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In the series of articles describing necessary skills required for good bankroll management and general online poker success the skill – willpower – will be the next skill to go into depth with. Willpower in the context of bankroll management can be defined as:
….inner strength to make decisions and take action regardless of inner discomfort, resistance or difficulty….
Willpower is the power of pushing towards any goal with decisiveness, firmness and determination. In my opinion
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I have not been playing poker since my last update July 15th. The reasons are two fold: time and interest.
Time
It´s my holiday now, so I am trying to keep work related activities to a minimum. Why? I am actually very motivated to work on our projects at least 12 hours a day, but it can be a very useful exercise to try to keep away from work. This helps you to stay motivated and will prevent you from burning out.
Interest
It can become very tedious to play poker. Just sitting there grinding,
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I need to start bitching again soon since things are really not going my way these days (bitching opens a direct channel to the Gods of Poker; after bitching some begging needs to be done). Since my rocket start to my new short stack strategy, my bankroll has steadily decreased.
I have made mistakes for sure, but in 99% of the hands I have played I have stuck to my short stack strategy.
Perhaps it doesn't work. I am however more inclined to blame simple variance.
I have been dealt slightly below
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I have been cleaning up in some of my old bankroll building update posts and decided to make a new post about my observations so far regarding playing with a full buyin or using a short stack strategy as the one I have described in one of my previous posts.
Keep in mind that all of my observations are made in the context of poker bankroll building on low limit tables. That is, the first steps one goes through in the process of building a poker bankroll. Also keep in mind that my observations might
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The next skill to look at in the series of Poker Bankroll Management Skills will be positive thinking. The concept positive thinking can be described in many different ways. My favorite definition of positive thinking is:
….a manner of thinking that puts emphasis on processing thoughts in a more desirable and upbeat way…
Positive thinking could also be explained as constructive thinking resulting in a focus on what you want instead of a focus on what you don’t want. You are not into
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This post is number two is a series of 3 posts covering the top 11 bad poker habits belonging to your PokerBRB team.
Top 11 bad poker habits_the first three covered the first three bad poker habits, and I will now move on the the next four:
Bad poker habit number 4: Showing your hands to your opponents
I see this again and again both in small stakes SNG’s and on the World Poker Tour. People show both their good hands and their bluffing hands when they have made a bet and everyone else folds.
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Brief update about my SNG project. I have now played 56 SNG, which is still far to few to predict whether I am a winning player on the limit I am playing at. I am up 5$ since my last update a week ago, played 20 SNGs. That is not very satisfying, but it also becomes more and more clear that the rake is "eating" up the profit.
Statistics are now:
Stats so far:
SNG Played: 56
Rake: $36
In the money: 38 times. 67.8%.
Net profit: $49
Michael, July 15th.
Bankroll project update 4.
Bankroll
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We all have bad habits when we play online poker. Identifying the bad poker habits and putting them into writing might help getting rid of some of them. Therefore we have collected our own worst poker habits and put them into writing below. Feel free to share your own bad poker habits with the rest of the PokerBRB community. For your information the bad poker habits listed below have not been put into a prioritized list yet, we have great plans to make a poll on the PokerBRB forum to decide the exact
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I haven't been playing as much as I hoped the previous week for several reasons. The Internet was down one of the days because the town I live in on Malta, Sliema, had an electicity break down. So no Internet for half a day. I also hit a bad run of losses. For me that is three SNG lost in a row (remember that 50% of the participants recieve a prize in the SNGs I play).
My personal rule is that I stop playing if I hit such a bad run. I know three in a row is not much, but from experience I know
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The skill – persistence – will be the next one to describe in the series of Bankroll Management skills . First a short definition of persistence:
… ability to maintain action towards the goal of a project regardless of your current feelings toward the project. The ability to press on even if you fell like quitting…
When done by the book, building a bankroll through bankroll management is a slow process. In addition it may seem boring at times, since you will always be accustomed to
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