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  1. I don't disagree with you, I have played at that level at various times. That said, from the way he was talking I was not convinced that he has the confidence going into it to jump into the 25NL. While the game is soft if you aren't careful you can still blow a BR really fast just by making simple mistakes. $1000 should be relatively safe but if you can't beat the $5/$10 what makes you think you (and of course I don't mean you as in you directly) are ready to play $25? Perhaps I do err on the side of caution to much. That doesn't mean I am not ready to be aggressive on the tables, either
  2. My advice? From your last statement I would advise you to be very careful. While at microlimits you will find a wider and more colorful species of fish that will put a bad beat on you, learning to beat those games can be very beneficial to advancing to the higher levels. Money won't make you a better player. While $25 NL may sound good, the competition will have changed. Perhaps you might want to consider LHE and $1/$2 to get aquainted with it or if you are determined to go with NL then maybe even drop lower than $25. Seeing as how I do not know you or your entire poker history I do not know h
  3. Well let's see you have 6500 in chips so you have 8XBB. With 22 people left you are probably not at a short-handed table, so assuming 9 person tables you can have ~40 hands to choose from. Are you sure you can't get a better hand to move with?Part of playing short stacked is knowing when to push and AT from UTG at an "aggressive" full table does not sound like the best situation to be in. You are more then likely going to be in a race situation or dominated. I would wait for a better position.
  4. I had a really bad night last night myself. I was having an off night and not catching any cards. My first instinct was of course to blame variance. I decided for some reason to play the .5/.10 and try to rake in some fast cash. I've not had a losing session in just over two months so my confidence was pretty high. I have been rereading some of the books I have and doing a lot of strategy evaluation over the last few weeks and as I lost $10 then $20, and finally $30 total I knew that something was very wrong. I wanted to blame variance and bad beats, after all there certainly was evidence to t
  5. In my opinion with 8-low and knowing the villain is looking to make or break his hand on the river, I would be inclined to check and see his reaction. If he doesn't make his hand then he will likely check back. If he does make his hand he will likely bet and you could easily make that call.Without knowing more about the players involved or any possible reads you might have, I think the check-call would have been the best route with 8 low. All the 8s were out on the board or dead, so he is pretty much chasing a 7 considering you were showed to be coming down on an 8 yourself. Perhaps I am a li
  6. To me that says you are playing your cards and not your opponents.
  7. Take notes about the hand while it is in progress. Write down what your starting hand is, any significant bets, who made them, and postulate the reason. This does a few things for you. It helps you recognize patterns of the player over time, it slows you down, and it makes you think about the hand while it is in progress.Using hand evaluators is one thing, but I find that writing things down in my own words makes me memorize and note patterns and spot things about people that you might not find with some piece of software. If you do this learn some shorthand or you might find yourself running
  8. I find myself playing micro-limit often as I start new online-sites. I like to buy-in or find freebies for $50 and play the lowest limits and work my BR up. As far as ML play goes, I have a very different strategy than I do any other limit.I will play a pretty passive style and try to flop big and take down as many suckers as I can at the time. The key here is to have a LOT of patience. I will even call the BB with KK from front positions and see what happends. If I get a raise from a player and it gets half to fold I will reraise substantially to then isolate the field. Two raises will still
  9. Thanks for the welcome.I would agree with you on th MTT vs STT depending on the buy-in. If I were in a $20 limit I would agree, however when I shoot into a $1 +.25 sng (I usually only invest $50 at a site so I start with $1 and work my way up slowly getting to know the players as I move up) I expect the action to be looser in the STT and I would more likely call in that spot. From reading around the forums, we could play variable games all day though. I think for the most part we agree on the play.
  10. Personally, I think you were right in laying the hand down. You were early in the tournament and more than likely playing people you have not faced before. The chances are then, that you do not have an adaquate read on the players you are up against.You are also early in the tournament so your chip stacks are likely to be similar in size and if you lose you are going to be in a bad position. Against two players you will probably be dominating one ace, but the second could be two live cards resulting in a multi-way race. I'm not sure that's where you want to be that early in the tournament. If
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