help me improve

Hello, I joined this site a while ago when I started playing poker for real money. I read a little then changed email, when I reactivated my old hotmail I received a email from ftr, come back to the site and wow what did I miss.
Read Slevins op and thought yeah I want some of that advice.
Little background, started playing poker at William Hill, no concept of brm
put a tenner on win a bit, cash out bag of weed and a curry, put a tenner on build up blow it on roulette
Played mainly sngs and mtts, sacked wh and joined ps, I can tell you my name so you can laugh at my results on sharkscope its boro1971
but if you look at my graph you can see where I change from tagg to dsagg
Im sure other people have played dsagg but It was kind of a vicious circle for me
So I came back to ftr about 2 weeks ago read the beginners info and It was like getting hit round the head with a hammer
I could not understand why I did not progress, always playing the low stakes sngs until I read about brm
So I thought lets try and work my way up playing cash games, I had $29 ish left so jumped on the the $2 tables, read some stickies on here watched spendas videos and got my head down, so far so good
download pt3 free for 2 months and lets grind
my current br stands at $104, I want to try and build that to $150 then try my poor hand(s) at $5
Im just after some help to improve my game from players who have been there and done it, I will post my ups and downs for everyone to see and ask for well quite a bit of help along the way
My pt3 graph says

total hands 3,395
amount won $30.38
$/100 $0.89
bb/100 22.37
days played 5
$/day $6.08

I dont know how to put a pic with the graph up, and Its more like 9 days and roundabout 10,000 hands and $74 ish won, but when I tried to get my hh in email form from ps it went pear shaped so I will start from here
anyway I just hope It will be ok to ask for advise, post some stupid hands I play and get some constructive criticism







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Originally Posted by spoonitnow

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thanks spoon and staxxs I would like to join in for a chat and get some good advice
still making silly mistakes, all in with qqs he had kings, all in with ace king when he had already pushed with ace jack and ace king this time he had 99s
still playing junk like suited ax then calling a bet to hit flush, Im cutting that out
trying daft bluff here and there when its just silly at these stakes
but on the plus side Im taking notes, just simple things like how he plays a set or If someone likes to chase draws and will over pay to try and hit
had some nice hands but, 2 straight flushes and quads all in 700 hands and each time they put me all in on the river so I smile then give them the bad news
my br is up to $107
or yeah I forgot to explain dsagg, the ds stands for drunk stupid

wow Im still stuck in my shit sng style, why do I try and bluff
In a sng you know a bit of pressure and you can induce a fold
not here man, I tell you Im my biggest emeny
my graph thing says
total hands 4,995
amount won $44.95
$/100 $0.90
bb/100 22.39
days played 7
$/day $6.39

dropped a couple of buy ins, then I put a little Kings of Leon on drank half a bottle of this really nice Tempranillo and wow
turned into sammy, raisy daisy
but yeah its stupid to play when Im drunk, but a little relaxed Its cool
looking back at my hands on pt3, Its shit like j9s, a10s, aqs, kqs
Ive lost money on
did have a funny hand the other day, I raised when It was folded to me I raised with 56 spades, some guy reraised me (the cheeky sod) so I called, hit my straight and then the flush, the only reason I called was I thought he had aa or kk or even qq which he did (aa)
he started giving me shit, donk call and that, get back to your donkament
stupid fish and all this shit, I told him your suprised there are fish at 1/2c
and that I didnt know sharks swam so shallow
well anyway so far so good I just need to sort this irc thing out and I can make more money and chat with the pros
where else would that happen, well apart from ftr, god bless you all

forgot to say my huge br stands at $121.09

- I guess you're a fellow Brit with the Boro name

you've found the right place to start to win some $ (or £)...read all the stuff in the beginners, get in IRC (I hear its the shizzle) and play some poker.

