the Chip Shuffler

Of course, nobody stayed! They know that you don’t raise without the nuts. When you raise, they run. As you have been told many times, “You can’t get action if you don’t give action.” Your problem is not that you play such a tight-passive style, but that many people know it. You are too predictable, a fatal error. You have to change your approach. First remember to use all promotions available to you if you want to help your bankroll and it needs it. For example do not miss the code marketing pokerstars or any other new player promos. These are the most profitable.

Your style would bore most people, and it may bore you, but the boredom is probably not that great. You do not seriously expect to win much, and you like a slow pace and steady wins with infrequent, small losses. Besides, like many patient people, you probably do not bore easily.

How to improve your play? Your style does cost you lots of money. Your style is a minor asset. You can win with it, but you can’t win much. You have the more important half of the best style, tight-aggressive. Your patience and discipline will enable you to win a little in many games, but you will lose in the wrong ones.

Unless you want to continue to be bored, restricted to the smallest games, and forced to settle for tiny wins, you have to become more aggressive. Doing so will certainly cause your swings to be greater: You will win more on good days and lose more on bad days. But your long term net will be considerably higher, and you will get more excitement and respect from other players.

I apologize if I have offended you, but you were probably not surprised. You wouldn’t be reading this website if you were not dissatisfied with some aspects of poker. You want to win more, and you may be somewhat bored and unhappy about other players’ attitudes toward you.

You may have shrugged it off, but it bothered you. You wanted better results, more fun, and more respect, but you hoped to get them without really changing your style. Unlike the loose players, you do not have to change your style to win. You can continue in the same old, comfortable rut. But, if you want to get out of that rut, make more money, be less bored, and get more respect, you have to change your style and take some chances.

You already have the more important half of a good game. You just have to get more aggressive.

I pretty much suck at poker. Another day reaching the $150 stop loss. Then I didn’t place in any MTTs. Down $215 on the day between Full Tilt poker and Pokerstars, $150 at 2/4 and the rest at Tilt MTTs. I am not satisfied with this, and ignoring the purpose of stop loss limits, I went back to my trusted 2/4 bad beat tables at Party. I ground out a $60 recovery over 3 hours.

I am leaking like a sieve. I can’t explain it. I know better than to limp in early position with Axs, call a raise from a TAG in late position, bet the flop out of position with air against the TAG late position raiser, call the flop raise, then check and fold to his turn bet. I graduated from poker kindergarten – not long ago, but still.

Yet that happened way too many times today. Probably six times. So then I tried a re-raise on the flop. Capped. I didn’t smoke anything, drink anything, or any other sort of thing that you might find in some of the degenerate players’ minds. It is like I just forgot how to play. I went to a 7 Card Stud for some tranquil time. No good. Up 5 bucks at a 1/2 table, but the pace was so slow.

Ah I have been craving action. I have been playing like an idiot, no patience. Lets see, checking Poker Tracker for today. . . VP$IP 18.4, PFR 10, flop AG 2.43, turn 1.36, river 1.06. 863 hands. Went to SD 38%, Won$ at showdown 37%. VPIP of 18.4 is higher than I have been lately by about 2%. PFR is higher by about 2%. Aggression is down. Dammit, I am Mr. Action junkie that forgot how to fold post flop. Only folded to a river bet once. In 863 hands.

Oh, and I need to figure out that I cannot bluff calling stations. I used to know that. Somewhere along the way, I found my donkey suit and put it on today.

I could use a good ass kicking.

Hello chip shuffling friend.

This is my blog about everything related to online gambling. Yes I know I could have chosen another name for this blog, as online one cannot shuffle chips. The chips are virtual chips and not physical objects like in a brick and mortar casino. But this is a figure of speech.

Chip shuffling is a way to relax our body while preparing our next bet, and you can do that also online. So what games are we talking about here? Any game involving chips, i.e. poker, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, etc. The list of available games at online gambling venues is long and getting longer, so each individual type of game will be covered in the posts of this blog looking forward.

The focus of this gambling blog nevertheless will be card games as this is what I like the most. Poker in particular, and you will read interesting stories about the different poker variations such as Texas Hold’em poker, Pot-Limit Omaha, 5-card Stud, Triple Draw, HORSE and other mixed games, Caribbean Stud, Chinese poker and many more.

Other card games I do not know as well so there will be some sort of learning curve by given my deep knowledge of the game of poker, this should not be an issue. Blackjack promise to be a very hot topic and I will cover card counting systems, trying to uncover if there exist any profitable systems to play online blackjack.

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