In 2009 Tom Dwan suffered some very heavy losses, millions of dollars disappeared from sight into the pockets of Isildur1 and others. His game was being called everything under the sun, from predictable to wild but one man knew things would turn around again. Dwan has maintained his confidence in his game ironed out some errors and has seen the rewards this year for the pain he endured in 2009, already in profit by well over a million dollars.
Every time a rakeback poker player suffers a bad beat a normal thought is why no, or not again or perhaps something a little more colourful. Often the bad beat will come at a very inopportune moment – deep in a tournament or with a large stack in front of you at a cash game. It is at these moments players discover where their real weaknesses lie.
After a bad beat many players will then blow the rest of their stack whilst going on tilt and this is no new thing. Even those players who are actively aware they may go on tilt and will try and set the mind straight will often play hands that before the bad beat would have been seen as marginal at best. It is these hands which must be carefully monitored to try and prevent a similar occurrence going forward. A great German polymath once stated: “He who does not draw on a thousand years of history lives from hand to mouth.”
These words should work as caution to players to stop committing the same mistake. To record their beats and also their wins, to try and gain a much firmer understanding of their game. If you play cash games you need to know whether you play better against more or less players, more or less aggressive players and at what time of the day. You need to record just how much you are earning from your rakeback deal. If you don’t have one yet, that needs to be addressed. There are lots to choose from and a quick visit to www.rakebackpoker.com will highlight your options.
Learning and fighting from setbacks to become stronger and more well-rounded is part of life and definitely a large part of poker. Only by realising the holes in your game will you be able to take it to the next level. A great play or book can never be written without the author first suffering from the injustice of the world. Hundreds of ideas and scripts will be disregarded before the final copy is set in motion. This has to be the same with your poker game, you need to take a long look at the state of your game and pay special attention after a defeat, relive the pain and use it to channel your desire to improve.
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Omaha Pot Limit on Rush Poker
This may be jumping on the bandwagon a little but I have just started playing Omaha Pot Limit and thought the best way to learn is to head over to Full Tilt and use their Rush rakeback poker facility. Having never played Rush Poker or PLO before it was a bit of an initial shock but very quickly I started to figure out the nuances not only of Rush but also of PLO.
Having come from No Limit Hold Em it took a bit of getting used to. Normally I’m eight tabling at pretty low stakes so thought I would just sit down at the $0.10/$0.20 to try and figure out what was going on. The biggest differences are obviously the number of flops that were seen and also the quality of hand that wins the pot.
With four cards in the hole you essentially have four usable hands as you have to use three of the community cards to make your best five card hand. First up I was dealt three aces and my old hold’em brain took over and i was raising away but quickly realised I had slim chances of finding my own set and was then hoping the board would pair to at least give me two pair – but then the risk is that somebody has a set or even a full house.
Once these initial teething problems were out the way though the pace of Rush Poker was really helping me get to grips with the game. With the ability to open two tables both on Rush I was playing constantly, rarely waiting more than 5 or 10 seconds for a decision to come my way. For anybody else that is looking to start on a new format I heartily recommend it as I managed to play something like 2,000 hands in just over two hours which is a great way to get some very fast experience at low levels.
The two hours were definitely well spent as very few players seem to have a fold button and if you do hit a good hand you are more than likely to get paid. I also signed up for a rakeback deal from www.rakebackpoker.com so looking forward to my cheque at the end of the month after some sessions on Rush.
I used the same site before to get a rakeback deal at Cake Poker and the customer service has been awesome – although that really pales in comparison to the boost to my bankroll I receive every month.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
Having come from No Limit Hold Em it took a bit of getting used to. Normally I’m eight tabling at pretty low stakes so thought I would just sit down at the $0.10/$0.20 to try and figure out what was going on. The biggest differences are obviously the number of flops that were seen and also the quality of hand that wins the pot.
With four cards in the hole you essentially have four usable hands as you have to use three of the community cards to make your best five card hand. First up I was dealt three aces and my old hold’em brain took over and i was raising away but quickly realised I had slim chances of finding my own set and was then hoping the board would pair to at least give me two pair – but then the risk is that somebody has a set or even a full house.
Once these initial teething problems were out the way though the pace of Rush Poker was really helping me get to grips with the game. With the ability to open two tables both on Rush I was playing constantly, rarely waiting more than 5 or 10 seconds for a decision to come my way. For anybody else that is looking to start on a new format I heartily recommend it as I managed to play something like 2,000 hands in just over two hours which is a great way to get some very fast experience at low levels.
The two hours were definitely well spent as very few players seem to have a fold button and if you do hit a good hand you are more than likely to get paid. I also signed up for a rakeback deal from www.rakebackpoker.com so looking forward to my cheque at the end of the month after some sessions on Rush.
I used the same site before to get a rakeback deal at Cake Poker and the customer service has been awesome – although that really pales in comparison to the boost to my bankroll I receive every month.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.rakebackpoker.com/
Play Poker and Win Money
How many times do I keep telling myself to fold a hand to the pot sized bet on the river absolutely certain that I’ve lost the hand and then somehow my hand drifts and I’ve hit the call button. Sure enough the other guy has the nuts and I’m clicking add more chips.
There really can’t be a worse feeling in rakeback pokerthan knowing you are going to lose, telling yourself you are going to lose, then calling and then losing exactly as you just told yourself. A bad beat is a bad bead and can be explained away or vented out by breaking something, having a cigarette or listening to some soothing music. Calling when you know you are losing is just so stupid and so painful and yet I keep doing it.
I think it could be to do with the whole grinding grinding grinding I’ve been doing recently as I try to build a bankroll and I’m playing so many hands and seeing players bluffing all the time and the loose aggressive players getting away with it time and time again. This must be adding up in my mind subconsciously because even as I tell myself, no this time just fold I click call and there go my chips.
I’ve been putting in minimum four hour sessions on between 4 and 8 tables depending on how I’m playing for the whole of March and right now all i can think about is my rakeback bonus at the end of the month. I need to run a check and see just how many hands I’ve played but I can imagine my rakeback must be nearing the $1,000 mark.
I have also just signed up with a site using http://www.pokerrakeback.com/ again and may be switching my MTT SitnGo attentions over there as fees are included in rake with that site. Will let you all know how it goes.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
There really can’t be a worse feeling in rakeback pokerthan knowing you are going to lose, telling yourself you are going to lose, then calling and then losing exactly as you just told yourself. A bad beat is a bad bead and can be explained away or vented out by breaking something, having a cigarette or listening to some soothing music. Calling when you know you are losing is just so stupid and so painful and yet I keep doing it.
I think it could be to do with the whole grinding grinding grinding I’ve been doing recently as I try to build a bankroll and I’m playing so many hands and seeing players bluffing all the time and the loose aggressive players getting away with it time and time again. This must be adding up in my mind subconsciously because even as I tell myself, no this time just fold I click call and there go my chips.
I’ve been putting in minimum four hour sessions on between 4 and 8 tables depending on how I’m playing for the whole of March and right now all i can think about is my rakeback bonus at the end of the month. I need to run a check and see just how many hands I’ve played but I can imagine my rakeback must be nearing the $1,000 mark.
I have also just signed up with a site using http://www.pokerrakeback.com/ again and may be switching my MTT SitnGo attentions over there as fees are included in rake with that site. Will let you all know how it goes.
For More Details Please Contact at: http://www.pokerrakeback.com/
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