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lol... yes, it is. I guess my excuse would be that when I sit down at an SNG, I have just suffered one or more really bad beats and my goal is to decompress a bit. Now, the best players don't need to decompress (although I have even seen the pros go on tilt on TV). It would be interesting to know if others take a different approach to the SNG tourneys.
BTW... playing right now at Stars
Poker and the Beginning Trader
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I will pass your note on directly to Ray Bitar, another of our traders, who is a principal in full tilt poker....they do care...I get quick responses via my email.
Don
Yeah I'm just a lurker at 2+2, great site but I'm too slow/dumb to understand many of the more advanced concepts of the game and too shy/lazy to ask those stupid questions to get me started on the right track.
And since this is a trading site, I like to fantasize that some wannabe-trader-slash-big-money-poker player will just randomly blow our minds with some brilliant insight to the game that would cost newbies like me thousands of hands and dollars to figure out on our own.
Quote from illiquid:
I like to fantasize that some ... big-money-poker player will just randomly blow our minds with some brilliant insight to the game that would cost newbies like me thousands of hands and dollars to figure out on our own.
He did, it's called "Harrington on No-Limit Hold'em Vol. 1".
I can't wait for Vol. 2.
Bought the book about 1 month ago and read it immediately. Agree wholeheartedly with the conclusion. This book is GREAT for no-limit.
I was playing ring games basically the majority of the time and was clueless in no-limit tourneys and SNG until I read this book. Now, I can usually consistently get to at least 3rd-4th in most SNGs except for rare bad beats, like the time I had QQ on a flop of Q66 and lost after going all-in to a guy with four 6's. To avoid serious TILT, I quit for the night after that one
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Quote from fframe38:
Bought the book about 1 month ago and read it immediately. Agree wholeheartedly with the conclusion. This book is GREAT for no-limit.
I was playing ring games basically the majority of the time and was clueless in no-limit tourneys and SNG until I read this book. Now, I can usually consistently get to at least 3rd-4th in most SNGs except for rare bad beats, like the time I had QQ on a flop of Q66 and lost after going all-in to a guy with four 6's. To avoid serious TILT, I quit for the night after that one
too bad u werent playing at the mikkisooooukkkkke...that would have been the best bad beat of ur life....
Hi Don
Hate to tell you this but I have had the same experience at full tilt - sent them 2 emails to support over the past few days, no response thus far. You should tell Ray that he needs to get this worked out. Who knows how much traffic he is losing as a result. I guess it's not really your problem but if he's a friend of yours....
Get over it. IF you want to be a good Poker player go to 2+2 post some hands in the small stakes or micro-limit forum and respond to alot of other people's hands. THAT is the way to learn poker as responding to other hands really makes you think about the game.
I respond to hands fairly regularly, and make mistakes fairly regularly but the people there are generally pretty nice and I've learned so much from this process.