Set Backs and Tilt:

These are two very distinctly different animals, a set back happens because you took bad beats and had bad cards. You will recover. No run of luck good or bad lasts long, so long as you know you started with good cards from the correct position and got your money in with the best hand If you played K 4 suited in early position, flopped two pair, and were beat by a when a J hit at the river – that’s not a bad beat – that’s the laws of probability catching up w/ you!! K J beat K 4 82% of the time – what were you thinking? You could be on tilt.

Tilt (for me) is triggered by a few genuine bad beat, you start thinking I got my KK beat by 9 6 off suit, the K 4 is better, and it progresses from there. I would write more on this but there is a terrific thread on the forum, and many great options to over come this. Here is the link.

No Tournaments??

Tournaments are what you play with your bankroll, taking a reasonable risk with a small portion of your bankroll, never more than 10%. This is how the pros do it. They do not live off tournament money – that is their shot at fame and glory! The Ring Games pay the bills. I play tournaments. They are great fun and fantastic way to play against players at a level you could not afford to play ring games with. When you have $300.00 stashed, play a $30 + 10 buy-in tournament – it is not a freeroll, you get to the final table and these are all very good player – guess what?? – So are you!!

Summary:

If you follow this guide, you should be able to reach $200.00 in 3 to 4 weeks, and when you get there have the confidence to move up one level at a time until you reach your final goal. If it’s to get to $500, then cash out $300 – great! If its to win enough to play the WSOP or WPT Enent - you can do that as well – it will just take time, but the basics never change – Good solid starting hands, strength of position, taking reasonable risks with your bankroll and there is no limit to how far you can go.

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