Less you lose, more you spare part. I

This is one of the biggest truth in poker that isn't that visible for a random player on poker: Every saved penny is worth a dollar in the future. Why? Coz you will lose little by little your dimes on poker, if you don't concentrate on your game. It's not that bad on micro levels, but when playing against better opponents and trying to gain edge against them it is a lot more important. Here's my tips for you to make yourself lose less and win more:

1. Be patient!

Probably the most common problem among new players. When you're not dealt good hands for a while, you start to play with some trash (and some times out of position, OOP!), which makes you to lose more money in the long run. For instance, you play 72 hands on a table. You haven't have any good hands and only stole some money on late position. You have A7o on a loose table, and you decide to make the open raise on MP1 (Full Table). Someone after you 3-bets. What can you do with that hand? Fold it.

So wait for your moment and take advantage of your weak opponents. Steal the blinds, make the cbet.. And you'll do fine. Besides, when you finally manage to hit your good hand, your opponents won't believe you as easily as they would if you had played only 1/72 hands, right?

2. Don't be sleepy

Well.. When your tired or drunk, you shouldn't play at all. You can't play your "A-game", can't make the right reads and usually you're impatient too. So avoid playing in this state. You might win once with a lucky hit, but losing 4 times for that isn't good enough. So be sharp.

Same goes when you're quite energetic, but a bit bored with playing poker. There's the place for a break, and after that you can multitable for a while.

This serie will go on one tip at a time, so here's the opening two. More will come soon!

How to play monster hands

Here's my first poker video. It doesn't tell you much, but quite a lot about good hands.. :)

Incoming: Session on iPoker, 11th June 2012

I'm going to record one of my sessions on iPoker on 11th June. We'll see how good it'll be then.. I will play on 0.01/0.02 and 0.02/0.04 $ tables!

iPoker - network full of FISSHHH!

Well, I've abandoned (mostly) PS for now, because I have found that iPoker and ongame network offer a lot more fishy tables and maybe even more realistic hands. In PS, the application makes you suffer when ur on downswing (everyone makes bad beats for you, srsly). But here's my stats for iPoker:

This was imported by PT3 (which is free to try for 60 days, I'll recommend it!)

So what does this graph show and tell about my play?

It tells the normal: There's been some downswing (like at the mark of 2845 hands), and better times. But the key thing is that the graph line is going up all the time. It means that I'm being good enough at the level I play, so it means that I can go up soon. And I have had good cash control, because I haven't lost that much money even at DS.

Back to the stats. The most important thing isn't how much money I have won (at day or at month or overall), but the Big Blinds per 100 hand (BB/100). Having it close to 10, it means that I am dominating the current level. You can find your own level when your BB/100 is close to 2, when it means that you are winning but not beating the level. But this profit rate tells me that I'm doing well at this level.

How to get poker money for free

http://fi.pokerstrategy.com/#uQ7DSW

That's my recommendation link. Go to pokerstrategy.com, use this link. If you do, and earn some money, I will earn extra cash (and, on the contrary, you will have something on my earnings - everybody wins!)

So, what to do:

1. Go to Pokerstrategy.com, register with this link
2. Read some of their articles (in your own language), then take one of the quiz's.
3. After completing it, you can have your free 50 $ (compulsory) on one of the sites. I recommend Titan Poker, because it's full of fish and the game engine is easy to learn.
4. That bonus will unlock in 5x10$. So, play well, make rake and gain that 50 and take it home!

That's easy, isn't it?

I love Omaha!

Got to be proud: This is my Omaha achievements lately:

Played "only" 1406 hands, had over 20 $.

So, I'll recommend taking my link and moving to Titan Poker - it's full of fish!

Patience is the key

Well.. This is only a short article, but what the heck. I have been playing a lot last few days and seen that being patient is extra important.

Let's have an example (using PT3). Usually I play with stats 14-17 VPIP, AFQ 67 etc. One day, I was rather tired and played 25 % of hands (1/4, case you didn't notice =))). I was on a little downswing, and had hard time to win. I played about 2 hr sessions there, first one with TAG-marks made me add 2 % to my stack. Second.. Well, I was in +/- 0 for a while, but eventually ended up losing 5 % of stack.

What did I learn? Play patient. You can play 1000 hands in a table, and still not win a lot. But winning is MUCH harder than losing, so save your chips. Don't play if you're tired. It will save you a lot of money.