em. A year ago picked up on play money spin and gos and currently hover in the 2-4 mil range playing 100k and occasional 500k. Few days back decided to cut the crap and injected big money ten euros (about $12) and started playing 9 handed NL2 hold 'em (NL2 is 0.01/0.02 blinds right?) with the min buy-in of $0.80. As the 3-handed spin'n'go shenanigans is way different than 9 handed cash I played very ABC for the first couple of days, booked small wins every session and one big money almost $4 session. After that I felt pretty great, had a good night's sleep... And started playing "tricky", making stubborn calls with whatever connected with the flop, bluffing way too much, always thinking "what would Andrew Neeme do?", tilted (without even noticing I was tilting) after being felted a few times and finally ejected from the tables with around six bucks left
Felt like a donk afterwards, took a one day break and yesterday managed to return to ABC for a short sesh and eke a meager win after 30 mins of mostly folding.The thing is, I'm quite a competitive gamer and I loathe being a losing player in poker. I am willing to put in the time and effort to study and learn, but the landscape has changed for me. Back then the advice was "get SSHE, read it, apply it, rinse, repeat". Now I try to google and everyone seems to shy away from books and recommend upswing, or pokersprout, or coaching in general... And I totally feel like I'm playing for pennies here, am I gonna shell out 50 bucks a month for coaching?
I'm not trying to go pro here, just want to get my poker game up a level.So I returned to scrounging through 2+2, and ran into WCGRider's old post about being a losing player, http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/show...5801&fpart=all
and started going through it. Feels like good advice still, but the thing that made me wonder the most is googleit123's advice of reading and rereading SSHE, which is yet again the advice I mentioned in the previous paragraph.
tl;dr: For a noob wanting to go from losing to winning at the lowest of stakes of NO-LIMIT hold'em, is reading and rereading SSHE a good/the way to go in 2018? There's also Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em in the market these days, and Crushing the Microstakes - would these be more than marginally better than SSHE? Or are there other books I could benefit from?
Assorted questions:
- hand2note seems to be free up to NL25, am I missing something here regards pokertracker?
- playing on PokerStars, any other/better sites I should know about (I'm from Europe)?
Thanks,
Pekka.