GL

What a crazy day, aces beat twice, kings, queens, jacks, 3 sets got beat and 3 straights got beat. 80% of these happened on the turn or river it was mad
but Im not gonna winge, I got my money in ahead and because or good brm it didnt get me pissed at all. I ended up about 4 buy ins down, and on the plus side I only made about 2 silly mistakes it was a good day
my favorite was when I had a nice straight 2 called my all in $8+ pot, a 3 come out on the river and give this guy quads
got some good notes on players and really enjoyed playing poker for hours

yeah names a bit of a clue wilburforce, where you from down south near that fancy london
today so far is pretty much the same kk v aa blah blah
anybody else from uk maybe you could help me, does anybody know when postman pat got his helicopter license

Originally Posted by boro

What a crazy day, aces beat twice, kings, queens, jacks, 3 sets got beat and 3 straights got beat. 80% of these happened on the turn or river it was mad
but Im not gonna winge, I got my money in ahead and because or good brm it didnt get me pissed at all. I ended up about 4 buy ins down, and on the plus side I only made about 2 silly mistakes it was a good day
my favorite was when I had a nice straight 2 called my all in $8+ pot, a 3 come out on the river and give this guy quads
got some good notes on players and really enjoyed playing poker for hours

Boro trust me when I tell you I am not the one to be giving advice! But are you loosing these on the rive? Are you betting properly so as not to allow them to suck out on you? I know I really suffer from a lack of knowledge on bet sizing and have really been working on it lately and am seeing success.
Anyhow just thought I'd throw that out there for what it is worth. Good luck on the grind. I haven't the courage/time to start writing about my adventure yet but hope to soon.

Hang out in the forums and IRC, post hands, ask questions and everything will be good. Welcome to FTR OP´ing

alright harleyguy13, good to hear from players in a similar situation, yeah most of them hands I lost on the river, but I was all in on the flop and they called and hit
thanks for the warm welcome xtr1000, yeah I will post some hands when I work It out, mostly the ones when I played really bad (which is a lot)
hit another royal flush, that 4 in about 3 years
well my bank roll stands at $143 from the $29 I started with
I think I wil play 50,000 hands at this level then move up, because Im so so so bad, I need to study for a few hours each day then play for 3 or 4 hours
total hands: 9,362
amount won: $67.06
$/100: $0.72
bb/100: 18.13
days played: 11
$/day: $6.10

going to try and put a graph up, but I need to get to 10 posts

hope this works
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tried about 5 times now

could someone help me, what did I do wrong

When you are posting it on imageshack, are you selecting the "Direct" link? Also I'm not certain, but I think the code is [IMG] and [/IMG]. Not sure if it's case sensitive or not.

cheers stax, I will try again
hit 10,000 on pt, i have played more hands on my girlfriends mac pro thing
but didnt get all of them imported
so far so good will still play this level a bit longer and get some more hands under my belt

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little bit better but still
my bankroll now stands at $156.
Im still pretty poor, need to stop my daft calls

thank for that staxx

tried my hand at 5c today, crashed and burned
ended up 4 buy ins down, aces got bust twice, once by aq and qq
all the money was in on the flop but runner runner give them the flush
my straight got beat by a crazy full house on the river and also my nice set
apart from that it was ok, biggest change was the raises pre flop not so many limpers, so in a way that helps with my starting hand selection, any check on the flop is jumped on, I sould be ok after a few thousand hands
did give me buzz with the larger pots

Done about 11,000 hands at 5c
here is my graph, reading about starting hands and postion at the moment. I have took reads and paid players off when I knew they had a set and my KK, AA was bust, but I had to pay to see, I have
written my note's for later, played some different styles, from tight to crazy, chased draws, over valued tptk, done all the stuff you as a site said not to, but I have learnt so much. Would love to see some of the notes my fellow player's have taken about me, from loose as a goose to a promise ring wearing 17 year old.


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Looks like you have a good base to work on, keep it up!

Boro your working it out buddy! Wish I was having the same success as you. Keep it up and keep us posted!