I stumbled on to 2p2 playing 18 months ago playing .1/.25 FR on bodog. Today I play 5/10-25/50 on ftp and stars. So you know whats possible, now lets talk about whats required. If I knew what I knew now I could have expedited that process into easily under a year. The key is using your time efficently and becoming consumed with the game.
I am going to number these so they are easy to follow.
(I should preface by saying I'm expecting you can come up with like $200 or smth for a bankroll for .05/.1, if you can't grind very small stakes SNGs or something until you can, just play ultra tight and you'll do fine).
1. If you are just starting out play 2 tables. After you become adept at ANALYZING hands move up to three. If you cannot analyze hands at 2 tables go to one table. After you master three tables move to four. DO NOT MOVE BEYOND 4.
DO NOT MOVE BEYOND 4 TABLES
if you can follow this piece of advice you will be in good shape, the biggest leak/cruch of unl-SSNL players is their penchant to multitable. You will never learn anything playing that many tables, learning the game has a FAR greater value than any RB/bonus/hourly of grinding SSNL ever could.
2. Review your sessions! You need to know your game AND your opponents game. Get used to analyzing your play with an opponent and the dynamic you guys create (obviously this requires pokertracker of some sort). This isn't as important until like 100-200NL but knowing how to do it is crucial because this is what actually makes you think deeply about how to play hands and your overall gameplan.
3. Play SOLID. Do not run any type of big bluffs until 400NL. Just that simple, do not make moves. You will be extremely tempted constantly to run the bluff, the more in control of this urge you are the faster you are going to moveup, plain and simple, these guys are waiting to give away their money, you just need to be patient and understand how to play solid.
Playing solid is what poker is all about, you need to know how to play every situation without reads in a somewhat nitty/conservative manner so that you avoid spewing and making horrible players (bluffing a station, checking vs a weak tight)
Think of poker like a road, while you are going striaght you are playing your solid ABC game, later down the road you will turn left/right to adjust to your opponents game, but for the beginning of sessions/early levels play solid and aggressive and you will do just fine.
4. FCK numbers. Do not use a HUD, this will cause far more problems than it will create and slow you down. I wish I could go back in time and just avoid using a HUD and play 4 tables and focusing with decisive reads, but alas I cannot, don't use a HUD, focus on your opponents line and what hand (s) he is representing and how he plays certain hands, where he is weak and where he is strong, this is far more valuable than knowing a regular is 20/17 or a fish is 40/2.
Also EV graphs, won $ at showdown, showdown winnings, all that is bullsht just ignor it.
5. Tilting. This is the hardest thing to handle, basically if you can play solid and not tilt you'll play 5/10 in like 8 months tops if you work almost every day. For everyone its different how results effect you and how you deal with it. One thing I can tell you is that one day you will, no matter what run worse than you ever thought was reasonable, logical, mathematically possible. I have expierenced so many 10+BI downswings I couldn't beging to count how many times its happened 2 me. I can say that it has slowed my progression as a player down and again its something I wish I could do a better job of handling, just be constantly aware that poker is going to kick the **** out of you and you can take it kicking and screaming or take it like a man and rough it out.
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