As you can see, in December I had some massive swings. I finished the month down from my all time high, but still made a profit compared to where I was at the start of the month.
Here's my graph for all of 2009. Technically, it's my graph for the entire time I've been playing on Stars with Hold'em Manager. Not too bad considering that I've been playing poker for less than a year. I'm not talking about playing poker for money. I just mean playing poker in general. The first time I ever even tried the game was December of 2008. I didn't decide to learn to play until Spring of 2009, and played a few thousand hands on a simulator program, then I played on a play money site for a month or two, before deciding to make a deposit and play for real cash on PokerStars. As you can see, I've made a decent return on my initial investment.
My poker goals for the year are fairly modest.
1) I want to continue to improve my game. Studying more, playing more. I've got so much more to learn and it's a bit intimidating at times.
2) I'd like to move up a level or two in stakes. Moving up even more than that would be awesome, and I really hope I can do that. I've had good luck when I've taken a shot at the next level up a few times. In fact, I've had the right amount of money to move up for awhile now, but I was hoping to make more so I have a bigger cushion and could cash out a good amount one more time before moving up. (I follow pretty strict bankroll management.)
3) I want to add in a few more tables. Right now, I'm only playing two at a time, and I'd like to be able to add more in without impacting my ability to make reads, take notes, and study my opponents to figure out the best way to exploit them. I was playing 3-4 at a time when I was playing full ring, but when I switched to 6-max, I dropped back down to one. Then added in a second recently.
4) I want to be able to cash out a bit more so I can buy some useless crap. One of the nice benefits of playing online poker is that it's essentially a video game that you get paid to play. (Provided that you're a winning player, and play well enough!)
1) I want to continue to improve my game. Studying more, playing more. I've got so much more to learn and it's a bit intimidating at times.
2) I'd like to move up a level or two in stakes. Moving up even more than that would be awesome, and I really hope I can do that. I've had good luck when I've taken a shot at the next level up a few times. In fact, I've had the right amount of money to move up for awhile now, but I was hoping to make more so I have a bigger cushion and could cash out a good amount one more time before moving up. (I follow pretty strict bankroll management.)
3) I want to add in a few more tables. Right now, I'm only playing two at a time, and I'd like to be able to add more in without impacting my ability to make reads, take notes, and study my opponents to figure out the best way to exploit them. I was playing 3-4 at a time when I was playing full ring, but when I switched to 6-max, I dropped back down to one. Then added in a second recently.
4) I want to be able to cash out a bit more so I can buy some useless crap. One of the nice benefits of playing online poker is that it's essentially a video game that you get paid to play. (Provided that you're a winning player, and play well enough!)
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I wish I could give you some advice to help with your endeavor but as I believe I've stated once or twice in the previous months, I really suck at poker. I joined a game recently on PokerStars with my friend with play money and I was winning for a while and then I completely lost everything. If I played poker I think I'd be one of the people you complain about with the not so good hands who end up winning through crazy odds.
Play money is a little different. Nobody, except a few weirdos (who in some cases are willing to use real money to buy play money off of other players so they have big rolls of worthless play money), takes play money seriously. From what I've seen, most of it is shoving all in on every hand. You also see this sort of behavior at real money low stakes tournaments too. You can always spot who just came from play money or who plays more tournaments than regular cash games, they're the shovetards. All in preflop nearly every hand.
I'm not trying to knock play money players. They just want to goof around and have a little fun without risking any actual money. Nothing wrong with that. I can even see the lure of play money. You can play incredibly loose with zero risk. Play hands that you would/should fold at real money (although some real money players are too stupid to grasp that).
On the other hand, if you're as bad as you say, you could help me out by depositing money, playing me, and losing. Heh!
I'm too broke to play with real money, but you can have all of my monopoly money.
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