Just found this thread...
I have been playing online poker for only two years now but over the past year I have really improved my game by looking at my stats on HEM and my graph on sharkscope which is due to a heap of practice and a heap of studying and reading books about the game.
After each session I usually go over my hand histories and evaluate each play where I lost or won a big pot, if I had no idea how to play it or what I did wrong I'd post it in a poker forum and get help with it, a lot of hard work I put in to it but I think it's paid off, well, so far.
I started at 5/10c ring games and now I have a good enough bank roll to play the 1/2 mainly and 2/4.00 ring games most nights when I am free. If you are serious about your poker and you think you know what you're doing it's best to start at 5/10c NL because they actually respect your raises there where as at the mico mico stakes people call just about anything and imo those games rely on luck.
I mainly play on stars but some weeks I cop massive downswings which is expected in poker because of variance and when I do I head to cake, boyles, betfair etc - - all the MUCH softer poker sites.
Stars and FTP have the most sharks and the games in NL holdem are very hard, especially this year, the game keeps getting better and better. If you go to a smaller poker site you will find a heap more 'fish' and a lot less sharks. The bad side is that the withdrawal options and deposit options are a bit of a bitch compared to stars and ftp.
My aim is to move up to 3/6.00 and play that all the time on stars by the end of the year, just need to build the bank roll up more before I take that step, and I am pretty shit at bank roll management to most of the guys I know on stars who play those limits.
Sorry if that sounded arrogant in anyway, I hope it didn't, I will post my bad beats later on, I suppose I just wanted to say that if you're interested in the game and keen for it you can read a lot of books, study your hand histories, get help, watch training videos, practice and it all pays off in the long run.
Even though I will probably get home drunk one night and blow my entire roll on stars this wkend... haah
So this hand happened as I was typing this and thought I'd ask here...
My read on Villain:
Villain is running about 21/17/2.2 over 2.4k hands. Not too much history with villain but through out the match he has been pretty aggressive and I have 3bet him a few times where he has folded.
This is one of those spots where calling flop seems standard but at the same time villain is prob betting turn most of the time (at least I would assume so)
I do not know what villain's exact line is going to be on turn and river, but if he bets turn I have to consider the fact that he may barrel the river as well which is going to leave me in an awkward spot.
I took out what I did, so any opinions on what I should of done would be great, cheers.
Actually I will skip that because well I dunno if anyone would be interested in helping me with it on this forum and I also wouldn't want members from the poker forums I am on to find out I hang on this site,
Anyway I have said to much and probably shouldn't have even found a poker thread on this forum when I am on here for a totally different reason, lol.
HHs will be posted if anyone is keen on helping me with some.
Cheers,
MM