Dan Pereda - Yeah! You found me. » Poker http://danpereda.com A Blog of Business, How-to, Rants, Reviews, and What I like to do. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Whew, Just got got back from the Philippines. http://danpereda.com/2009/09/whew-just-got-got-back-from-the-philippines/ http://danpereda.com/2009/09/whew-just-got-got-back-from-the-philippines/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:25:27 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=254 Sorry all, I was away from my main computer and a reliable internet connection while I was away in the Philippines. I didn’t have a chance to update my blog or really work on my existing projects. I have received a few requests for an affiliate template in Magneto, so guess I will finish that up, and get that out soon.

I have really been working my Video making while I was abroad. I didn’t get much of a chance to review the footage in country, but now that I am back I can see alot of my filming mistakes.

I did get in some poker games over there. it was nice to play some low stakes live. .40-.80 cents low.

one thing about the trip is that I have a list 1000 pages long of new things I want to do. New projects and such. So More coming soon.

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GOALS
First, I think you have to establish your goals. What do you want out of poker? When I started I don’t think I could have answered that question.
Do you just want to play for fun and entertainment? If so, that is fine. Learn the basics and then go gambling. Treat it just like any casino game, over the long run you are going loose. Just remember you are just having fun.
Do you want to learn the game and gain experience with the least risk?
Do you want to become a Poker pro and do this for a living?

My goal right now is to learn and improve my game while staying break even and not risking too much. The best way to gain experience is to play.
Multi-Table Tournaments (MTTs) give you the most hands for the lowest amount of money. $1 MTT can get you 200 hands of play or more. The problem with MTTs is that as a beginner, it is going to be tough to finish in the money (Cash). Your gonna have alot of losses before you win most likely.
Sit n’ gos are like mini tournaments. Typically they have 9 to 90 players compared to a MTT that has thousands of players. In an SNG you are more likely to make the money, but you will not see as many hands as a MTT for the same buy-in. The other thing about SNGs is that they require a different style of play. In the beginning you play really tight, later on you switch gears and are really aggressive and some times pushing your whole stack in every hand.
Cash Games are the most expensive to play. Each hand is going to cost you money. I don’t play cash very much any more because of this.

I found that I play a mix of MTTs and SNGs. My ego can’t handle the long droughts between MTTs wins so it helps me to play both. I really only play Cash games in AC now.

If you want to become a poker Pro, your gonna have to learn someone else. You have to truly dedicated and commit a ton of time. Good players are playing 20 hours a day online playing up to 16 tables at a time. Poker is still fun for me, I don’t want to turn it in to a job….Yet.

]]> http://danpereda.com/2009/06/improveing-my-poker-game-part-two-goals-and-getting-started/feed/ 0 Improveing my poker game. Part One http://danpereda.com/2009/06/improveing-my-poker-game-part-one/ http://danpereda.com/2009/06/improveing-my-poker-game-part-one/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:12:50 +0000 Danpereda http://danpereda.com/?p=224 I took a serious interest in poker a few months ago. This does not mean I just found out about poker. I can remember playing poker with my grandmother when I was 5. It was 5 and 7 card Poker. My family would have monthly Poker games and get togethers, but after my grandmother past away we never seemed to get together anymore and the games were lost.

On a recent trip to Atlantic City (AC), my brother in law really wanted to play poker in a casino. It was a little to imitating to just sit down without an understanding of hold’em in a casino worked. When I got home that night I statred reading about Poker in a casino.

A month later and I was back in AC for some fun and my buddy had played in a casino before. I soon found my self at a $1/$2 NL table in Harra’s. I would have loved to tell you that I kicked everyone but, I sat down with $100 dollars and 3.5 hours later stood up broke, but with a new feel for the game. I had few good hands and won a couple of pots, but there were some super aggressive players at the table that I really didn’t know how to handle. I also was not sure of my bet sizing, but looking back they were to small.

I came home and started reading up more on how to play poker, Hold’em, Cash games, and Tournaments. I soon opened an online poker account on Full Tilt and began testing what I had learned.

More to Come

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