calling all internet poker millionaires

[Jeenyuss]

i want to make money off of saps too. someone be my sensei please, preferably ignominy, but the floor's open.

[Creature]

talk to AnZu and Mysterious

pretty sure they don't do anything but play poker

[phata$$]

With the amount of internet poker millionaires, there are probably 5 times as many internet poker bums. You have to be completely motivated to waste a good chunk of your life if you want to succeed at it. It also helps if your brain can perform winning hand percentages on the spot.

[gran guerrero]

I don't teach for free

[Dabram]

i want to make money off of saps too. someone be my sensei please, preferably ignominy, but the floor's open.

a) Start with playing very ABC poker in low-range tournies/ring games. you should do fairly well with this, probably not make much cash yet, but definitely won't be losing much if any. Decide if you prefer cash ring games or tournaments. (or maybe sit n gos)
b) Go read a few books. Start with the basics everyone else also reads: Harrington. Try to remember everything what you've read, and apply it to your every game you play. This means you need to start trying to play with different strategies and be ready to change your style when you feel you've become predictable. Also learn to read your opponents (from total nit to hyperaggressive, the extremes are always easiest to spot) and learn by heart what hands they'll (most likely) to be playing with in certain positions/situations. You should at all times 1) have an idea what your opponent thinks you can have, 2) have an idea what your opponent can have. Combine those two to calculate both your odds and apply that to your betting, you want him to be putting in more cash than his odds allow him to (though be wary of (implied) odds). All simple maths.
d) Realize you actually can't always be doing the same 'perfect' betting, so diversify to keep them guessing what you have. Example: like once or twice in a big tournaments you could decide to limp in with a hand like AA/KK (close to) utg. Your hand will be very well disguised because so far you've always raised with such hands, and someone with a low pair or hand like AJ could convince himself 100% that you've something worse. (However play the hand like that too many times and you'll become a losing player with it, often it's all about those moments you do something others don't expect you to do).
e) Always be able to spot the fish (if there isn't any, it's you). And pick on him. In cash games if you can't find a fish, move to a different table or lower level. In tournaments you should also pick on the fish, and if you feel you're getting run over you could decide to play as a rock, and perhaps start making fairly 'poor' plays by treating them with all-in hammers if they keep outplaying your strong hands post-flop..
f) Since I've turned to 100% tournaments, what's VERY important in tournaments is to know your M and everyone elses M. Also realize who hasn't got a clue what his M is (not playing as he should be). Especially because M becomes a mayor factor usually when everyone left is already ITM and moving up to the top becomes a whole different game within a game. :P (just read books and you'll get it)
g) Mental aspects:
1) Never lose your cool at a loss. If you think you got a 'bad beat', always first reflect on HOW YOU played that hand: if the answer is 'yes I played correctly' then the 'bad beat' won't matter because playing it that way will make you money in the long run. If the answer is 'no I played it like a donk' you should immediately learn from it or you'll become a losing player. 99% of the people who say they had a bad beat played a hand terribly but because they lose their cool / are idiot crybabies won't see this and will ALL be losing players. Everyone still sometime does it, sometimes it takes me a day to realize I played a hand like a moron and the guy was in his right to 'give' me a bad beat.
2) Concentration. This counts for cash game sessions but maybe even more so for tournaments (1 mistake = you can be out = easily up to 5 hours wasted). Preferably 100% concentration (not possibly every day for me): which means you basically NEED to be addicted to poker or you'll get bored and start jacking off on the internetz. Playing it 'to make money' won't cut it, you need to be addicted to playing cards foremostly.
h) After enough hands you start playing more naturally/automatically and you'll realize when you're playing in the top 1% (preferably a little higher) of the people who play on your level. Then you'll start making money. Immediately apply a solid bank roll management, which will save you from making the mistake of moving up to quick, and will save you from going broke the next week after you won your first 1000$! Bad runs happen to all, with a good bank roll management your motivation/ego and bank roll won't drop to sub-zero levels. For tournaments your bankroll will be less volatile however the variance is huge, to make cash you basically will HAVE to reach some FTs once in a while. In the MTTs this means end in top 9 every once in a while with 500-4000 entrants. When your bankroll allows you can 'try' moving up, if you feel you're no longer one of the top dogs, don't feel ashamed of moving back to where u were making a decent buck. We're not all Tom Dwan and some of us will just have to settle with making a couple of thousand a month/year. (esp. in your first year)

ps. I mainly play 3.3$ - 11$ rebuys, for obvious reasons. I changed to 100% tournaments because my edge is my condition, I can easily concentrate for 12 hours in a row, in fact the deeper I get into a tournament the stronger my concentration becomes. I'm trying to reach my 'next level', 55$+ but right now I'd be scared money there (on a bad day buyins could run up to 500$ if I'd play how I should). Scared money = losing money. So yeah I'm happy with how poker is going for me, I know I still got lots to learn. Goals I'll probably wanna reach before going to 55+, win my first rebuy tourny and to become a winning player at omaha!

GL Jeenyuzz, if you're as smart as ur name suggests it should be ezpie for ya, just get addicted and stay as cool as a cucumber!

pps. Ask Jonas how much I like talking bout poker, almost as much as about cycling!. :wub:
ppps. I play on pokerstars btw.

[Dabram]

haha rambled myself a wall of text together. well not gonna make it easy for ya!

:turned:

[Dabram]

the real way: just BELIEVE that you look like a guy as in my avatar, classy people always win at poker!

[Galleleo]

What's C?

[L1 TW]

My cousin chiren is playing one million hands this month.

[paradise!]

haha rambled myself a wall of text together. well not gonna make it easy for ya!

:turned:

it was good stuff.