Anyone play Poker?

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Managed to scrape top 10 on the Pokerstars 2,5 leaderboards yesterday and won $7.50. Not bad considering I only played for an hour in the morning and a few on the eve. Starting to see a tidy profit from those tables. Made around $100 the past 2 weeks and netted just over $150 for the month.
 
Made the jump to 5,10 tables for an hour last night. I'd forgotten just how much more aggressive that jump seems. Turn jams every other hand and bluff catching is so much harder for obvious reasons. Did surprisingly well however and basically doubled my buy ins at 2 tables within half an hour. Jumped on this morning for an hour and had similar results.

Started to keep track of my bankroll again now, especially as I'm at 2 tables and have been playing daily for the last 5 or so weeks. As stated in my previous post I'm well into profit at this stage and if I see those numbers continue to stay stable or tick up over the next few months I'd be tempted to drop some of the overtime I'm doing at work.
 
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ArcticHeron said:
Made the jump to 5,10 tables for an hour last night. I'd forgotten just how much more aggressive that jump seems. Turn jams every other hand and bluff catching is so much harder for obvious reasons. Did surprisingly well however and basically doubled my buy ins at 2 tables within half an hour. Jumped on this morning for an hour and had similar results.

Started to keep track of my bankroll again now, especially as I'm at 2 tables and have been playing daily for the last 5 or so weeks. As stated in my previous post I'm well into profit at this stage and if I see those numbers continue to stay stable or tick up over the next few months I'd be tempted to drop some of the overtime I'm doing at work.
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What site do you play on? I also do a lot of overtime at work and dream is to not do it but make the same amount playing poker instead.

I prefer live though, just got home from a 1am-5.30am session at local Grosvenor. £1/2 sat down with £300 out £900 so a good night.
 
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What site do you play on? I also do a lot of overtime at work and dream is to not do it but make the same amount playing poker instead.

I prefer live though, just got home from a 1am-5.30am session at local Grosvenor. £1/2 sat down with £300 out £900 so a good night
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Pokerstars mainly. They have the best layout for mobile I feel and some decent incentives.

That's fantastic mate! You make a hobby out of winning like that then overtime becomes a lot easier to give up I imagine.

Haven't played at all this week myself. Went to the Grosvenor last Thursday and ran pure as hell for about 3 hours. Didn't quite hit your levels of profit but walked away around £200 up after 4 hours. The best profit to time ratio I've seen since picking it back up again.

To be quite honest I'm starting to remember why I quit online. There's too much variance for too little profit and doing it alongside 10/11hr work days can be a bit of a struggle. Problem is that I don't want to give up family time to sit in a Casino 2 times a week for 5-7 hours at a time. GF's taking the kids away in a few months and my plan is to use that time to field test some long hours and late nights. If I can make genuinely good profit and figure out where my bankroll should be then I'll devote 2 week nights to it for a few months and ease off the overtime.
 
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It will vary from person to person, but I seem to recall that when I played a lot on PS, I generally found the optimum amount of time in a given session was usually around the 2-3 hour mark. I used to multi-table so I don't know how it would be for just the one or two tables.

I think that's roughly what I've read before as well. Of course, if you're running good, then keep going until you go off the boil or need to stop. The other thing to bear in mind is that, as one of the greats of poker once mentioned, since the advent of the internet, the average player is quite clued-up compared to when the word-wide-web was in its infancy, so even players at the lower end of mircrostakes can make some very informed decisions.
 
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Recently switched to the Paddy Power Poker site as my variance on PS was getting ridiculous. I have to say it's a lot easier and quicker to get into the green. Bluffs get through more often and people bet with a weaker range pre flop. Noticed more people making poorly structured over bets that basically scream bluff as well. Think bet sizing is the hardest thing to learn for newer players who (at a guess) are just tagging onto PPP from the main sport betting site.
 
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Having a right game with Betfair Poker.

Made an account to take advantage of the quite generous Promo offers. Played the free tourney tickets linked to the Promo and made a decent wedge, especially on the bounty hunter ones. Ended up turning a tenner into around £112. Went to withdraw once all tickets used and the app blanked on me, crashed and when I restarted it stated I had nothing...

Spoken with 'customer services' these past few days and they are beyond useless. It's all there, every hand and every total loss/profit in every session yet they're refusing to credit me any of my winnings, only my original deposit amount.

Really quite disgusting. I have their complaints line as well as a few names to throw about but they really haven't got a leg to stand on if they refuse to pay me out. Not really sure what to do if it comes to that... I know they can back you off from virtual blackjack profits if they suspect you of being 'advantaged', but never heard of them withholding funds purely generated from Poker.
 
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I randomly decided to learn (as in not just the rules, but hopefully how to play well) after coming back from Vegas last year. My aim is to get good enough to do ok at the 1/2 live tables next time I'm in Vegas (or at least not spew money all week, lol). Been playing micro stakes cash games on GGPoker for a few months while trying to study the game. I'm getting close to being break even over my last 10k hands or so, but probably need a sample size 10x that to really know where I stand. The good news though is that apparently those low stakes live games are softer than pretty much anything online. If nothing else it's a pretty fun and relatively cheap hobby (as long as you stay at the micros anyway!).
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Avoid playing cash games on GG, the rake structure is terrible especially micros.
 
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