First blog post
Ottolink7, Feb 28 2009
Hello Liquid poker.
I'm just getting into online poker and the purpose of this blog is to help me keep track of my progress. I find writing things down helps me think more clearly.
I'm starting poker because I have 6 months till I start at University and quite a lot of time on my hands, even after my real job. I'm basicly planning on substituting my Starcraft time for poker for a few months, and seeing how far I get. My goals are pretty modest, it would be nice to be able to use poker as a way to get a little extra cash in my pocket in a way that allows me to invest as much time as I want, when I want. I hope I will have some aptitude for it since I think I am patient, of reasonable intelligence and have good self control. Of course, by September I might simply find I can't make any reasonable money out of poker. If that is the case I will just give up.
So, from what I have read on this site and others, I think I have picked up some key points for how not to be a fish:
Bankroll management. I'm going to be playing 1$ no limit at first on titan poker. So my bankroll is many times larger than the buyins I have. Hopefully I won't go busto as I try to grind this amount up.
Don't be results oriented. My goal right now is just to improve my skill, not get cash. So I will try to worry more about whether I am playing a particular hand correctly, rather than whether I won or lost in that instance. Actually as a beginner I find it hard to judge whether I just got lucky or played well. I suppose I just need to have a many more 1000s of hands under my belt.
I'm not going to be playing too many tables at once, probably 3 or 4 at most. I'm not sure if at this stage I should be trying to make notes on the other players, perhaps that is a bit too cute for my level of play?
The one bit of my own money I have invested so is Ed Miller's book, “Get Started in hold em”. Should arrive early next week, so I am looking forward to that.
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