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Old 09-30-2008, 11:30 AM
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Default New job, more free time for poker

I got a good and a bad news.

Let me first introduce myself a bit.
After gathering some basic knowledge about poker all over the net for a year now, this is definitively the place I've chosen for my further instruction, cos I got a very good feeling about this site, its members and their potential.
I didn't post a lot, but I'm carefully reading all of you and constantly watching vids for 3 months now.
One of my goal is to become able in a near future to give back to this awesome community (through rakeback signup and posting, and sharing ideas).
For now, I'm a waiter in a famous restaurant, rushing all the day long, from 10 am to midnight with a 2 hours break at 3pm. Feel like a modern slave as this is the price I pay to live in an very expensive region (Geneva neighborhood), cos only tips allow me to pay my bills. In this context, I have a hard time to find enough time to play. So mainly I'm learning 80% and playing the other 20% of the 2 hours I dedicate to poker each and every day. I choose this ratio cos each time I play I can see how strong I feel lost in lot of spots at the table, thus I practice the 'learning out of the table' antidote.

So back to the news, I'm going to get an easier job: within a month I'll be a postman.

The good news is that I'll have lot more free time for poker.
The bad news is that I will feel a strong financial pressure, but no choice my health can no more support my present job...

As a lot of beginners, my confidence in my play goes with my luck at the tables. My goal is to make my new job a side job compared to my poker incomes, as quickly as possible.

Can you help me to figure out where I am at in my progress scale from those fact:

- I was a complete beginner a year ago, since then, have played around 10k hands full ring NL at PP and then started to play 6MAX regularly for 3 months now: 20k hands on FT and 6k on Redstar (where I'm tracked by Pokertrikz.com, but no HUD available there). As attachment, below should be my stats at FT for the last 10k. Click on it to expand.
- I'm learning at least 1 hour and an half a day, I will double this next month.
- will play 3 tables one hour a day at least.


The most striking stats to me is my very, very low win $ at showdown... I have to say that part of this is due to the fact that I'm calling to much river to satisfy my curiosity, but I think most of the problem comes from my poor hand reading skills and the resulting lack of confidence and poor postflop. I should improve w/ time.
I've also started to tighten up my blinds range but looks like I need to tighten even more from my positional stats.

From your own experience, do you think I'm on the good track? Any idea of how far am I from a slightly winning player?
Any comments/critics/encouragement are of course welcome...
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Last edited by Gambubble; 09-30-2008 at 12:26 PM.
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