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Hi All,

More for PStars players but theres a new website thepokerdb.com which u can put in a players name and will give a list of there results & winnings on PS.Its not 100% complete but if you reach a FT all info on your opponents is handy.
Also got a ranking system for Top 150 money winners (Tournys only).

Every little helps(copyright Tesco's)

Best Regards
BigArmo(BOT Vegas 2005)(copyright Tkay)

Handy info this thanks.

Your results are a lot more impressive than mine!  ;D

nice work! - great DB
Maybe i should start to admit to being the only player who loses on-line!

no, me too. managed to turn a small profit in a $0.10/$0.20 cash game today, will go and lose it in STTs tomorrow. ;)

my only decent result on stars, $100 freezeout victory, isnt in there!!

I am very competent at losing online.

No idea why, as i seem to make a decent profit (for small games) in live play.

Anyone have suggestions why this is?

Because you need to apply different strategies to online play than you do with live events.

such as?

playing all-in maniacs.

If i at a table with at least one ALL-IN maniac, then i tend to play it v.tight and wait for the big hand to call them.  This of course also applies to B&M play.

If I hit, say, a set on the flop. I will bet small into a maniac because I know there is a chance he is going to overbet and go all-in. This doesn't happen to such an extent in live play. - but that's the sort of thing i mean.

Personally, and I do speak from experience,

I think it took me a year to make the necessary adjustments to online play from live.

You then need to find youre best game(s) on your best site(s)

Not an easy job, but persevere and the games are there.

Thanks

Don't play cash games online, as i'm REALLY bad at them (and no, i dont want a game!)

Make a small profit on STT, but no big shakes

If you're playing STTs or 2/3 table tournaments, then Karabiner is spot on. Sign up with every poker site, play a few games and see what suits you best.

Think about stuff like the standard of players, the blind structure, how many hands/minutes per level, the number of chips compared to the blinds, number of players(5, 6, 10, 15, 20). All that stuff is important.

If you're not that good at heads up, you might be better off going for a site where the later level blinds are stupidly large compared to the number of chips on the table. It turns heads up into a total all-in crap shoot. If you bluff a fair bit , play on a site with a higher quality of player - they're more likely to respect your bet and fold rather than call with a (winning) weak hand because they don't really know what they are doing. If you're a complete rock, go for a site where the levels go up every x minutes rather than x hands. You'll almost certainly get more hands, which means more chance of getting cards you're willing to play with.

The difference between winning/losing really can be down to what games/sites you are playing. One common theory is that good players should make money in the long run against bad players. That's probably true in cash, but not necessarily so in STTs/SnGs. The standard of players at low buy-in STTs on Pacific is appalling. And yet I can't win money in those games. Yet there's certain games on Betfair, Prima, and Paradise that I can consistently make a profit from.

Modesty aside, (easy for me)

During my first few months of online poker in early 2004 I couldnt seem to show a profit, I was doing ok in live games but I was a failure in cyberspace, so I decided to try to pinpoint what exactly the difference was.

First of all, I was only playing multis live, so I did the same online, no more cash, and no more stt's. Next I thought about which multis would suit my game best, I like a long clock, 15 min or better, (by the way in 15 min online you see about the same no of hands as you do in 45 min live) plenty of starting chips, in most multis you get 1500 but you can get 2000 or even 3000, and I like freeze outs or a buy in big enough to make players think a little before calling my raise (this last only in the later stages and only because of the potential prize money, not the cost of a rebuy)

My results started to improve but I still wasnt doing as well as I thought I should be and I started to wonder if I would have to play differently online, so I spent a few nights watching instead of playing and the thing I noticed most was online players will call, in live play if you have a monster hand you tend to try to disguise it, and by playing it cagey you often dont get full value from it, online, especially in the early stages, players tend to call with top pair even if you bet 1500 all in to a pot of 75, but by the same token you cant push someone off a pot early on. Toward the latter end of the comp I find it best to play as if I were in a live game again.

So I started the second half of 2004 by playing only the games described, I didnt try anything fancy early on unless I knew the player was good enough to put a hand down (I keep extensive player notes) and if I had a monster I just moved in

Unbelievably, by the end of the year I was making more money playing online poker than I was from my small business, by no means a fortune, (my business was a small, one man jobbie) but very exciting, I had never earned a penny before without hard graft being involved, but I just couldnt do both, I was playing poker until 3am and then trying to get up and go to work every day, so at the beginning of 2005 I decided to mothball my little business and give poker a proper go, It wasnt an easy step to take, I've worked hard all my life and it seemed like I was shirking my responsibilities. But, I reasoned, if I dont try it I will always be thinking, "what if?"

Perhaps the poker gods smiled upon me, because in the first three months of this year I won enough to allow me to continue until 2006 and I have been making a steady living since, Its not always easy, there are dry spells, and I have periods when the outdraws make me want to cry with frustration, you have to be dedicated and disciplined, but I'm loving it, I have to pinch myself every morning, I look out of the window when its raining and think how nice it is not to be out there working in it, and I have made some of the best friends a man could wish for within the poker community, ordinary working class blokes like myself, world class poker players, and the odd lawyer or TV star ;)

I have no Idea if or when the bubble will burst, but our needs are modest, and whatever happens, my life has been immensely enriched, I will have no regrets.

Lovely post Tom, lovely. Your occasional serious posts are as good as your frequent silly posts.

Jeez Red-dog you sure do got a way with words.

 :'(

Great Post Red,

U make some really valid points and i firmly believe there are differences in online and live tournies.
My live tournie record is a joke but hey i like to make up the numbers once a month and the locals are always pleased to see me ???.
But like u say Red if you can crack the online code many riches do await you.

Regards
BigArmo(BOT Vegas 2005)

P.S. Sorry with the Q 9 in the PS 55re even fish get lucky sometimes :).

Nice post red, needs a health warning though... full time is a scary business! 

Thanks Armo, no apology needed, I knew you were probably "at it" but with your stack at that stage I would have done the same, I also realise that when I moved in you knew you were behind but had to call

By the way, where did you finish? I hope you won it

 that was a great post red dog, long may it continue for you.

Nah managed to blow it Red :'(.

Got 6th very disapointing but chit happens.

Lost a bundle with AQ v A10 then my JJ ran into AA but thats the game as we all know.
Can't complain though 2nd FT in the 55re this week got 7th on Monday and they are great value with some good players.
Another go tonight ;D.

Regards
BigArmo(BOT Vegas2005)

Another thoughtful and sincere post from you. Thanks for sharing T. I agree that life has been enriched by the people I've met through the game.

Errr less of the "odd" though!  ::)