POKER has evolved, and a lot. I use to get regular pay cheques from poker sites, win, tournaments,SNG, and a lot of PLO cash games. Since the begining of the year something happen, and for 5 month the regular is loosing, I believe is due to patience for not making progress in my BR. Spending many hours sometimes to brake even , lead me to frustration, and bad play, the evolution of poker ,new player with a lot information, makes the game quite difficult now a days, never mind the bad beats and bad plays rewarded by the RNG , many times I knew the cards coming up delivering the adverse results.
I made the choice to only play live, where I have an edge on body language, betting patterns, and some other skills I learned over the years. At the casino playing 1/2 for the first few hours, then moving to 2/5 has been profitable.
Then I joined a new group about 1.1/2 year ago that plays every Friday. About 30 players, sometimes up to 40 and twice a year a 200 players tournament. All big business people, and professionals that are used to risk /reward life style, great atmosphere, friendship. Previous to the tournament a great dinner, good conversation about poker or business, then all night open bar coffee desert after first brake with all kind of sweets.
The tournament has professional dealers, and very friendly poker, sometimes , rules are bend a bit, always within margin of error. Competition is a bit soft except 6 very good players, very good in tournament and some.
I am doing well playing live, and some times, moving to 5/10 like last Friday, when I was card dead in the tournament,( buy in $300) finishing badly far from the cash group, and bought for another $500 in a juicy cash game, run good, got lucky in a few coin flips, picking the right spots against frustrated players. The night session provided with some needed $2850 for the BR, with a profit of $2050.( 300 loss from the tournament and 500 initial buy in).
Age maybe has to do with this new approach, need to focus in soft games, profitable tables, and walk away when I identified the other sharks, that are many now a days.
Good luck to all
sinmiedo
I made the choice to only play live, where I have an edge on body language, betting patterns, and some other skills I learned over the years. At the casino playing 1/2 for the first few hours, then moving to 2/5 has been profitable.
Then I joined a new group about 1.1/2 year ago that plays every Friday. About 30 players, sometimes up to 40 and twice a year a 200 players tournament. All big business people, and professionals that are used to risk /reward life style, great atmosphere, friendship. Previous to the tournament a great dinner, good conversation about poker or business, then all night open bar coffee desert after first brake with all kind of sweets.
The tournament has professional dealers, and very friendly poker, sometimes , rules are bend a bit, always within margin of error. Competition is a bit soft except 6 very good players, very good in tournament and some.
I am doing well playing live, and some times, moving to 5/10 like last Friday, when I was card dead in the tournament,( buy in $300) finishing badly far from the cash group, and bought for another $500 in a juicy cash game, run good, got lucky in a few coin flips, picking the right spots against frustrated players. The night session provided with some needed $2850 for the BR, with a profit of $2050.( 300 loss from the tournament and 500 initial buy in).
Age maybe has to do with this new approach, need to focus in soft games, profitable tables, and walk away when I identified the other sharks, that are many now a days.
Good luck to all
sinmiedo
