Position, position, position

Because I was definately playing a bit better the last couple of weeks, making fewer moronic mistakes, I decided to try and focus on another thing all these poker experts keep talking about: position.

So when I sat down at my table last Wednessday evening, I decided to fold anything less than top pair in early position but to play every hand (except total garbage like 8-2 offsuit) in late position and play it aggressively.

Might aswell just have been a very lucky day for me but I was able to pick up $15 in just two hours. In the end I was playing and winning nearly every hand in late position.
Naturally, it did help a lot to win a few big pots with a showdown, but I really felt how aggression with a good timing can win you pots, good hands or not.

Can't wait to see if it'll work more than once...

A second attempt

After loosing another $14 in the next two weeks (I'm playing about 12 hours per week), I definately got the feeling I was doing something wrong. Somehow, I was sure my opponents were bluffing all the time (they weren't) and my hands would turn out to be best (they didn't).
Big pots were a problem too: no matter the odds, ME WANTS THAT POT.

So, I took a piece of paper and wrote down a few rules:

• don't go all-in unless you have the nuts
• stick to the standard handselecting rules (no more low pairs UTG)
• only assume an opponent MIGHT be bluffing if you have seen him do it before

In short: play tighter instead of like a donk!

And here's another tip: don't call all-in with KQ.

I finished november break-even...

In the beginning

Poker seems to have become very popular these days, so I got interested in finding out why. Because I had never ever played the game before - yup a real noob - I thought it might be fun to keep a log of my journey.

So here we are, my first post on my brand new poker blog.

To get things started, I created an account on PKR (http://www.pkr.com/), a rather new kid on the block with nice 3d graphics, downloaded the client and made a first deposit of $40.
Since I am destined for to become a world famous pokerstar, you might want to write this down: my career started at October first, 2007.

Obviously, one should act with caution and humility, so I figured the microstakes table would be step 1 and I took my chips to the $0.02-$0.04 No Limit cash tables. I quickly learned to rules of the game, read a few tips and pointers and took off...

... making my first profit of $0.93. Hey, this is fun and easy!

I finished october with a loss of $6.64, including a bad beat of $-10,29 and I only had played 1 table at a time.

Hmmmm, maybe I should read a bit more.