Practice

Hi

I've been a lurker of Tips for Tikay for few months now. Was called out by Tikay for stalking/being a voyeur and not interacting on the site, posted and glad I did. Even had a look at some of the threads on poker hand histories thinking I might try and learn to play NL the right way after exile, but my head hurt after reading them, and I remembered why I don't/didnt enjoy playing online poker, just not thinking in the same way you winning players are. Will restrict NL Hold Em for when I'm playing drunks or they are providing conversation that is worth me losing the money for.

It was easy posting the first bet (Man U -1 v Norwich , Giggs first game) as it was a bit of a gimme. I could have posted Man U -2 as had that bet on too, but wanted to get the first one in as a winner with no worries.

Second time trying to post, was much harder to try and put down why I was betting the way I was. Ended up babbling away, and running short of time. I posted something close to the kick off time stating what I was gonna do, but with no bet recommended. It ended up winning but not really for the reasons I was stating, whole thing wasn't done great on my part, improvement is needed. Will post it up at some point to try and explain my thinking better and to give example of what went wrong.

So I'm going to try and post here as shouldn't be using that thread to type out my thoughts and clog it up, when I'm not even 100% if my logic is sound. I'm a bit behind the times with this internet stuff. The couple of posts I have made on this site are about my only contribution to the internet. So need to practice so that when I have a bet I'm happy with I can post it in 'Tips for Tikay' properly and confidently.

Unfortunately for those that read any of this thread, there is gonna be potential for a lot of nonsense and it would be foolish to assume I'm not gonna be wrong in a lot of the things I give as reasons, especially at the beginning. Hopefully with time and some posts, I'll be able to articulate my thoughts better though and will start posting more winners than losers.

This isn't something to read, if your looking to find winning tips, don't put your own money on anything in here would probably be your best bet.

If I am the only one who reads and posts here that's fine. If someone with more knowledge sees something I write and can point out some of my mistakes that's great too, before or after the fact. Long past the time when I thought I knew everything, as I get older it seems more true than ever.

Overall aim is to be able to post some winners for Tikay and all the people on there who've helped me without knowing. I've not actually placed that many bets off of the thread, but have definitely taken a lot from it and would be good to pay them back, and given me the belief that money can be made sports betting.

Not sure if all that was needed but felt weird to start a thread off with 'this is not a tip but Pepe to get a yellow card tonight versus Bayern Munich, with some reasons why I thought it was a bet. And to those who read to the end and are now thinking 'I wont get that time back', apologies.